photographs
PH1987:1189:001-037
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- This album of thirty-seven captioned hand-coloured photographic views show the principal towns, including Orel, Bryansk, Roslavl, Smolensk, and Vitebsk, as well as a number of railway facilities, such as railroad stations, depots, yards, bridges, and viaducts, all built along the recently completed line extending from Orel, Russian S.F.S.R., to Vitebsk, Belorussian S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
architecture, temporary architecture, engineering
1868
Album of views along the railway line Orel-Vitebsk, Russia
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PH1987:1189:001-037
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- This album of thirty-seven captioned hand-coloured photographic views show the principal towns, including Orel, Bryansk, Roslavl, Smolensk, and Vitebsk, as well as a number of railway facilities, such as railroad stations, depots, yards, bridges, and viaducts, all built along the recently completed line extending from Orel, Russian S.F.S.R., to Vitebsk, Belorussian S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
photographs
1868
architecture, temporary architecture, engineering
textual records, photographs
AP197.S2.031
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The box contains various research files organized in alphabetical order by either author's last name or subject, from S-U. The largest section in this box consists of writings that relate to technology and architecture. Other research materials include writings on Karl Teige, Guiseppe Terragni and O.M. Ungers. The slides are of technology and design history; the microfilms contain copies of the Soviet magazine, Sovremenia architectura.
1963-2015
Research files organized by author's last name or subject from S-U
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AP197.S2.031
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The box contains various research files organized in alphabetical order by either author's last name or subject, from S-U. The largest section in this box consists of writings that relate to technology and architecture. Other research materials include writings on Karl Teige, Guiseppe Terragni and O.M. Ungers. The slides are of technology and design history; the microfilms contain copies of the Soviet magazine, Sovremenia architectura.
textual records, photographs
1963-2015
ARCH262082
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Front row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion. Middle row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Sainte-Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH262082
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Front row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion. Middle row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Sainte-Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
Partial view of a walkway and a waterway on the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
ARCH255838
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Front row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion. Middle row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - Pavilion of Italy = Italian Pavilion; - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Sainte-Hélène Island: - Man the Explorer Pavilion; - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of a walkway and a waterway on the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH255838
Description:
Front row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion. Middle row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - Pavilion of Italy = Italian Pavilion; - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Sainte-Hélène Island: - Man the Explorer Pavilion; - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
ARCH256017
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Front row (from left to right): - [Square]. Canada's Pavilion = Canadian Pavilion = Pavilion of Canada Middle row (from left to right): - Jamaica's Pavilion = Jamaica Pavilion = Jamaican Pavilion - Mauritius Pavilion = Mauritian Pavilion - Pavilion of Monaco - Yugoslav Pavilion = Pavilion of Yugoslavia - Pavilion of Haiti = Haitian Pavilion - Pavilion of Western Canada = Pavilion of the Western Provinces - Pavilion of France = French Pavilion Back row (from left to right): - Expo-Express Station - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = U.S.S.R. Pavilion = USSR Pavilion - Man the Producer Pavilion - Pavilion of Great Britain
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH256017
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Front row (from left to right): - [Square]. Canada's Pavilion = Canadian Pavilion = Pavilion of Canada Middle row (from left to right): - Jamaica's Pavilion = Jamaica Pavilion = Jamaican Pavilion - Mauritius Pavilion = Mauritian Pavilion - Pavilion of Monaco - Yugoslav Pavilion = Pavilion of Yugoslavia - Pavilion of Haiti = Haitian Pavilion - Pavilion of Western Canada = Pavilion of the Western Provinces - Pavilion of France = French Pavilion Back row (from left to right): - Expo-Express Station - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = U.S.S.R. Pavilion = USSR Pavilion - Man the Producer Pavilion - Pavilion of Great Britain
articles
Sounding Towers
The rest of your senses
20th century, 21st century, Carlotta Darò, Chabolovka, communism, communisme, El Lissitzky, Emily Thompson, Geoff Manaugh, Ilia Chashnik, Karin Bijsterveld, Lenin, Lénine, Lissitzky, photographie, photography, radio, Richard Pare, Sabine von Fischer, Sensations urbaines, Sense of the City, Shabolovka, Soviet Union, Susan Buck-Morss, technologie, technology, tour, tower, Union soviétique, Vitebsk, Vladimir Shukhov, XXe siècle, XXIe siècle
23 July 2012
The rest of your senses
PH1998:0020:131
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- The article "Iz materialov obsledovaniia arkhitektury zhilykh kompleksov." by V.S. Balikhin published in 'Problemy arkhitektury: Sbornik materialov/Problèmes d'architecture: Recueil des matèriaux [sic]' in 1936 contains views and brief descriptions of the positive and negative characteristics of some of the housing complexes constructed during the late 1920s - early 1930s in various cities and towns of Soviet Union. The projects discussed in the article include some of the projects represented in the group of photographs PH1998:0020:001-130, such as housing complexes Dangauerovka, Shabolovka, Dubrovka, Usachevka, and "Sharikopodshipnik" [Bearing] plant complex, all in Moscow, and the First and Second Blocks in Magnitogorsk.
architecture
published before 15 September 1936
Magazine article "Iz materialov obsledovaniia arkhitektury zhilykh kompleksov" [From materials of a survey of architecture of Housing complexes], Moscow
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PH1998:0020:131
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- The article "Iz materialov obsledovaniia arkhitektury zhilykh kompleksov." by V.S. Balikhin published in 'Problemy arkhitektury: Sbornik materialov/Problèmes d'architecture: Recueil des matèriaux [sic]' in 1936 contains views and brief descriptions of the positive and negative characteristics of some of the housing complexes constructed during the late 1920s - early 1930s in various cities and towns of Soviet Union. The projects discussed in the article include some of the projects represented in the group of photographs PH1998:0020:001-130, such as housing complexes Dangauerovka, Shabolovka, Dubrovka, Usachevka, and "Sharikopodshipnik" [Bearing] plant complex, all in Moscow, and the First and Second Blocks in Magnitogorsk.
architecture
ARCH256020
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Right row (bottom to the top): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba; Pavilion of Economic Progress; Chatelaine House; Africa Place; Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion; Canadian Pacific-Cominco Pavilion. Middle right row (bottom to the top): - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion; - Africa Place; - Steel Pavilion. Middle left row (bottom to the top): - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Left-row (bottom to the top): Sainte Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH256020
Description:
Right row (bottom to the top): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba; Pavilion of Economic Progress; Chatelaine House; Africa Place; Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion; Canadian Pacific-Cominco Pavilion. Middle right row (bottom to the top): - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion; - Africa Place; - Steel Pavilion. Middle left row (bottom to the top): - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Left-row (bottom to the top): Sainte Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
drawings
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105 drawing(s)
DR1995:0159:001-107
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This file consists of presentation drawings, perspectives, elevations, plans, sections, working drawings, exercises, details, site plans, conceptual drawings, sketches, axonometric drawings, notes, diagrams, schedules, presentation panel, cadastral map, photograph, land survey, plan of Le Corbusier's Palace of Soviets, notebook, and certificates, primarily from Price's time at the University of Cambridge.
Drawings for various University of Cambridge school projects and exercises
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DR1995:0159:001-107
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This file consists of presentation drawings, perspectives, elevations, plans, sections, working drawings, exercises, details, site plans, conceptual drawings, sketches, axonometric drawings, notes, diagrams, schedules, presentation panel, cadastral map, photograph, land survey, plan of Le Corbusier's Palace of Soviets, notebook, and certificates, primarily from Price's time at the University of Cambridge.
drawings
Quantity:
105 drawing(s)