This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
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25 January 2018
Project
AP207.S1.1970.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's performance "Cancellazione di uno stato". This performance, understood as a visual poem, is described in written instructions. The performance begins with two jets flying over an American state, each one takes off from opposite corners of a state and meet in the center, forming an 'X' over the state. The flights are meant to occur at the specific moment when the performance can be captured by a weather satellite. The images captured by the satellite would then be broadcasted on the weather forecast on national stations. Pettena used a similar idea for a proposal entitled "Imprisonment" for the Graz "Trigon '71" competition. The project series contains the typescript instructions for the performance and a project description in English and in Italian.
1970-2015
Cancellazione di uno stato [Cancellation of the State] (1970)
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AP207.S1.1970.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's performance "Cancellazione di uno stato". This performance, understood as a visual poem, is described in written instructions. The performance begins with two jets flying over an American state, each one takes off from opposite corners of a state and meet in the center, forming an 'X' over the state. The flights are meant to occur at the specific moment when the performance can be captured by a weather satellite. The images captured by the satellite would then be broadcasted on the weather forecast on national stations. Pettena used a similar idea for a proposal entitled "Imprisonment" for the Graz "Trigon '71" competition. The project series contains the typescript instructions for the performance and a project description in English and in Italian.
Project
1970-2015
None
3 March 2018
archives
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Fonds
Wells Coates fonds
AP030
Synopsis:
The Wells Coates Fonds, 1909-1986, documents the professional career and personal life of architect Wells Wintemute Coates. The fonds consists of the following materials: approximately 1,937 photographic materials, 530 drawings (including reprographic copies), 3 l.m. textual records, 200 slides, 37 books, 2 reels of 16mm film (400 feet Cine- Kodak Film), 2 medals, 1 box of buttons and 1 box of keys.
1909-1986
Wells Coates fonds
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AP030
Synopsis:
The Wells Coates Fonds, 1909-1986, documents the professional career and personal life of architect Wells Wintemute Coates. The fonds consists of the following materials: approximately 1,937 photographic materials, 530 drawings (including reprographic copies), 3 l.m. textual records, 200 slides, 37 books, 2 reels of 16mm film (400 feet Cine- Kodak Film), 2 medals, 1 box of buttons and 1 box of keys.
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Fonds
1909-1986
audio
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13 Audio cassette
Audiocassette
DR2004:1372
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Includes 12 audio cassettes: 'Profile' BBC Radio 4. 14/2/85 Larry Whitty Side A.; Norman Willis - Poetry - 8.12.86; Cedric Price - Technology is the Answer but what is the Q? Pidgeon Audio Visual; Broken Muse; Notes on Trafalgar Job 11 March + April 1982; E.B. - L.B.C. Broadcast, Norman Willis - White Room; AA/CP Summer Breeze; Crowded Hours BBC3 Cedric Price - Master Copy B; Norman Willis Tape; Some thought on CP Thesis Sheffield Dec 80; Maxwell Fry - Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey 24.11.87 (copy No. 1); Maxwell Fry - Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey 24.11.87 (copy No. 2); BBC Home Lee Valley Scheme - August 29 (One track 3³/4");
1977-1987
Audiocassette
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DR2004:1372
Description:
Includes 12 audio cassettes: 'Profile' BBC Radio 4. 14/2/85 Larry Whitty Side A.; Norman Willis - Poetry - 8.12.86; Cedric Price - Technology is the Answer but what is the Q? Pidgeon Audio Visual; Broken Muse; Notes on Trafalgar Job 11 March + April 1982; E.B. - L.B.C. Broadcast, Norman Willis - White Room; AA/CP Summer Breeze; Crowded Hours BBC3 Cedric Price - Master Copy B; Norman Willis Tape; Some thought on CP Thesis Sheffield Dec 80; Maxwell Fry - Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey 24.11.87 (copy No. 1); Maxwell Fry - Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey 24.11.87 (copy No. 2); BBC Home Lee Valley Scheme - August 29 (One track 3³/4");
audio
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13 Audio cassette
1977-1987
textual records
F-I alphabetical files
ARCH255609
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15 files - F-I alphabetical files - Foundation of Canada, F-H miscellaneous files, Alastair Hunter photography litigation, Inner City Angels including 2 photographs of Erickson and company; International Year of the Child; Request for lectures, seminars, TV broadcasts, interview, or photo sittings; itineraries.
1977-1986
F-I alphabetical files
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ARCH255609
Description:
15 files - F-I alphabetical files - Foundation of Canada, F-H miscellaneous files, Alastair Hunter photography litigation, Inner City Angels including 2 photographs of Erickson and company; International Year of the Child; Request for lectures, seminars, TV broadcasts, interview, or photo sittings; itineraries.
textual records
1977-1986
Series
AP184.S1
Description:
Series 1, Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 1990 - 2009, relates to Asymptote Architecture’s design of a virtualized NYSE Trading Floor that visualized real-time numerical and statistical data. This series includes textual, born-digital, and audiovisual components, as well as digital artefacts, and chiefly dates from 1997 to 2002. The intent of the New York Stock Exchange Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF) was to detect suspicious trading activity, track the impact of global news events on the market and potentially predict a crash before it happened. In order to achieve this technically, Asymptote worked with Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) RealityEngine hardware which had been built specifically for these visualization-intensive applications. They also worked with Softimage and Alias software for modeling, rendering and animating, and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Macromedia Flash in order to integrate real-time data into a navigable three-dimensional environment. The main elements of the virtual environment include posts, containers, and back wall. The two container types, Index Container (IC) and Group Container (GC), allow for visualization and comparison of stock histories and behaviors. The posts display stock information, corresponding heat maps on floors, and alerts. The back wall integrates live news broadcasts. Materials in this series are largely digital and primarily include still raster images and video demonstrating 3DTF functionality. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya, Alias, Microstation, and Form-Z formats. Other digital materials include Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) files, HTML files, Silicon Graphics Images databases, research material, press kits, presentations, and handout files. The textual records are largely materials that were handed out at presentation meetings for each phase of the project. These typically illustrate major virtual components of 3DTF, like the heat maps and posts, and overlap significantly with the related digital files. There is also one VHS tape which compiles nearly twenty minutes of animated renderings. Finally, this series includes 43 CDs. The CDs were processed and are included as part of the digital records; the CDs themselves were kept in instances where they may have artefactual value, especially if they were visually interesting or informationally important.
1990-2009
Three Dimensional Trading Floor
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AP184.S1
Description:
Series 1, Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 1990 - 2009, relates to Asymptote Architecture’s design of a virtualized NYSE Trading Floor that visualized real-time numerical and statistical data. This series includes textual, born-digital, and audiovisual components, as well as digital artefacts, and chiefly dates from 1997 to 2002. The intent of the New York Stock Exchange Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF) was to detect suspicious trading activity, track the impact of global news events on the market and potentially predict a crash before it happened. In order to achieve this technically, Asymptote worked with Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) RealityEngine hardware which had been built specifically for these visualization-intensive applications. They also worked with Softimage and Alias software for modeling, rendering and animating, and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Macromedia Flash in order to integrate real-time data into a navigable three-dimensional environment. The main elements of the virtual environment include posts, containers, and back wall. The two container types, Index Container (IC) and Group Container (GC), allow for visualization and comparison of stock histories and behaviors. The posts display stock information, corresponding heat maps on floors, and alerts. The back wall integrates live news broadcasts. Materials in this series are largely digital and primarily include still raster images and video demonstrating 3DTF functionality. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya, Alias, Microstation, and Form-Z formats. Other digital materials include Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) files, HTML files, Silicon Graphics Images databases, research material, press kits, presentations, and handout files. The textual records are largely materials that were handed out at presentation meetings for each phase of the project. These typically illustrate major virtual components of 3DTF, like the heat maps and posts, and overlap significantly with the related digital files. There is also one VHS tape which compiles nearly twenty minutes of animated renderings. Finally, this series includes 43 CDs. The CDs were processed and are included as part of the digital records; the CDs themselves were kept in instances where they may have artefactual value, especially if they were visually interesting or informationally important.
Series
1990-2009
books
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[6], 69 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 x 26 cm
[Calgary?] : University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, [1996]
Radio television and broadcast station / Marie-Christine Bellon Manzi.
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[6], 69 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 x 26 cm
books
[Calgary?] : University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, [1996]
archives
archives