DR1966:0001:090
Description:
- This plan of Rome near Monte Testaccio includes fortifications and the identification of prominent landmarks such as the pyramid of Gaius Cestius.
engineering, military
1735
Plan of Rome near Monte Testaccio with ballistics calculations
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DR1966:0001:090
Description:
- This plan of Rome near Monte Testaccio includes fortifications and the identification of prominent landmarks such as the pyramid of Gaius Cestius.
engineering, military
Project
AP013.S1.D36
Description:
File documents an executed (?) project for an addition and alterations to publishing offices in Montréal, Québec on Fortification Lane. Material in this file was produced between 1913 and 1914. File contains working drawings, and detail drawings.
1913-1914
Star Building proposed alterations, Montréal, Québec
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AP013.S1.D36
Description:
File documents an executed (?) project for an addition and alterations to publishing offices in Montréal, Québec on Fortification Lane. Material in this file was produced between 1913 and 1914. File contains working drawings, and detail drawings.
Project
1913-1914
*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
Main galleries
8 September 1992 to 28 February 1993
Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal
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Description:
*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
Main galleries
Project
Castel Grande
AP142.S1.D31
Description:
File documents an unsuccessful competition entry for the design of a new entranceway and bridge in the fortification walls of Castel Grande, in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Material in this file was produced in 1974. File contains reference drawings, design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including drawings, postcards and photographic material.
1974
Castel Grande
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AP142.S1.D31
Description:
File documents an unsuccessful competition entry for the design of a new entranceway and bridge in the fortification walls of Castel Grande, in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Material in this file was produced in 1974. File contains reference drawings, design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including drawings, postcards and photographic material.
File 31
1974
research
Lian Chang, McGill University Topic: Festival and Fortification: the Ritual Transformations of Henry IIs Royal Entries, 1548-50 Stephanie Davidson, Dalhousie University Topic: Scrapbook City: Representing Contemporary Montréal
June 2004 to September 2004
Master’s Students Program 2004
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Description:
Lian Chang, McGill University Topic: Festival and Fortification: the Ritual Transformations of Henry IIs Royal Entries, 1548-50 Stephanie Davidson, Dalhousie University Topic: Scrapbook City: Representing Contemporary Montréal
research
June 2004 to
September 2004
Project
AP207.S1.1992.PR01
Description:
The project series documents Pettena's preliminary study and proposal for the restoration and conversion of the Forte Inglese, a Napoleonic era fortification in Portoferraio, Italy. Pettena worked on this project in 1992. The restauration and conversion project for the fort was not realized because of changes in the local government. The proposal consisted of converting the fort into an exhibition space, an auditorium and a public garden "by simply adding spaces that utilized volumes created underground or at the rear: thus the respect of the preexisting context was assured, from the viewpoint of history as well as landscape." [1] The project series contains a preliminary study report by Pettena, sketches, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and sections for Pettena's proposal, reference photographs, research material, such as photocopies of publications on the fort and reference plans for the historic building. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-study-for-the-restoration-1992/ (last accessed 21 January 2020).
1992-2015
Studio Per Il Restauro E La Riconversione Del Forte Inglese [Study for the Restoration and Conversion of the Fort Inglese], Portoferraio, Italy (1992)
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AP207.S1.1992.PR01
Description:
The project series documents Pettena's preliminary study and proposal for the restoration and conversion of the Forte Inglese, a Napoleonic era fortification in Portoferraio, Italy. Pettena worked on this project in 1992. The restauration and conversion project for the fort was not realized because of changes in the local government. The proposal consisted of converting the fort into an exhibition space, an auditorium and a public garden "by simply adding spaces that utilized volumes created underground or at the rear: thus the respect of the preexisting context was assured, from the viewpoint of history as well as landscape." [1] The project series contains a preliminary study report by Pettena, sketches, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and sections for Pettena's proposal, reference photographs, research material, such as photocopies of publications on the fort and reference plans for the historic building. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-study-for-the-restoration-1992/ (last accessed 21 January 2020).
Project
1992-2015
articles
17th century, 18th century, BLDGBLOG, feral city, fortifications, Geoff@CCA, Geoff Manaugh, Giacomo Fusto Castriotto, Girolamo Maggi, traités, treatises, ville sauvage, XVIe siècle, XVIIe siècle
22 June 2010
archives
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Fonds
AP051
Synopsis:
The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
1975-1997
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds
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AP051
Synopsis:
The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
1975-1997
State, King , Seventeenth-century, French Architecture, Indra McEwen, Architecture of Fortification, Mechanical Body, Invisible Modern State, Visiting Scholar
18 February 2000
DR1981:0017:001 R/V
Description:
- Most of the drawings in the group DR1981:0017:001 R/V - DR1981:0017:079 R/V are by Luca Danese, with the exception of those by Giovanni Antonio Zani (DR1981:0017:034, DR1981:0017:066 R/V, DR1981:0017:67 R/V and DR1981:0017:069 R/V), and the possible exception of the lower drawing on DR1981:0017:063 R, which bears the inscription, "Giovanni Danese". The Danese drawings include sketches of buildings, fortifications, facades, temporary architecture, locks and bridges as well as maps and designs for escutcheons, facades, temporary architecture, locks and one bridge. Most of these drawings show structures in the area around Comacchio and Ferrara in northeastern Italy, but there are also a number of record drawings made as far south as Rome, and as far north as Venice. In addition, there are plans which were probably not made "in situ" for fortifications at Innsbruck, Austria (DR1981:0017:064 R) and Altenburg (Mosonmagyarovar), Hungary (DR1981:0017:018 R). The drawings range in date between 1629 (DR1981:0017:018 R) and 1641 (DR1981:0017:0017:010 V), with a number of the record drawings made in Rome inscribed "1635". The Zani drawings are undated designs for military storage facilities, including a design for a magazine at Ferrara (DR1981:0017:067 R). Many of the sheets and secondary supports have been inscribed by an unknown contemporary Italian hand, including the drawing DR1981:0017:039 which gives Danese's death date as "1672". The date at which the drawings were bound into an album has not been determined.
architecture, military
ca. 1630-1640
Elevation of a fortified tower with cannons; verso: View of the Ponte Felice, Borghetto; Offset images of a bridge and an architectural detail
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DR1981:0017:001 R/V
Description:
- Most of the drawings in the group DR1981:0017:001 R/V - DR1981:0017:079 R/V are by Luca Danese, with the exception of those by Giovanni Antonio Zani (DR1981:0017:034, DR1981:0017:066 R/V, DR1981:0017:67 R/V and DR1981:0017:069 R/V), and the possible exception of the lower drawing on DR1981:0017:063 R, which bears the inscription, "Giovanni Danese". The Danese drawings include sketches of buildings, fortifications, facades, temporary architecture, locks and bridges as well as maps and designs for escutcheons, facades, temporary architecture, locks and one bridge. Most of these drawings show structures in the area around Comacchio and Ferrara in northeastern Italy, but there are also a number of record drawings made as far south as Rome, and as far north as Venice. In addition, there are plans which were probably not made "in situ" for fortifications at Innsbruck, Austria (DR1981:0017:064 R) and Altenburg (Mosonmagyarovar), Hungary (DR1981:0017:018 R). The drawings range in date between 1629 (DR1981:0017:018 R) and 1641 (DR1981:0017:0017:010 V), with a number of the record drawings made in Rome inscribed "1635". The Zani drawings are undated designs for military storage facilities, including a design for a magazine at Ferrara (DR1981:0017:067 R). Many of the sheets and secondary supports have been inscribed by an unknown contemporary Italian hand, including the drawing DR1981:0017:039 which gives Danese's death date as "1672". The date at which the drawings were bound into an album has not been determined.
architecture, military