drawings
ARCH260006
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29 files - Planning / Design / Promotion files - re-zoning application, urban design studies, plans and elevations related to building studies, landscape, structure, penthouse, health club, parking studies, unit studies
1988-1989
Planning / Design / Promotion files
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ARCH260006
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29 files - Planning / Design / Promotion files - re-zoning application, urban design studies, plans and elevations related to building studies, landscape, structure, penthouse, health club, parking studies, unit studies
drawings
1988-1989
drawings
AP178.S2.1979.002
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This sketchbook includes sketches and studies for Blocke 70 und 89, Kreuzberg, Fränkelufer and Blocke 11 e 12, Kottbusser Damm, Berlin, Germany. Also included are sketches of Kreuzberg's urban landscape.
December 1979
Sketchbook 45: Berlim
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AP178.S2.1979.002
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This sketchbook includes sketches and studies for Blocke 70 und 89, Kreuzberg, Fränkelufer and Blocke 11 e 12, Kottbusser Damm, Berlin, Germany. Also included are sketches of Kreuzberg's urban landscape.
drawings
December 1979
Project
AP075.S1.1952.PR01
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for Schuylkill Falls, a public housing development on Ridge Avenue, in the East Falls neighbourhood of Philadelphia. Oberlander worked on this project from 1952-1955, after she was recruited by architect Oskar Stonorov. Oberlander worked on the landscaping with Dan Kiley. The project was initally divided in six phases and was planned to spread across five city blocks. One of the phases included the construction of two sixteen-storey housing towers, but only one was built. The building was demolished in 1996. The project series contains five landscape plans for all five city blocks project and a set of landscape specifications, the first written by Oberlander.
1952-1954
Schuylkill Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1952)
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AP075.S1.1952.PR01
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for Schuylkill Falls, a public housing development on Ridge Avenue, in the East Falls neighbourhood of Philadelphia. Oberlander worked on this project from 1952-1955, after she was recruited by architect Oskar Stonorov. Oberlander worked on the landscaping with Dan Kiley. The project was initally divided in six phases and was planned to spread across five city blocks. One of the phases included the construction of two sixteen-storey housing towers, but only one was built. The building was demolished in 1996. The project series contains five landscape plans for all five city blocks project and a set of landscape specifications, the first written by Oberlander.
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1952-1954
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Juries
AP058.S2.SS3
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This subseries documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s participation on juries of the Progressive Architecture Awards (1980), the National Endowment for the Arts/Design for Transportation National Awards (1981), the Professional Awards for the American Society of Landscape Architects (1982), and the Sparks Street Mall Urban Design Competition (1985). The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, agendas, reports, lists of jury members, programmes, reports, and a press kit, dating from 1980 to 1985.
1980-1985
Juries
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AP058.S2.SS3
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This subseries documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s participation on juries of the Progressive Architecture Awards (1980), the National Endowment for the Arts/Design for Transportation National Awards (1981), the Professional Awards for the American Society of Landscape Architects (1982), and the Sparks Street Mall Urban Design Competition (1985). The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, agendas, reports, lists of jury members, programmes, reports, and a press kit, dating from 1980 to 1985.
Subseries
1980-1985
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Fonds
Gianni Pettena fonds
AP207
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The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
1960-2019
Gianni Pettena fonds
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AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
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Fonds
1960-2019
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AP075.S1.1952.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for the Mill Creek Public Housing Complex between 40th Street, Aspen Street, and Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 1950s as Dan Kiley's associate. They both were consulting for Louis Kahn's office, Kahn, McAllister, Braik, & Day. The first phase of the project consisted of a complex of three seventeen-storey apartment towers accomodating 218 units on a four-acre site. The landscape design consisted of a system of pedestrian areas to connect the site with the city, including a central alley linking Fairmount Avenue to a common green space. Trees to provide shade were planted around the parking spaces and the housing towers. The project was completed in 1954, but most of the landscaping by Kiley and Oberlander was never realized. The Mill Creek complex was demolished in 2002 to make space for the new low-rise public housing development. The project series contains only two reprographic copies of landscape plans. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
1952-1953
Mills Creek Public Housing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1952-1953)
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AP075.S1.1952.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for the Mill Creek Public Housing Complex between 40th Street, Aspen Street, and Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 1950s as Dan Kiley's associate. They both were consulting for Louis Kahn's office, Kahn, McAllister, Braik, & Day. The first phase of the project consisted of a complex of three seventeen-storey apartment towers accomodating 218 units on a four-acre site. The landscape design consisted of a system of pedestrian areas to connect the site with the city, including a central alley linking Fairmount Avenue to a common green space. Trees to provide shade were planted around the parking spaces and the housing towers. The project was completed in 1954, but most of the landscaping by Kiley and Oberlander was never realized. The Mill Creek complex was demolished in 2002 to make space for the new low-rise public housing development. The project series contains only two reprographic copies of landscape plans. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
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1952-1953
drawings
AP178.S2.1985.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Urban plan, Schilderswijk-West in The Hague, The Netherlands, and for the Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte in Giudecca, Italy. It also contains sketches of furniture, people, as well as landscape of Venice and Amsterdam.
January 1985
Sketchbook 195: BB - Veneza - Guimaraes
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AP178.S2.1985.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Urban plan, Schilderswijk-West in The Hague, The Netherlands, and for the Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte in Giudecca, Italy. It also contains sketches of furniture, people, as well as landscape of Venice and Amsterdam.
drawings
January 1985
Sub-series
AP207.S2.SS10
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The sub-series documents the exhibition and the related publication "Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo" curated by Pettena. The exhibition was presented at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in 1996. The exhibition, dedicated to American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, is the result of several years of Pettena's research on landscape architecture and how urban parks symbolized social changes in the second half of the 19th century. This sub-series contains research material such as notes by Pettena, information on Olmsted's landscape projects, publications on Olmsted, and leaflets and ephemera from other exhibitions or events on Olmsted. The research material also contains correspondence of Gianni Pettena with experts on Olmsted or with the Frederick Law Olmsted Association. Also included, are documents related to the planning and the production of the exhibition and the related publication, such as correspondence, exhibition programs, strategic program, summaries of the exhibition's themes, object lists, and budget and draft texts for the publication.
1991-1996
Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo (1996)
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AP207.S2.SS10
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The sub-series documents the exhibition and the related publication "Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo" curated by Pettena. The exhibition was presented at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in 1996. The exhibition, dedicated to American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, is the result of several years of Pettena's research on landscape architecture and how urban parks symbolized social changes in the second half of the 19th century. This sub-series contains research material such as notes by Pettena, information on Olmsted's landscape projects, publications on Olmsted, and leaflets and ephemera from other exhibitions or events on Olmsted. The research material also contains correspondence of Gianni Pettena with experts on Olmsted or with the Frederick Law Olmsted Association. Also included, are documents related to the planning and the production of the exhibition and the related publication, such as correspondence, exhibition programs, strategic program, summaries of the exhibition's themes, object lists, and budget and draft texts for the publication.
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1991-1996
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AP075.S1.1979.PR04
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the British Columbia Institute of Technology (B.C.I.T.) site at the Discovery Parks Multi Tenant Facility, located on Willingdon Avenue, in Burnaby, British Columbia. Created in 1979, Discovery Parks is an organization with the mission to accomodate scientific and technological research activities by building and renting research installations. Initially founded by the provincial government, Discovery Parks became self-governning and independant in 1990. Oberlander worked on the Discovery Parks B.C.I.T's site from 1979-1984 with Russell Vandiver Architects. The concept of B.C.I.T's site was to create a park like environment for an industrial research site. The site was surrounded by a woodland and included a wetland. To reflect the existing condition of her landscape design, Oberlander added a rentention pool and a restored woodland, creating a urban forest using native plants. The project was completed in 1982. The project series contains textual documents, such as correspondence with client and architects, financial documents, minutes of meetings, specifications and Oberlander's concept notes. The project is also documented through working drawings, including grading plans, irrigation plans, landscape plans and sites plans. It also included reference drawings of the site, photographs of the completed landscape and a mounted photographs of the a section of the landscape design by Oberlander.
1979-1990
British Columbia Institute of Technology Multi Tenant Facility, Discovery Parks, Willingdon Site, Burnaby, British Columbia (1987-1984)
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AP075.S1.1979.PR04
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the British Columbia Institute of Technology (B.C.I.T.) site at the Discovery Parks Multi Tenant Facility, located on Willingdon Avenue, in Burnaby, British Columbia. Created in 1979, Discovery Parks is an organization with the mission to accomodate scientific and technological research activities by building and renting research installations. Initially founded by the provincial government, Discovery Parks became self-governning and independant in 1990. Oberlander worked on the Discovery Parks B.C.I.T's site from 1979-1984 with Russell Vandiver Architects. The concept of B.C.I.T's site was to create a park like environment for an industrial research site. The site was surrounded by a woodland and included a wetland. To reflect the existing condition of her landscape design, Oberlander added a rentention pool and a restored woodland, creating a urban forest using native plants. The project was completed in 1982. The project series contains textual documents, such as correspondence with client and architects, financial documents, minutes of meetings, specifications and Oberlander's concept notes. The project is also documented through working drawings, including grading plans, irrigation plans, landscape plans and sites plans. It also included reference drawings of the site, photographs of the completed landscape and a mounted photographs of the a section of the landscape design by Oberlander.
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1979-1990
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AP164.S1.2003.D10
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The project series documents the commission and built project for an urban development and a public park on the banks of the rivers Torio and Bernesca in the area of La Lastra, León, Spain. The firm identified the project as number 173. “The park of La Lastra is composed by the superpositioning [sic] of four different states of natural space: a fluvial park, an urban park, an agricultural park and a park with common installations. Being next to the urbanization of La Lastra, both public spaces, both adopt a minimum strategy of landscape bubbles and urbanized bubbles respectively in the way that the whole complex becomes a continuum and achieves a scale able to diffuse the traditional limits of either urban fabric or park, confirming a singular complex which responds to the way in which new generations can understand the relation between nature and artificial.” (ARCH270975) Two other projects are related to this one: Alcorque para León (AP164.S1.2004.D5) and Puentes de León (AP164.S1.2004.D6). Documenting the project are presentation documents, notes, a dummy and a proposal.
circa 2003-2004
Urbanización del sector La Lastra, León, Spain (2003)
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AP164.S1.2003.D10
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The project series documents the commission and built project for an urban development and a public park on the banks of the rivers Torio and Bernesca in the area of La Lastra, León, Spain. The firm identified the project as number 173. “The park of La Lastra is composed by the superpositioning [sic] of four different states of natural space: a fluvial park, an urban park, an agricultural park and a park with common installations. Being next to the urbanization of La Lastra, both public spaces, both adopt a minimum strategy of landscape bubbles and urbanized bubbles respectively in the way that the whole complex becomes a continuum and achieves a scale able to diffuse the traditional limits of either urban fabric or park, confirming a singular complex which responds to the way in which new generations can understand the relation between nature and artificial.” (ARCH270975) Two other projects are related to this one: Alcorque para León (AP164.S1.2004.D5) and Puentes de León (AP164.S1.2004.D6). Documenting the project are presentation documents, notes, a dummy and a proposal.
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circa 2003-2004