photographs
AP197.S1.SS9.023
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This box contains the audio recordings of Kenneth Frampton's various lectures including: On regionalism (1983); Latin American Architecture: Contemporary Reflections 1929-1960; The Committee of Canadian Architectural Councils commencement (1999); and the Isms of Architecture.
circa 1985-1995
Kenneth Frampton audio cassettes
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AP197.S1.SS9.023
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This box contains the audio recordings of Kenneth Frampton's various lectures including: On regionalism (1983); Latin American Architecture: Contemporary Reflections 1929-1960; The Committee of Canadian Architectural Councils commencement (1999); and the Isms of Architecture.
photographs
circa 1985-1995
Project
AP207.S1.1970.PR01
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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
Sub-series
AP197.S1.SS9
Description:
This subseries is comprised of notes, drafts, research, and photographic materials that were organized by topic. Unlike Kenneth Frampton’s research files which are arranged in Series AP197.S2, these files were compiled for book projects, articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, conference addresses, and keynote speeches, and document over 300 of Frampton's published or unpublished texts. The materials include notes, contracts, drafts, correspondence, final copies of texts, photographic materials, and research materials. This subseries also includes Frampton’s curriculum vitaes, notebooks, and covers he designed for the journal Architectural Design (1962-1964). The files are organized alphabetically by the topic explored, namely architects. Some of these architects include: Alvar Aalto; Tadao Ando; Georges Baines; Luis Barragan; H.P. Berlage; Mario Botta; Alberto Campo Baeza; David Chipperfield; Alvaro Siza; Michael Kagan; Louis Kahn; Rem Koolhaas; Kengo Kuma; Kisho Kurakawa; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Raphael Moneo; Carlo Scarpa; O.M. Ungers; Raj Rewal; Rogelio Salmona; Frank Lloyd Wright; and Monica Pidgeon. Subjects explored in these texts include: photography; the predicament of environmental design; reciprocal regionalism; the British Library; China's sacred sites; reflections on the oppositions of architecture and building; reflections on Perspecta; and the role of education. Large portions of these boxes document the publications "World Architecture 1900-2000: a Critical Mosaic" (1999), "Le Corbusier" (1997 and 2002), "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House" (1995), and "American Masterworks" (2008). Some folders may include coloured tabs with the note "copied." These tabs were used to identify whether the particular writing/project in question had been added to Frampton's curriculum vitae.
circa 1952 -2016
Books, articles, reviews, lectures, and juries
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AP197.S1.SS9
Description:
This subseries is comprised of notes, drafts, research, and photographic materials that were organized by topic. Unlike Kenneth Frampton’s research files which are arranged in Series AP197.S2, these files were compiled for book projects, articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, conference addresses, and keynote speeches, and document over 300 of Frampton's published or unpublished texts. The materials include notes, contracts, drafts, correspondence, final copies of texts, photographic materials, and research materials. This subseries also includes Frampton’s curriculum vitaes, notebooks, and covers he designed for the journal Architectural Design (1962-1964). The files are organized alphabetically by the topic explored, namely architects. Some of these architects include: Alvar Aalto; Tadao Ando; Georges Baines; Luis Barragan; H.P. Berlage; Mario Botta; Alberto Campo Baeza; David Chipperfield; Alvaro Siza; Michael Kagan; Louis Kahn; Rem Koolhaas; Kengo Kuma; Kisho Kurakawa; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Raphael Moneo; Carlo Scarpa; O.M. Ungers; Raj Rewal; Rogelio Salmona; Frank Lloyd Wright; and Monica Pidgeon. Subjects explored in these texts include: photography; the predicament of environmental design; reciprocal regionalism; the British Library; China's sacred sites; reflections on the oppositions of architecture and building; reflections on Perspecta; and the role of education. Large portions of these boxes document the publications "World Architecture 1900-2000: a Critical Mosaic" (1999), "Le Corbusier" (1997 and 2002), "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House" (1995), and "American Masterworks" (2008). Some folders may include coloured tabs with the note "copied." These tabs were used to identify whether the particular writing/project in question had been added to Frampton's curriculum vitae.
Subseries
circa 1952 -2016
Project
Ice House II (1972)
AP207.S1.1972.PR01
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The project series documents "Ice House II" a project which consisted of freezing a small house in suburban Minneapolis, by pouring water into a wooden mold surrounding the house and letting the water freeze to create a block of ice. "If the addition of material then leads, paradoxically, to the disappearence of the 'architectural' object, this subtraction only highlights the serial repetitiveness of the dwellings in American suburbia." [1] It is unclear if this project was ever performed. The project series contains photographs of the frozen house, photographic reproductions of aerial views and plans of the neighbourhood for the selection of the house, sketches and a perspective drawing. Source: [1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 152.
circa 1972-2015
Ice House II (1972)
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AP207.S1.1972.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Ice House II" a project which consisted of freezing a small house in suburban Minneapolis, by pouring water into a wooden mold surrounding the house and letting the water freeze to create a block of ice. "If the addition of material then leads, paradoxically, to the disappearence of the 'architectural' object, this subtraction only highlights the serial repetitiveness of the dwellings in American suburbia." [1] It is unclear if this project was ever performed. The project series contains photographs of the frozen house, photographic reproductions of aerial views and plans of the neighbourhood for the selection of the house, sketches and a perspective drawing. Source: [1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 152.
Project
circa 1972-2015
textual records
AP140.S2.SS6.D1.P1
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correspondence between James Stirling and Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, and with other American universities, relating to teaching activities, including some financial records, also a reprographic copy of a letter from publisher Gerd Hatje
Correspondence between James Stirling and Yale University
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AP140.S2.SS6.D1.P1
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correspondence between James Stirling and Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, and with other American universities, relating to teaching activities, including some financial records, also a reprographic copy of a letter from publisher Gerd Hatje
textual records
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
drawings
DR2012:0011:009-009
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - American city series; - CCA garden; - Cities on the move; - Saigon; - Cities on the move, Kansas; - One size fits all series; - Trees; - Sherbrooke.
2001-2003
Notes and sketches by Melvin Charney on his later works
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DR2012:0011:009-009
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - American city series; - CCA garden; - Cities on the move; - Saigon; - Cities on the move, Kansas; - One size fits all series; - Trees; - Sherbrooke.
drawings
2001-2003
textual records
ARCH218639
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envelopes and file folders of newspaper and periodical clippings, issues of architectural periodicals, including Amepnko, Casabella, L'architettura, Spazio, Domus, Metron, Der Stahlbau, Arts & Architecture, Architectural Forum, Steel Construction, Informes and Journal of the American Concrete Institute
ca.1951-1963
Envelopes and file folders of newspaper and periodical clippings
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ARCH218639
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envelopes and file folders of newspaper and periodical clippings, issues of architectural periodicals, including Amepnko, Casabella, L'architettura, Spazio, Domus, Metron, Der Stahlbau, Arts & Architecture, Architectural Forum, Steel Construction, Informes and Journal of the American Concrete Institute
textual records
ca.1951-1963
journals and magazines
PH2008:0037:017
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Review by Judith Rodenbeck titled "Gordon Matta-Clark" (pp. 110-111) discusses the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007.
June 2007
Modern Painters: The International Contemporary Art Magazine
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PH2008:0037:017
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Review by Judith Rodenbeck titled "Gordon Matta-Clark" (pp. 110-111) discusses the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007.
journals and magazines
June 2007
textual records
AP075.S3.SS1.015
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Correspondence related to the application of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander to the Meadows Press and the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) engagement calendar of 1999, Creative Gardens and Landscapes. Original folder entitled: "M. Meadows / MEADOW PRESS ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR".
1997
Cornelia Hahn Obelander application to the engagement calendar of Meadows Press on landscape architecture
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AP075.S3.SS1.015
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Correspondence related to the application of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander to the Meadows Press and the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) engagement calendar of 1999, Creative Gardens and Landscapes. Original folder entitled: "M. Meadows / MEADOW PRESS ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR".
textual records
1997