textual records
DR2012:0012:096:007
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File containing documents in English, including a city map of Sydney, Australia, notes, and professional correspondence between Melvin Charney and members of staff at the New South Wales Institute of Technology, primarily regarding a lecture by Melvin Charney in 1981. Original folder inscribed in graphite: NEW SOUTH WALES INSTITUTE OF TECH.
1980-1982, 1988
Correspondence of Melvin Charney with the New South Wales Institutes of Technology
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DR2012:0012:096:007
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File containing documents in English, including a city map of Sydney, Australia, notes, and professional correspondence between Melvin Charney and members of staff at the New South Wales Institute of Technology, primarily regarding a lecture by Melvin Charney in 1981. Original folder inscribed in graphite: NEW SOUTH WALES INSTITUTE OF TECH.
textual records
1980-1982, 1988
Project
Food for the Future
AP144.S2.D87
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File documents proposals for an international exhibition on the theme of innovations in agriculture and food production. Peter Kuttner was the exhibition organizer and the full extent of Cedric Price’s involvement in the project is unclear, although his office produced a model, drawings, and exhibition and display design ideas. Plans show exhibition, cinema, and lecture areas, as well as, book stalls and a restaurant. Plans also show thematic areas: 'Farms for Food', 'Methods of Production and Storage', and the 'Nature of Food', as well as circulation patterns. An initial proposal titled 'Food for the Future' was submitted to the Greater London Council for the Hayward Gallery, in London, but was rejected. A subsequent submission with the title 'Food First' was made to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. Material in this file was created between 1971 and 1978 but predominantly between 1971 and 1975. Peter Kuttner is attributed as the organizer of the exhibition which was originally titled: 'Food of the future exhibition'. File contains conceptual drawings, model, and textual records.
1971-1978, predominant 1971-1975
Food for the Future
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AP144.S2.D87
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File documents proposals for an international exhibition on the theme of innovations in agriculture and food production. Peter Kuttner was the exhibition organizer and the full extent of Cedric Price’s involvement in the project is unclear, although his office produced a model, drawings, and exhibition and display design ideas. Plans show exhibition, cinema, and lecture areas, as well as, book stalls and a restaurant. Plans also show thematic areas: 'Farms for Food', 'Methods of Production and Storage', and the 'Nature of Food', as well as circulation patterns. An initial proposal titled 'Food for the Future' was submitted to the Greater London Council for the Hayward Gallery, in London, but was rejected. A subsequent submission with the title 'Food First' was made to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. Material in this file was created between 1971 and 1978 but predominantly between 1971 and 1975. Peter Kuttner is attributed as the organizer of the exhibition which was originally titled: 'Food of the future exhibition'. File contains conceptual drawings, model, and textual records.
File 87
1971-1978, predominant 1971-1975
Reading Landscapes
Reading Landscapes is a small selection of books from the CCA Collection that reflect on the ever-changing concept of landscape. The books on display bring together various landscape readings and highlight singular publishing techniques and formats, recognizing the gaps intrinsic to the history of publishing that are present in our library’s collection.
14 March 2024 to 2 March 2025
Reading Landscapes
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Reading Landscapes is a small selection of books from the CCA Collection that reflect on the ever-changing concept of landscape. The books on display bring together various landscape readings and highlight singular publishing techniques and formats, recognizing the gaps intrinsic to the history of publishing that are present in our library’s collection.
photographs
Negatives for many projects
DR2004:0036
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negatives for many of the projects ranging between New Aviary (AP144.S2.D31) and Walsall (AP144.S2.D173), including negatives for RIBA Exhibition, Heinz Gallery and AA Exhibition 1979 (AP144.S3.D15), and a file of negatives for unnumbered jobs and sites, German Exhibition blurbs, 4th year model CP, and ICA lecture
Negatives for many projects
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DR2004:0036
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negatives for many of the projects ranging between New Aviary (AP144.S2.D31) and Walsall (AP144.S2.D173), including negatives for RIBA Exhibition, Heinz Gallery and AA Exhibition 1979 (AP144.S3.D15), and a file of negatives for unnumbered jobs and sites, German Exhibition blurbs, 4th year model CP, and ICA lecture
photographs
Project
AP018.S1.1971.PR11
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This project series documents the design and purchase of equipment and furnishings for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in 1971. The office identified the project number as 7118. Beginning in 1969, Parkin’s firm was hired as the head architects for the AGO’s massive expansion program that would span more than a decade. This is one project relating to the expansion of the art gallery. It consisted of the furnishings and equipment for the newly expanded gallery, which included benches, lecture hall seating, carpets, desks, and fabrics. It should be noted that while AGO project contracts were originally given to John B. Parkin Associates, John C. Parkin continued the project under his new firm, Parkin Architects Planners, after parting ways with partner John B. Parkin in 1971. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from around 1971-1979. The textual records show the planning and purchase of furnishings through correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, and specifications. The drawings show the proposed layouts and design of the gallery furnishings.
circa 1971-1979
Art Gallery of Ontario, Furnishings and Equipment, Toronto (1971)
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AP018.S1.1971.PR11
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This project series documents the design and purchase of equipment and furnishings for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in 1971. The office identified the project number as 7118. Beginning in 1969, Parkin’s firm was hired as the head architects for the AGO’s massive expansion program that would span more than a decade. This is one project relating to the expansion of the art gallery. It consisted of the furnishings and equipment for the newly expanded gallery, which included benches, lecture hall seating, carpets, desks, and fabrics. It should be noted that while AGO project contracts were originally given to John B. Parkin Associates, John C. Parkin continued the project under his new firm, Parkin Architects Planners, after parting ways with partner John B. Parkin in 1971. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from around 1971-1979. The textual records show the planning and purchase of furnishings through correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, and specifications. The drawings show the proposed layouts and design of the gallery furnishings.
Project
circa 1971-1979
textual records
AP197.S3.012
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years 2015-2016. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to the following writings and lectures Frampton participated in: an essay for a monograph on O'Donnell + Tuomey, architects; a Nils Erik Wickberg lecture in Helinski; the Wood at Work conference; a review of George Baird's book; and Modern Architecture: a Critical History.
2015-2016
Personal and professional correspondence from 2015-2016
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AP197.S3.012
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years 2015-2016. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to the following writings and lectures Frampton participated in: an essay for a monograph on O'Donnell + Tuomey, architects; a Nils Erik Wickberg lecture in Helinski; the Wood at Work conference; a review of George Baird's book; and Modern Architecture: a Critical History.
textual records
2015-2016
Project
AP164.S1.1999.D2
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The project series documents an open competition. Abalos & Herreros, in collaboration with Queca Ortiz and Empty, S.L., won second place for their design. The firm identified this project as number 115. The intention of their entry was to “[…] answer to the task with an authentic installation, a mellowed and independent equipment independent of the container, which absolutely never provokes a conflict or pretends to improve it, which accepts the value of its configuration and extracts the maximum possibilities of the spatial qualities that the intervention has pretended to enhance. Therefore, it is pretended to develop a program which adds an offer of pedagogic-cultural piece of the town to the basic spaces of the museum. The challenge is to make people live together with the scientific aspects, which interests the cultivated popular-pedagogy visitor, connoisseurs of, and which acts with the intention of excinting, surprising and attracting attention of a mostly youthful and infantile audience. […] The museum’s basic program is completed with temporary exhibition halls, library, lecture room and didactic workshops, assembly hall, café, gift shop and offices.” (ARCH270975) Documenting this project are digital and reference materials, project descriptions, and specifications.
1996-2009, predominant 1999
Museo arqueológico Alicante, Spain (1999)
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AP164.S1.1999.D2
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The project series documents an open competition. Abalos & Herreros, in collaboration with Queca Ortiz and Empty, S.L., won second place for their design. The firm identified this project as number 115. The intention of their entry was to “[…] answer to the task with an authentic installation, a mellowed and independent equipment independent of the container, which absolutely never provokes a conflict or pretends to improve it, which accepts the value of its configuration and extracts the maximum possibilities of the spatial qualities that the intervention has pretended to enhance. Therefore, it is pretended to develop a program which adds an offer of pedagogic-cultural piece of the town to the basic spaces of the museum. The challenge is to make people live together with the scientific aspects, which interests the cultivated popular-pedagogy visitor, connoisseurs of, and which acts with the intention of excinting, surprising and attracting attention of a mostly youthful and infantile audience. […] The museum’s basic program is completed with temporary exhibition halls, library, lecture room and didactic workshops, assembly hall, café, gift shop and offices.” (ARCH270975) Documenting this project are digital and reference materials, project descriptions, and specifications.
Project
1996-2009, predominant 1999
drawings
AP178.S2.1985.016
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This sketchbook contains notes about a public lecture, sketches of furniture, and sketches for 106 Habitações, Punt en Komma, Schilderswijk-West and Duas habitações e duas lojas in The Hague, The Netherlands. Also included are sketches for the Quinta da Malagueira housing estate in Évora, Portugal and the Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal (ESSE) in Sétubal, Portugal.
December 1985-January 1986
Sketchbook 214: Évora - Setubal
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AP178.S2.1985.016
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This sketchbook contains notes about a public lecture, sketches of furniture, and sketches for 106 Habitações, Punt en Komma, Schilderswijk-West and Duas habitações e duas lojas in The Hague, The Netherlands. Also included are sketches for the Quinta da Malagueira housing estate in Évora, Portugal and the Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal (ESSE) in Sétubal, Portugal.
drawings
December 1985-January 1986
textual records
Institute Report Info , 1969
ARCH153873
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Hand written notes on lectures(?) and books.
1969
Institute Report Info , 1969
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ARCH153873
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Hand written notes on lectures(?) and books.
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1969
textual records
Student papers, Italy
ARCH216286
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texts of lectures by Piero Luigi Nervi
1954
Student papers, Italy
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ARCH216286
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texts of lectures by Piero Luigi Nervi
textual records
1954