Learning from... Beirut
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
11 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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CP Aviary
AP144.S2.D113
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File documents an unexecuted project for an aviary and laboratory for the Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London, England. The design had to be easily dismantled, transported, and re-erected, since it was possible that there would be a "Stage 2" where the aviary would be moved from its original urban site to a more open rural site. Conceptual sketches illustrate preliminary ideas for the general structure and for. Some sketches are colored with metallic ink to outline structural components. Schematic design drawings illustrate two alternate plans, probably for urban and rural sites. A schematic flow diagram shows the use of research equipment within specified laboratory zones/research modules. Design development drawings show the aviary structure for both the urban and rural site. Isometrics, axonometrics, and perspectives show spatial division and accommodation within the aviary. Duplicate reprographic copies are made from the original drawings; some are annotated with notes. Material in this file was produced between 1978 and 1989, but predominantly between 1981 and 1985. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, reference drawings, other drawings, a model, photographic materials, and textual records.
1978-1989, predominant 1981-1985
CP Aviary
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AP144.S2.D113
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File documents an unexecuted project for an aviary and laboratory for the Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London, England. The design had to be easily dismantled, transported, and re-erected, since it was possible that there would be a "Stage 2" where the aviary would be moved from its original urban site to a more open rural site. Conceptual sketches illustrate preliminary ideas for the general structure and for. Some sketches are colored with metallic ink to outline structural components. Schematic design drawings illustrate two alternate plans, probably for urban and rural sites. A schematic flow diagram shows the use of research equipment within specified laboratory zones/research modules. Design development drawings show the aviary structure for both the urban and rural site. Isometrics, axonometrics, and perspectives show spatial division and accommodation within the aviary. Duplicate reprographic copies are made from the original drawings; some are annotated with notes. Material in this file was produced between 1978 and 1989, but predominantly between 1981 and 1985. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, reference drawings, other drawings, a model, photographic materials, and textual records.
File 113
1978-1989, predominant 1981-1985
Project
AP143.S4.D82
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File documents the unexecuted project for the Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Material in this file was produced in 1989. File contains presentation drawings and organization, schedule, staffing, site, and urban historical diagrams, and a textual record (correspondence).
1989
School of Nursing, Yale University
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AP143.S4.D82
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File documents the unexecuted project for the Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Material in this file was produced in 1989. File contains presentation drawings and organization, schedule, staffing, site, and urban historical diagrams, and a textual record (correspondence).
File 82
1989
Project
AP022.S1.1987.PR15
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File documents a pedestrian street / staircase for an urban renewal project, University Street between First Avenue and Western Avenue, Seattle, Washington State. File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings, a model, textual records (including an audio tape)
1987-1989
University Street Stairs, Seattle
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AP022.S1.1987.PR15
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File documents a pedestrian street / staircase for an urban renewal project, University Street between First Avenue and Western Avenue, Seattle, Washington State. File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings, a model, textual records (including an audio tape)
Project
1987-1989
drawings, photographs
ARCH252153
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views of drawings and models of various Scolari projects for the exhibition catalogue, "Massimo Scolari, architecture between memory and hope : May 15 to June 30, 1976, May 20 to July 6, 1980" / introduction by Manfredo Tafuri. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; distributed by MIT Press 1980; candids of the exhibition
1976-1980
Views of drawings and models of various Scolari projects for the exhibition catalogue
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views of drawings and models of various Scolari projects for the exhibition catalogue, "Massimo Scolari, architecture between memory and hope : May 15 to June 30, 1976, May 20 to July 6, 1980" / introduction by Manfredo Tafuri. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; distributed by MIT Press 1980; candids of the exhibition
drawings, photographs
1976-1980
Our Visiting Scholar Nader Vossoughian talks about informal urban planning as seen through the history of encyclopedism, using the Whole Earth Catalog as a case study. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
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Nader Vossoughian, visiting scholar, seminar
9 August 2012 , 6PM
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Nader Vossoughian
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Our Visiting Scholar Nader Vossoughian talks about informal urban planning as seen through the history of encyclopedism, using the Whole Earth Catalog as a case study. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
Presented in English Keyword(s):
Nader Vossoughian, visiting scholar, seminar
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AP116.S2.SS11.D7
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File documents the planning and actual exhibition, "Eavesdropping on Architecture", held 3 June - 29 July, 2000, at The Urban Center, New York City, New York. Material in file was was produced between 1999 and 2000. FIle contains videocassettes, receipts, publicity material, correspondence, budgets and guest lists.
1999-2000
Anyone for Architecture Exhibition
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AP116.S2.SS11.D7
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File documents the planning and actual exhibition, "Eavesdropping on Architecture", held 3 June - 29 July, 2000, at The Urban Center, New York City, New York. Material in file was was produced between 1999 and 2000. FIle contains videocassettes, receipts, publicity material, correspondence, budgets and guest lists.
File 7
1999-2000
archives
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Fonds
Aditya Prakash fonds
AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
1947-2008
Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
Synopsis:
The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
archives
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Fonds
1947-2008
textual records
ARCH153755
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1 catalogue for Massimo Scolari's exhibition at the IAUS in New York: Massimo Scolari, architecture between memory and hope : May 15 to June 30, 1976, May 20 to July 6, 1980 / introduction by Manfredo Tafuri. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; distributed by MIT Press 1980. Scolari negatives for the catalogue and views of the Scolari exhibition
1976-1980
Catalogue for Massimo Scolari's exhibition at the IAUS in New York
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ARCH153755
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1 catalogue for Massimo Scolari's exhibition at the IAUS in New York: Massimo Scolari, architecture between memory and hope : May 15 to June 30, 1976, May 20 to July 6, 1980 / introduction by Manfredo Tafuri. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; distributed by MIT Press 1980. Scolari negatives for the catalogue and views of the Scolari exhibition
textual records
1976-1980
textual records
ARCH153544
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Documentation concerning the project of a Journal for Discussion, and Criticism of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, to be edited by Stanford Anderson and Anthony Vidler : with lists of proposed writers and topics for first issues; budget data Photocopy of Denise Levertov : "Some Notes on Organic Form", Poetry, vol. 106, no 6, September 1965 Schedule and introductory text by H.-R. Hitchcock for the "3rd Modern Architecture Symposium", Columbia University, May 13-15, 1966 CASE editorial Board Meeting, May 9 1965 Schedule of Seminar on Constructivism, A.A. 24/6/65 "A Work Study Program" Correspondence between PDE and Anthony Vidler Letter from Stuart Cohen [Statements of the editors about] Re:Form Editorial Statement (CASE/Problems in Architecture) Statement of the Editorial Board New York May 9, 1965; Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Stanford Anderson, Kenneth Frampton, Henry Millon
1965-1971
PDE IAUS, 1971: D Projects - 2 IAUS magazine: CASE Mag. 1965-1971
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ARCH153544
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Documentation concerning the project of a Journal for Discussion, and Criticism of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, to be edited by Stanford Anderson and Anthony Vidler : with lists of proposed writers and topics for first issues; budget data Photocopy of Denise Levertov : "Some Notes on Organic Form", Poetry, vol. 106, no 6, September 1965 Schedule and introductory text by H.-R. Hitchcock for the "3rd Modern Architecture Symposium", Columbia University, May 13-15, 1966 CASE editorial Board Meeting, May 9 1965 Schedule of Seminar on Constructivism, A.A. 24/6/65 "A Work Study Program" Correspondence between PDE and Anthony Vidler Letter from Stuart Cohen [Statements of the editors about] Re:Form Editorial Statement (CASE/Problems in Architecture) Statement of the Editorial Board New York May 9, 1965; Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Stanford Anderson, Kenneth Frampton, Henry Millon
textual records
1965-1971