Project
AP207.S1.1971.PR07
Description:
The project series documents "Some Call him Pig," a photograph taken by Petenna of billboard produced by the Minneapolis police department to promote the merits of police officers and respond to the slang term "pigs" used to refer to policemen. The billboard shows a policeman holding an unconscious child in his arms and practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. "Pettena underlined its 'contradiction in terms' and unintentional irony, incomprehensible to the Americans of the mid-west." [1] The project series contains a photograph of the billboard and project description in English and Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-some-call-him-pig-1971-1/ (last accessed 11 November 2019)
circa 1971-2015
Some Call Him Pig (1971)
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AP207.S1.1971.PR07
Description:
The project series documents "Some Call him Pig," a photograph taken by Petenna of billboard produced by the Minneapolis police department to promote the merits of police officers and respond to the slang term "pigs" used to refer to policemen. The billboard shows a policeman holding an unconscious child in his arms and practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. "Pettena underlined its 'contradiction in terms' and unintentional irony, incomprehensible to the Americans of the mid-west." [1] The project series contains a photograph of the billboard and project description in English and Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-some-call-him-pig-1971-1/ (last accessed 11 November 2019)
Project
circa 1971-2015
photographs
ARCH274355
Description:
Architectural reference slides. Labeled, "Miscellaneous reference material, non- AEA," includes: Cadillac Buildings, Toronto, California Sea Ranch, Lois Spence House, Toronto Art Gallery, underground structures, Burnaby Municipal Hall- concrete, concrete miscellaneous, Winnipeg Trizec project, miscellaneous university, Thameshead housing project, University of Alberta- administration building, Rockefeller Centre, Whitney Museum of American Art and Weyer Hauser.
ca. 1968- ca. 1975
Architectural reference slides
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ARCH274355
Description:
Architectural reference slides. Labeled, "Miscellaneous reference material, non- AEA," includes: Cadillac Buildings, Toronto, California Sea Ranch, Lois Spence House, Toronto Art Gallery, underground structures, Burnaby Municipal Hall- concrete, concrete miscellaneous, Winnipeg Trizec project, miscellaneous university, Thameshead housing project, University of Alberta- administration building, Rockefeller Centre, Whitney Museum of American Art and Weyer Hauser.
photographs
ca. 1968- ca. 1975
textual records
WRITTEN TEXT.....MILFORD
ARCH271682
Description:
Group consists of documentation and texts about the Milford Solar Conservation Center in Milford, Pennsylvania, including promotional leaflets, project descriptions, clippings of articles about the center, texts by Douglas Kelbaugh on the center, correspondence and photocopies of photographs. The group also includes project description forms for the 1984 Honor Award Program of the American Institute of Architects.
1980-1984
WRITTEN TEXT.....MILFORD
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ARCH271682
Description:
Group consists of documentation and texts about the Milford Solar Conservation Center in Milford, Pennsylvania, including promotional leaflets, project descriptions, clippings of articles about the center, texts by Douglas Kelbaugh on the center, correspondence and photocopies of photographs. The group also includes project description forms for the 1984 Honor Award Program of the American Institute of Architects.
textual records
1980-1984
works of art
Quantity:
10 print(s)
Reprints of Walls Paper
PH2006:0293
Description:
Set of 10 prints of Walls Paper. These prints were printed in 2006 to be distributed at the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark" at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Identical prints were also distributed at the 2007 exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You are the Measure" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1972, printed 2006
Reprints of Walls Paper
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PH2006:0293
Description:
Set of 10 prints of Walls Paper. These prints were printed in 2006 to be distributed at the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark" at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Identical prints were also distributed at the 2007 exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You are the Measure" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
works of art
Quantity:
10 print(s)
1972, printed 2006
textual records
ARCH252257
Description:
-Correspondence with Caesar & Washburn re: IFCCA Prize fundraising -Meeting files and strategy documents produced for IFCCA Prize fundraising by Caesar & Washburn -CC's of letter re: IFCCA Prize fundraising received by Phyllis Lambert's office and sent to Caesar & Washburn -Draft contract between American Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (AFCCA) and Caesar & Washburn, 1 February 1997
1997
Fundraising Strategy: M. Washburn
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ARCH252257
Description:
-Correspondence with Caesar & Washburn re: IFCCA Prize fundraising -Meeting files and strategy documents produced for IFCCA Prize fundraising by Caesar & Washburn -CC's of letter re: IFCCA Prize fundraising received by Phyllis Lambert's office and sent to Caesar & Washburn -Draft contract between American Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (AFCCA) and Caesar & Washburn, 1 February 1997
textual records
1997
Project
Poultry Plant
AP013.S1.D523
Description:
File documents an executed (?) project for two poultry plant buildings in Magog, Québec. Material in this file was produced in 1957. File contains index cards, a survey drawing, working and detail drawings, and mechanical drawings.
1957
Poultry Plant
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AP013.S1.D523
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File documents an executed (?) project for two poultry plant buildings in Magog, Québec. Material in this file was produced in 1957. File contains index cards, a survey drawing, working and detail drawings, and mechanical drawings.
Project
1957
Series
Correspondence
CD028.S1
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Series documents correspondence primarily from Gordon Matta-Clark to Carol Goodden, written from the United States, South America and Europe. Material in this series was produced between 1 August 1971 and May or June 1978. Series contains textual records. Includes 29 letters, 7 postcards, 1 note, 1 envelope and 1 valentine.
1971-1978
Correspondence
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CD028.S1
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Series documents correspondence primarily from Gordon Matta-Clark to Carol Goodden, written from the United States, South America and Europe. Material in this series was produced between 1 August 1971 and May or June 1978. Series contains textual records. Includes 29 letters, 7 postcards, 1 note, 1 envelope and 1 valentine.
Series
1971-1978
archives
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Collection
Georg Lippsmeier Collection
CD037
Synopsis:
The Georg Lippsmeier collection comprises the research collection of the Institut für Tropenbau. Founded by Georg Lippsmeier the Institute was active from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The collection includes research material on architecture in tropical climates and building technologies.
1960s-2010
Georg Lippsmeier Collection
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CD037
Synopsis:
The Georg Lippsmeier collection comprises the research collection of the Institut für Tropenbau. Founded by Georg Lippsmeier the Institute was active from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The collection includes research material on architecture in tropical climates and building technologies.
archives
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Collection
1960s-2010
textual records
DR2012:0015:022:012
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File containing documents in English, including press clippings related to the following projects: - CCA garden; - Skyscraper, waterfall, brooks - a construction; - Une célébration... de l'eau à la lumière; - The American city: out of the heartland, Kansas; - Between observation and intervention: the painted photographs of Melvin Charney; - Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: DOSSIER DE PRESSE TO FILE
1967, 1990, 2008, 2010
Press clippings related to Melvin Charney's projects
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DR2012:0015:022:012
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File containing documents in English, including press clippings related to the following projects: - CCA garden; - Skyscraper, waterfall, brooks - a construction; - Une célébration... de l'eau à la lumière; - The American city: out of the heartland, Kansas; - Between observation and intervention: the painted photographs of Melvin Charney; - Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: DOSSIER DE PRESSE TO FILE
textual records
1967, 1990, 2008, 2010
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
14 March 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Warsaw: With Kuba Snopek
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Description:
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.