Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
20 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Katie Lloyd Thomas
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Octagonal gallery
8 October 2014 to 15 February 2015
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Octagonal gallery
drawings
ARCH271656
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Press clipping of an article of the The Solar Age issue of April 1984 entitled "America's First Trombe Wall" about Kelbaugh House in Princeton, New Jersey.
1984
Article on Kelbaugh House in Princeton, New Jersey
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ARCH271656
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Press clipping of an article of the The Solar Age issue of April 1984 entitled "America's First Trombe Wall" about Kelbaugh House in Princeton, New Jersey.
drawings
1984
textual records
AP197.S1.SS9.011
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The box contains writings by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from AM-AV. The largest portion of the contents are comprised of: drafts and correspondence for the publication of "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House (1995)" and "American Masterworks (2008)"; various articles and drafts about Tadao Ando; and drafts for "Architecture in the age of commodificaton : topography , morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat, and civil form (1975-2005)."
1960-2015
Kenneth Frampton writings (AM-AV)
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AP197.S1.SS9.011
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The box contains writings by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from AM-AV. The largest portion of the contents are comprised of: drafts and correspondence for the publication of "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House (1995)" and "American Masterworks (2008)"; various articles and drafts about Tadao Ando; and drafts for "Architecture in the age of commodificaton : topography , morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat, and civil form (1975-2005)."
textual records
1960-2015
archives
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Fonds
Kenneth Frampton fonds
AP197
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The Kenneth Frampton fonds, 1958-2016, documents the professional career of Kenneth Frampton – British architect, historian, theorist, and Ware professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Materials in the fonds consist of approximately 28.37 l.m. of textual records, 3966 photographs and prints, 3168 postcards, 2733 slides, 824 drawings (including reprographic copies), 470 negatives, 151 35 mm negatives, 105 posters, 30 objects, 23 audio cassettes, 18 VHS tapes, 15 transparencies, 3 tape reels, 2 microfilms, and 2 vinyl records.
1958-2016
Kenneth Frampton fonds
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AP197
Synopsis:
The Kenneth Frampton fonds, 1958-2016, documents the professional career of Kenneth Frampton – British architect, historian, theorist, and Ware professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Materials in the fonds consist of approximately 28.37 l.m. of textual records, 3966 photographs and prints, 3168 postcards, 2733 slides, 824 drawings (including reprographic copies), 470 negatives, 151 35 mm negatives, 105 posters, 30 objects, 23 audio cassettes, 18 VHS tapes, 15 transparencies, 3 tape reels, 2 microfilms, and 2 vinyl records.
archives
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Fonds
1958-2016
drawings
AP178.S2.2002.005
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This sketchbook includes sketches of a man on a horse and of Siza's trip to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. It also contains notes about influential american architects and for the Avenda Marginal.
May 2002
Sketchbook 508: Veneza - Rio Janeiro - Vincenza 2
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AP178.S2.2002.005
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This sketchbook includes sketches of a man on a horse and of Siza's trip to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. It also contains notes about influential american architects and for the Avenda Marginal.
drawings
May 2002
research
Support Grants 2010
Edmond P. Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University Stephen Monteiro, The American University of Paris Maria Bostenaru Dan, Universitatea De Arhitectura Si Urbanism Ion Mincu Jeffrey Head, Independent writer Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University Juliet Rufford, Victoria Albert Museum/University of Reading
24 March 2010 to 3 December 2010
Support Grants 2010
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Edmond P. Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University Stephen Monteiro, The American University of Paris Maria Bostenaru Dan, Universitatea De Arhitectura Si Urbanism Ion Mincu Jeffrey Head, Independent writer Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University Juliet Rufford, Victoria Albert Museum/University of Reading
research
24 March 2010 to
3 December 2010
Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
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(...)
textual records
ARCH273108
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File contains predominantly textual records relating to the Community Planning Association of Canada/American Society of Planning Officials1975 Joint Planning Conference. File also includes negatives.
1974-1975
ASPO conference planning and notes
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ARCH273108
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File contains predominantly textual records relating to the Community Planning Association of Canada/American Society of Planning Officials1975 Joint Planning Conference. File also includes negatives.
textual records
1974-1975