Project
Doubletake
AP142.S2.D12
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File documents an exhibition titled 'Doubletake - Collective Memory & Current Art' that was first held 20 February to 20 April 1992 at the Hayward Gallery, London, England and then held 8 January to 28 February 1993 at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Material in this file was produced in 1992 and 1993. File contains photographs, design development drawings, presentation drawings, and record drawings. File also contains textual records, including correspondence and clippings.
1992-1993
Doubletake
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AP142.S2.D12
Description:
File documents an exhibition titled 'Doubletake - Collective Memory & Current Art' that was first held 20 February to 20 April 1992 at the Hayward Gallery, London, England and then held 8 January to 28 February 1993 at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Material in this file was produced in 1992 and 1993. File contains photographs, design development drawings, presentation drawings, and record drawings. File also contains textual records, including correspondence and clippings.
File 12
1992-1993
Project
Nara Hotel
AP142.S1.D206
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File documents an executed project for a hotel in Nara, Japan. Material in this file was produced between 1991 and 1994. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, maps, photographs, an aerial view, correspondence, a building programme, specifications, a technical report, contracts, progress reports, project lists, layouts, a schedule of drawings, a label for drawings, legends for drawings, and notes.
1991-1994
Nara Hotel
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AP142.S1.D206
Description:
File documents an executed project for a hotel in Nara, Japan. Material in this file was produced between 1991 and 1994. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, maps, photographs, an aerial view, correspondence, a building programme, specifications, a technical report, contracts, progress reports, project lists, layouts, a schedule of drawings, a label for drawings, legends for drawings, and notes.
File 206
1991-1994
Project
AP143.S6.D14
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File documents an installation for "The American Century 1900-2000" exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, 1997. File contains 31 drawings, 4 prints, 4 study models, 1 box of models and 1 file of textual documents. Documentation includes copies of building sections of the Whitney Museum by Marcel Breuer & Associates Architects. The textual document file consists of sketches, template, exhibition descriptions and photographs.
1997
Installation for the "American Century 1900-2000" exhibition
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AP143.S6.D14
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File documents an installation for "The American Century 1900-2000" exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, 1997. File contains 31 drawings, 4 prints, 4 study models, 1 box of models and 1 file of textual documents. Documentation includes copies of building sections of the Whitney Museum by Marcel Breuer & Associates Architects. The textual document file consists of sketches, template, exhibition descriptions and photographs.
File 14
1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
textual records
Files of reference material
ARCH255256
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3 files of reference material - copy of E.D. Mills' book The National Exhibition Centre, a history of the building in Birmingham; Pennsylvannia Arboretum plan; photographs of presentation models of the Maryland, Des Moines, and Baltimore Convention Centers.
circa 1985
Files of reference material
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ARCH255256
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3 files of reference material - copy of E.D. Mills' book The National Exhibition Centre, a history of the building in Birmingham; Pennsylvannia Arboretum plan; photographs of presentation models of the Maryland, Des Moines, and Baltimore Convention Centers.
textual records
circa 1985
drawings
ARCH271698
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Group consists of photographs of presentation drawings (elevations, sites plans, floor plans, perspectives and sections) for the Cultural Arts Pavilion in Newport News, Virginia. The group also includes site plans, perpsectives, floor plans, elevations and sections.
circa 1984
Presentation drawings, Cultural Arts Pavilion, Newport News, Virginia
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ARCH271698
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Group consists of photographs of presentation drawings (elevations, sites plans, floor plans, perspectives and sections) for the Cultural Arts Pavilion in Newport News, Virginia. The group also includes site plans, perpsectives, floor plans, elevations and sections.
drawings
circa 1984
Project
Guy Desbarats Residence
AP109.S3.D71
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File documents an executed project for a house for the architect in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1965 and 1967. File contains preliminary drawings, working drawings, a photograph and textual records.
1965 - 1967
Guy Desbarats Residence
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AP109.S3.D71
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File documents an executed project for a house for the architect in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1965 and 1967. File contains preliminary drawings, working drawings, a photograph and textual records.
File 71
1965 - 1967
Shaping the Great City explores the role of city-building throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both before and after its dissolution, and expands architectural history by bringing to the fore a rich variety of modernisms. In the years surrounding World War I, these strains of modernism both reflected and shaped the many national and multinational identities of the(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
14 May 2000 to 15 October 2000
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890–1937
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Shaping the Great City explores the role of city-building throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both before and after its dissolution, and expands architectural history by bringing to the fore a rich variety of modernisms. In the years surrounding World War I, these strains of modernism both reflected and shaped the many national and multinational identities of the(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
textual records
A Children’s Theatre
ARCH177554
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Graduate thesis project for the University of British Columbia. Includes a title page, photographs of model and presentation drawings including perspectives, plans, sections, elevations, details, showing a circular theatre in the form of a tent-like structure.
architecture
1955
A Children’s Theatre
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ARCH177554
Description:
Graduate thesis project for the University of British Columbia. Includes a title page, photographs of model and presentation drawings including perspectives, plans, sections, elevations, details, showing a circular theatre in the form of a tent-like structure.
textual records
1955
architecture
Sub-series
AP207.S2.SS11
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This sub-series documents the exhibition "Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino dei Tarocchi", designed by Pettena and presented at the Polveriera Guzman in Orbetello, in 1997. The exhibition presented the work of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle and her work on the creation of the Tarot Garden (Giardino dei Tarocchi in Italian) in Pescia Fiorentina, Italy. The sub-series contains a model of the exhibition gallery and reference photographs of the Tarot Garden.
circa 1997
Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino Dei Taocchi (1997)
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AP207.S2.SS11
Description:
This sub-series documents the exhibition "Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino dei Tarocchi", designed by Pettena and presented at the Polveriera Guzman in Orbetello, in 1997. The exhibition presented the work of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle and her work on the creation of the Tarot Garden (Giardino dei Tarocchi in Italian) in Pescia Fiorentina, Italy. The sub-series contains a model of the exhibition gallery and reference photographs of the Tarot Garden.
Subseries
circa 1997