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AP013.S1.D296
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File documents an executed project for a bank in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1947 and 1948. File contains index cards, survey drawings, preliminary drawings, preliminary and design development drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, mechanical drawings, a photograph, and textual documents.
1947-1948
Bleury Street Branch of the Imperial Bank
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AP013.S1.D296
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File documents an executed project for a bank in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1947 and 1948. File contains index cards, survey drawings, preliminary drawings, preliminary and design development drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, mechanical drawings, a photograph, and textual documents.
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1947-1948
Project
CI005.S1.1947.PR2
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Oud was appointed consultant to the design of the Rotterdam office and warehouse for the Eveha stationary wholesaler. Despite his initial limited responsibilities, Oud ultimately designed the entire complex in 1947. Oud designed a basement showroom, as well as a ground floor for offices, storerooms and sales area. The first floor contained a caretaker's flat and the upper floor consisted of storerooms. The front and rear facades featured full height pilasters and eight aluminium windows (Taverne et al. 2001, 490). Project series includes photographs of distant and exterior views of the building under construction.
1947-1950
Esveha Office/Warehouse Building, Rotterdam, Netherlands (1947-1950)
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CI005.S1.1947.PR2
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Oud was appointed consultant to the design of the Rotterdam office and warehouse for the Eveha stationary wholesaler. Despite his initial limited responsibilities, Oud ultimately designed the entire complex in 1947. Oud designed a basement showroom, as well as a ground floor for offices, storerooms and sales area. The first floor contained a caretaker's flat and the upper floor consisted of storerooms. The front and rear facades featured full height pilasters and eight aluminium windows (Taverne et al. 2001, 490). Project series includes photographs of distant and exterior views of the building under construction.
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1947-1950
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Control
AP144.S2.D152
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File documents a consultancy project related to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) running from London to Folkestone, England. Price was employed by the engineering firm Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners to give design input on structures they designed for a stretch of the CTRL including crossings at Boxley, the River Medway, and about 50 smaller ones. Material in this file was produced in 1961 and between 1989 and 1992, but predominantly between 1989 and 1990. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, reference drawings, photographs, and textual records.
1961, 1989-1992, predominant 1989-1990
Control
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AP144.S2.D152
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File documents a consultancy project related to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) running from London to Folkestone, England. Price was employed by the engineering firm Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners to give design input on structures they designed for a stretch of the CTRL including crossings at Boxley, the River Medway, and about 50 smaller ones. Material in this file was produced in 1961 and between 1989 and 1992, but predominantly between 1989 and 1990. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, reference drawings, photographs, and textual records.
File 152
1961, 1989-1992, predominant 1989-1990
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AP142.S1.D211
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File documents an executed project for a hotel and office complex in Moji, Kitakyushu, Japan. Material in this file was produced in 1993 and 1994. File contains a reference drawing, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, and working drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, an architect's statement, building programmes, specifications, a financial record, promotional material, a publication, legends for drawings, labels for drawings, schedules of drawings, and photocopies of views of Moji and drawings, pieces for a model, and a list of Aldo Rossi projects in Japan.
1993-1994
Moji hotel & office complex: 'The Shark'
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AP142.S1.D211
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File documents an executed project for a hotel and office complex in Moji, Kitakyushu, Japan. Material in this file was produced in 1993 and 1994. File contains a reference drawing, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, and working drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, an architect's statement, building programmes, specifications, a financial record, promotional material, a publication, legends for drawings, labels for drawings, schedules of drawings, and photocopies of views of Moji and drawings, pieces for a model, and a list of Aldo Rossi projects in Japan.
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1993-1994
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AP142.S2.D3
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File documents a museums fair held in the Grand Palais, Paris, France. Aldo Rossi exhibited his models and drawings for the Wettbewerb Deutsches Historisches Museum and designed the installations for the Wettbewerb Deutsches Historisches Museum's exhibit at the fair. Material in this file was produced in 1989 and 1990. File contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, correspondence, specifications, estimates, administrative records, financial records, schedules, programmes, labels for drawings, exhibition catalogues, bochures, clippings, business cards, memorandums, notes, photocopies of views of works of art, and photographs, including views of the fair.
1989-1990
2e Salon International des Musées et des Expositions
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AP142.S2.D3
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File documents a museums fair held in the Grand Palais, Paris, France. Aldo Rossi exhibited his models and drawings for the Wettbewerb Deutsches Historisches Museum and designed the installations for the Wettbewerb Deutsches Historisches Museum's exhibit at the fair. Material in this file was produced in 1989 and 1990. File contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, correspondence, specifications, estimates, administrative records, financial records, schedules, programmes, labels for drawings, exhibition catalogues, bochures, clippings, business cards, memorandums, notes, photocopies of views of works of art, and photographs, including views of the fair.
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1989-1990
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Memorie [Memories] (2005)
AP207.S1.2005.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Memorie" presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Chateauroux, in 2005. The installation consists of classroom furniture, such as desks, chairs and window panels, emerging from walls and "represent things that only partly resurface in the memory of each of us in different ways when we come across objects whose use is common to all." [1] The project series contains photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-memories-2005/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
2005-2017
Memorie [Memories] (2005)
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AP207.S1.2005.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Memorie" presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Chateauroux, in 2005. The installation consists of classroom furniture, such as desks, chairs and window panels, emerging from walls and "represent things that only partly resurface in the memory of each of us in different ways when we come across objects whose use is common to all." [1] The project series contains photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-memories-2005/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
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2005-2017
archives
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Fonds
Wayfarers' Chapel fonds
AP151
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The Wayfarers' Chapel fonds documents Lloyd Wright's design of this executed project, its additions, as well as related unbuilt projects. The fonds contains over 300 drawings and reprographic copies and 1.7 l.m. of textual records, including correspondence and photographs. Material in the fonds was produced between 1937 and 1979.
1937-1979
Wayfarers' Chapel fonds
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AP151
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The Wayfarers' Chapel fonds documents Lloyd Wright's design of this executed project, its additions, as well as related unbuilt projects. The fonds contains over 300 drawings and reprographic copies and 1.7 l.m. of textual records, including correspondence and photographs. Material in the fonds was produced between 1937 and 1979.
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Fonds
1937-1979
books, photographs
PH1990:0327:001-073
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- Contemporary binding consists of purple cloth-covered boards and purple leather-covered spine and corners. There is a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers and secondary supports are of light brownish white paper. The book is comprised of 34 pages of text and 74 photographs.
architecture
printed ca. 1862
May's Views of Buckinghamshire
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PH1990:0327:001-073
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- Contemporary binding consists of purple cloth-covered boards and purple leather-covered spine and corners. There is a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers and secondary supports are of light brownish white paper. The book is comprised of 34 pages of text and 74 photographs.
books, photographs
printed ca. 1862
architecture
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AP207.S1.2013.PR02
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The project series documents the digitally created performance "Testacoda" by Pettena in 2013. The performance consists of a photograph of Pettena swimming to which he added the tail of a dolphin. This performance refers to "Il Mestiere Dell'Architetto" (2002) showing the difficulties and possible impasses of the work of the architect. "However, the ‘swimmer’ must still keep his head well up, as a symbol of rationality, and look with all his attention but, when he decides, he can give himself up to emotion through the wriggles of his tail." [1] The project series contains a printed photograph of the digital performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-back-to-surface-2013/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
circa 2013
Testacoda [Back to Surface] (2013)
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AP207.S1.2013.PR02
Description:
The project series documents the digitally created performance "Testacoda" by Pettena in 2013. The performance consists of a photograph of Pettena swimming to which he added the tail of a dolphin. This performance refers to "Il Mestiere Dell'Architetto" (2002) showing the difficulties and possible impasses of the work of the architect. "However, the ‘swimmer’ must still keep his head well up, as a symbol of rationality, and look with all his attention but, when he decides, he can give himself up to emotion through the wriggles of his tail." [1] The project series contains a printed photograph of the digital performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-back-to-surface-2013/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
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circa 2013
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries
18 October 2006 to 10 June 2007
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow
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Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries