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Unintended Memories
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Naoya Hatakeyama, conversation, oral history
11 September 2023
Unintended Memories
Naoya Hatakeyama in conversation with Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
Octagonal gallery
29 September 2016 to 22 January 2017
17 Volcanoes: Works by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Armin Linke, and Bas Princen
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
Octagonal gallery
AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.6
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Episode of television program "Building sites". James Stirling presents the architecture of the Katherine Stephen Room, a room for rare books at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, designed by architects Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward. Presented by James Stirling. Camera, David Swan; sound, David Jewitt; stills photography, Hugh Palmer, Martin Charles; graphics, Rose James, Joel Greenberg; video editor, John Paroussi; production assistant, Mary McKernan; researcher, Ruth Rosenthal; producer, Clare Paterson; director, Geoff Dunlop.
1989
Building sights (Television program)
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AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.6
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Episode of television program "Building sites". James Stirling presents the architecture of the Katherine Stephen Room, a room for rare books at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, designed by architects Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward. Presented by James Stirling. Camera, David Swan; sound, David Jewitt; stills photography, Hugh Palmer, Martin Charles; graphics, Rose James, Joel Greenberg; video editor, John Paroussi; production assistant, Mary McKernan; researcher, Ruth Rosenthal; producer, Clare Paterson; director, Geoff Dunlop.
1989
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Copper House II
AP182.S1.2009.D1
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File documents an executed project for a private house in Chondi, Maharashtra, India. Copper House II is the second residence of a couple from Mumbai, who visit the house for a few days each week. It is located in a dense grove of mango trees near a brook that floods each year during the monsoon. To protect the inhabitants from the encroaching landscape, the house is set on an artificial high ground made of dirt dug for a well from the site itself. The open-air courtyard at the centre of the plan is paved in black basalt stones that also allow rainwater to drain below the house. On the ground floor, large horizontal windows are sheathed in slatted ironwood and copper mesh, providing a form of camouflage for the house while still permitting views out from the living spaces. The two boxy spaces upstairs are private: one contains a master bedroom and study, the second a smaller bedroom. The thin copper sheets that cover the upper floor are waterproof and will develop a verdigris over time, further concealing the house within its setting. File contains drawings, photographs, models, and a video recording.
2009-2014
Copper House II
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AP182.S1.2009.D1
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File documents an executed project for a private house in Chondi, Maharashtra, India. Copper House II is the second residence of a couple from Mumbai, who visit the house for a few days each week. It is located in a dense grove of mango trees near a brook that floods each year during the monsoon. To protect the inhabitants from the encroaching landscape, the house is set on an artificial high ground made of dirt dug for a well from the site itself. The open-air courtyard at the centre of the plan is paved in black basalt stones that also allow rainwater to drain below the house. On the ground floor, large horizontal windows are sheathed in slatted ironwood and copper mesh, providing a form of camouflage for the house while still permitting views out from the living spaces. The two boxy spaces upstairs are private: one contains a master bedroom and study, the second a smaller bedroom. The thin copper sheets that cover the upper floor are waterproof and will develop a verdigris over time, further concealing the house within its setting. File contains drawings, photographs, models, and a video recording.
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2009-2014
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Housings
AP185.S1
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This project, 1998-2000, documents the conception and design of Housings, mass-customized prefabricated residences, by the architecture firm KOL/MAC. KOL/MAC began by digitally blending a typical 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom colonial house with a range of other objects or use cases. The result was six related houses that explored the relationship between customization and mass prefabrication. Housings relates to KOL/MAC’s exploration of what they call chimerical projects, where form and function are combined to create uniquely hybridized structures. The project records are largely in CAD formats, including Alias Wire, Maya, and IGES files; there are a number of raster image formats, including TIF, Alias pix, Mac Pict images, and JPEG. The materials include renderings, wireframe drawings, and still images of the various Housings structures. There is also a body of material from and related to the concrete manufacturer, YTONG, as well as a small amount of video material, which is only partially accessible due to format obsolescence. Source: “Kolatan / MacDonald Studio.” Archilab. Published in 2000. Accessed 21 November 2017. http://www.archilab.org/public/2000/catalog/kolata/kolataen.htm.
1998-2000
Housings
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AP185.S1
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This project, 1998-2000, documents the conception and design of Housings, mass-customized prefabricated residences, by the architecture firm KOL/MAC. KOL/MAC began by digitally blending a typical 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom colonial house with a range of other objects or use cases. The result was six related houses that explored the relationship between customization and mass prefabrication. Housings relates to KOL/MAC’s exploration of what they call chimerical projects, where form and function are combined to create uniquely hybridized structures. The project records are largely in CAD formats, including Alias Wire, Maya, and IGES files; there are a number of raster image formats, including TIF, Alias pix, Mac Pict images, and JPEG. The materials include renderings, wireframe drawings, and still images of the various Housings structures. There is also a body of material from and related to the concrete manufacturer, YTONG, as well as a small amount of video material, which is only partially accessible due to format obsolescence. Source: “Kolatan / MacDonald Studio.” Archilab. Published in 2000. Accessed 21 November 2017. http://www.archilab.org/public/2000/catalog/kolata/kolataen.htm.
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1998-2000
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AP074
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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds contains photographs dating from about 1947, of a house project in West Vancouver which Chard Wisnicki, the first female graduate of the McGill School of Architecture, was assistant architect. The fonds also contains a videocassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki from 1995, and one textual document from 1997.
[ca. 1947], 1995, 1997
Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds
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AP074
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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds contains photographs dating from about 1947, of a house project in West Vancouver which Chard Wisnicki, the first female graduate of the McGill School of Architecture, was assistant architect. The fonds also contains a videocassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki from 1995, and one textual document from 1997.
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[ca. 1947], 1995, 1997
15 videocassette(s)
Videocassettes
AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P13
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videocassettes, including 'Seventh Praemium Imperial'; 'J.S. Memorial Video (B.B.C.)'; The Second Praemium Imperiale: Awards Ceremony', dated 1990; Praemium Imperiale Laureates Profiles 2001'; Praemium Imperiale Laureates Profiles 2003'; 'Sir James Stirling Memorial Celebration', dated 1992; 'Building Sights: Series Two, Katharine Stephen Room, Newnham College, Cambridge, Presenter James Stirling, Director Geoff Dunlop', dated 1989; 'Thema: "Stirling"', Hessischer Rundfunk, dated 1992; 'Stirling in Stuttgart', dated 1992; 'RIBA Building of the Year, Centenary Building, University of Salford', dated 1996
Videocassettes
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AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P13
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videocassettes, including 'Seventh Praemium Imperial'; 'J.S. Memorial Video (B.B.C.)'; The Second Praemium Imperiale: Awards Ceremony', dated 1990; Praemium Imperiale Laureates Profiles 2001'; Praemium Imperiale Laureates Profiles 2003'; 'Sir James Stirling Memorial Celebration', dated 1992; 'Building Sights: Series Two, Katharine Stephen Room, Newnham College, Cambridge, Presenter James Stirling, Director Geoff Dunlop', dated 1989; 'Thema: "Stirling"', Hessischer Rundfunk, dated 1992; 'Stirling in Stuttgart', dated 1992; 'RIBA Building of the Year, Centenary Building, University of Salford', dated 1996
15 videocassette(s)
archives
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Fonds
AP184
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The Asymptote Architecture New York Stock Exchange project records, 1990 - 2009, document the firm’s work on three major projects for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in collaboration with the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC): the Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF), MarkeTrac/OrderTrac, and the Advanced Trading Floor Operations Center. The majority of the records date from 1998 to 2004, and include textual, born-digital, audiovisual and over-sized materials.
1991-2009
Asymptote Architecture New York Stock Exchange project records
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AP184
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The Asymptote Architecture New York Stock Exchange project records, 1990 - 2009, document the firm’s work on three major projects for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in collaboration with the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC): the Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF), MarkeTrac/OrderTrac, and the Advanced Trading Floor Operations Center. The majority of the records date from 1998 to 2004, and include textual, born-digital, audiovisual and over-sized materials.
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1991-2009
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Fonds
CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
1914-2008
Gordon Matta-Clark collection
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CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
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1914-2008
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AP207.S1.1987.PR01
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The project series documents "Paesaggi Della Memoria", an installation presented at the Castello Aragonese, in Otranto in 1987. The installation consists of a small mound of sand on which is placed a plastic open suitcase and plastic cuttings that represent the mountains from Pettena's childhood landscape. This work by Pettena is a "metaphor for any possible personal interpretation of the universal theme of the landscape, bestow on it an artistic significance, the charge carried by the values of poetry, of the memory of a space and a time that here also acquire, thanks to the context, the “Mediterranean” dimension, reinforced by the presence of sand and the essential character of the setting." [1] The project series contains sketches and installation photographs and videos. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-landscapes-of-memory-1987/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
circa 1987-2015
Paesaggi Della Memoria [Landscapes of Memory] (1987)
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AP207.S1.1987.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Paesaggi Della Memoria", an installation presented at the Castello Aragonese, in Otranto in 1987. The installation consists of a small mound of sand on which is placed a plastic open suitcase and plastic cuttings that represent the mountains from Pettena's childhood landscape. This work by Pettena is a "metaphor for any possible personal interpretation of the universal theme of the landscape, bestow on it an artistic significance, the charge carried by the values of poetry, of the memory of a space and a time that here also acquire, thanks to the context, the “Mediterranean” dimension, reinforced by the presence of sand and the essential character of the setting." [1] The project series contains sketches and installation photographs and videos. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-landscapes-of-memory-1987/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
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circa 1987-2015