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A Matter of Terms
Critical Cataloguing, Pierre Jeanneret, CCA archive, United Africa Company, terminology, archival descriptions, changing terms, peon, Chandigarh, India
23 May 2023
A Matter of Terms
Jennifer Préfontaine, Michele Tenzon, Ewan Harrison, Iain Jackson, Claire Tunstall, and Rixt Woudstra discuss changing terms in archival descriptions
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archives
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Fonds
AP218
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The Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds documents Hopwood and Godwin’s architectural projects from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, as well as their training to become architects, the administration of their architecture practice, and their career as architectural consultants, and their writing from the 1940s to 2023. The fonds mostly contains material related to their architectural projects, over 450 of them, mostly in Nigeria and some from their practice in the United Kingdom.
1940-2025
Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds
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Synopsis:
The Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds documents Hopwood and Godwin’s architectural projects from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, as well as their training to become architects, the administration of their architecture practice, and their career as architectural consultants, and their writing from the 1940s to 2023. The fonds mostly contains material related to their architectural projects, over 450 of them, mostly in Nigeria and some from their practice in the United Kingdom.
archives
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1940-2025
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xxvii, 492 pages illustrations 26 cm
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.
Architecture, empire, and trade : the United Africa Company / Iain Jackson, Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon, Rixt Woudstra and Claire Tunstall.
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xxvii, 492 pages illustrations 26 cm
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.
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Photography and American coloniality : Eliot Elisofon in Africa 1942-1972 / Raoul J. Granqvist.
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xxiv, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]
Photography and American coloniality : Eliot Elisofon in Africa 1942-1972 / Raoul J. Granqvist.
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xxiv, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
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East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]
books
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xv, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Governing urban Africa / Carlos Nunes Silva, editor.
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xv, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
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London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
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264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, [2009]
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1963-1973 / introduction by Arthur Drexler ; commentaries by Axel Menges.
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264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York : Monacelli Press, [2009]
books
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246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : W.C. Darrah, publisher, [1977], Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : printed by the Times and News Publishing Company., ©1977.
The world of stereographs / William C. Darrah.
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246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : W.C. Darrah, publisher, [1977], Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : printed by the Times and News Publishing Company., ©1977.
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America as Americans see it / edited by Fred J. Ringel ; illustrated by over 100 American artists.
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xviii, 365 pages, 62 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
New York : The Literary Guild, 1932., Rahway, N.J. : Printed ... by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
America as Americans see it / edited by Fred J. Ringel ; illustrated by over 100 American artists.
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xviii, 365 pages, 62 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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New York : The Literary Guild, 1932., Rahway, N.J. : Printed ... by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
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160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Montreal ; Amsterdam : Architecture Observer, [2016], ©2016
China's turn / Powerhouse Company and Hans Ibelings (editors).
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160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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Montreal ; Amsterdam : Architecture Observer, [2016], ©2016
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vii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Iconic planned communities and the challenge of change / edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, Robert Freestone.
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vii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]