Visiting Scholar, Jonathan Massey, Modernism, Ornament, Reform, Crystal and Arabesque, U.S. Modern Architecture, Progressive Era (1893-1918)
15 June 2006
Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
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17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
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Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
31 May 2017 to 24 September 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton
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Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
archives
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ca. 3,414 items, 4.15 l.m. textual records., Arranged by series and files.
Reginald Malcolmson fonds, 1933-1992.
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ca. 3,414 items, 4.15 l.m. textual records., Arranged by series and files.
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ca. 46,874 items, 85.57 l.m. textual records., Arranged by series and files.
Peter Eisenman fonds, 1925-2008.
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ca. 46,874 items, 85.57 l.m. textual records., Arranged by series and files.
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1,051 drawings, 232 photographic material, 0.01 l.m. of textual records, 2 portfolios, Arranged by series. CI007.S1, Architectural projects by Mies, 1918-2000; CI007.S2,...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection, 1918-2000.
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1,051 drawings, 232 photographic material, 0.01 l.m. of textual records, 2 portfolios, Arranged by series. CI007.S1, Architectural projects by Mies, 1918-2000; CI007.S2,...
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734 items., Arranged by files.
Eero Saarinen collection, 1956-1964.
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books
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319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bruxelles : P. Mardaga, [1980?]
Architecture américaine d'aujourd'hui / Barbaralee Diamonstein avec I.M. Pei [and others] ; introduction de Paul Goldberger ; traduction, K. et L. Merveille.
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319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Bruxelles : P. Mardaga, [1980?]