Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Série(s): Academic work and interviews, circa 1970-2015

Personnes et institutions:

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)

Titre:

Academic work and interviews

Date:

circa 1970-2015

Niveau de description archivistique:
Series

Collation:

• approx. 7760 slides
  1011 digital files (246.1 GB)
  0.33 l.m. of textual records
  

Présentation du contenu:

The series documents Pettena’s academic work and his activities as an architecture critic from the 1970s to the mid 2010s. It documents Pettena’s teaching, including his work as professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Florence from 1973 to 2008, but also as professor of Design at California State University. It also includes materials related to lectures and conferences he gave either on his work or on subjects he studied, including lectures for the Domus Academy in 1993. The series also documents interviews he gave during his career to promote his projects, his exhibitions or publications, as well as for publications and exhibitions on him and his work.

The series contains administrative material related to Pettena’s work as a professor, chiefly at the University of Florence, such as correspondence and course syllabi. The series also includes Pettena’s teaching material, such as notes and reference material, and photocopies of reading assignments for courses. This series also contains a large collection of reference slides, predominantly on contemporary architecture and design and on architects, such as Ettore Sottsass Sr. and Jr., Hans Hollein, Alessandro Mendini, Carlo Scarpa, Oscar Niemeyer, Buckminster Fuller, and Studio Alchimia, as well as on contemporary artistic movements. Also included is student work, such as student theses from University of Florence and one thesis from a student at the California State University.

The series also contains materials related to Pettena’s lectures, including correspondence, presentation texts, and promotional material for lectures, seminars and courses. Finally, the series includes material from Pettena’s interviews, such as interview transcripts, copies of published interviews, and audio and video recordings of interviews.

Numéro de référence:

AP207.S4

Mode de classement:
Files in this series are arranged as followed: files related to Pettena’s teaching, followed by material related to Pettena’s lectures and seminars, and finally his interviews.

Mention de crédit:
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena

Langue et écriture des documents:

• Italian
• English

Contient:

• AP207.S4.001, Syllabus and notes for Pettena teaching at the University of Florence, 1970s
• AP207.S4.002, Correspondence and contract related to teaching at the University of Florence, 1978-1986
• AP207.S4.003, Correspondence, reports and reference material related to University's committees, 1996
• AP207.S4.004, Teaching material, 1996
• AP207.S4.005, Teaching material, 1980s-1990s
• AP207.S4.006, Teaching material, circa 1970s
• AP207.S4.007, Teaching material, circa 1970s-1980s
• AP207.S4.008, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.009, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.010, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.011, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.012, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.013, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.014, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.015, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.016, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.017, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.018, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.019, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.020, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.021, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.022, References slides used as teaching material, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.023, Various students projects, 1970s-1980s
• AP207.S4.024, Slides for an unidentified student project, 1970s-1980s
• AP207.S4.025, Slides for students project on James Stirling, 1970s-1980s
• AP207.S4.026, Student work on social and public centre project in Florence, 1983
• AP207.S4.027, Student thesis, circa 1987-1988
• AP207.S4.028, Student thesis, 1994-1995
• AP207.S4.029, Student thesis, 1995-1996
• AP207.S4.030, Student thesis, 1994-1995
• AP207.S4.031, Student thesis, 1998-1999
• AP207.S4.032, Student thesis, 2001-2002
• AP207.S4.033, Student thesis, 2004-2005
• AP207.S4.034, Student thesis, 2008
• AP207.S4.035, Student thesis, 2008
• AP207.S4.036, Student thesis, 2015
• AP207.S4.037, Slides for undated student projects or thesis, 1970s-1990s
• AP207.S4.038, Domus Academy lectures, 1993, 1990-1993
• AP207.S4.039, Promotional material, photographs, video and audio recordings, and texts for lectures and seminars by Gianni Pettena, 2000 - 2017
• AP207.S4.040, Transcript and audio and video recodings of interviews of Gianni Pettena, 2001 - 2018
• AP207.S4.041, Syllabus and correspondence related to Pettena's teaching in Italy and in California, 1996 - 2007
• AP207.S4.042, Teaching material, 2006 - 2007
• AP207.S4.043, Videos of interviews, recordings of lectures, and videos on Pettena and his projects, 1996 - 2018