Projet
AP207.S1.1969.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the "Babele" Tavolo, a table design by Pettena in 1967 and produced in 1968 by Gufram, an Italian seat and furniture manufacturer based in Barolo. "A sculpture that has become a stand for objects: it consists of a tree (with a marble base and metal trunk) whose leaf-shelves in lacquered wood can be placed in any position." [1] The table was designed in the context of designing furnishings for Pettena's studio-home in Florence. The project series contains a sketch showing different configurations of the table and its components, drawings, photographs and project descriptions in Italian and in English. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/design-babele-table-1969/ (last accessed 4 November 2019)
circa 1969-2015
Tavolo “Babele“ [Table “Babele”] (1969)
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AP207.S1.1969.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the "Babele" Tavolo, a table design by Pettena in 1967 and produced in 1968 by Gufram, an Italian seat and furniture manufacturer based in Barolo. "A sculpture that has become a stand for objects: it consists of a tree (with a marble base and metal trunk) whose leaf-shelves in lacquered wood can be placed in any position." [1] The table was designed in the context of designing furnishings for Pettena's studio-home in Florence. The project series contains a sketch showing different configurations of the table and its components, drawings, photographs and project descriptions in Italian and in English. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/design-babele-table-1969/ (last accessed 4 November 2019)
Project
circa 1969-2015
Projet
AP207.S1.2014.PR04
Description:
The project series documents the performance "La Mia Idea Di Architettura" held at Base, Spazio per l'arte in Florence, in 2014. The performance consists of a lecture given by Pettena, standing in a window frame, speaking to people passing in the street. "To illustrate his idea of architecture, Pettena chose to address not only experts in the field but also a random audience, passers-by on the street as he spoke." [1] The lecture was held in the context of an exhibition on Radical Tools, the Florentine group of the ‘radical’ movement architects and artists. Each protagonist of the group were invited to present a lecture. The project series contains photographs of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-my-idea-2014/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
circa 2014
La Mia Idea Di Architettura [My Idea of Architecture] (2014)
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AP207.S1.2014.PR04
Description:
The project series documents the performance "La Mia Idea Di Architettura" held at Base, Spazio per l'arte in Florence, in 2014. The performance consists of a lecture given by Pettena, standing in a window frame, speaking to people passing in the street. "To illustrate his idea of architecture, Pettena chose to address not only experts in the field but also a random audience, passers-by on the street as he spoke." [1] The lecture was held in the context of an exhibition on Radical Tools, the Florentine group of the ‘radical’ movement architects and artists. Each protagonist of the group were invited to present a lecture. The project series contains photographs of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-my-idea-2014/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
Project
circa 2014
documents textuels
AP206.S2.069
Description:
File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.070 and AP206.S2.071. This file includes the following papers: "A Conceptual Model of Urban Development" "Haryana's New Capital: Beyond Corbusier Planning and Urban Form" "The Capital Story" 1986 "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architectural and the Cultural Context," 1990 "Delhi: The Deepening Urban Crisis edited by Patwant Singh and Ram Dhamija," review "Reflections on Art" "Modulor! A System of Proportions" "Le Corbusier and Later Development in Chandigarh," 1988
1985-1990
Published and unpublished papers (folder 1 of 3)
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AP206.S2.069
Description:
File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.070 and AP206.S2.071. This file includes the following papers: "A Conceptual Model of Urban Development" "Haryana's New Capital: Beyond Corbusier Planning and Urban Form" "The Capital Story" 1986 "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architectural and the Cultural Context," 1990 "Delhi: The Deepening Urban Crisis edited by Patwant Singh and Ram Dhamija," review "Reflections on Art" "Modulor! A System of Proportions" "Le Corbusier and Later Development in Chandigarh," 1988
documents textuels
1985-1990
dessins
Quantité:
33 drawing(s)
DR1997:0063:001-033
Description:
- These drawings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were made in the context of a "crit" with his student George Danforth. They elucidate, critique or otherwise respond to some aspect of the thesis project. - The group includes a plan of Mies van der Rohe's unrealized project for the German Pavilion for the Brussels World's Fair (1934), elements of which were further developed in the thesis project (DR1997:0063:001). Danforth is the author of the inscriptions on this sheet.
architecture
1940-1941
Sketches for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
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DR1997:0063:001-033
Description:
- These drawings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were made in the context of a "crit" with his student George Danforth. They elucidate, critique or otherwise respond to some aspect of the thesis project. - The group includes a plan of Mies van der Rohe's unrealized project for the German Pavilion for the Brussels World's Fair (1934), elements of which were further developed in the thesis project (DR1997:0063:001). Danforth is the author of the inscriptions on this sheet.
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Quantité:
33 drawing(s)
1940-1941
architecture
Projet
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).
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).
Project
circa 1987-2015
Projet
AP207.S1.2013.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "The Game of Architecture", a drawing realized in 2013. The drawing is of triangular-shaped structures made of bricks standing in a desert. This drawing is a reinterpretation of a previous project by Pettena "Situazioni Competitive" in 1971. "Here architecture, albeit with the same characteristic of competitiveness, becomes indistinct, confused, no longer the leading actor, at the mercy of an unknown context (a desert? the nature of an alien planet?) which, threatening to overwhelm it, seems to nullify its every need and characteristic." [1] The project series contains a drawing for the 2013 edition and the 2018 version, which is a digital photograph modified to show the architectural construction standing in rough water. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-the-game-of-architecture-2013-1/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
2011-2018
The Game of Architecture (2013)
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AP207.S1.2013.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "The Game of Architecture", a drawing realized in 2013. The drawing is of triangular-shaped structures made of bricks standing in a desert. This drawing is a reinterpretation of a previous project by Pettena "Situazioni Competitive" in 1971. "Here architecture, albeit with the same characteristic of competitiveness, becomes indistinct, confused, no longer the leading actor, at the mercy of an unknown context (a desert? the nature of an alien planet?) which, threatening to overwhelm it, seems to nullify its every need and characteristic." [1] The project series contains a drawing for the 2013 edition and the 2018 version, which is a digital photograph modified to show the architectural construction standing in rough water. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-the-game-of-architecture-2013-1/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
Project
2011-2018
Cette exposition se consacre aux projets architecturaux récents de Stephen Taylor à Londres et de Ryue Nishizawa à Tokyo, qui proposent de nouvelles approches de la vie en milieu urbain. Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo imaginées par Stephen Taylor et Ryue Nishizawa marque la première présentation en Amérique du Nord des projets résidentiels de Taylor et Nishizawa(...)
Salles principales
14 mai 2008 au 26 octobre 2008
Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo imaginées par Stephen Taylor et Ryue Nishizawa
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Description:
Cette exposition se consacre aux projets architecturaux récents de Stephen Taylor à Londres et de Ryue Nishizawa à Tokyo, qui proposent de nouvelles approches de la vie en milieu urbain. Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo imaginées par Stephen Taylor et Ryue Nishizawa marque la première présentation en Amérique du Nord des projets résidentiels de Taylor et Nishizawa(...)
Salles principales
recherche
Thème : Le phénomène de changements de paradigmes en architecture depuis l’Antiquité : Brigitte Desrochers, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada Sujet : Au-delà du style. Naissance du classicisme structurel dans les ruines de Pompei Joseph Disponzio, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, États-Unis Sujet : Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention(...)
septembre 2001 au août 2002
Chercheurs en résidence 2001-2002
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Description:
Thème : Le phénomène de changements de paradigmes en architecture depuis l’Antiquité : Brigitte Desrochers, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada Sujet : Au-delà du style. Naissance du classicisme structurel dans les ruines de Pompei Joseph Disponzio, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, États-Unis Sujet : Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention(...)
recherche
septembre 2001 au
août 2002
documents textuels
AP206.S2.074
Description:
File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.072 and AP206.S2.073. This file includes the following papers: "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architecture in the Cultural Context," symposium talk, 1990 "Why not Ruralisation," paper outline "Growing Problems of Cities," book review of "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment: A Study of Old Delhi by Ajay K. Mehra," 1991 "Housing as Consumer Commodity," book review of "Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India by Cedric Pugh," 1991 "Air Pollution and Conservation of the Environment," speech
1986-1998
Published and unpublished papers (folder 3 of 3)
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AP206.S2.074
Description:
File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.072 and AP206.S2.073. This file includes the following papers: "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architecture in the Cultural Context," symposium talk, 1990 "Why not Ruralisation," paper outline "Growing Problems of Cities," book review of "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment: A Study of Old Delhi by Ajay K. Mehra," 1991 "Housing as Consumer Commodity," book review of "Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India by Cedric Pugh," 1991 "Air Pollution and Conservation of the Environment," speech
documents textuels
1986-1998
Projet
Housing Research
AP144.S2.D67
Description:
File documents Housing Research on flexible, pre-fabricated, short-life housing in the United Kingdom. Much of the material developed for this project was published in "Cedric Price Supplement No. 4", 'Architectural Design', vol. 41, (October 1971), 619-628; 630, and "Cedric Price Supplement No. 5", 'Architectural Design', vol. 42, (January 1972), 24-29; 38-43. Although the research was sponsored by Cedric Price it is possible that he presented the results to the Ministry of Housing. The published research examines housing's "life patterning" potential within broader social, economic, and historical contexts. Some of the material also relates to Steel House (AP144.S2.D60). Cedric Price developed proposals for two test sites: Rochdale in Greater Manchester and Tilbury in Thurrock, England. Material in this file was produced between 1951 and 1998, but predominantly between 1967 and 1971. File contains material and research by Royston Landau. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, layout, maps, model, photographic materials, presentation panels, and textual records.
1951-1998, predominant 1967-1971
Housing Research
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AP144.S2.D67
Description:
File documents Housing Research on flexible, pre-fabricated, short-life housing in the United Kingdom. Much of the material developed for this project was published in "Cedric Price Supplement No. 4", 'Architectural Design', vol. 41, (October 1971), 619-628; 630, and "Cedric Price Supplement No. 5", 'Architectural Design', vol. 42, (January 1972), 24-29; 38-43. Although the research was sponsored by Cedric Price it is possible that he presented the results to the Ministry of Housing. The published research examines housing's "life patterning" potential within broader social, economic, and historical contexts. Some of the material also relates to Steel House (AP144.S2.D60). Cedric Price developed proposals for two test sites: Rochdale in Greater Manchester and Tilbury in Thurrock, England. Material in this file was produced between 1951 and 1998, but predominantly between 1967 and 1971. File contains material and research by Royston Landau. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, layout, maps, model, photographic materials, presentation panels, and textual records.
File 67
1951-1998, predominant 1967-1971