Projet
AP164.S1.1987.D1
Description:
This project series documents the infrastructure for the reorganization of the Nueva Montaña Quijano (N.M.Q.) in Santander, Spain. The office identified this project as number 45. As described by the architect, the project is “to pursue an idea for a complete city that is independent of and complementary to the existing one, while solving the matter of Santander's connection to the rest of the region and respecting building limits set by laws in force, quantity-wise, as well as height restrictions imposed by airport authorities." (ARCH270753) Documenting the project are conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings, project descriptions and other textual documentation, models and cartographic materials.
1987-1990
Ordenación de Nueva Montaña Quijano en Santander, Spain (1987)
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AP164.S1.1987.D1
Description:
This project series documents the infrastructure for the reorganization of the Nueva Montaña Quijano (N.M.Q.) in Santander, Spain. The office identified this project as number 45. As described by the architect, the project is “to pursue an idea for a complete city that is independent of and complementary to the existing one, while solving the matter of Santander's connection to the rest of the region and respecting building limits set by laws in force, quantity-wise, as well as height restrictions imposed by airport authorities." (ARCH270753) Documenting the project are conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings, project descriptions and other textual documentation, models and cartographic materials.
Project
1987-1990
Projet
AP164.S1.2003.D2
Description:
The project series documents the two Sociópolis projects for the account of the Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda. The firm identified this project as number 162. The first project was for two communes (2003); a retirement centre and a youth centre. Both communes would have lived together around a shared vegetable garden. Abalos & Herreros worked with the landscaping architect Teresa Galí. The project was not built. The second project was for an apartment tower in Valencia, Spain (2004-2005). It was built by Abalos + Sentkiewicz after the dissolution of Abalos & Herreros in 2008. Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, presentation documents, dummies, project descriptions, correspondence, digital, photographic and reference materials.
1998, 2002-2003, predominant 2003
Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain (2003)
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AP164.S1.2003.D2
Description:
The project series documents the two Sociópolis projects for the account of the Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda. The firm identified this project as number 162. The first project was for two communes (2003); a retirement centre and a youth centre. Both communes would have lived together around a shared vegetable garden. Abalos & Herreros worked with the landscaping architect Teresa Galí. The project was not built. The second project was for an apartment tower in Valencia, Spain (2004-2005). It was built by Abalos + Sentkiewicz after the dissolution of Abalos & Herreros in 2008. Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, presentation documents, dummies, project descriptions, correspondence, digital, photographic and reference materials.
Project
1998, 2002-2003, predominant 2003
Projet
AP154.S1.1966.PR01
Description:
File AP154.S1.1966.PR01, Wykeham Rise School, Washington, Connecticut: Master plan for new campus (1966), documents a project by Giovanni Pasanella and Joseph Merz for a master plan for a new campus for Wykeham Rise School in Washington, Connecticut. The project was awarded to the architects as the outcome of a limited competition. The design was featured in the exhibition 40 under 40: an exhibition of young talent in architecture, organized by the Architectural League of New York and presented in 1966. The project, described as being "under design" in the exhibition catalogue, seem not to have been realized. The file consists of presentation drawings and design drawings.
1966
Wykeham Rise School, Washington, Connecticut: Master plan for new campus (1966)
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AP154.S1.1966.PR01
Description:
File AP154.S1.1966.PR01, Wykeham Rise School, Washington, Connecticut: Master plan for new campus (1966), documents a project by Giovanni Pasanella and Joseph Merz for a master plan for a new campus for Wykeham Rise School in Washington, Connecticut. The project was awarded to the architects as the outcome of a limited competition. The design was featured in the exhibition 40 under 40: an exhibition of young talent in architecture, organized by the Architectural League of New York and presented in 1966. The project, described as being "under design" in the exhibition catalogue, seem not to have been realized. The file consists of presentation drawings and design drawings.
Project
1966
Série(s)
Reference material
AP206.S4
Description:
The Reference material series, circa 1947-2008, contains diverse materials used by Aditya Prakash throughout his career as an architect, artist and academic. This series is recorded through textual records, books, serials, maps and drawings, likely used for research and presentations. The drawings are largely reprographic copies and predominantly consist of plans of Indian cities, sector and city plans of Chandigarh, and buildings in Chandigarh. Likewise, the series contains a large number of maps and tourism brochures collected from Indian cities and some international cities. Many books, magazines and their excerpts are also included, as well as other small publications and papers on subjects of art and architecture.
circa 1947-2008
Reference material
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AP206.S4
Description:
The Reference material series, circa 1947-2008, contains diverse materials used by Aditya Prakash throughout his career as an architect, artist and academic. This series is recorded through textual records, books, serials, maps and drawings, likely used for research and presentations. The drawings are largely reprographic copies and predominantly consist of plans of Indian cities, sector and city plans of Chandigarh, and buildings in Chandigarh. Likewise, the series contains a large number of maps and tourism brochures collected from Indian cities and some international cities. Many books, magazines and their excerpts are also included, as well as other small publications and papers on subjects of art and architecture.
Series
circa 1947-2008
Projet
AP018.S1.1970.PR08
Description:
This project series documents a kitchen for the Canadian Pacific Hotel at the Toronto International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario from 1970-1971. The office identified the project number as 70052. During this time, John B. Parkin Associates, and later John C. Parkin's new firm Parkin Architects Planners, were commissioned by the government Department of Transport Air Services to complete more than a dozen projects at the Toronto International Airport, including terminals one and two. This project consisted of the design of a kitchen, known as the Flight Kitchen, for the CP Hotel, located at the airport. The project is recorded through reprographic copies of floor plans dating from 1970-1971.
1970-1971
CP Hotel Flight Kitchen, Toronto International Airport, Mississauga, Ontario (1970-1971)
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AP018.S1.1970.PR08
Description:
This project series documents a kitchen for the Canadian Pacific Hotel at the Toronto International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario from 1970-1971. The office identified the project number as 70052. During this time, John B. Parkin Associates, and later John C. Parkin's new firm Parkin Architects Planners, were commissioned by the government Department of Transport Air Services to complete more than a dozen projects at the Toronto International Airport, including terminals one and two. This project consisted of the design of a kitchen, known as the Flight Kitchen, for the CP Hotel, located at the airport. The project is recorded through reprographic copies of floor plans dating from 1970-1971.
Project
1970-1971
Projet
AP075.S1.1997.PR07
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for a condominium tower at 1575, West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 2000s with architectural firm Nick Milkovich Architects and Arthur Erickson as design consultant. Oberlander was in charged of designing the landscaping for the courtyard, green roofs and roof decks. Her consists in two half-paving, half-grass areas surronded by concrete planters for the green roof and planting for a sitting area for the courtyard. The project series contains a plan of the courtyard with plant list, a plan of the green roof with plant list, concept notes by Oberlander and financial documents.
1997-2007
1575 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia (1997)
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AP075.S1.1997.PR07
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for a condominium tower at 1575, West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 2000s with architectural firm Nick Milkovich Architects and Arthur Erickson as design consultant. Oberlander was in charged of designing the landscaping for the courtyard, green roofs and roof decks. Her consists in two half-paving, half-grass areas surronded by concrete planters for the green roof and planting for a sitting area for the courtyard. The project series contains a plan of the courtyard with plant list, a plan of the green roof with plant list, concept notes by Oberlander and financial documents.
Project
1997-2007
Projet
Marburg Museum
AP142.S1.D108
Description:
File documents Aldo Rossi's participation to the exhibit "Documenta 8" in Kassel, Germany, held from June 12 to September 20, 1987. Ten architects were invited to design a small museum on the premise "The Art Museum: It's Reality and Future". Rossi's project was to be erected around a statue of Georg Kolbe, in a yard of Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. Material in this file was produced between 1986 and 1987. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including correspondence, an architect's report, a contract, invoices, Aldo Rossi's biography file, Aldo Rossi's publication, drawings and photographic material.
1986-1987
Marburg Museum
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AP142.S1.D108
Description:
File documents Aldo Rossi's participation to the exhibit "Documenta 8" in Kassel, Germany, held from June 12 to September 20, 1987. Ten architects were invited to design a small museum on the premise "The Art Museum: It's Reality and Future". Rossi's project was to be erected around a statue of Georg Kolbe, in a yard of Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. Material in this file was produced between 1986 and 1987. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including correspondence, an architect's report, a contract, invoices, Aldo Rossi's biography file, Aldo Rossi's publication, drawings and photographic material.
File 108
1986-1987
Projet
AP207.S1.1985.PR04
Description:
The project series documents "Case Conquistate Dal Verde," a series of photographs of buildings covered in vegetation, and "conquered" by nature. The photographs were "taken at different times but grouped under a single date to indicate the author's interest in the subject in that period, Pettena returns to the theme of the architecture not made by architects that had characterized the work he had done in the United States [...]" [1] The project series contains a sketch showing a house conquered by vegetation and the photographs series. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-buildings-conquered-1985/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
circa 1985
Case Conquistate Dal Verde [Buildings Conquered by Nature] (1985)
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AP207.S1.1985.PR04
Description:
The project series documents "Case Conquistate Dal Verde," a series of photographs of buildings covered in vegetation, and "conquered" by nature. The photographs were "taken at different times but grouped under a single date to indicate the author's interest in the subject in that period, Pettena returns to the theme of the architecture not made by architects that had characterized the work he had done in the United States [...]" [1] The project series contains a sketch showing a house conquered by vegetation and the photographs series. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-buildings-conquered-1985/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
Project
circa 1985
Sous-série
AP207.S2.SS07
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition "Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto", curated by Pettena and presented at Palazzo delle Albere, in Trento, in 1991. The exhibition presented the work of Italian architect Ettore Sottsass. The exhibition, promoted by his son Ettore Sottsass Jr, led to the donation of the Sottsass archive to the MART, in Trento. The sub-series contains research material, including photocopies of articles and books on Ettore Sottsass, photographs of his projects and reproductions of his plans, as well as some notes by Gianni Pettena. This sub-series also contains preliminary project descriptions for the exhibition catalogue with a selection of plans and images of the buildings designed by Sottsass.
1980-1996
Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto (1991)
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AP207.S2.SS07
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition "Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto", curated by Pettena and presented at Palazzo delle Albere, in Trento, in 1991. The exhibition presented the work of Italian architect Ettore Sottsass. The exhibition, promoted by his son Ettore Sottsass Jr, led to the donation of the Sottsass archive to the MART, in Trento. The sub-series contains research material, including photocopies of articles and books on Ettore Sottsass, photographs of his projects and reproductions of his plans, as well as some notes by Gianni Pettena. This sub-series also contains preliminary project descriptions for the exhibition catalogue with a selection of plans and images of the buildings designed by Sottsass.
Subseries
1980-1996
Série(s)
Exhibitions
AP022.S7
Description:
Series documents exhibitions about the work of Arthur Erickson. It contains for the exhition "Arthur Erickson - Selected Projects 1971-1985" held at the Cener for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York, from March 27 to June 6, 1985. The exhibition was organized by the Center, an affiliate of the Americas Society, and was curated by architect Barbara Shapiro, who worked in Erickson's office. The material consists of photographs of models presented in the exhibitions and the exhibition poster. The series also contains press release, exhibition description, project description, and articles related to the exhibition "Arthur Erickson: Critical Works" presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2006.
1985
Exhibitions
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AP022.S7
Description:
Series documents exhibitions about the work of Arthur Erickson. It contains for the exhition "Arthur Erickson - Selected Projects 1971-1985" held at the Cener for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York, from March 27 to June 6, 1985. The exhibition was organized by the Center, an affiliate of the Americas Society, and was curated by architect Barbara Shapiro, who worked in Erickson's office. The material consists of photographs of models presented in the exhibitions and the exhibition poster. The series also contains press release, exhibition description, project description, and articles related to the exhibition "Arthur Erickson: Critical Works" presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2006.
Series
1985