Projet
AP148.S1.1970.PR02
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The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
1969-1971
Architettura Interplanetaria [Interplanetary Architecture] (1970-1971)
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
Project
1969-1971
None
22 mars 2018 au 2 septembre 2018
Culte du labo : une histoire non-conformiste des rapports entre la science et l’architecture
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None
Projet
AP140.S2.SS3.D13
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File documents the participation of the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates to the British Architecture Today exhibition at the British Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1991. File contains textual records, including schedules of materials lent to the exhibition, clippings and correspondence with Francesco Dal Co.
1991
British Architecture Today, Biennale di Venezia
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AP140.S2.SS3.D13
Description:
File documents the participation of the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates to the British Architecture Today exhibition at the British Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1991. File contains textual records, including schedules of materials lent to the exhibition, clippings and correspondence with Francesco Dal Co.
File 13
1991
documents textuels
DR2012:0012:082:023
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File containing documents in French, including multiple drafts of the article, L'autre architecture a faire. Annotations in graphite present. Original folder inscribed in graphite: "L'AUTRE ARCHITECTURE A FAIRE" 1977
1977
Drafts of the article "L'autre architecture a faire"
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DR2012:0012:082:023
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File containing documents in French, including multiple drafts of the article, L'autre architecture a faire. Annotations in graphite present. Original folder inscribed in graphite: "L'AUTRE ARCHITECTURE A FAIRE" 1977
documents textuels
1977
Série(s)
AP143.S3
Description:
Serie documents Peter Eisenman's activities as part of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
1971-1998
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS)
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AP143.S3
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Serie documents Peter Eisenman's activities as part of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
Series 3
1971-1998
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AP142.S1.D93
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File documents an unexecuted project for new buildings for the School of Architecture, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Material in this file was produced between 1986 and 1990. File contains design drawings, design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including correspondence, building codes, an architect's report, poems from Iraklis G. Mavromatidis, an aerial view, drawings and 137 slides of the site.
1986-1990
University of Miami, New School of Architecture
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AP142.S1.D93
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File documents an unexecuted project for new buildings for the School of Architecture, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Material in this file was produced between 1986 and 1990. File contains design drawings, design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including correspondence, building codes, an architect's report, poems from Iraklis G. Mavromatidis, an aerial view, drawings and 137 slides of the site.
File 93
1986-1990
documents textuels
AP197.S1.SS2.069
1971
documents textuels
1971
documents textuels
ARCH255926
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client and consultant correspondence, trade catalogues, architecture magazines, energy report, Department of External Affairs phone directory, consultants project briefing session report, telexes, initial offer of services, correspondence and publicity brochure with model photos, PADC certificate of payment.
1981-1984
Correspondence, trade catalogues, architecture magazines, reports
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ARCH255926
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client and consultant correspondence, trade catalogues, architecture magazines, energy report, Department of External Affairs phone directory, consultants project briefing session report, telexes, initial offer of services, correspondence and publicity brochure with model photos, PADC certificate of payment.
documents textuels
1981-1984
30 novembre 2017
Projet
AP173.S2.2003.D1
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's project Non-Standard Architecture in Paris, France, a group exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in which was presented large models of five project by NOX. Material in this series was produced around 2003. The series contains a 6 pages letter with photocopies of photographs of the installation. This project may also include digital design material, which has yet to be processed and which will available for consultation in 2017.
ca. 2003
Non-Standard Architecture, Paris, France (2003)
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AP173.S2.2003.D1
Description:
Series documents Lars Spuybroek's project Non-Standard Architecture in Paris, France, a group exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in which was presented large models of five project by NOX. Material in this series was produced around 2003. The series contains a 6 pages letter with photocopies of photographs of the installation. This project may also include digital design material, which has yet to be processed and which will available for consultation in 2017.
Project
ca. 2003