Sous-série
CI001.S2.D4
Description:
The CCA collection includes albums of drawings for some of Charles Rohault de Fleury's most important public architectural projects, built and unbuilt. They provide valuable insight into his design development process, construction techniques, and flexibility regarding building types and styles, as well as illuminating the larger issues of urban planning and the complex interaction between architect, contractor, and entrepreneur in mid-19th century France. The neo-Moorish Hippodrome National (DR1974:0002:017:001-060) - an ephemeral structure constructed of a wood frame with canvas sheathing- was built adjacent to the Place de l'Étoile in 1845 and destroyed in 1856. The documents and drawings in the album provide a highly detailed and complete overview of the project from the study of historical models to contract drawings. Written documentation, including cost estimates, a contract, daily accounts of construction, entrepreneur's accounts, and correspondence with the principal contractor, is particularly revealing of the working procedures on a large commercial project. In 1855 Charles and Auguste Joseph Pellechet constructed the Chambre des Notaires on the newly transformed Place du Chatelet - the intended centre point of Haussmann's 'Nouveau Paris' (1). The CCA album contains primarily transfer lithographed working and contract drawings signed by the entrepreneurs and/or contractors (DR1974:0002:022:001-021). The plans reflect Charles' sensitive integration of iron and masonry construction, which allowed for abundant fenestration on the side facades, while maintaining the traditional aspects of character and solidity required in a prominent urban building. Charles' approach to the design of more utilitarian structures is indicated in his album of competition drawings for a municipal slaughterhouse submitted to the city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1846-1847 (DR1974:0002:023:001-012). His interpretation of the written programme (included in the album) and the resulting design, is strongly influenced by his father's previous slaughterhouse projects, as well as his own for La Villete, 1835-1836 (see DR1974:0002:014:001-104 in Hubert Rohault de Fleury's Public and Urban Architecture (file CI001.S3.D1)). The pared down Neoclassical style of the slaughterhouse is typical of both Charles and Hubert's utilitarian structures. Charles' largest public urban project outside of Paris was for an unexecuted Hôtel de Prefecture (Departement de la Vienne) and Hôtel de Ville for the city of Poitiers, 1859-1860 (DR1974:0002:020:001-050). The project for the Louis XIIIth style Hotel de Prefecture is fairly complete and includes many working drawings, while the Francis Ist style Hotel de Ville is much less developed and consists primarily of unbound sketches and finished drawings. A site plan indicates that Charles intended the Hôtel de Prefecture and Hôtel de Ville to be located nearly opposite each other and connected by a major thoroughfare. The placement of both structures in the western quarter of the city probably reflects an earlier urban renewal plan proposed by the architects Morandiere et Compaing in 1849. The Hôtel de Prefecture (1864-1868) and Hotel de Ville (1869-1876) were eventually built after designs by Antoine Guerinot, in the same style, and on sites close to those proposed by Charles. Drawings and engravings of antique and contemporary theatres, fountains, honorific monuments, and large public projects by other architects are collected in album DR1974:0002:010:001-048 for reference purposes (some of these may have been collected by his father Hubert). (1) David Van Zanten, "Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870" (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 235 and pp. 233-241 for the development of the Place du Chatelet.
[1840-1860]
Public and Urban Architecture
CI001.S2.D4
Description:
The CCA collection includes albums of drawings for some of Charles Rohault de Fleury's most important public architectural projects, built and unbuilt. They provide valuable insight into his design development process, construction techniques, and flexibility regarding building types and styles, as well as illuminating the larger issues of urban planning and the complex interaction between architect, contractor, and entrepreneur in mid-19th century France. The neo-Moorish Hippodrome National (DR1974:0002:017:001-060) - an ephemeral structure constructed of a wood frame with canvas sheathing- was built adjacent to the Place de l'Étoile in 1845 and destroyed in 1856. The documents and drawings in the album provide a highly detailed and complete overview of the project from the study of historical models to contract drawings. Written documentation, including cost estimates, a contract, daily accounts of construction, entrepreneur's accounts, and correspondence with the principal contractor, is particularly revealing of the working procedures on a large commercial project. In 1855 Charles and Auguste Joseph Pellechet constructed the Chambre des Notaires on the newly transformed Place du Chatelet - the intended centre point of Haussmann's 'Nouveau Paris' (1). The CCA album contains primarily transfer lithographed working and contract drawings signed by the entrepreneurs and/or contractors (DR1974:0002:022:001-021). The plans reflect Charles' sensitive integration of iron and masonry construction, which allowed for abundant fenestration on the side facades, while maintaining the traditional aspects of character and solidity required in a prominent urban building. Charles' approach to the design of more utilitarian structures is indicated in his album of competition drawings for a municipal slaughterhouse submitted to the city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1846-1847 (DR1974:0002:023:001-012). His interpretation of the written programme (included in the album) and the resulting design, is strongly influenced by his father's previous slaughterhouse projects, as well as his own for La Villete, 1835-1836 (see DR1974:0002:014:001-104 in Hubert Rohault de Fleury's Public and Urban Architecture (file CI001.S3.D1)). The pared down Neoclassical style of the slaughterhouse is typical of both Charles and Hubert's utilitarian structures. Charles' largest public urban project outside of Paris was for an unexecuted Hôtel de Prefecture (Departement de la Vienne) and Hôtel de Ville for the city of Poitiers, 1859-1860 (DR1974:0002:020:001-050). The project for the Louis XIIIth style Hotel de Prefecture is fairly complete and includes many working drawings, while the Francis Ist style Hotel de Ville is much less developed and consists primarily of unbound sketches and finished drawings. A site plan indicates that Charles intended the Hôtel de Prefecture and Hôtel de Ville to be located nearly opposite each other and connected by a major thoroughfare. The placement of both structures in the western quarter of the city probably reflects an earlier urban renewal plan proposed by the architects Morandiere et Compaing in 1849. The Hôtel de Prefecture (1864-1868) and Hotel de Ville (1869-1876) were eventually built after designs by Antoine Guerinot, in the same style, and on sites close to those proposed by Charles. Drawings and engravings of antique and contemporary theatres, fountains, honorific monuments, and large public projects by other architects are collected in album DR1974:0002:010:001-048 for reference purposes (some of these may have been collected by his father Hubert). (1) David Van Zanten, "Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870" (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 235 and pp. 233-241 for the development of the Place du Chatelet.
File 4
[1840-1860]
Série(s)
Une architecture des humeurs
AP193.S4
Description:
Series 4, Une architecture des humeurs, 2008-2011, documents the conception and the presentation of exhibition and project Une architecture des humeurs. Presented at Le laboratoire art gallery in Paris between January and May 2010, Une architecture des humeurs is a conceptual, unbuilt, residential urban structure based on a potential future in which contemporary science reads human physiology and chemical balance. The idea is to acquire a chemistry of the “humors”, or the moods and temperament, of future purchasers. Taken as input, the information generates a diversity of habitable morphologies and relationships between them. With this process, the project attempts to make palpable and graspable, through technologies, the emotions of the participants captured via the chemistry of their body. The goal is to gather information on their capacity of adaptation, their level of sympathy and empathy while confronted to a situation or an environment. This information is then analyzed by computational, mathematical, and machinist procedures. This leads to the design and production of an urban structure submitted to the improbable and uncertain protocols produced by emotions, also creating aggregations and layouts that rearticulate the links between the individual and the collective. These structures are calculated following simultaneously incremental and recursive structural optimization protocols resulting in the physicality and morphology of architecture. The layout of the residential units and the structural trajectories are conceived and developed as posterior to the constructs supporting social life and not as an a priori. The structure of each components of the urban structure is generated by a secretion and weaving machine called Viab02. The machine is the second prototype of VIAB which was developed with Robotics Research Lab of the University of Southern California and takes its name from the terms viability and variability. With a process similar to contour crafting, the machine produces bio-cement, a mix between cement and bio-resin, giving form to the adapted residential structures. The records consist largely of images detailing the creative process of the firm, photographs of the exhibition, and 3D models. It also contains animated renderings representing the machine in action and sequences of the construction of the building or the structure. The records include a video orienting the project into François Roche theoretical stance, research as speculation, that can be summarize as the use of technological tools to take a critical and political position through esthetic in order to open new lines of thoughts. AP193.S2 contains updated previous version of the VIAB machine
2008-2011
Une architecture des humeurs
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AP193.S4
Description:
Series 4, Une architecture des humeurs, 2008-2011, documents the conception and the presentation of exhibition and project Une architecture des humeurs. Presented at Le laboratoire art gallery in Paris between January and May 2010, Une architecture des humeurs is a conceptual, unbuilt, residential urban structure based on a potential future in which contemporary science reads human physiology and chemical balance. The idea is to acquire a chemistry of the “humors”, or the moods and temperament, of future purchasers. Taken as input, the information generates a diversity of habitable morphologies and relationships between them. With this process, the project attempts to make palpable and graspable, through technologies, the emotions of the participants captured via the chemistry of their body. The goal is to gather information on their capacity of adaptation, their level of sympathy and empathy while confronted to a situation or an environment. This information is then analyzed by computational, mathematical, and machinist procedures. This leads to the design and production of an urban structure submitted to the improbable and uncertain protocols produced by emotions, also creating aggregations and layouts that rearticulate the links between the individual and the collective. These structures are calculated following simultaneously incremental and recursive structural optimization protocols resulting in the physicality and morphology of architecture. The layout of the residential units and the structural trajectories are conceived and developed as posterior to the constructs supporting social life and not as an a priori. The structure of each components of the urban structure is generated by a secretion and weaving machine called Viab02. The machine is the second prototype of VIAB which was developed with Robotics Research Lab of the University of Southern California and takes its name from the terms viability and variability. With a process similar to contour crafting, the machine produces bio-cement, a mix between cement and bio-resin, giving form to the adapted residential structures. The records consist largely of images detailing the creative process of the firm, photographs of the exhibition, and 3D models. It also contains animated renderings representing the machine in action and sequences of the construction of the building or the structure. The records include a video orienting the project into François Roche theoretical stance, research as speculation, that can be summarize as the use of technological tools to take a critical and political position through esthetic in order to open new lines of thoughts. AP193.S2 contains updated previous version of the VIAB machine
Series
2008-2011
photographies
PH1989:0264:001-008
Description:
- Contemporary binding consists of a grey paper cover, tied with red and grey string. There is a white ink inscription, a red stamp and a photograph on the cover. The secondary supports are of black paper. The album is comprised of 8 photographs, all of which have inscribed titles, except for the photograph attached to the cover.
architecture, topographique
before 1903
Album of views of Birtle showing topography and architecture, Manitoba
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PH1989:0264:001-008
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- Contemporary binding consists of a grey paper cover, tied with red and grey string. There is a white ink inscription, a red stamp and a photograph on the cover. The secondary supports are of black paper. The album is comprised of 8 photographs, all of which have inscribed titles, except for the photograph attached to the cover.
photographies
before 1903
architecture, topographique
dessins, documents textuels
ARCH278394
Description:
File's title: Expo AA: contemporary techniques = new landscape [...] four competitions. It includes the following projects: - Barcelona Forum 2004 (AP164.S1.2000.D9); - Parque Cristina Enea (AP164.S1.2002.D3); - New Museum de Arte Contemporáneo, New York (AP164.S1.2003.D1); - Sagüés (AP164.S1.2003.D5). Documents are in English and Spanish.
ca. 2003
Correspondence, design development drawings and project description for an exhibition held at Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London, England
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ARCH278394
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File's title: Expo AA: contemporary techniques = new landscape [...] four competitions. It includes the following projects: - Barcelona Forum 2004 (AP164.S1.2000.D9); - Parque Cristina Enea (AP164.S1.2002.D3); - New Museum de Arte Contemporáneo, New York (AP164.S1.2003.D1); - Sagüés (AP164.S1.2003.D5). Documents are in English and Spanish.
dessins, documents textuels
ca. 2003
Si l’immigration est un thème dominant de la culture contemporaine, les discussions à son sujet sont souvent limitées à l’expérience humaine, telles que la traversée de frontières et les problématiques d’identité nationale. L’exposition Trajets adopte une perspective autre, celle de l’impact des mouvements sur l’environnement. Les exemples vont de la noix de coco qui(...)
Salles principales
20 octobre 2010 au 13 mars 2011
Trajets: comment la mobilité des fruits, des idées et des architectures recompose notre environnement
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Si l’immigration est un thème dominant de la culture contemporaine, les discussions à son sujet sont souvent limitées à l’expérience humaine, telles que la traversée de frontières et les problématiques d’identité nationale. L’exposition Trajets adopte une perspective autre, celle de l’impact des mouvements sur l’environnement. Les exemples vont de la noix de coco qui(...)
Salles principales
Dans cette conversation, Kenneth Frampton discute les approches de l’histoire de l’architecture aujourd’hui, avec Esra Akcan (Cornell University) et Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Que signifie l’écriture d’une histoire globale de l’architecture au regard de l’urgence des enjeux contemporains? Au cours d’une discussion modérée par Kim Förster,(...)
6 avril 2017
Une conversation avec Kenneth Frampton : Peut-il y avoir une histoire globale de l’architecture aujourd’hui?
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Dans cette conversation, Kenneth Frampton discute les approches de l’histoire de l’architecture aujourd’hui, avec Esra Akcan (Cornell University) et Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Que signifie l’écriture d’une histoire globale de l’architecture au regard de l’urgence des enjeux contemporains? Au cours d’une discussion modérée par Kim Förster,(...)
documents textuels
ARCH278484
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File's title: A&H 2002 B.1. Conferencias "New Trends in Contemporary Arch." Tokyo.
2002
Mostly correspondence regarding the symposium and the exhibition "New trends of architecture in Europe and Japan 2002", held in Tokyo, Japan
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ARCH278484
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File's title: A&H 2002 B.1. Conferencias "New Trends in Contemporary Arch." Tokyo.
documents textuels
2002
dessins, livres
PH1993:0429:001-015
Description:
- Contemporary binding consists of grey paper-covered boards with a brown leather-covered spine. There is a black ink inscription on the cover and a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers, pages and secondary supports are of white paper. The book is comprised of title pages, a preface, table of contents, 15 photographs with accompanying text and a 35 page text titled "On the Study of Indian Architecture." by James Fergusson.
architecture, sculpture
1869
Illustrations of Various Styles of Indian Architecture: A series of fifteen photographs of some of the most important buildings in India erected between B.C. 250 and A.D. 1830
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PH1993:0429:001-015
Description:
- Contemporary binding consists of grey paper-covered boards with a brown leather-covered spine. There is a black ink inscription on the cover and a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers, pages and secondary supports are of white paper. The book is comprised of title pages, a preface, table of contents, 15 photographs with accompanying text and a 35 page text titled "On the Study of Indian Architecture." by James Fergusson.
dessins, livres
1869
architecture, sculpture
documents textuels
DR2012:0012:078:004
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Assorted documents in English, including correspondence, notes, posters, and waybills, related to the group exhibition, Architectural Sculpture, at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Original folder inscribed in graphite: LOS ANGELES INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART.
1980
Correspondence, notes, posters, and waybills, related to the group exhibition "Architectural Sculpture"
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DR2012:0012:078:004
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Assorted documents in English, including correspondence, notes, posters, and waybills, related to the group exhibition, Architectural Sculpture, at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Original folder inscribed in graphite: LOS ANGELES INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART.
documents textuels
1980
Une portion du présent : les normes et rituels sociaux comme sites d’intervention architecturale
13 novembre 2021 au 1 mai 2022