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Fonds Álvaro Siza
AP178
Description:
The Álvaro Siza fonds documents the architectural work of Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. Records in this fonds document Siza’s projects from 1958-2012, including built and unbuilt designs. A collaborative project was established between the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Fundação de Serralves, and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to allow for international research and access to the archive. The archive is shared by the three institutions with each institution holding different projects while collaborating on the descriptive work and increasing the visibility of the archive. The holdings at both the Fundação de Serralves and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian focus on Siza’s Portuguese projects, while the portion of the archive held by the CCA mainly includes Siza’s projects abroad. All three institutions are committed to describing the archive and making it accessible for scholarly research. The processing of the Siza archive held by the CCA has been divided into four phases to allow for access to parts of the archive while still in process. For the first, second, and third phases, the processing archivist has described the projects from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as well as projects for the IBA competition in Berlin, urban renewal projects in The Hague from the eighties, urban plans, museums, and individual houses between 1980 and 2000. The processing archivist has also described approximately 203 sketchbooks. Many of these sketchbooks include sketches related to architectural projects which were processed. The complete list of projects processed by the CCA to date can be found in series AP178.S1. The bulk of the Álvaro Siza fonds is arranged in Series AP178.S1, which contains documentation for over 200 of Siza’s architectural projects. Records in this archive are predominantly from 1970 to 2000. Series AP178.S1 mainly contains conceptual, design development, presentation, and working drawings. Also included are photographic materials, models, born digital records, and textual documentation, which include correspondence, project proposals, and notes. The architect’s creative process is captured in 282 sketchbooks arranged in Series AP178.S2. In all there are approximately 60 000 drawings, 3000 folders of textual documentation, 9.46 linear meters of photographs and negatives, 6,545 slides, 250 CD-ROMS, 101 floppy disks, and 371 models that document the architectural activities of Siza and his office. Among the drawings are sketches by Siza on various items, such as napkins, receipts, envelopes, or on the back of working drawings. The fonds contains several types of architectural projects including residential buildings, museums, universities, urban plans, offices, and city restorations. Of particular significance are the sketchbooks, comprised of sketches for architectural projects, Siza’s travels, people, and animals as well as notes and draft letters. The sketchbooks are organized in chronological order, starting in the late 1970’s to the beginning of the 2000’s. Locations, notes, and dates have also been identified on the front of each sketchbook along with the sketchbook number. The sketchbooks provide a unique perspective of Siza’s use of drawing as part of his work process.
1958-2002
Fonds Álvaro Siza
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AP178
Description:
The Álvaro Siza fonds documents the architectural work of Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. Records in this fonds document Siza’s projects from 1958-2012, including built and unbuilt designs. A collaborative project was established between the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Fundação de Serralves, and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to allow for international research and access to the archive. The archive is shared by the three institutions with each institution holding different projects while collaborating on the descriptive work and increasing the visibility of the archive. The holdings at both the Fundação de Serralves and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian focus on Siza’s Portuguese projects, while the portion of the archive held by the CCA mainly includes Siza’s projects abroad. All three institutions are committed to describing the archive and making it accessible for scholarly research. The processing of the Siza archive held by the CCA has been divided into four phases to allow for access to parts of the archive while still in process. For the first, second, and third phases, the processing archivist has described the projects from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as well as projects for the IBA competition in Berlin, urban renewal projects in The Hague from the eighties, urban plans, museums, and individual houses between 1980 and 2000. The processing archivist has also described approximately 203 sketchbooks. Many of these sketchbooks include sketches related to architectural projects which were processed. The complete list of projects processed by the CCA to date can be found in series AP178.S1. The bulk of the Álvaro Siza fonds is arranged in Series AP178.S1, which contains documentation for over 200 of Siza’s architectural projects. Records in this archive are predominantly from 1970 to 2000. Series AP178.S1 mainly contains conceptual, design development, presentation, and working drawings. Also included are photographic materials, models, born digital records, and textual documentation, which include correspondence, project proposals, and notes. The architect’s creative process is captured in 282 sketchbooks arranged in Series AP178.S2. In all there are approximately 60 000 drawings, 3000 folders of textual documentation, 9.46 linear meters of photographs and negatives, 6,545 slides, 250 CD-ROMS, 101 floppy disks, and 371 models that document the architectural activities of Siza and his office. Among the drawings are sketches by Siza on various items, such as napkins, receipts, envelopes, or on the back of working drawings. The fonds contains several types of architectural projects including residential buildings, museums, universities, urban plans, offices, and city restorations. Of particular significance are the sketchbooks, comprised of sketches for architectural projects, Siza’s travels, people, and animals as well as notes and draft letters. The sketchbooks are organized in chronological order, starting in the late 1970’s to the beginning of the 2000’s. Locations, notes, and dates have also been identified on the front of each sketchbook along with the sketchbook number. The sketchbooks provide a unique perspective of Siza’s use of drawing as part of his work process.
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1958-2002
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AP206.S2.011
Description:
File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.010 and AP206.S2.012. This file contains the following papers: Convocation address delivered in the DAV College of Education, 1980 "Folk Arts and Architecture," for symposium, 1980 "Administrative aspects of Urban and Regional Planning," published lecture script "Our Environment," 1982 "Theatre: Essentially a Form of Art!!" 1979 "Rural habitat"
circa 1966-1982
Published and unpublished papers (folder 2 of 3)
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AP206.S2.011
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.010 and AP206.S2.012. This file contains the following papers: Convocation address delivered in the DAV College of Education, 1980 "Folk Arts and Architecture," for symposium, 1980 "Administrative aspects of Urban and Regional Planning," published lecture script "Our Environment," 1982 "Theatre: Essentially a Form of Art!!" 1979 "Rural habitat"
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circa 1966-1982
documents textuels
AP206.S2.007
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.006, AP206.S2.008 and AP206.S2.009. This file contains the following papers: "Technology and Architecture" "A new concept of Bylaws or Control of Physical Pattern of a City" "Your Environment," speech "Urban planning" "Form and Design," 1967 "7th annual function address," at Chandigarh College of Architecture, 1968 "Architecture and Society" "Campus planning," 1971
1959-1972
Published and unpublished papers (folder 2 of 4)
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AP206.S2.007
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.006, AP206.S2.008 and AP206.S2.009. This file contains the following papers: "Technology and Architecture" "A new concept of Bylaws or Control of Physical Pattern of a City" "Your Environment," speech "Urban planning" "Form and Design," 1967 "7th annual function address," at Chandigarh College of Architecture, 1968 "Architecture and Society" "Campus planning," 1971
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1959-1972
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AP198
Résumé:
The Kivi Sotamaa OCEAN North project records, 1997-2000, consist of born-digital files, drawings, photographs, and physical models that document two projects by the OCEAN North collective: Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre (competition, 1997) and Tölöö Football Stadium (competition, 1997). The archive also includes born-digital reference materials on 14 projects from the collective, including the two projects mentioned above.
1997-2000
Documents d’archives de Kivi Sotamaa pour les projets de OCEAN North
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AP198
Résumé:
The Kivi Sotamaa OCEAN North project records, 1997-2000, consist of born-digital files, drawings, photographs, and physical models that document two projects by the OCEAN North collective: Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre (competition, 1997) and Tölöö Football Stadium (competition, 1997). The archive also includes born-digital reference materials on 14 projects from the collective, including the two projects mentioned above.
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1997-2000
Projet
IBA
AP143.S4.D32
Description:
File documents the partially executed project for the Restricted International Competition "South Friedrichstadt as a Place to Live and Work," West Berlin (now Berlin), West Germany (now in Germany). Material in this file was produced between 1980 and 1988. File documents the design for one of four urban blocks in the area of the Kochstrasse and Friedrichstrasse, Berlin. The competition required the preservation of three existing structures and the construction of mixed-used buildings on vacant lots. The architect develops an overall strategy to occupy the urban block by extending the geometry of the three existing buildings onto the site (DR1991:0018:002; DR1991:0018:004-006), on which he overlays what he calls the "Mercator grid", an orthogonal grid oriented according to the compass (DR1991:0018:016). The "el structures" used by Eisenman in House X, House 11a, and the Cannaregio project reappear in plan, and later as forms emerging from the square compartments delimited by the "Mercator grid", this time developed three-dimensionally (House X, 1975-1977, DR1994:0138:001-1546; House 11a, 1978, DR1994:0139:001-303; Cannaregio project, 1978, DR1991:0017:001-094). After finalizing the urban concept, Eisenman concentrates his efforts on the planning of individual buildings, developing the massing of the building facing Kochstrasse in a series of axonometrics (DR1991:0018:088-092), sections (DR1991:0018:088) and facade studies (DR1991:0018:204-210). A series of scrolled drawings study the L-shaped elements and thin slabs with characteristically gridded surfaces found in House X (DR1991:0018:204 and DR1991:0018:209-210). File contains record drawings, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, schematic drawings, competition drawings, presentation drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
1980-1988
IBA
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AP143.S4.D32
Description:
File documents the partially executed project for the Restricted International Competition "South Friedrichstadt as a Place to Live and Work," West Berlin (now Berlin), West Germany (now in Germany). Material in this file was produced between 1980 and 1988. File documents the design for one of four urban blocks in the area of the Kochstrasse and Friedrichstrasse, Berlin. The competition required the preservation of three existing structures and the construction of mixed-used buildings on vacant lots. The architect develops an overall strategy to occupy the urban block by extending the geometry of the three existing buildings onto the site (DR1991:0018:002; DR1991:0018:004-006), on which he overlays what he calls the "Mercator grid", an orthogonal grid oriented according to the compass (DR1991:0018:016). The "el structures" used by Eisenman in House X, House 11a, and the Cannaregio project reappear in plan, and later as forms emerging from the square compartments delimited by the "Mercator grid", this time developed three-dimensionally (House X, 1975-1977, DR1994:0138:001-1546; House 11a, 1978, DR1994:0139:001-303; Cannaregio project, 1978, DR1991:0017:001-094). After finalizing the urban concept, Eisenman concentrates his efforts on the planning of individual buildings, developing the massing of the building facing Kochstrasse in a series of axonometrics (DR1991:0018:088-092), sections (DR1991:0018:088) and facade studies (DR1991:0018:204-210). A series of scrolled drawings study the L-shaped elements and thin slabs with characteristically gridded surfaces found in House X (DR1991:0018:204 and DR1991:0018:209-210). File contains record drawings, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, schematic drawings, competition drawings, presentation drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
File 32
1980-1988
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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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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(...)
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septembre 2001 au
août 2002
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Aditya Prakash fonds
AP206
Résumé:
The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
1947-2008
Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
Résumé:
The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
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1947-2008
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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
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2008-2011
documents textuels
ARCH153846
Description:
Evaluation of IAUS from former students & interns (1976-1977) Planning meeting - June 23, 1976 (Peter Eisenman, Bill Porter, Frederieke Taylor) Interns Meeting, Feb. 21, 1975 Minutes of an Ad Hoc Undergrad. Meeting - no date
1975-1977
Miscellaneous - IAUS Pedagogical Issues
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ARCH153846
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Evaluation of IAUS from former students & interns (1976-1977) Planning meeting - June 23, 1976 (Peter Eisenman, Bill Porter, Frederieke Taylor) Interns Meeting, Feb. 21, 1975 Minutes of an Ad Hoc Undergrad. Meeting - no date
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1975-1977
documents textuels
ARCH153533
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Kenneth Frampton's proposal for an Oppositions Book, December 3, 1981 Manuscript by Vincent Scully on Aldo Rossi: "Postcript: The Life of Forms" Folder Oppositions Books : - Memos from Joan Ockman (1981) - Correspondence with MIT Press - Proposed draft of a letter to Roger Conover MIT Press - Publication schedule October 1981- October 1983 - Agenda & minutes of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting (1981) - 2 MIT Press catalogue, Fall 1981 - Description of Colquhoun's and Rossi's book projects - Fund raising documents. Loose documents : - Letters from Espacio editora (Spain), Dec. 1980 - Agenda for Editors meeting, 25 Nov. 1980 & 24 Feb. 1981 - Letters by Lindsay Stamm Shapiro, Managing Editor - Budget of Rossi's book - Letters from the Graham Foundation, spring 1981 Folder Oppositions Books - Grant Applications : - Application Grant to the Graham Foundation, Dec. 15, 1980 Loose documents : - Agenda of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting, 27 September 1980 - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (Polano, Isozaki, etc. - Translation sample of Rossi's Scientific Autobiography Folder Oppositions Books : - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (1979-1980) - Correspondence of PDE (Bill Hubbard, reproduction rights) - Anatole Senkevitch, translation of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Sample translation of Ginzburg's book - Photocopy of the Russian edition of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Letters of agreements - Correspondence with Kenner Printing Co. - Diane Ghirardo: translation bills (1971) - Prospective Series of Oppositions Books with budget MIT Press catalogue Fall 1979
1971-1983
D. Programmes and Publications, 1978-1981: 5. Oppositions Books
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ARCH153533
Description:
Kenneth Frampton's proposal for an Oppositions Book, December 3, 1981 Manuscript by Vincent Scully on Aldo Rossi: "Postcript: The Life of Forms" Folder Oppositions Books : - Memos from Joan Ockman (1981) - Correspondence with MIT Press - Proposed draft of a letter to Roger Conover MIT Press - Publication schedule October 1981- October 1983 - Agenda & minutes of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting (1981) - 2 MIT Press catalogue, Fall 1981 - Description of Colquhoun's and Rossi's book projects - Fund raising documents. Loose documents : - Letters from Espacio editora (Spain), Dec. 1980 - Agenda for Editors meeting, 25 Nov. 1980 & 24 Feb. 1981 - Letters by Lindsay Stamm Shapiro, Managing Editor - Budget of Rossi's book - Letters from the Graham Foundation, spring 1981 Folder Oppositions Books - Grant Applications : - Application Grant to the Graham Foundation, Dec. 15, 1980 Loose documents : - Agenda of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting, 27 September 1980 - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (Polano, Isozaki, etc. - Translation sample of Rossi's Scientific Autobiography Folder Oppositions Books : - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (1979-1980) - Correspondence of PDE (Bill Hubbard, reproduction rights) - Anatole Senkevitch, translation of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Sample translation of Ginzburg's book - Photocopy of the Russian edition of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Letters of agreements - Correspondence with Kenner Printing Co. - Diane Ghirardo: translation bills (1971) - Prospective Series of Oppositions Books with budget MIT Press catalogue Fall 1979
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1971-1983