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Glasgow Improvements Act
19th century, albumen silver print, carbon print, Écosse, épreuve argentique à l'albumine, épreuve au charbon, Glasgow, Glasgow City Improvement Trust, health, photoengraving, photographie, photography, photogravure, santé, Scotland, slum, taudis, Thomas Annan, XIXe siècle
17 novembre 2011
DR1974:0002:015:034
architecture
printed 4 November 1825
architecture
DR1974:0002:010:045
architecture
printed ca. 1826
Cimetière de la Magdeleine, Lyon: Perspectival view of the entrance
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Barbara Penner, historienne de l’architecture, retrace l’évolution des Chutes du Niagara, de leur statut de destination phare pour jeunes mariés au XIXe siècle à celui d’icône postindustrielle kitsch, avant de redevenir la destination par excellence des jeunes mariés. Le photographe Alec Soth, dont les travaux constituent l’amorce de cette causerie présentée par Barbara(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
23 avril 2009
L'enseignement de... Niagara Falls
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Barbara Penner, historienne de l’architecture, retrace l’évolution des Chutes du Niagara, de leur statut de destination phare pour jeunes mariés au XIXe siècle à celui d’icône postindustrielle kitsch, avant de redevenir la destination par excellence des jeunes mariés. Le photographe Alec Soth, dont les travaux constituent l’amorce de cette causerie présentée par Barbara(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Sous-série
CI001.S1.D3
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The urban and public architecture of Hubert Rohault de Fleury is insightful concerning both the stylistic directions of utilitarian architecture in France and the structure and role of the government architectural services (1) in the Empire and the Restoration. The drawings in the CCA collection depict built and unbuilt projects undertaken in the context of Hubert's positions in the government architectural services as well as private commissions. Hubert's principal official positions related to three branches of the French government: the Préfecture de la police, the Conseil général des hospices and the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils, a "division" of the Ministère de l'interieur. Hubert's work for the Préfecture de la police (which was also responsible for the gendarmerie and the sapeurs-pompiers barracks) is represented in the CCA collection by projects for four gendarmerie barracks (1821-1830) and alterations to the Préfecture de la Police (1833 ?) and nearby prison in Paris (1819)(DR1974:0002:016:001-070 / DR1974:0002:011:001-089 and DR1974:0002: 015:001-070). The drawings in these albums emphasize the planning (or re-arrangement) of the interior spaces. The album for the Préfecture de la police also includes record drawings for prisons in England and France as background material for Hubert's work and/or related to reports for the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils, which had an active role in the design of prisons throughout France during the early years of the nineteenth century (2). Although the CCA collection has no drawings directly related to Hubert's position as the architecte des hospices (3), drawings and prints are included for his earlier ideal hospitals (ca. 1810) (DR1974:0002:008:001-077). These projects continue the late 17th and 18th century tradition of monumental geometrically laid-out ideal hospitals. This album also contains prints and drawings of medical buildings by other architects (probably reference material), and drawings of Hubert's unexecuted proposal for the re-development of the École de médecine (Paris) and the surrounding buildings and urban spaces. Hubert was the architecte de l'École de medicine (4); a position that probably related to his work for the Ministère d'Interieur, which would have been responsible for this building. In general, Hubert's role and responsibilities within the Ministère de l'interieur and the associated Conseil de Bâtiment Civils (especially prior to his appointment to the position of inspecteur gènèral in 1830) are the least clear of his government positions. In addition to the École de medicine album, two other albums contain projects relating to the Ministère de l'Interieur: two proposals for Place Louis XV commissioned by the Ministre de l'interieur, Duc Decazes in 1821 (DR1974:0002:037:001-031), and drawings for the conversion or renovation of several Parisian hôtel particuliers (probably between 1810 and ca. 1820) including those used by the Ministère de l'interieur, Ministère de la Guerre and the Ministère des affaires étrangères (DR1974:0002;011:001-089). On other government commission of significance is represented in the CCA collection. In 1819, Hubert Rohault de Fleury in collaboration with Etienne Hyppolite Godde was commissioned to direct the restoration of the Thermes de Julien located under the Hôtel de Cluny. The CCA collection includes several letters and drawings, and a report related to this commission (DR1974:0002 :037:001-031). Hubert's private urban projects, mostly commissioned by private entrepreneurs or societies, were concerned with the expansion of the infrastructure of Paris and the surrounding communities as well as, to some extent, larger issues of urban development. One album contains projects dating from between 1819 and 1836 related horses - an essential part of 19th century urban life (5): a stud-farm (Haras de Madrid, Bois de Boulogne), an auction house and an infirmary (Clos St. Charles, Clos d'équarrissage, fôret de Bondy) and three slaughterhouses (Plaine de Grenelle, an unnamed project and La Villete (6))(DR1974:0002:014:001-104). These album also includes developmental studies for a new quartier of Paris - Nouveau Quartier Poissonière (the site of today's 10e arrondissement). A second album (ca. 1825) includes designs for a "maison de blanchisseur", an "entrepot de vins" with adjacent "guingette" and designs for structures at Parc de Clichy - a reservoir, a washhouse and a manège (DR1974:0002:009:001-079) (7). The drawings in these albums are particularly informative regarding the materials, structures and mechanical systems utilized. As with most of his government commissions, for these buildings, Hubert adopted a sparse architectural syntax of pared-down classical motifs and regimented plans grounded in the ideas of Durand and commonly used in utilitarian buildings during the 19th century. (1) These are discussed in some detail in Chapter 2 of David Van Zanten, 'Building Paris' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). (2) Van Zanten, 'Building Paris', 51-52. (3) The Cabinet des Estampes at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris has drawings related to Hubert's work for the Conseil général des hospices. (4) Evidence of this position is based on inscriptions on drawings in album, DR1974:0002:008:001-77. (5) Bergdoll, 4. (6) The La Villete slaughterhouse was designed by Charles Rohault de Fleury. (7) The source(s) of these commissions is unknown.
1754-1875
Public and Urban architecture
CI001.S1.D3
Description:
The urban and public architecture of Hubert Rohault de Fleury is insightful concerning both the stylistic directions of utilitarian architecture in France and the structure and role of the government architectural services (1) in the Empire and the Restoration. The drawings in the CCA collection depict built and unbuilt projects undertaken in the context of Hubert's positions in the government architectural services as well as private commissions. Hubert's principal official positions related to three branches of the French government: the Préfecture de la police, the Conseil général des hospices and the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils, a "division" of the Ministère de l'interieur. Hubert's work for the Préfecture de la police (which was also responsible for the gendarmerie and the sapeurs-pompiers barracks) is represented in the CCA collection by projects for four gendarmerie barracks (1821-1830) and alterations to the Préfecture de la Police (1833 ?) and nearby prison in Paris (1819)(DR1974:0002:016:001-070 / DR1974:0002:011:001-089 and DR1974:0002: 015:001-070). The drawings in these albums emphasize the planning (or re-arrangement) of the interior spaces. The album for the Préfecture de la police also includes record drawings for prisons in England and France as background material for Hubert's work and/or related to reports for the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils, which had an active role in the design of prisons throughout France during the early years of the nineteenth century (2). Although the CCA collection has no drawings directly related to Hubert's position as the architecte des hospices (3), drawings and prints are included for his earlier ideal hospitals (ca. 1810) (DR1974:0002:008:001-077). These projects continue the late 17th and 18th century tradition of monumental geometrically laid-out ideal hospitals. This album also contains prints and drawings of medical buildings by other architects (probably reference material), and drawings of Hubert's unexecuted proposal for the re-development of the École de médecine (Paris) and the surrounding buildings and urban spaces. Hubert was the architecte de l'École de medicine (4); a position that probably related to his work for the Ministère d'Interieur, which would have been responsible for this building. In general, Hubert's role and responsibilities within the Ministère de l'interieur and the associated Conseil de Bâtiment Civils (especially prior to his appointment to the position of inspecteur gènèral in 1830) are the least clear of his government positions. In addition to the École de medicine album, two other albums contain projects relating to the Ministère de l'Interieur: two proposals for Place Louis XV commissioned by the Ministre de l'interieur, Duc Decazes in 1821 (DR1974:0002:037:001-031), and drawings for the conversion or renovation of several Parisian hôtel particuliers (probably between 1810 and ca. 1820) including those used by the Ministère de l'interieur, Ministère de la Guerre and the Ministère des affaires étrangères (DR1974:0002;011:001-089). On other government commission of significance is represented in the CCA collection. In 1819, Hubert Rohault de Fleury in collaboration with Etienne Hyppolite Godde was commissioned to direct the restoration of the Thermes de Julien located under the Hôtel de Cluny. The CCA collection includes several letters and drawings, and a report related to this commission (DR1974:0002 :037:001-031). Hubert's private urban projects, mostly commissioned by private entrepreneurs or societies, were concerned with the expansion of the infrastructure of Paris and the surrounding communities as well as, to some extent, larger issues of urban development. One album contains projects dating from between 1819 and 1836 related horses - an essential part of 19th century urban life (5): a stud-farm (Haras de Madrid, Bois de Boulogne), an auction house and an infirmary (Clos St. Charles, Clos d'équarrissage, fôret de Bondy) and three slaughterhouses (Plaine de Grenelle, an unnamed project and La Villete (6))(DR1974:0002:014:001-104). These album also includes developmental studies for a new quartier of Paris - Nouveau Quartier Poissonière (the site of today's 10e arrondissement). A second album (ca. 1825) includes designs for a "maison de blanchisseur", an "entrepot de vins" with adjacent "guingette" and designs for structures at Parc de Clichy - a reservoir, a washhouse and a manège (DR1974:0002:009:001-079) (7). The drawings in these albums are particularly informative regarding the materials, structures and mechanical systems utilized. As with most of his government commissions, for these buildings, Hubert adopted a sparse architectural syntax of pared-down classical motifs and regimented plans grounded in the ideas of Durand and commonly used in utilitarian buildings during the 19th century. (1) These are discussed in some detail in Chapter 2 of David Van Zanten, 'Building Paris' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). (2) Van Zanten, 'Building Paris', 51-52. (3) The Cabinet des Estampes at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris has drawings related to Hubert's work for the Conseil général des hospices. (4) Evidence of this position is based on inscriptions on drawings in album, DR1974:0002:008:001-77. (5) Bergdoll, 4. (6) The La Villete slaughterhouse was designed by Charles Rohault de Fleury. (7) The source(s) of these commissions is unknown.
File 3
1754-1875
DR1974:0002:010:029
architecture, militaire, urbanisme
printed 1802
Design by Charles-Étienne Durand for a monument in honour of Bonaparte, First Consul of France, Nîmes: Elevation
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Projet
AP178.S1.1995.PR07
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This project series documents the Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 57/90. The office assigned the date 1995 to this project. At the beginning of the nineties, Rem Koolhaas, Wim Quist, Carel Weeber, and Robert Venturi were invited to propose a design for the extension and renovations of the Stedelijk Museum. Robert Venturi was the architect selected, but the project was suspended in 1993 due to the infeasibility of the program and budget restrictions. The following year, five applicants, including Siza, were asked to present a new design to a committee. In December 1995, Siza was officially announced as the new design architect for the project by the city of Amsterdam. The firm A+D+P was selected as the executive architect. Siza's first proposal was presented in 1998. His master plan included the demolition of the Marmottenhuis, the renovation of the 19th-century patios, and the relocation of the public toilets to the basement in order to create exhibition halls. The master plan also included the construction of three new wings and two underground passages to connect the newer and older buildings. A new wing, located to one side of Sandbergplein, included offices in the basement and on the ground floor as well as exhibition halls on the first floor. A new building surrounding the museum garden included storage space in the basement, a restaurant on the ground floor, and exhibition halls at the first floor. Construction work was projected to start in June 2000, however due to budget restrictions the project was not realized and a new competition was held in 2004. The firm Benthem Crouwel Architects realized the project. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, preliminary drawings, plans, and working drawings. Textual materials include project documentation and correspondence. Photographic materials document the models and project site.
1989-2002
Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk [Restoration and extension of Stedelijk Museum], Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1995)
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AP178.S1.1995.PR07
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This project series documents the Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 57/90. The office assigned the date 1995 to this project. At the beginning of the nineties, Rem Koolhaas, Wim Quist, Carel Weeber, and Robert Venturi were invited to propose a design for the extension and renovations of the Stedelijk Museum. Robert Venturi was the architect selected, but the project was suspended in 1993 due to the infeasibility of the program and budget restrictions. The following year, five applicants, including Siza, were asked to present a new design to a committee. In December 1995, Siza was officially announced as the new design architect for the project by the city of Amsterdam. The firm A+D+P was selected as the executive architect. Siza's first proposal was presented in 1998. His master plan included the demolition of the Marmottenhuis, the renovation of the 19th-century patios, and the relocation of the public toilets to the basement in order to create exhibition halls. The master plan also included the construction of three new wings and two underground passages to connect the newer and older buildings. A new wing, located to one side of Sandbergplein, included offices in the basement and on the ground floor as well as exhibition halls on the first floor. A new building surrounding the museum garden included storage space in the basement, a restaurant on the ground floor, and exhibition halls at the first floor. Construction work was projected to start in June 2000, however due to budget restrictions the project was not realized and a new competition was held in 2004. The firm Benthem Crouwel Architects realized the project. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, preliminary drawings, plans, and working drawings. Textual materials include project documentation and correspondence. Photographic materials document the models and project site.
Project
1989-2002
Album on South Asian domestic architecture showing ornaments, crafts and trade advertisements
PH1979:0432
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This album titled Indian Domestic Architecture, is by Lockwood de Forest and a combination architectural book and trade catalogue. It reflects de Forest's goal to ensure the preservation of the arts, crafts and trades (with a particular attention given to carving) of South Asian workmen. 25 heliotype plates show Indian architecture and ornaments and the final 14 pages show advertisements, in the Indian graphic style, for various New York building craftsmen and home furnishers. The album comprises a title page, an Introduction by Lockwood de Forest, a list of contents, plates by Heliotype Printing Co., Boston and engravings. Contents I. House at Ahmedabad, 16th century II. House at Ahmedabad, 17th century III. House at Ahmedabad, 18th century IV. Copy of one of the Bhudder windows at Ahmedabad, full size 7 ff. x 10 ft. made by Mr. de Forest's men and sold to the South Kensington Museum V. Copy of the second Bhudder window in Mr. De Forest's possession in New York. VI. Front of a house at Ajmere VII. Tomb of the time of Akbar, red sandstone VIII. Marble tracery in the palace, Delhi IX. Window of a house at Amritza X. Brass door at Amritza XI. Front of a house at Lahore XII. Front of a house at Lahore XIII. Front of a house at Lahore XIV. Doorway of house, red sandstone, Multan XV. Front of a house at Multan XVI. Door of house, Multan XVII. Window of tomb in tile at Multan XVIII. Doorway of house, red sandstone, Multan XIX. Mr. De Forest's rooms, 9 East 17th Street, New York XX. Mr. De Forest's rooms, 9 East 17th Street, New York XXI. Door of a house at Ahmedabad, 19th century XXII. House at Ahmedabad, early 17th century XXIII. Window of a house at Lahore XXIV. Tomb of Ala-Ud-Din Khilji, old Delhi XXV. Marble Gateway of a tomb at Gualior
architecture, ornement
1885
Album on South Asian domestic architecture showing ornaments, crafts and trade advertisements
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This album titled Indian Domestic Architecture, is by Lockwood de Forest and a combination architectural book and trade catalogue. It reflects de Forest's goal to ensure the preservation of the arts, crafts and trades (with a particular attention given to carving) of South Asian workmen. 25 heliotype plates show Indian architecture and ornaments and the final 14 pages show advertisements, in the Indian graphic style, for various New York building craftsmen and home furnishers. The album comprises a title page, an Introduction by Lockwood de Forest, a list of contents, plates by Heliotype Printing Co., Boston and engravings. Contents I. House at Ahmedabad, 16th century II. House at Ahmedabad, 17th century III. House at Ahmedabad, 18th century IV. Copy of one of the Bhudder windows at Ahmedabad, full size 7 ff. x 10 ft. made by Mr. de Forest's men and sold to the South Kensington Museum V. Copy of the second Bhudder window in Mr. De Forest's possession in New York. VI. Front of a house at Ajmere VII. Tomb of the time of Akbar, red sandstone VIII. Marble tracery in the palace, Delhi IX. Window of a house at Amritza X. Brass door at Amritza XI. Front of a house at Lahore XII. Front of a house at Lahore XIII. Front of a house at Lahore XIV. Doorway of house, red sandstone, Multan XV. Front of a house at Multan XVI. Door of house, Multan XVII. Window of tomb in tile at Multan XVIII. Doorway of house, red sandstone, Multan XIX. Mr. De Forest's rooms, 9 East 17th Street, New York XX. Mr. De Forest's rooms, 9 East 17th Street, New York XXI. Door of a house at Ahmedabad, 19th century XXII. House at Ahmedabad, early 17th century XXIII. Window of a house at Lahore XXIV. Tomb of Ala-Ud-Din Khilji, old Delhi XXV. Marble Gateway of a tomb at Gualior
1885
architecture, ornement
DR1974:0002:027:001-027
Description:
- This album consists of 23 presentation drawings and transfer lithographs for an 1859-1860 project for an opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra. Three drawings and one engraving for the project which are included in the album, are not listed in the table of contents (DR1974:0002:027:005, DR1974:0002:027:006, DR1974:0002:027:021, DR1974:0002:027:027). Site plans DR1974:0002:027:002 and DR1974:0002:027:003 show the opera house on an irregular polygonal site just off boulevard des Capucines, enclosed by rues Neuve Mogador, Neuve des Mathurins, du Chemin de fer de l'Ouest (proposed), de l'Opéra (proposed), and place de l'Opéra (proposed). The principal façade is two storeys high and five bays wide. Serliana arches are supported and separated by Doric columns below and by Ionic columns above (DR1974:0002:027:004, DR1974:0002:027:006, and DR1974:0002:027:007). Iron roof trusses are visible in cross section DR1974:0002:027:024. The auditorium is a modified horseshoe shape, squarish in plan (DR1974:0002:027:012 - DR1974:0002:027:014). A cross section through the auditorium shows the stage curtain with a trompe-l'oeil view of the opera's proposed principal façade.
architecture, design d'intérieur, urbanisme
printed 1857-1860
Album of drawings and prints for an opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, Paris
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- This album consists of 23 presentation drawings and transfer lithographs for an 1859-1860 project for an opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra. Three drawings and one engraving for the project which are included in the album, are not listed in the table of contents (DR1974:0002:027:005, DR1974:0002:027:006, DR1974:0002:027:021, DR1974:0002:027:027). Site plans DR1974:0002:027:002 and DR1974:0002:027:003 show the opera house on an irregular polygonal site just off boulevard des Capucines, enclosed by rues Neuve Mogador, Neuve des Mathurins, du Chemin de fer de l'Ouest (proposed), de l'Opéra (proposed), and place de l'Opéra (proposed). The principal façade is two storeys high and five bays wide. Serliana arches are supported and separated by Doric columns below and by Ionic columns above (DR1974:0002:027:004, DR1974:0002:027:006, and DR1974:0002:027:007). Iron roof trusses are visible in cross section DR1974:0002:027:024. The auditorium is a modified horseshoe shape, squarish in plan (DR1974:0002:027:012 - DR1974:0002:027:014). A cross section through the auditorium shows the stage curtain with a trompe-l'oeil view of the opera's proposed principal façade.
architecture, design d'intérieur, urbanisme
Project for an opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra: Elevation for the principal façade
DR1974:0002:027:006
architecture
printed 1859 or 1860 ?
Project for an opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra: Elevation for the principal façade
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