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AP058.S1
Description:
This series documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement in professional committees and associations, as the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Board (1977-1992), the National Capital Commission (1970-1983), the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, at Princeton University (1976-1988), the Graduate School of Design, at Harvard University (1979-1990), the National Architectural Accrediting Board (U.S.) (1983-1991), the Toronto Arts Week (1987-1989), the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards, the Canadian Friends of Finland, the Canadian Housing Design Council, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the University of Miami Visiting Committee, and many others. The series contains correspondence, programmes and scheduled activities, publications, schedules, information packages, notes, minutes, lists of members, posters, papers, calendars, directories, studies, and reports, dating from 1970 to 1992. The main areas of interests extracted from the material are North American architecture schools and their development, and the architecture and urban planning of the National Capital Region, in Canada.
1970-1992
Professional committees and associations
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AP058.S1
Description:
This series documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement in professional committees and associations, as the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Board (1977-1992), the National Capital Commission (1970-1983), the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, at Princeton University (1976-1988), the Graduate School of Design, at Harvard University (1979-1990), the National Architectural Accrediting Board (U.S.) (1983-1991), the Toronto Arts Week (1987-1989), the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards, the Canadian Friends of Finland, the Canadian Housing Design Council, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the University of Miami Visiting Committee, and many others. The series contains correspondence, programmes and scheduled activities, publications, schedules, information packages, notes, minutes, lists of members, posters, papers, calendars, directories, studies, and reports, dating from 1970 to 1992. The main areas of interests extracted from the material are North American architecture schools and their development, and the architecture and urban planning of the National Capital Region, in Canada.
Series
1970-1992
Série(s)
AP133.S1
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This series documents the research, writing, publishing and promotion of Pierre du Prey's "The Villas of Pliny: from antiquity to posterity." The focus of the book is Pliny the Younger’s continuous influence on the work of architects. The book was published in 1994 by The University of Chicago Press. Du Prey undertook this research and writing project after curating the Canadian Centre for Architecture's exhibition "The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture in Montréal" presented at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal in 1983. In the exhibition, du Prey notes the influence of Pliny's work on Montréal architecture, including his influence on the work of architect Ernest Cormier. This theme of the exhibtion later became a chapter of his book. The series contains research material, such as notes by Pierre du Prey, sound recordings of interviews with experts and architectural historians, and correspondence. It also contains manuscripts, drafts and dummies for publication, as well as correspondence, financial documents related to publishing, and press clippings on Pierre du Prey and his book.
1983-2002
The Villas of Pliny : from antiquity to posterity, 1988-1994
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AP133.S1
Description:
This series documents the research, writing, publishing and promotion of Pierre du Prey's "The Villas of Pliny: from antiquity to posterity." The focus of the book is Pliny the Younger’s continuous influence on the work of architects. The book was published in 1994 by The University of Chicago Press. Du Prey undertook this research and writing project after curating the Canadian Centre for Architecture's exhibition "The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture in Montréal" presented at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal in 1983. In the exhibition, du Prey notes the influence of Pliny's work on Montréal architecture, including his influence on the work of architect Ernest Cormier. This theme of the exhibtion later became a chapter of his book. The series contains research material, such as notes by Pierre du Prey, sound recordings of interviews with experts and architectural historians, and correspondence. It also contains manuscripts, drafts and dummies for publication, as well as correspondence, financial documents related to publishing, and press clippings on Pierre du Prey and his book.
Series
1983-2002
Série(s)
Publications and writings
AP206.S2
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The Publications and writings series, 1947-2008, records the published and unpublished papers, books, articles, poems, diaries and notes of Aditya Prakash throughout his architectural education and career, up until his death in 2008. Many materials in this series are unpublished works, and concentrate on Chandigarh, urban planning, reflections on his past work and new ideas, architectural education, art and theatre. A number of these were prepared for talks and speeches Prakash gave as the Principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture or for various clubs and committees. Published works in this series were typically published in newspapers, but some magazine and journal articles are included. This series also includes notebooks and diaries, the latter which give detailed daily accounts of Aditya Prakash’s life from 1947-1955. The writings in this series are a mix of typed and handwritten textual records, recorded primarily in English, but with some Hindi and Urdu works also included.
1947-2008
Publications and writings
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AP206.S2
Description:
The Publications and writings series, 1947-2008, records the published and unpublished papers, books, articles, poems, diaries and notes of Aditya Prakash throughout his architectural education and career, up until his death in 2008. Many materials in this series are unpublished works, and concentrate on Chandigarh, urban planning, reflections on his past work and new ideas, architectural education, art and theatre. A number of these were prepared for talks and speeches Prakash gave as the Principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture or for various clubs and committees. Published works in this series were typically published in newspapers, but some magazine and journal articles are included. This series also includes notebooks and diaries, the latter which give detailed daily accounts of Aditya Prakash’s life from 1947-1955. The writings in this series are a mix of typed and handwritten textual records, recorded primarily in English, but with some Hindi and Urdu works also included.
Series
1947-2008
Projet
AP207.S1.1973.PR02
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The project series documents the performance "Io Sono La Spia". It consists of a group of photographs of the founders of Global Tools taken in 1973, in Milan, in which Pettena identifies himself as "the spy" by holding a sign that reads "Io Sono La Spia" [I am the Spy]. Global Tools, was a multidisciplinary program of workshops used to promote different tools and materials in architecture and represented the peak in the radical movement in Italy. By identifying himself as "the spy", Pettena "claimed to be a betraying architect and he stated his own 'diversity' by calling into question his identified role as a 'radical architect'." [1] The project series contains the sign with the words "Io Sono La Spia" and photographs of the Global Tools team, including a photograph showing Pettena holding the sign "Io Sono La Spia". Source: [1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 184.
1973-2015
Io Sono La Spia [I am the Spy] (1973)
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AP207.S1.1973.PR02
Description:
The project series documents the performance "Io Sono La Spia". It consists of a group of photographs of the founders of Global Tools taken in 1973, in Milan, in which Pettena identifies himself as "the spy" by holding a sign that reads "Io Sono La Spia" [I am the Spy]. Global Tools, was a multidisciplinary program of workshops used to promote different tools and materials in architecture and represented the peak in the radical movement in Italy. By identifying himself as "the spy", Pettena "claimed to be a betraying architect and he stated his own 'diversity' by calling into question his identified role as a 'radical architect'." [1] The project series contains the sign with the words "Io Sono La Spia" and photographs of the Global Tools team, including a photograph showing Pettena holding the sign "Io Sono La Spia". Source: [1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 184.
Project
1973-2015
Projet
AP207.S1.1978.PR02
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The project series documents "Complimenti D'Architettura", an installation for the Biennale di Venezia at the Magazzini del Sale in 1978. The installation consists of a stone wall that showcases the different types of stone used as construction material over time, begining with uncut natural stone and ending with cut polished stone. "It is a symbolic history of architecture [...]: all the intermediate phases, from the collection of scattered pieces of rock, piled up to make a heap, to the hewn and polished stone, its surface as shiny as a mirror." [1] The installation was also presented at the exhibition "La fine del mondo" at the Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea in Prato, in 2016. The project series contains photographs of the first edition of the installation at the Biennale di Venezia, and installation sketches. It also contains two photographs of the second edition at the Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-complements-1978/ (last accessed 14 November 2019).
1978-2016
Complimenti D'Architettura [Complements of Architecture] (1978)
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AP207.S1.1978.PR02
Description:
The project series documents "Complimenti D'Architettura", an installation for the Biennale di Venezia at the Magazzini del Sale in 1978. The installation consists of a stone wall that showcases the different types of stone used as construction material over time, begining with uncut natural stone and ending with cut polished stone. "It is a symbolic history of architecture [...]: all the intermediate phases, from the collection of scattered pieces of rock, piled up to make a heap, to the hewn and polished stone, its surface as shiny as a mirror." [1] The installation was also presented at the exhibition "La fine del mondo" at the Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea in Prato, in 2016. The project series contains photographs of the first edition of the installation at the Biennale di Venezia, and installation sketches. It also contains two photographs of the second edition at the Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-complements-1978/ (last accessed 14 November 2019).
Project
1978-2016
Projet
AP207.S1.1992.PR01
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The project series documents Pettena's preliminary study and proposal for the restoration and conversion of the Forte Inglese, a Napoleonic era fortification in Portoferraio, Italy. Pettena worked on this project in 1992. The restauration and conversion project for the fort was not realized because of changes in the local government. The proposal consisted of converting the fort into an exhibition space, an auditorium and a public garden "by simply adding spaces that utilized volumes created underground or at the rear: thus the respect of the preexisting context was assured, from the viewpoint of history as well as landscape." [1] The project series contains a preliminary study report by Pettena, sketches, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and sections for Pettena's proposal, reference photographs, research material, such as photocopies of publications on the fort and reference plans for the historic building. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-study-for-the-restoration-1992/ (last accessed 21 January 2020).
1992-2015
Studio Per Il Restauro E La Riconversione Del Forte Inglese [Study for the Restoration and Conversion of the Fort Inglese], Portoferraio, Italy (1992)
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AP207.S1.1992.PR01
Description:
The project series documents Pettena's preliminary study and proposal for the restoration and conversion of the Forte Inglese, a Napoleonic era fortification in Portoferraio, Italy. Pettena worked on this project in 1992. The restauration and conversion project for the fort was not realized because of changes in the local government. The proposal consisted of converting the fort into an exhibition space, an auditorium and a public garden "by simply adding spaces that utilized volumes created underground or at the rear: thus the respect of the preexisting context was assured, from the viewpoint of history as well as landscape." [1] The project series contains a preliminary study report by Pettena, sketches, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and sections for Pettena's proposal, reference photographs, research material, such as photocopies of publications on the fort and reference plans for the historic building. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-study-for-the-restoration-1992/ (last accessed 21 January 2020).
Project
1992-2015
Projet
AP178.S1.2005.PR05
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This project series documents the Instalação na Exposição "Entrez Lentement" per il Salone del Mobile in Milan. While the records were held in the office’s archives this installation was assigned the label "outro" in place of the usual project number, to designate that it was work done for an exhibition. The office assigned the date 2005 for this installation. This project consisted of an exhibition installation at the 2005 edition of the famed Salone del Mobile Milano (Milan Furniture Fair). The Salone del Mobile exhibition, entitled "Entrez Lentement," invited eight architects to build installations related to famous architectural projects. Siza's work spoke to Oscar Neimeyer's personal home, Casa das Canoas in Rio de Janeiro. He designed two organic white forms and a curved yellow chaise lounge that related to the curved forms present in the original home. Documenting this project are sketches, a plan, and the exhibition space layout of the Salone. These materials date from 2004.
2004
Instalação na Exposição "Entrez Lentement" per il Salone del Mobile [Installation for the "Entrez Lentement" exhibition at the Salone de Mobile], Milan (2005)
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AP178.S1.2005.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the Instalação na Exposição "Entrez Lentement" per il Salone del Mobile in Milan. While the records were held in the office’s archives this installation was assigned the label "outro" in place of the usual project number, to designate that it was work done for an exhibition. The office assigned the date 2005 for this installation. This project consisted of an exhibition installation at the 2005 edition of the famed Salone del Mobile Milano (Milan Furniture Fair). The Salone del Mobile exhibition, entitled "Entrez Lentement," invited eight architects to build installations related to famous architectural projects. Siza's work spoke to Oscar Neimeyer's personal home, Casa das Canoas in Rio de Janeiro. He designed two organic white forms and a curved yellow chaise lounge that related to the curved forms present in the original home. Documenting this project are sketches, a plan, and the exhibition space layout of the Salone. These materials date from 2004.
Project
2004
Projet
AP075.S1.1992.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the restoration of grounds at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of British Columbia. Orberlander worked on this project in 1997 with architect Arthur Erickson. This project was undertaken in preparation for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, held at the museum in the same year, to restore and improve conditions of the original landscape plan designed by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander between 1975 and 1977. The project series includes sketches, design development drawings, including site plans with Oberlander's annotations of the restoration to be done, grading plans, and landscape plans showing existing conditions, presentation drawings of the proposed improvements, and reference working drawings. The project is also documented through photographic material, including photographs of the landscaping before the improvement work and and photographs of the landscaping and the museum. The project series also comprises textual records, such as a proposal, concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence, including correspondence with clients, consultants and contractors, meetings notes, and specifications.
1992-2004
Museum of Anthropology landscape restoration, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1992-1997)
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AP075.S1.1992.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the restoration of grounds at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of British Columbia. Orberlander worked on this project in 1997 with architect Arthur Erickson. This project was undertaken in preparation for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, held at the museum in the same year, to restore and improve conditions of the original landscape plan designed by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander between 1975 and 1977. The project series includes sketches, design development drawings, including site plans with Oberlander's annotations of the restoration to be done, grading plans, and landscape plans showing existing conditions, presentation drawings of the proposed improvements, and reference working drawings. The project is also documented through photographic material, including photographs of the landscaping before the improvement work and and photographs of the landscaping and the museum. The project series also comprises textual records, such as a proposal, concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence, including correspondence with clients, consultants and contractors, meetings notes, and specifications.
Project
1992-2004
Sous-série
Travel Records
AP032.S1.SS4.D3
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Files ARCH219035-ARCH219042 are documents from travels in Europe from 1962-1963, and combined business and family travels in Europe, Japan, Central America and the United States between 1968 and 1980. Papers include a travel journal, invoices and receipts, postcards, travel guides and brochures, maps, itineraries, correspondence, and documents on Danish architecture. FIles ARCH21945-ARCH219061 are documents mostly concerning Goldsmith's vacation trips in the United States. Material includes travel brochures, guide books, maps, postcards and various ephemera. Travel journals from visits to Fripp Island, Harvard, Newport R.I., New York and Washington in 1982 include sketches and calculations of bridges. Some files include colour photographs - a trip to Washington D.C. has large prints of SOM buildings, and a file on the artist Christo includes information and photos of his Umbrella Project in Bakersfield, California. Other destinations include Vermont, Delaware, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Two files document a 1993 trip to Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland and include correspondence and itineraries.
1962-1993
Travel Records
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AP032.S1.SS4.D3
Description:
Files ARCH219035-ARCH219042 are documents from travels in Europe from 1962-1963, and combined business and family travels in Europe, Japan, Central America and the United States between 1968 and 1980. Papers include a travel journal, invoices and receipts, postcards, travel guides and brochures, maps, itineraries, correspondence, and documents on Danish architecture. FIles ARCH21945-ARCH219061 are documents mostly concerning Goldsmith's vacation trips in the United States. Material includes travel brochures, guide books, maps, postcards and various ephemera. Travel journals from visits to Fripp Island, Harvard, Newport R.I., New York and Washington in 1982 include sketches and calculations of bridges. Some files include colour photographs - a trip to Washington D.C. has large prints of SOM buildings, and a file on the artist Christo includes information and photos of his Umbrella Project in Bakersfield, California. Other destinations include Vermont, Delaware, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Two files document a 1993 trip to Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland and include correspondence and itineraries.
File 3
1962-1993
Projet
AP018.S1.1976.PR01
Description:
This project series documents a feasibility study for a hotel and condominium development in Burlington, Ontario in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7601. The project consisted of a study to determine the feasibility of building a hotel and condominium on the historic Brant Inn site, a famous hotel which had closed about a decade previously. The proposed development was approximately 30 storeys with 350 condos, 250 hotel rooms, a convention facility and parking garage. It is unclear from the project materials whether the project was ever built. A project list, created by the office, which accompanied the donation of this fonds referred to this project as Hotel and Condominium Feasibility Study for David S. Owen of Warrick Consultants Limited. The project is recorded through a conference report and presentation boards dating from 1976. The presentation boards show site plans and schemes, while one shows a drawing of the New Brant Inn, prepared by architect Visvalois V. Upenicks.
1970-1976
Hotel and Condominium, Feasibility Study, Burlington, Ontario (1976)
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AP018.S1.1976.PR01
Description:
This project series documents a feasibility study for a hotel and condominium development in Burlington, Ontario in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7601. The project consisted of a study to determine the feasibility of building a hotel and condominium on the historic Brant Inn site, a famous hotel which had closed about a decade previously. The proposed development was approximately 30 storeys with 350 condos, 250 hotel rooms, a convention facility and parking garage. It is unclear from the project materials whether the project was ever built. A project list, created by the office, which accompanied the donation of this fonds referred to this project as Hotel and Condominium Feasibility Study for David S. Owen of Warrick Consultants Limited. The project is recorded through a conference report and presentation boards dating from 1976. The presentation boards show site plans and schemes, while one shows a drawing of the New Brant Inn, prepared by architect Visvalois V. Upenicks.
project
1970-1976