Projet
AP178.S1.1983.PR04
Description:
The project series documents the 1983 design entry for the Kulturforum. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 21/80. The office assigned the date 1983 for this project. This project was a competition entry for the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA, circa 1979-1987), an urban renewal strategy for West Berlin, Germany. Siza also submitted five other entries to the IBA: Görtlitzer Bad swimming pool; Block 70 and 89 (Fränkelufer residential complex); Bonjour Tristesse (Block 121); Block 11-12; and Monument to Gestapo victims. The Kulturforum was a complex of cultural buildings. The site underwent many changes during Nazi Germany and post-war with the construction of the National Library of Staatsbibliothek, designed by Hans Scharoun. Two examples of features that the IBA asked participants to include in their design proposals were to exclude vehicle traffic between the library and national gallery, and to reinterpret the Forum space. Documenting this project are several sketches and studies. There are also plans, elevations, and axonometric drawings of site plans. Siza’s office has indicated on some of the studies that they were possibly not created by Siza. Where this is the case it has been noted with the physical material. Photographs and negatives document the competition site and model, and there are transparencies and slides of drawings. Also included is textual documentation on the competition site and a few letters from members of the Berlin Senate, two of which are from Brigitte Cassirer (later Brigitte Fleck).
1982-2012
Kulturforum [Kulturforum], Berlin, Germany (1982-1986)
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AP178.S1.1983.PR04
Description:
The project series documents the 1983 design entry for the Kulturforum. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 21/80. The office assigned the date 1983 for this project. This project was a competition entry for the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA, circa 1979-1987), an urban renewal strategy for West Berlin, Germany. Siza also submitted five other entries to the IBA: Görtlitzer Bad swimming pool; Block 70 and 89 (Fränkelufer residential complex); Bonjour Tristesse (Block 121); Block 11-12; and Monument to Gestapo victims. The Kulturforum was a complex of cultural buildings. The site underwent many changes during Nazi Germany and post-war with the construction of the National Library of Staatsbibliothek, designed by Hans Scharoun. Two examples of features that the IBA asked participants to include in their design proposals were to exclude vehicle traffic between the library and national gallery, and to reinterpret the Forum space. Documenting this project are several sketches and studies. There are also plans, elevations, and axonometric drawings of site plans. Siza’s office has indicated on some of the studies that they were possibly not created by Siza. Where this is the case it has been noted with the physical material. Photographs and negatives document the competition site and model, and there are transparencies and slides of drawings. Also included is textual documentation on the competition site and a few letters from members of the Berlin Senate, two of which are from Brigitte Cassirer (later Brigitte Fleck).
Project
1982-2012
né numérique, photographies
AP075.S3.SS2.224
Description:
Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs of United Nations Peacekeeping Monument (1990-1993), Museum of Anthropology (1975-1977), and Library Square (1992-1995).
2009
Promotional photographs on various projects by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
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AP075.S3.SS2.224
Description:
Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs of United Nations Peacekeeping Monument (1990-1993), Museum of Anthropology (1975-1977), and Library Square (1992-1995).
né numérique, photographies
2009
documents textuels
Demandes de renseignement
ARCH258548
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Demandes de renseignement, incluant des coupures de presse, des reçus, des bulletins d'abonnement divers, et de la correspondance parmi les sujets: le monument de Lesseps; T. Eaton Company; un table pliante pour l'Université de Montréal.
1928-1949
Demandes de renseignement
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ARCH258548
Description:
Demandes de renseignement, incluant des coupures de presse, des reçus, des bulletins d'abonnement divers, et de la correspondance parmi les sujets: le monument de Lesseps; T. Eaton Company; un table pliante pour l'Université de Montréal.
documents textuels
1928-1949
documents textuels
DR2012:0011:007-007
Description:
Ring binder containing notes and sketches in English (predominant) and French, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Monument to the National Assembly of Quebec; - Un dictionnaire...; - Venice Biennale, Meta-Cities.
1999-2001
Notes and sketches by Melvin Charney on his later works
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DR2012:0011:007-007
Description:
Ring binder containing notes and sketches in English (predominant) and French, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Monument to the National Assembly of Quebec; - Un dictionnaire...; - Venice Biennale, Meta-Cities.
documents textuels
1999-2001
The Triumph of Hannibal
DR1984:1641
Description:
- The turbaned figure being carried into the theater seated on a litter certainly refers to a non-Roman figure, possibly Hannibal. Behind this figure is a theater and an imaginary town on a hill. The town buildings recall the Sicilian monuments in the 'Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile' published by the Abbé de Saint-Non in Paris between 1781 and 1786. Desprez interrupted his studies at the French Academy in Rome from December 1777 to January 1779 to accompany Dominique Vivant Denon and several other artists to Naples and Sicily in order to make drawings for this publication. The town buildings also recall several buildings Desprez planned in Stockholm while stage designer and architect to Gustavus III of Sweden from 1784 to 1792.
design de théâtre
ca. 1780-1790
The Triumph of Hannibal
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DR1984:1641
Description:
- The turbaned figure being carried into the theater seated on a litter certainly refers to a non-Roman figure, possibly Hannibal. Behind this figure is a theater and an imaginary town on a hill. The town buildings recall the Sicilian monuments in the 'Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile' published by the Abbé de Saint-Non in Paris between 1781 and 1786. Desprez interrupted his studies at the French Academy in Rome from December 1777 to January 1779 to accompany Dominique Vivant Denon and several other artists to Naples and Sicily in order to make drawings for this publication. The town buildings also recall several buildings Desprez planned in Stockholm while stage designer and architect to Gustavus III of Sweden from 1784 to 1792.
design de théâtre
PH1979:0548
Description:
This album bears a title page as follows (glued to the inside cover): Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey. From original drawings made expressly for the work by R. Sandeman, architect, and executed on wood by George C. Leighton. London: published by I. Writelaw, 188, Fleet Street; Sold by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Stationers' Hall Court; and to be had of all booksellers. Printed by Leightons and Taylor, 10, Lamb's Conduit Street, 1849. A folded panoramic engraved view begins at left with St. Margaret Church and Westminster Abbey and continues to All Soul's Church. In between, are depicted monuments, buildings, shops, companies, streets, horses, carriages and people, through the following streets : Great George Street; Upper Class Street; Parliament Street; Downing Street; Spring Gardens/Charing Cross; Trafalgar Square/Spring Gardens; Warwick Street; Cockspur Street; Duke of York's Monument, Waterloo Place; Charles Street; Jermyn Street; Piccadilly Regent Circus; Vine Street; Swallow Street; Vigo Street; Leicester Street; New Burlington Street; Conduit Street; Madox Street; Hanover Street; Princes' Street; Oxford Street; Great Castle Street; Margaret Street; Mortimer Street; Langham Place and Portland Place.
architecture, topographique, urbanisme
1849
Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey
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PH1979:0548
Description:
This album bears a title page as follows (glued to the inside cover): Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey. From original drawings made expressly for the work by R. Sandeman, architect, and executed on wood by George C. Leighton. London: published by I. Writelaw, 188, Fleet Street; Sold by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Stationers' Hall Court; and to be had of all booksellers. Printed by Leightons and Taylor, 10, Lamb's Conduit Street, 1849. A folded panoramic engraved view begins at left with St. Margaret Church and Westminster Abbey and continues to All Soul's Church. In between, are depicted monuments, buildings, shops, companies, streets, horses, carriages and people, through the following streets : Great George Street; Upper Class Street; Parliament Street; Downing Street; Spring Gardens/Charing Cross; Trafalgar Square/Spring Gardens; Warwick Street; Cockspur Street; Duke of York's Monument, Waterloo Place; Charles Street; Jermyn Street; Piccadilly Regent Circus; Vine Street; Swallow Street; Vigo Street; Leicester Street; New Burlington Street; Conduit Street; Madox Street; Hanover Street; Princes' Street; Oxford Street; Great Castle Street; Margaret Street; Mortimer Street; Langham Place and Portland Place.
1849
architecture, topographique, urbanisme
photographies
ARCH269811
Description:
Group consists of photographs Le Corbusier's drawings and paintings. The group also includes a contact sheet with photographs of the Open Hand monument and the Assembly mural painting in the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh, India.
n.d.
Photographs Le Corbusier's drawings and paintings
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ARCH269811
Description:
Group consists of photographs Le Corbusier's drawings and paintings. The group also includes a contact sheet with photographs of the Open Hand monument and the Assembly mural painting in the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh, India.
photographies
n.d.
documents textuels
DR2012:0015:025:012
Description:
Assorted documents in English, including notes, press clippings, and sketches related to Melvin Charney's competition entry for None is too many, the memorial monument to MS St. Louis at Pier 21 in Halifax.
2002, 2009-2010
Notes, press clippings, and sketches, None is too many, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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DR2012:0015:025:012
Description:
Assorted documents in English, including notes, press clippings, and sketches related to Melvin Charney's competition entry for None is too many, the memorial monument to MS St. Louis at Pier 21 in Halifax.
documents textuels
2002, 2009-2010
dessins
DR2012:0012:047:024
Description:
Includes design development and elevation drawings for the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1986-1990. One drawing is titled "Study/perspective view seen from Elgin Street ceremonial route".
1986-1990
Design development and elevation drawings, The Canadian tribute to human rights
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DR2012:0012:047:024
Description:
Includes design development and elevation drawings for the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1986-1990. One drawing is titled "Study/perspective view seen from Elgin Street ceremonial route".
dessins
1986-1990
DR1966:0001:039
Description:
- This sketch elevation of the tomb of Urban VIII shows a sculpture of the pope seated on a throne, which stands on a pedestal above his sarcophagus. The monument is set in a semi-circular niche between two columns.
architecture, design d'intérieur
ca. 1764
Sketch elevation of Bernini's tomb of Urban VIII, St. Peter's, Rome
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DR1966:0001:039
Description:
- This sketch elevation of the tomb of Urban VIII shows a sculpture of the pope seated on a throne, which stands on a pedestal above his sarcophagus. The monument is set in a semi-circular niche between two columns.
architecture, design d'intérieur