Projet
AP148.S1.1972.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Poli's design and development work on the Supersurface project created with Superstudio in 1972. Part of Superstudio's project, "Five Fundamental Acts: Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death", included films created on each theme, Supersurface was the first in the series ("Life"), and was shown at the 1972 exhibition "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Achievements and Problems in Italian Design" at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The final film had a running time of 15 minutes and was shot in colour on 16 mm film. Material predominantly includes project drawings, collages and sketches, along with a textual and drawn storyboard for the film. The storyboard was sent in a folder made by Poli, which has been retained as part of the fonds. Material in the folder has been kept in the order in which Poli transferred it. Of note are also 3 larger drawings, one of which is a collage of photos featuring Poli, and another is an immense brightly-coloured collage of a young woman on the edge of a sea with a machine floating beaming down on her. These drawings have been signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Also included is a copy of "L'Espresso" magazine dated 4 June 1972 (no. 23), featuring Umberto Eco's article "Dal cucchiaio alla città".
1971-1972
Supersuperficie [Supersurface] (1972)
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AP148.S1.1972.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Poli's design and development work on the Supersurface project created with Superstudio in 1972. Part of Superstudio's project, "Five Fundamental Acts: Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death", included films created on each theme, Supersurface was the first in the series ("Life"), and was shown at the 1972 exhibition "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Achievements and Problems in Italian Design" at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The final film had a running time of 15 minutes and was shot in colour on 16 mm film. Material predominantly includes project drawings, collages and sketches, along with a textual and drawn storyboard for the film. The storyboard was sent in a folder made by Poli, which has been retained as part of the fonds. Material in the folder has been kept in the order in which Poli transferred it. Of note are also 3 larger drawings, one of which is a collage of photos featuring Poli, and another is an immense brightly-coloured collage of a young woman on the edge of a sea with a machine floating beaming down on her. These drawings have been signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Also included is a copy of "L'Espresso" magazine dated 4 June 1972 (no. 23), featuring Umberto Eco's article "Dal cucchiaio alla città".
Project
1971-1972
photographies
AP140.S2.SS7.D1.P4
Description:
portrait of James Stirling and James Gowan in York Terrace in London, views of Liverpool by James Stirling probably originally photographed in the early 1960s, group portrait of office personnel, views of interior of office, view of Flat at Ham Commmon project, views of James Stirling in front of the mock-up of the State Gallery Addition and New Chamber Theatre in the Royal Academy of Arts, views of James Stirling and Michael Wilford in Japan, dated 1990, and of magazine covers featuring James Stirling
Portrait of James Stirling and James Gowan in York Terrace in London
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AP140.S2.SS7.D1.P4
Description:
portrait of James Stirling and James Gowan in York Terrace in London, views of Liverpool by James Stirling probably originally photographed in the early 1960s, group portrait of office personnel, views of interior of office, view of Flat at Ham Commmon project, views of James Stirling in front of the mock-up of the State Gallery Addition and New Chamber Theatre in the Royal Academy of Arts, views of James Stirling and Michael Wilford in Japan, dated 1990, and of magazine covers featuring James Stirling
photographies
documents textuels
ARCH256929
Description:
Documentation - trade catalogs, reports, Picasso catalogue, magazines (Japan Architect, Executive, Canadian Building, Interior Design, Progressive Architecture, Canadian Architect)
1979, 1988-1989
Trade catalogs, reports, and Picasso catalogue, used as documentation
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ARCH256929
Description:
Documentation - trade catalogs, reports, Picasso catalogue, magazines (Japan Architect, Executive, Canadian Building, Interior Design, Progressive Architecture, Canadian Architect)
documents textuels
1979, 1988-1989
documents textuels
Diverses brochures sur l'art
ARCH257711
Description:
Brochures d'aquarelles, brochures de harpes (de Londres), incluant des magazines « Exposition Paris 1937 », « Viaggi in Italia », « E.42 Roma», « Italia ».
1920, 1938
Diverses brochures sur l'art
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ARCH257711
Description:
Brochures d'aquarelles, brochures de harpes (de Londres), incluant des magazines « Exposition Paris 1937 », « Viaggi in Italia », « E.42 Roma», « Italia ».
documents textuels
1920, 1938
Projet
AP056.S1.1993.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the Scarborough Community Complex in Scarborough, Ontario from 1993-1996. The office identified the project number as 9311. This project, headed by Bruce Kuwabara in joint-venture with Patrick T. Chan, consisted of a multi-building complex on the corner of Progress and Sheppard Avenues. The project was formerly known as the Chinese Community Centre, which was the prominent building on the site. The Complex's main entrance, located on the site's interior, was highlighted by the Festival Plaza and Festival Court, whose octagonal shape was a nod to the eight essential strokes of Chinese calligraphy. The Festival Court led both to the Chinese Community Centre and a building with a public library and multi-purpose spaces (commonly referred to in the drawings as the Scarborough Community Complex). The Chinese Community Centre had a Festival Hall at it's entrance with wood and custom light fixtures that referred to Chinese craft techniques. This project also planned for vast Chinese gardens around the buildings, a large theatre building and a school at the south-end of the site. The project is recorded through drawings and a magazine publication on the finished project dating from 1992-1996. The drawings are mostly originals and include sketches, presentation drawings, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and construction drawings. At least eleven schemes were investigated through these drawings.
1992-1996
Scarborough Community Complex, Scarborough, Ontario (1993-1996)
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AP056.S1.1993.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the Scarborough Community Complex in Scarborough, Ontario from 1993-1996. The office identified the project number as 9311. This project, headed by Bruce Kuwabara in joint-venture with Patrick T. Chan, consisted of a multi-building complex on the corner of Progress and Sheppard Avenues. The project was formerly known as the Chinese Community Centre, which was the prominent building on the site. The Complex's main entrance, located on the site's interior, was highlighted by the Festival Plaza and Festival Court, whose octagonal shape was a nod to the eight essential strokes of Chinese calligraphy. The Festival Court led both to the Chinese Community Centre and a building with a public library and multi-purpose spaces (commonly referred to in the drawings as the Scarborough Community Complex). The Chinese Community Centre had a Festival Hall at it's entrance with wood and custom light fixtures that referred to Chinese craft techniques. This project also planned for vast Chinese gardens around the buildings, a large theatre building and a school at the south-end of the site. The project is recorded through drawings and a magazine publication on the finished project dating from 1992-1996. The drawings are mostly originals and include sketches, presentation drawings, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and construction drawings. At least eleven schemes were investigated through these drawings.
Project
1992-1996
archives
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Fonds
AP056
Résumé:
The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
1984-2003
Fonds Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg
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AP056
Résumé:
The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
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Fonds
1984-2003
documents textuels
ARCH256703
Description:
general office files from Erickson/Massey office - tender/contract stage procedures, office furniture, office machines, planters, management contracts, newspaper clippings, Mid-Canada development fund, miscellaneous correspondence, construction consultants, conveyors, drape track valance, ecology newsletter, Dharam Kohli/ Erickson Massey agreement, E/M procedures - interiors, invitations, Architecture Canada Magazine, Architectural Institute of B.C. booklet, Art for Architecture, Artists, Building system information clearinghouse, consultants, school construction systems, S.E.F. school, topographics, universities, research material, project management, Erickson/Massey project status summaries, real estate, reference material, Erickson/Massey Vancouver correspondence.
1967, 1970-1972, 1975
General office files from Erickson/Massey office - tender/contract stage procedures
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ARCH256703
Description:
general office files from Erickson/Massey office - tender/contract stage procedures, office furniture, office machines, planters, management contracts, newspaper clippings, Mid-Canada development fund, miscellaneous correspondence, construction consultants, conveyors, drape track valance, ecology newsletter, Dharam Kohli/ Erickson Massey agreement, E/M procedures - interiors, invitations, Architecture Canada Magazine, Architectural Institute of B.C. booklet, Art for Architecture, Artists, Building system information clearinghouse, consultants, school construction systems, S.E.F. school, topographics, universities, research material, project management, Erickson/Massey project status summaries, real estate, reference material, Erickson/Massey Vancouver correspondence.
documents textuels
1967, 1970-1972, 1975
Série(s)
AP162.S8
Description:
Series documents the contribution of architect Bruno Taut to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Bruno Taut participated under the pseudonym Glas. Born in 1880 in Königsberg, Germany, Bruno Taut studied architecture at the Bauwerkschule in Königsberg. After working in architectural firms from 1903 to 1909, he worked in partnership with Franz Hoffman and later with his brother Max Taut. Bruno Taut undertook various architectural projects including housing projects, public commissions, and later projects for universities and schools. In 1918, he founded the Arbeisrat für Kunst, a union of architects, painters, writers and other artists based in Berlin and dedicated to bring architectural and artisit tendencies of the time to a broader public. This union also involved some members of the Die gläserne Kette circle. Between 1920 and 1921, Bruno Taut was editor to the magazine "Frühlich". He taught architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1930 to 1932, and undertook a working visit in Russia in 1932 to 1933. After spending time in Japan between 1933 and 1936 due to enforced emigration, he taught at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul. He died in Istanbul in 1938. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) This series comprises part of Bruno Taut's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and documents. The series also includes photographic materials of some of his architectural projects.
between 1919 and 1920
Bruno Taut
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AP162.S8
Description:
Series documents the contribution of architect Bruno Taut to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Bruno Taut participated under the pseudonym Glas. Born in 1880 in Königsberg, Germany, Bruno Taut studied architecture at the Bauwerkschule in Königsberg. After working in architectural firms from 1903 to 1909, he worked in partnership with Franz Hoffman and later with his brother Max Taut. Bruno Taut undertook various architectural projects including housing projects, public commissions, and later projects for universities and schools. In 1918, he founded the Arbeisrat für Kunst, a union of architects, painters, writers and other artists based in Berlin and dedicated to bring architectural and artisit tendencies of the time to a broader public. This union also involved some members of the Die gläserne Kette circle. Between 1920 and 1921, Bruno Taut was editor to the magazine "Frühlich". He taught architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1930 to 1932, and undertook a working visit in Russia in 1932 to 1933. After spending time in Japan between 1933 and 1936 due to enforced emigration, he taught at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul. He died in Istanbul in 1938. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) This series comprises part of Bruno Taut's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and documents. The series also includes photographic materials of some of his architectural projects.
series
between 1919 and 1920
photographies
AP140.S2.SS1.D23.P16
Description:
views of design development, presentation and publication drawings, and views of drawings (not otherwise present in the project documents), including a sketch axonometric showing an alternative design for the glazing of the stairs of the laboratories tower block, two plan obliques for an early design, and a diagrammatic plan and elevations for the workshop roof; includes views of a caricature of the Leicester University Engineering Building as a ship and a view of a letter from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, T. A. F. Noble, to James Stirling, dated 19th February 1964, concerning an article in the magazine 'New Statesman' by Reyner Banham on the Engineering Building
1959 or after and 1964
Views of design development, presentation and publication drawings
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AP140.S2.SS1.D23.P16
Description:
views of design development, presentation and publication drawings, and views of drawings (not otherwise present in the project documents), including a sketch axonometric showing an alternative design for the glazing of the stairs of the laboratories tower block, two plan obliques for an early design, and a diagrammatic plan and elevations for the workshop roof; includes views of a caricature of the Leicester University Engineering Building as a ship and a view of a letter from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, T. A. F. Noble, to James Stirling, dated 19th February 1964, concerning an article in the magazine 'New Statesman' by Reyner Banham on the Engineering Building
photographies
1959 or after and 1964
documents textuels
ARCH256925
Description:
15 files - District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York (1971); Orion Financial Group correspondence; blank forms; technical literature; research on concert halls/theatres; research on earth-sheltered architecture; letter from AEA expressing interest in submitting projects to Architectural Biennale Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria (1987); correspondence concerning computers; project status reports; 4 miscellaneous folders of correspondence concerning: talk with Dr. Hollenberg, office policies and memos, CCA exhibition catalogue (1987), requests for information, magazine clippings, minutes, Canadian Who's Who, King Abdulaziz University, Mundipharma, University of Arizona, Etisalat floor patterns, Town of Markham invoice, requests, press clippings, letters to AE, inter-office memos.
1971, 1987-1988
District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York
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ARCH256925
Description:
15 files - District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York (1971); Orion Financial Group correspondence; blank forms; technical literature; research on concert halls/theatres; research on earth-sheltered architecture; letter from AEA expressing interest in submitting projects to Architectural Biennale Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria (1987); correspondence concerning computers; project status reports; 4 miscellaneous folders of correspondence concerning: talk with Dr. Hollenberg, office policies and memos, CCA exhibition catalogue (1987), requests for information, magazine clippings, minutes, Canadian Who's Who, King Abdulaziz University, Mundipharma, University of Arizona, Etisalat floor patterns, Town of Markham invoice, requests, press clippings, letters to AE, inter-office memos.
documents textuels
1971, 1987-1988