Summary Information
Abstract
James Stephan Rossant (1928-2009) was an American architect and urban planner principally active in New York City, working from 1956 until 1967 at the office of Mayer and Whittlesey, from 1967 to 1995 in partnership with William J Conklin, and from 1995 until his death as James Rossant Architects. The collection includes his project records, original and reprographic architectural drawings, professional papers, electronic media, records related to Rossant's teaching and artistic practices, as well as a small number of personal papers of biographical interest.
At a Glance
Bib ID |
10574758
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Creator(s) |
Rossant, James S., 1928-2009
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Title |
James Rossant papers, 1950s-1990s |
Physical Description |
8 document boxes; 2 print boxes; 577 drawings |
Language(s) |
English
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Access |
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu. |
Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is made up of six series: Series I: Project Records; Series II: Professional Papers; Series III: Academic Papers; Series IV: Personal Papers; Series V: Electronic Media; Series VI: Architectural Drawings.
Description
Scope and content
James Stephan Rossant (1928-2009) was an American architect and urban planner principally active in New York City, working from 1956 until 1967 at the office of Mayer and Whittlesey, from 1967 to 1995 in partnership with William J Conklin, and from 1995 until his death as James Rossant Architects. The collection includes his project records, original and reprographic architectural drawings, professional papers, electronic media, records related to Rossant's teaching and artistic practices, as well as a small number of personal papers of biographical interest.
Architectural projects represented include residential, commercial, institutional, and governmental buildings, as well as urban master-planning exercises, including the widely-published Reston (Virginia) and its "village centers," and a small number of imaginary cities of a speculative or conceptual nature (e.g. "Cities in the Sky"). While the bulk of the collection deals with projects on the east coast of the United States (particularly the New York City and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas), there is extensive documentation of the unrealized National Capital Center in Dodoma, Tanzania, while smaller holdings address built and unbuilt projects in Thimphu, Bhutan; Lagos, Nigeria; and other international sites. The majority of architectural projects are represented by presentation materials (summary documents, photography, presentation drawings, and publications), with a limited quantity of correspondence and office documentation, and a very small number of design-in-progress drawings and sketches. A number of the large-format drawings are signed by James Rossant and support his reputation as a skilled renderer of large-format perspectives. These include ambitious aerial views as well as ground-level vignettes, populated by pedestrians whose diverse demographics, costuming and attitude is typical of the period's shift away from abstracted, universal Modernist figures. James Rossant's work as a painter is represented here only in reproductions (gallery brochures, etc.) The collection may be of particular interest to scholars of East Coast modernist architectural practice from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, and of architects' proposed alternatives to archetypal postwar "sprawl," both in the downtown core and in greenfield suburban development. As well, the holdings related to Dodoma and the "Island City" project in Lagos, Nigeria (dating from the late 1970s and early 1980s) may be of particular interest to scholars of planning in postcolonial, sub-Saharan Africa, following the first wave of post-independence activity.
Substantial quantities of material date from Rossant's employment at Mayer and Whittlesey (later Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass; Whittlesey and Conklin; and briefly Whittlesey Conklin and Rossant), and his long partnership with William J Conklin as Conklin & Rossant or Conklin Rossant Architects (CRA) (1967 to 1995). These different origins are generally not demarcated separately in the collection, as a number of projects overlap the changes in partnership, and individual documents do not consistently indicate the specific office of record. The collection was reorganized into the six series. These do not reflect any filing system used by Rossant, apart from certain of the professional papers and most of the Dodoma holdings, for which it was possible to maintain some existing folder-level grouping of material. A note in the accession file (not part of the collection) suggests that some quantity of material was shredded by a storage company during the recession of the mid-1970s. This, together with the later separation of Rossant's and Conklin's practices, may account for the varying degrees of coverage and richness from project to project.
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Series I: Project Records
Series I is organized alphabetically by project name. Project records typically include one or more summary sheets and some form of photographic representation (primarily photographic prints and/or 35mm slides of drawings, model photography and views of completed structures). A small number of projects lack summary documentation, and appear only as slides or printed drawings; many have more extensive files including various correspondence, publication clippings, printed drawings, promotional materials, etc. With the partial exception of the National Capital Center in Dodoma, projects are not documented with extensive incremental notes, sketches, client correspondence, etc.
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Series II: Professional Papers
Series II includes various promotional brochures and résumés listing and illustrating the work of Rossant's firms, with the majority stemming from the Conklin & Rossant era. Also included are documents relating to Rossant's participation in commissions and professional organizations, and essays and lectures Rossant published or presented in his capacity as an architect, concerning general themes on architecture and urbanism, or surveying the firm's work as a whole. Texts concerning specific projects are generally found in Project Records.
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Series III: Academic Papers
Series III includes several folders covering James Rossant's teaching at Harvard University, New York University, and especially Pratt Institute, organized by institution, then by course or project. Also included is a small amount of correspondence and documentation relating to hiring and faculty issues at these institutions, and the contents of two binders, "Cities" and "Cities Plans Slides II." These last total 1,200 35mm slides, and likely comprise some portion of the contents of Rossant's long-running courses on the history and design of cities.
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Series IV: Personal Papers
Series IV covers material distinct from Rossant's professional and teaching careers. An incomplete selection of his student work (1946-1952) includes keepsakes as well as incomplete student notebooks from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the early 1950s. Otherwise, the bulk of this series deals with Rossant's output as a fine artist, including gallery correspondence, resumes, brochures, reproductions of his designs for imaginary cities, and some miscellaneous sketches and cartoons. Also included are the contents of a binder of Asian travel photography and a handful of letters (including personal correspondence and non-architectural letters to businesses and publications) which offer biographical insight into James Rossant's life, interests, and personality.
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Series V: Electronic Media
Series V includes mixed digital and filmic media, and is principally comprised of 5.25" floppy diskettes and CD-ROMs, the labels of which indicate project records and office files, chiefly from the 1980s and 1990s. For a small number of projects dating from the 1990s and 2000s, including the World Trade Center site competition, the Dim Sum Go Go Restaurant, and the children's book "The Little Blue Duck," the CD-ROM collection appears to comprise the primary or sole form of documentation in the archive. One 16mm film reel and one VHS tape are also included.
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Series VI: Architectural Drawings
Series VI contains 577 large-format original and reprographic architectural drawings, organized alphabetically by project name.
Using the Collection
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Restrictions on Access
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Conditions Governing Use
Columbia University is providing access to the materials in the Library's collections solely for noncommercial educational and research purposes. The unauthorized use, including, but not limited to, publication of the materials without the prior written permission of Columbia University is strictly prohibited. All inquiries regarding permission to publish should be submitted in writing to the Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. In addition to permission from Columbia University, permission of the copyright owner (if not Columbia University) and/or any holder of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) may also be required for reproduction, publication, distributions, and other uses. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of any item and securing any necessary permissions rests with the persons desiring to publish the item. Columbia University makes no warranties as to the accuracy of the materials or their fitness for a particular purpose.
Related Materials
Extensive documentation of the planning and construction of Reston, Virginia can be found in Special Collections and Archives of George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), in the Conklin and Rossant Reston project collection, part of the Planned Community Archives Collection.
Materials relating to the master-planning of Dodoma can be found in the Macklin Hancock/Project Planning Associates collection, within the Centre for Canadian Landscape Architecture holdings at the University of Guelph Library in Guelph, Ontario.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Addison Godel, Graduate Intern, under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist, in 2017.
Revision Description
2019-04-19 File created.
2019-05-29 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Subject Headings
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Subject
History / Biographical Note
Biographical sketch
James Stephan Rossant was born in 1928 in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1946, then attended Columbia University for one year before receiving his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Florida in 1950. He enrolled at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, with the support of recent graduate Paul Rudolph, and received his Masters in City and Regional Planning in 1953. In 1956, following a brief tenure at the office of Gino Valle in Udine, Rossant began a long tenure in the firm of Albert Mayer and Julian Whittlesey, becoming a partner in 1967. Later the same year, he co-founded the successor firm of Conklin & Rossant (later Conklin Rossant Architects or CRA) with William J Conklin; this partnership lasted until 1995, when Rossant and Conklin each founded eponymous sole proprietorships.
Among the significant architectural projects in which he participated are the planning of the "new town" of Reston, Virginia and its first Village Center; the unrealized plans for a National Capital Center in Dodoma, Tanzania; and the Myriad Botanical Garden in Oklahoma City. Rossant was particularly active in his home city, with noteworthy New York projects including planning and design concepts for the Lower Manhattan Plan (including unrealized early versions of Battery Park City), the influential Butterfield House apartments, the Metro North Riverview housing and school complex, Brooklyn's Cadman Towers, and his own SoHo townhouse, among others. Throughout much of the same period he was also active as a teacher at several institutions, including a long affiliation with Pratt Institute, and as a member of the Arts Commission of the City of New York, among other organizations. His parallel production of imaginary cities, realized in drawings and paintings including the "Cities in the Sky" series, received attention through a number of gallery exhibitions and a segment on the CNN television program "Future Watch."
While his work included houses, apartment buildings, religious buildings and other smaller-scale institutional commissions, the architectural press and Rossant's own reflections on his work emphasize his contributions as a master-planner of larger-scale urban compositions. The collection's holdings of his work in this category offer excellent distillations of wider trends in postwar North American Modernist practice. Most famously, in the "new town" of Reston, Virginia, designed in the early 1960s, Rossant and his collaborators combined a Modernist architectural language with garden-city principles, an enthusiasm for European plazas, and the street-oriented, high-density urban townhouse living championed by Jane Jacobs and other critics of orthodox Modernist planning. Similar concerns are reflected in various built and unbuilt designs from the 1960s and 1970s, including the Lower Manhattan studies, Metro North Riverview, the Bronx's Lavanburg Community, Baltimore's Old Town, postal-worker towns in Florida, and the Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia. The collection also offers windows into other trends in Modernist urbanism, particularly the use of large-scale climate-controlling envelopes, seen in a competition entry for Regina; the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City; and most dramatically, a set of geodesic domes (in the manner of Richard Buckminster Fuller) enclosing downtown Poughkeepsie.
By the 1980s, likely reflecting a shift in available funding streams and commissions, Conklin and Rossant's planning work was more often for private residential communities on suburban sites. These lesser-known projects (such as the Admiralty, Eagle Chase, the Hamlet on Spring Pond, and the Villas Lucania) often retain the Reston-era interest in "clusters" of townhouse-type housing units. Around the same time, two unbuilt projects in African cities – the "Island City" expansion in Lagos, Nigeria and the civic and commercial centers for Dodoma, Tanzania – indicate a further shift towards an urbanism of figural outdoor spaces, linked together as an unfolding series of pedestrian experiences; these might also be seen as reflecting the influence of landmark Postmodern works like Rowe & Koetter's Collage City (1978), Rob Krier's Stadtraum (1975), and Charles Moore's Kresge College (circa 1966-1974). Several of the later building-scale projects (such as the Jericho Jewish Center, the Mason Pavilion, and the "Tempietto" addition to Rossant's own house) similarly appear to engage with Postmodern design tendencies.
In 1955, James Rossant married the gourmet Colette Palacci, later a teacher, restaurateur, and prolific cookbook author. They would remain wed until James Rossant's death; details of their life together can be found in Colette Rossant's series of culinary memoirs, particularly The World in My Kitchen: The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in America (New York: Atria Books, 2007). They had four children: the educator Marianne Rossant, the architect and novelist Cécile Niemitz-Rossant, the culinary journalist Juliette Rossant, and the architect Tomas Rossant (today a design partner with Ennead Architects, successor to the firm of James Rossant's New York peer James Stewart Polshek). In 2007, James Rossant approached Avery Drawings & Archives concerning the possibility of donating his architectural papers and drawings in order to "assure their future." Following his death in 2009, the collection was transferred to Avery.
Series I: Project Records
Series I is organized alphabetically by project name. Project records typically include one or more summary sheets and some form of photographic representation (primarily photographic prints and/or 35mm slides of drawings, model photography and views of completed structures). A small number of projects lack summary documentation, and appear only as slides or printed drawings; many have more extensive files including various correspondence, publication clippings, printed drawings, promotional materials, etc. With the partial exception of the National Capital Center in Dodoma, projects are not documented with extensive incremental notes, sketches, client correspondence, etc.
Box 3: Folder 27 |
1160 Fifth Avenue (New York, NY)
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undated |
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1 photographic print (exterior view)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
2000 Plan (Washington, D.C. metropolitan area)
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ca. 1960s |
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1 35mm slide transparency (diagram)
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Box 1: Folder 1 |
33rd Street Station Renovation & Restoration, Lexington Avenue IRT Line (New York, NY)
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ca. 1994 |
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1 sectional perspective; project description sheets, including sectional perspective and cutaway axonometric
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
3-R Community (Colorado City, CO)
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undated |
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project description sheet
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Box 1: Folder 2 |
74 East 79th Street (New York, NY)
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1991 |
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1 elevation; 5 project description sheets
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Box 1: Folder 3 |
Admiralty [townhouse development] (Bay Shore, NY)
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ca. 1977 |
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2 copies of exterior photograph; 1 roof plan of individual townhouse 'cluster'; project description sheet; 11 35mm slide transparencies (9 exterior photographs, 1 aerial photograph, 1 overall site plan)
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Box 1: Folder 4 |
Alroll Aluminum Plant and Office Building (Oswego, NY)
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1964, 1970, 1976 |
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project description sheets; 2 copies of reprinted article in Progressive Architecture (November, 1964)
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Box 1: Folder 5 |
American Airlines Maintenance Facilities (Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA)
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1972, 1980 |
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project description sheets; 2 photographic prints; 27 35mm slide transparencies (diagrams, plans, model photography, construction, finished building); 6 publications/reprints (Civil Engineering, Design In Steel 1973, Daily Pacific Builder, Architectural Forum)
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Box 1: Folder 6 |
Baltimore CBD North, "Fungus Park," "Wet Park" (Baltimore, MD)
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ca. 1969 |
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project description sheet; 2 photographic prints of plan drawings; 4 printed site plans; 1 printed perspective; 8 35mm slide transparencies (plan diagrams)
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Box 1: Folder 7 |
Banks & Company development plan (Hernando, MS)
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1995 |
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project description sheet; 4 prints of site plan (various scales)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Bhutan Mission to the United Nations (New York, NY)
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ca. 1986-1997 |
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letter with ambassador summarizing consultation on existing building
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Box 1: Folder 8 |
Bhutan National Conference Center and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thimphu, Bhutan)
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1993 |
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project description sheets; printed drawings (plans, perspective, construction details, sections, axonometric); printed transparencies (elevations, plans, sections, axonometric); printed photographs; 44 35mm slide transparencies (22 drawings; remainder site imagery and completed building)
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Box 1: Folder 9 |
Bhutan National Conference Center and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thimphu, Bhutan)
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1993 |
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247 35mm slide transparencies (primarily travel photography, with some drawings), taken from binder labeled "Asia"
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Box 1: Folder 10 |
Bloomingdale's Historic Restoration (New York, NY)
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1980s |
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project description sheets, including printed elevation
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Box 1: Folder 11 |
Boneyard Creek Master Plan (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
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1970s |
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1 portfolio (including only Volume II, "Engineering"); 2 copies of coverage in Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette; 52 35mm slide transparencies (23 drawings including renderings over site photographs; site photographs; photographs of public "Listening Booths")
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Box 1: Folder 12 |
Brooklyn Borough Hall Restoration (Brooklyn, NY)
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1989 |
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project description sheets; 2 printed photographs; 1 brochure; 14 35mm slide transparencies (exterior photographs)
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Box 1: Folder 13 |
Brooklyn Bridge Approaches [Restoration] (New York, NY)
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ca. 1990s |
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project description sheets
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Box 1: Folder 14 |
Brooklyn Bridge Station Restoration, Lexington Avenue IRT Line (New York, NY)
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ca. 1990s |
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project description sheets, including sectional perspective view and historic imagery
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Bruckner Boulevard Restoration Study (Bronx, NY)
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ca. 1990 |
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project description sheets
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Buchsbaum Interior
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undated |
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2 35mm slide transparencies (interior photographs)
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Box 1: Folder 15 |
Buddha Green Restaurant (New York, NY)
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ca. 1998 |
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correspondence and contract documents; 7 medium-format photographic negatives; 2 photographic contact sheets
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Box 1: Folder 16 |
Bunkit children's furniture for the Hollaender Manufacturing Co.
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1976 |
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4 printed sheets of drawings (axonometric, detail plans and sections, axonometrics of two different configurations); 4 photographic prints; 1 35mm photographic negative
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Bunnell Industrial Park (Hempstead, NY)
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1973 |
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project description sheet
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Oversize 1 |
Butterfield House (37 West 12th Street, 20 West 13th Street) (New York, NY)
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1963 |
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2 photographic prints
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Box 1: Folder 17 |
Butterfield House (37 West 12th Street, 20 West 13th Street) (New York, NY)
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1963, 2001 |
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project description sheets; publication and reprint from Architectural Forum (1963); correspondence regarding 2001 window replacement study; 4 medium-format photographic negatives; 9 35mm slide transparencies (exterior photographs); 11 photographic prints (including model photography and exterior views of finished building); 1 printed perspective view of courtyard
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Box 1: Folder 18 |
Cadman Towers (Brooklyn, NY)
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1973 |
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project description sheets; 1 brochure (including perspective, elevation, plans); 2 printed drawings (elevation of townhouse units, perspective 80 medium-format transparencies (exterior photography); 11 photographic prints
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Box 1: Folder 19 |
Cadman Towers (Brooklyn, NY)
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1973 |
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166 35mm slide transparencies (primarily exterior views of construction and finished building; some model photography)
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Oversize 1 |
Cadman Towers (Brooklyn, NY)
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1973 |
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bound project proposal, including description and 3 perspective drawings
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Box 1: Folder 20 |
Caryatid Storefront (New York, NY)
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ca. 1968 |
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2 copies of Progressive Architecture article; 7 photographic prints; 1 contact sheet; 2 35mm slide transparencies
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Box 1: Folder 21 |
Casa Fizie / John Rossant House (Umbria, Italy)
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ca. 1996 |
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correspondence (including description of project in letter to Elle Décor); drawings; 17 photographic prints; 100 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior views of finished building)
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Box 1: Folder 22 |
Central Park Stables, Arena and Police Station Competition (New York, NY)
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1966 |
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10 photographic prints (site plan, first floor plan, second floor plan, elevation, section, model photography); photocopies
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Box 1: Folder 23 |
Charles Towers (Baltimore, MD)
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1984 |
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project description sheets; 6 photographic prints; 2 printed transparencies (ground floor plan, typical office plan); 7 35mm slide transparencies (exterior views of finished building); publications (Architectural Forum, Brick & Tile)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Clason Point Park
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undated |
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1 35mm slide transparency (plan diagram)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Clemson University Botanical Gardens & Conservatory (Clemson, SC)
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ca. 1990s |
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project description, roof plan, sectional diagram
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Box 1: Folder 24 |
College of Staten Island Sports and Recreation Facility and Campus Services/Central Plant
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ca. 1993 |
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project description sheets; 2 printed elevations; 3 35mm slide transparencies (exterior view, section, interior axonometric of gymnasium)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Community Church of the Pelhams (Pelham, NY)
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1991 |
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memo describing project scope
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Box 1: Folder 25 |
Community Synagogue (Rye, NY)
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ca. 1999 |
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2 copies of "Proposal II" presentation document
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Box 1: Folder 26 |
Congregation Sons of Israel Sanctuary (Briarcliff Manor, NY)
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1993 |
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project description sheets, 3 descriptive essays; printed drawings (plans, site plan, section, interior and interior perspectives, furnishing designs for "Sanctuary 2"); published articles (Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Oculus); 22 photographic prints; 5 sheets of printed photographs; dedication program; faxed 1997 correspondence concerning design of prayer book storage furniture including drawings; fax to Paul Goldberger concerning developments in synagogue architecture
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Box 1: Folder 27 |
Congregation Sons of Israel Sanctuary (Briarcliff Manor, NY)
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1993 |
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18 35mm negatives; 7 medium-format negatives; 2 medium-format transparencies; 195 35mm slide transparencies (primarily views of finished building; 4 drawings; some views of construction and dedication)
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Box 1: Folder 28 |
Congregation Sons of Israel Sanctuary (Briarcliff Manor, NY)
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1993 |
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28 medium-format transparencies
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Box 1: Folder 29 |
Conklin & Rossant Office (New York, NY)
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ca. 1970 |
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2 copies of Architectural Forum article; 9 35mm slide transparencies
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Convention Center Impact Area (New York, NY)
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ca. 1970s-1980s |
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project description sheet
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Crystal Hill Gardens
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undated |
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3 35mm slide transparencies (plans, model photograph)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Dim Sum Go Go Restaurant (New York, NY)
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ca. 2000 |
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letter to Commissioner of Parks and Recreation; 2 35mm slides (interior views; printed photograph of interior)
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Box 3: Folder 26 |
Dry Dock Savings Bank branch
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ca. 1950s-1960s |
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11 medium-format and 6x6cm photographic negatives (model photography)
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Box 1: Folder 30 |
Eagle Chase (Woodbury, NY)
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ca. 1986-1990, 1993 |
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project description sheets; 2 35mm slide transparencies
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Box 1: Folder 31 |
East Dakota (931 First Avenue, New York, NY)
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1987 |
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project description sheets
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Box 1: Folder 32 |
East Lake Wales master plan, including Nalcrest and Fedhaven village centers, now known as "Lakeshore Club Villas," etc. (East Lake Wales, FL)
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ca. 1961-1963; 1972 |
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project description sheets; 1991 newspaper article with forwarding letter; 2 photographic prints; 35 35mm slide transparencies (4 Nalcrest views, 31 Fedhaven views including town center building)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
East Orange Urban Renewal (East Orange, NJ)
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ca. 1960 |
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newspaper clippings from Orange Transcript and East Orange Record
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Box 1: Folder 33 |
Edelstein House Addition (Cold Spring, NY)
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ca. 1999 |
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correspondence; 3 plans
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Edith Ferber House Addition
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1997 |
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letter outlining architectural services
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Box 1: Folder 34 |
Ellis Island Restoration and World Conference Center (New York, NY)
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ca. 1986-1992 |
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project description sheets; 17 press clippings; 1 medium-format color transparency; 10 35mm photographic negatives (various drawings); correspondence and press releases; numerous color printed presentation drawings (site plans at two scales, axonometrics, regional site plan, plans and elevations; perspective view of ferry slip); black-and-white printed drawings (10 plans, axonometric, elevation, view of ferry slip, frontispiece with view of ferry slip); 35 35mm slide transparencies (primarily drawing set, with 2 site photographs)
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Box 1: Folder 35 |
English Road development (Rochester, NY)
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ca. 1976 |
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40 35mm slide transparencies (exterior photographs of finished project, with some construction views of community center)
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Box 1: Folder 36 |
Film Sounds, Inc. Alterations (New York, NY) / [Other Creator: William A. Hall]
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ca. 1958 |
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blueprint plan of 2nd floor
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Box 4: Folder 8 |
Gas Station Project (possibly Reston, VA)
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ca. 1960s |
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7 photographic prints (model photography); 6 slide transparencies (35mm and 2"x2", model photography)
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Box 1: Folder 37 |
Gennessee Gateway, "PIP Modular Housing" / Patio Compound Housing (Rochester, NY)
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ca. 1969 |
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project description sheet; article from Progressive Architecture; presentation brochure for PIP Modular Housing scheme; 1 printed site plan of Patio Compound Housing Scheme; 1 35mm slide transparency (model photograph of Patio Compound Housing scheme)
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Box 1: Folder 38 |
Germantown New Town, "Germontown" (Germantown, MD)
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ca. 1966 |
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project description sheet; 1 photographic print of perspective drawing showing plaza and terraces
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Box 1: Folder 39 |
Grand Valley Study / Battlement Mesa (Grand Valley, CO)
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ca. 1974 |
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1 printed site plan; 19 35mm slide transparencies (site plans at various scales)
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Box 1: Folder 40 |
Hamilton Town Center, "The Crescent at Hamilton" (Hamilton Township, NJ)
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ca. 1983 |
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project description sheet; 1 cover sheet for presentation brochure; 19 35mm slide transparencies (primarily of drawing set, with 1 photograph of site model)
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Box 1: Folder 41 |
Hamilton Town Center, "The Crescent at Hamilton" (Hamilton Township, NJ)
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ca. 1983 |
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4 copies of 1983 presentation brochure (including 13 drawings)
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Box 1: Folder 42 |
Hamlet on Spring Pond (Ossining, NY)
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1986 |
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project description sheet; 6 printed unit floor plans including different unit configurations; 4 exterior photographs
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Box 1: Folder 43 |
Harbour Beach Club (Westhampton Beach, NY)
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ca. 1963 |
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reprint of Architectural Forum article; 6 35mm slide transparencies (exterior photographs)
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Box 1: Folder 44 |
Hineni Heritage Center (New York, NY)
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1987 |
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project description sheets; 4 35mm slide transparencies (all of exterior perspective drawing)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Home Box Office Headquarters consultation (New York, NY)
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1984 |
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project description sheet
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Box 1: Folder 45 |
Huntington Station Revitalization Plan (Huntington, NY)
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1989 |
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project description sheets; 2 printed drawings (site axonometric, perspective); 2 copies of presentation book (125 pages, 44 drawings)
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Box 2: Folder 1 |
Inner Harbor Area Five (Baltimore, MD)
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1986 |
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project description sheets; presentation brochure (35 pages including 17 drawings); 5 printed drawing sheets (perspective, elevations, site plan); 6 35mm slide transparencies (site plan, model photography of hotel)
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Box 2: Folder 2 |
Island City (Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria)
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ca. 1980s |
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project description sheets; 2 copies of 1982 presentation binder (41 pages, 22 illustrations); correspondence with City Group and Lagos State Government; 1 printed site section; 29 35mm slide transparencies (photographs of site model); 17 6x6cm slide transparencies (photographs of site model)
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Box 2: Folder 3 |
Jacob S. Lasdon House / Cornell University medical student housing (New York, NY)
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1975 |
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project description sheets; 2 printed photographs; 1 promotional sheet for New York Concrete Construction Institute; 1 cast medal with elevation
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Box 2: Folder 4 |
Jericho Jewish Center (Jericho, NY)
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ca. 1983-1990 |
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project description sheets; 9 printed drawings (including interior and exterior perspectives, interior and exterior elevations, sections, seating plan); 27 35mm slide transparencies (primarily model photography with some elevation drawings)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Jewish Museum (New York, NY)
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1985 |
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letter summarizing proposed services
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Box 2: Folder 5 |
Jiaozhou International Community (Unknown City, China)
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ca. 2003 |
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20 printed drawing sheets (site plans, perspectives, elevations, site sections); numerous sketches and underlays on trace paper, interleaved with printed drawings and description of landscape (from envelope originally labeled "Jiao-Zhou, China Project 2003"); 2 mini-CD-R discs, contents unknown
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Box 2: Folder 6 |
Just Bulbs Store / Superior Lamp Company Offices (New York, NY)
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ca. 1979-1982 |
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project description sheets; 12 photographic prints; publications (Architecture Quarterly, The New York Times, Direct); 104 35mm slide transparencies (2 of exterior axonometric, remainder interior and exterior photographs); 21 medium-format negatives and transparencies; 8 6x6cm photographic transparencies; 3 contact sheets; envelope with site sketch
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Box 2: Folder 7 |
Kitimat Master Plan (Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada)
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ca. 1950s |
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project description sheet; site plan with aerial perspective and diagrammatic sections; articles from Architectural Forum (July and August, 1954)
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Oversize 1 |
Lavanburg Community (Bronx, NY)
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ca. 1968 |
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bound project proposal, 53 pages (including various drawings: rendering, unit plans, overall floor plans of towers and Neighborhood Family Care Center, site plans)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Lavanburg Community (Bronx, NY)
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ca. 1968 |
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4 35mm slide transparencies (site plan, elevation, rendering at two scales)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Lehman College Gymnasium (Bronx, NY)
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undated |
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project description sheet; 3 35mm slides (model photography)
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Oversize 1 |
Lower Manhattan / Battery Park City (New York, NY)
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ca. 1960s-1980s |
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1966 presentation binder of Lower Manhattan Plan (approx. 200 pages, with numerous drawings [plans, diagrams, elevations, renderings])
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Box 2: Folder 8 |
Lower Manhattan / Battery Park City (New York, NY)
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ca. 1960s-1990s |
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project description sheets (including individual sites Parcel G / Site 22 / Riverview West); correspondence concerning 1980s-90s developments and 2001 article in Grid; 22 photographic prints (11 model photographs, 11 printed drawings including perspective renderings, site plans, section; elevations of South Dakota Towers); bound Preliminary Development Plan, 1969 (20 pages, with 16 drawings including plans and site sections)
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Box 2: Folder 9 |
Lower Manhattan / Battery Park City (New York, NY)
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ca. 1960s-1990s |
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notes and drafts for retrospective lecture (ca. 2000), correspondence with authors and, cover proof for The Lower Manhattan Plan (Carol Willis, ed., Princeton Architectural Press, 2003); various press clippings and reprints; 66 35mm slide transparencies (renderings, model photography, site plans, sections, various images of world cities and artworks [Amsterdam, SoHo and New York context, San Gimignano, Rome, Washington, D.C., Versailles, Serlio's ideal city, Lyon, Vienna, Paris, all grouped with Lower Manhattan in Rossant files]
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Box 2: Folder 10 |
Mark Center (Alexandria, VA)
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ca. 1960s-1970s |
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bound presentation document (47 pages, including various plans, diagrams, and model photographs); 5 printed site plans)
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Box 2: Folder 11 |
Market Square and United States Navy Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
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ca. 1990 |
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project description sheets; 2 copies of brochure "Pennsylvania Avenue: An American Place" (including overall site plan); reprint of Washington Post article; photographic prints (rendering, model photography; exterior views); 22 35mm slide transparencies (model photography, site plan, rendering, site views)
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Box 2: Folder 12 |
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Office (New York, NY)
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1984 |
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project description sheets; letter to editor of Metropolis; 1 printed plan perspective; 2 medium-format photographic negatives; 47 35mm slide transparencies (interior photographs of finished office; interior and exterior views of Empire State Building); reprint of Architecture article; 14 photographic prints
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Box 2: Folder 13 |
Mason Pavilion / Francis and Patricia Mason House Addition (Rye, NY)
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ca. 1990-1991 |
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project description sheets; descriptive letter to editor of Metropolitan Home Magazine; 6 drawings (elevation, 2 plans, orthographic set of dining table); press clippings and reprints; 3 medium-format color photographic transparencies; 10 photographic prints (interior and exterior views); 90 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior photographs)
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Box 2: Folder 14 |
Metro North Riverview Houses / P.S. 50 Vito Marcantonio School (New York, NY)
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ca. 1977 |
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project description sheets; bound 1974 presentation document (75 pages, 20 drawings including unit plans, site sections, and various alternate site plans) 3 photographic prints; 1 brochure (including model photograph, unit plans, rendering); 2 6x6cm photographic transparencies; 106 35mm slide transparencies (model photography, site plans, exterior and interior views of completed building)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Metropolitan Transit Authority Retail Properties Design (New York, NY)
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ca. 1990s |
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project description sheets
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Box 2: Folder 15 |
Monument East / Oldtown Urban Renewal (Baltimore, MD)
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ca. 1964-1976 |
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project description sheets; 2 publications (Architectural Record, Baltimore Sun); 1 contact sheet; 4 medium-format photographic negatives; 3 medium-format color transparencies; 1 8x10 printed transparency; 26 35mm slide transparencies (primarily exterior views, some interiors)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Mount Lucas Road Townhouses (possibly Princeton, NJ)
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undated |
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printed project brief, with sketches and notes
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Box 2: Folder 16 |
Myriad Gardens (Oklahoma City, OK)
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1987 |
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project description sheets; 19 photographic prints; publications and reprints (Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Southern Accents, National Geographic); correspondence concerning National Geographic photography; 83 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior views, drawings)
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Box 2: Folder 17 |
Myriad Gardens (Oklahoma City, OK)
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1987 |
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1972 presentation binder ("Part 2: Planning" and "Part 3: Implementation"; 78 pages, 12 drawings (site plans, section, perspective, rendering)
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Box 4: Folder 9 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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project descriptions; text of talk at Berkeley (1980); text and illustrations of slides from "Tanzania Talk" given at Pratt Institute (1983); text of "APA Talk on Dodoma" (1987); 3 versions of essay "The Making of the National Capital Center," ca. 1996; envelope with contact notes; loose pages from unknown report; miscellaneous correspondence 1980-1997 including publication and editorial correspondence as well as remarks indicating ultimate fate of project; photocopies of photographs from 1980 advisory panel meetings; stapled set of contact sheets with Tanzanian and Mexican addresses and phone numbers
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Box 4: Folder 10 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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2 copies of December 1980 drawing set (including some drawings not found in loose sets); description and drawings formerly in binder labeled "Dodoma" including some photographs and isometrics not found in loose sets); elevation set received March 1983
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Box 4: Folder 11 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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numerous printed drawings (primarily site plans [various scales and diagrammatic themes] and some road sections), various dates (1979-1981) and undated
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Box 4: Folder 12 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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numerous printed drawings (isometrics and diagrammatic perspectives), various dates (1979-1981) and undated
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Box 4: Folder 13 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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numerous printed drawings (perspectives and vignettes), 1979-1980 and undated
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Box 4: Folder 14 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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20 photographic prints, ca. 1979 (site views, model photography); 2 contact sheets; 4 medium-form negatives, 1 8x10 transparency, 1 35mm transparency (all of drawings)
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Box 4: Folder 15 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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2 copies of bound "Report on Urban Design and Architecture Consultancy, November 1978 - January 1979"; loose document "General Comments: Conclusions and Suggestions" found inside one of said binders
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Box 4: Folder 16 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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1 bound document "Review of Planning Proposals for the National Capital Centre and Observations on Matters to be Considered in Second Cycle Studies," August 1979; April 1980 edition of U.N. "Habitat News"; printed brochure "Building The National Capital 1981"
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Box 4: Folder 17 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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2 copies of bound "Urban Design for the National Capital Centre," June 1981
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Box 4: Folder 18 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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2 copies of bound "Urban Design for the National Capital Centre," June 1981
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Box 4: Folder 19 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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1 copy of bound "Urban Design for the National Capital Centre," June 1981; 2 copies of document "Urban Design for the National Capital Centre: Construction Schedule, Cost Estimate, Material Summary," June 1981; 2 copies of color brochure "Dodoma: The National Capital Centre" (ca. 1981); 1 loose copy (partial) of June 1981 report
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Box 4: Folder 20 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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printed brochure "Dodoma in the Making - Capital Development Authority, Annual Report and Accounts 1978-1981"; 2 copies of bound report to United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, December 1984
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Box 4: Folder 21 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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publications and reprints (newspapers, architectural magazines, books)
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Box 4: Folder 22 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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157 35mm slide transparencies formerly housed with alphabetically-sorted project slides, including drawings, travel photography, model photography, and some views and drawings of other projects and artworks (Chandigarh, Brasilia, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City; medieval Lucca, vernacular trulli housing, etc.)
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Box 5: Folder 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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131 35mm slide transparencies, from binder "Dodoma - Africa," including drawings, travel photography, and model photography
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Box 5: Folder 2 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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136 35mm slide transparencies, from binder "Dodoma - Africa," including drawings, travel photography, and model photography
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Box 5: Folder 3 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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220 35mm slide transparencies, from binder "Africa - Dodoma," including drawings and travel photography
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Box 5: Folder 4 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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240 35mm slide transparencies, from binder "Africa - Dodoma," including drawings and travel photography
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Box 5: Folder 5 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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231 35mm slide transparencies, from binder "Africa - Dodoma," including drawings, travel photography, and model photography
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Box 5: Folder 6 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "I. Directory," including summary document of file structure, various telephone and address records
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Box 5: Folder 7 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "II. Contract and Billings"
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Box 5: Folder 8 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "II. Contract and Billings"
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Box 5: Folder 9 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "III. Contract Proposals"
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Box 5: Folder 10 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "V. Monthly Reports," including monthly reports June 1979 to June 1981 and one "Work Products" chronology (year not given)
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Box 5: Folder 11 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "IX. Work Plan"
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Box 5: Folder 12 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "XVI. General"
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Box 5: Folder 13 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "XVI. General"
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Box 5: Folder 14 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "XVI. General"
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Box 5: Folder 15 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "XXI. Publicity - Press Releases," including press releases, drafts of bound proposals, some printed drawing sets, press clippings
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Box 5: Folder 16 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "XXI. Publicity - Press Releases," including press clippings and miscellaneous correspondence with publications, etc.
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Box 5: Folder 17 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Railway"
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Box 5: Folder 18 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "UN Consultant Tanzania," including 1978 contract, etc.
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Box 5: Folder 19 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Rossant Trip to Tanzania (Notes & Report)"
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Box 5: Folder 20 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Ministry of Capital Development"
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Box 5: Folder 21 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Tanzania Telex 4/81 - 10/82"
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Box 5: Folder 22 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Tanzania Telex 4/81 - 10/82"
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Box 5: Folder 23 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Telex 1/85 - " including correspondence and telex transcripts, 1985-1987, with discussion of related hotel proposals; press clippings
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Box 5: Folder 24 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1984 |
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contents of Rossant folder "Miscell. Inquiries" including letters (1985) to United Nations officials and Aga-Kahn Publications
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Box 5: Folder 25 |
New Playground Design / [Other Creator: Isamu Noguchi]
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ca. 1950s-1960s |
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7 35mm slide transparencies (model photography)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
New School for Social Research, Kaplan Building and courtyard (New York, NY)
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undated |
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5 35mm slide transparencies (photographs)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
New York City Center
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ca. 1975 |
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1 35mm slide transparency (site plan)
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Box 2: Folder 19 |
New York Studio School Master Plan (New York, NY) / [Other Creator: Diane Lewis]
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ca. 2003 |
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bound 2003 draft proposal (numerous drawings); undated proposal and drawing set
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Box 2: Folder 18 |
New York University School of Social Work (New York, NY)
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ca. 1994 |
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project description sheets; 3 printed photographs
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Box 2: Folder 20 |
Oklahoma City Memorial Design Competition (Oklahoma City, OK) / [Other Creator: Richard Scherr]
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1997 |
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project description narratives; report from selection committee; correspondence; clippings and correspondence related to barn-raising image; Rossant resume; contact list of consultants; business cards; 12 press clippings (various newspapers; Architectural Record); 2 renderings (ink and watercolor over printed imagery); 14 photographic prints (model photography, site plan, presentation board including plan, section and renderings); 7 printed and faxed sheets (various drawings); 29 35mm slide transparencies (model photography)
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Box 2: Folder 21 |
Painters Industry Welfare Building / Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers (New York, NY)
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1961 |
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project description sheets; 3 printed photographs; 2 35mm slide transparencies (exterior views)
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Box 2: Folder 22 |
Park Avenue Synagogue (New York, NY)
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ca. 1970 |
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printed model photograph; reprinted article from Architectural Forum; 2 35mm slide transparencies (model photography)
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Box 2: Folder 23 |
Piermont Landing (Piermont, NY)
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ca. 1990 |
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project description sheets; 1 newspaper article; 2 large-format photographic negatives (elevations, aerial perspective); 4 35mm slide transparencies (renderings)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Pierson House
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ca. 1959 |
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4 35mm slide transparencies (exterior photographs)
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Box 2: Folder 24 |
Poughkeepsie Downtown Renewal (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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ca. 1969 |
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1 printed rendering showing geodesic domes over downtown; 11 35mm slide transparencies (rendering at various crops and scales)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Qublite Lamp design
|
2002 |
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print with 4 copies of photograph
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Queens Jewish Center (Queens, NY)
|
ca. 1990 |
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project description sheet
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Box 3: Folder 1 |
Ramaz School (New York, NY)
|
1980 |
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project description sheets; publications (Architectural Record, The New York Times); 6 photographic prints (rendering, model photograph, interior and exterior views of completed building); 48 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior views of completed building)
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Box 3: Folder 2 |
Reading the Energy Meter on Development (study for the Federal Energy Administration) / [Other Creator: Flack + Kurtz]
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1976 |
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printed presentation document (271 pages, 30 drawings); 4 35mm slide transparencies (drawings)
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Box 4: Folder 7 |
Reston Lake Anne Village Center Expansion (Reston, VA)
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ca. 2001-2003 |
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project description sheets; folder with handwritten notes on project; correspondence; printed plan drawings, some with sketches and notes; 4 printed perspectives from digital model, some with pen and marker additions
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Box 4: Folder 1 |
Reston Master Plan & Lake Anne Village Center (Reston, VA)
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1961-1970s |
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various project description sheets (including master plan, Lake Anne Village, individual buildings); bound 1962 master plan report (28 pages, including 8 drawings (7 plans, 1 perspective of village center); brochure "A brief history of Reston, Virginia" (1973 edition); Reston Development Plan (undated site plan, ca. 1980s?); summary document of rolled drawings evidently prepared by James Rossant in the 1990s or 2000s (with descriptions of nine individual drawings, generally not appearing to correspond to collection holdings, including recollections on personnel and incremental changes in the design)
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Box 4: Folder 2 |
Reston Master Plan & Lake Anne Village Center (Reston, VA)
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1961-1970s |
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3 printouts of drawings (exterior perspective; elevation and typical floor plan of tower); paper-clipped group of prints and clippings, some with handwritten annotations (perspectives, photographs); 25 photographic prints (15 model photographs; master plan diagrams, perspective and elevation of village center; lobby plan of tower; plan, section, and section perspective of HUD housing unit study)
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Box 4: Folder 3 |
Reston Master Plan & Lake Anne Village Center (Reston, VA)
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1961-1970s |
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numerous press clippings and reprints (1960s-1970s); 6 postcards (unused);
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Box 4: Folder 4 |
Reston Master Plan & Lake Anne Village Center (Reston, VA)
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1961-1970s |
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63 photographic prints (primarily exterior views of plaza, church, and fountain; some construction views); 1 contact sheet;
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Box 4: Folder 5 |
Reston Master Plan & Lake Anne Village Center (Reston, VA)
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1961-1970s |
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16 medium-format photographic negatives and transparencies; 5 2"x2" photographic transparencies (views of finished project, 1 roof plan drawing); 198 35mm slide transparencies (primarily construction and finished views; some drawings and model photography; 1 plan view of Radburn, NJ; 1 drawing by Antonio Sant'Elia; 1 view of Cumbernauld Town Centre, Scotland, UK)
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Box 4: Folder 6 |
Reston Master Plan & Lake Anne Village Center (Reston, VA)
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1961-1970s |
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newspaper clippings (1980s and 1990s, particularly dealing with twenty-year anniversary of project); 3 versions of 1985 symposium lecture "Reston After Twenty Years: The City Gallery"; notes for talk "Reston, the Early Days" at George Mason University (1989); 4 copies of lecture "The Origins of Reston and the First Village Center" (1997, 1999); 9 4x6 photographic prints (ca. 1990s)
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Box 3: Folder 3 |
Roosevelt Island / Welfare Island Housing for the Urban Development Corporation (New York, NY)
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ca. 1970 |
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article in Design & Environment (Winter 1970); 7 35mm slide transparencies (renderings, model photography)
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Box 3: Folder 4 |
Roosevelt Memorial Competition / Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
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1959 or 1966? |
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print and photostat negative of perspective; envelope with sketch
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Box 3: Folder 5 |
Rossant House (Austerlitz, NY)
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ca. 1999-2001 |
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letter to building committee concerning disapproval of plans; 2 sets of drawings (plans, elevations)
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Box 3: Folder 6 |
Rossant House (Germonville, Condeau, France)
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ca. 2003 |
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6 printed drawing sheets (plans, elevations, section, details)
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Box 3: Folder 7 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1976, 1983-1990 |
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project description sheets; essay "History and Features of 114 Sullivan Street" (ca. 1999; originally filed with late 1990s professional materials); folder of various drawings (trace, vellum, Department of Buildings files); 13 publications and reprints; letter concerning height increase of neighboring building
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Box 3: Folder 8 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1976, 1983-1990 |
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1984 drawing set submission for addition (two folded sheets, including plans, details, sections); 3 printed drawing sheets (garden pavilion plan, sections); 3 photostat negatives (garden pavilion plan, sections)
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Box 3: Folder 9 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1976, 1983-1990 |
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29 photographic prints (interior and exterior views of townhouse and pavilion); 3 medium-format photographic negatives; 1 medium-format photographic transparency; 108 mounted and 9 unmounted 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior views, primarily of garden pavilion)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Ruppert Renewal Plan (New York, NY)
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1967 |
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1 35mm slide transparency (model photography)
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|
Oversize 1 |
Ruppert Renewal Plan (New York, NY)
|
1967 |
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bound presentation document (116 pages, various drawings including site plans, sections, renderings, circulation diagrams, etc.)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Shimla Tourism Projects for Jadish Saggar
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undated |
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letter soliciting project; originally filed with Young Israel of Brookline as "Brookline / Saggar"
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Box 3: Folder 10 |
Solari Clock Case / [Other Creator: Gino Valle / Studio Valle, Udine, Italy]
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1954 |
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5 drawings
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Soundview Park (New York, NY)
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undated |
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1 35mm slide transparency (site plan)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Southgate at Bar Harbor (Massapequa Park, NY)
|
1982 |
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project description sheet
|
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
|
1986 |
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project description sheets
|
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Box 2: Folder 25 |
The Premier (333 East 69th Street) (New York, NY)
|
1974 |
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project description sheets; 1 printed exterior photograph; 1 photographic print of exterior perspective; 2 35mm slide transparencies (exterior photographs)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Times Square Ticket Booth / TKTS
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ca. 1973 |
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2 35mm slide transparencies (model photography)
|
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Box 3: Folder 11 |
Tocks Island Lake Project & Alternatives (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania)
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ca. 1975 |
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3 copies of bound presentation document; 4 newspaper articles
|
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Box 3: Folder 12 |
Tower Ten (10th Avenue & 37th Street) (New York, NY)
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ca. 1985 |
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bound presentation document (including 13 images: site perspectives, site axonometrics, site plans, partial section, floor plans, elevation, aerial photography with added elements); 16 35mm slide transparencies (image set from presentation document)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Twin Rivers Master Plan (Twin Rivers, Windsor Township, NJ)
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undated |
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2 35mm slide transparencies (site plan, diagram)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified community or religious buildings
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ca. 1960s-1990s |
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2 model photographs; 3 35mm slide transparencies (perspective sketch, exterior photographs)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified historical building (Italianate)
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undated |
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1 printed photograph (rear façade)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified historical house or hotel
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undated |
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2 photographic prints (exterior and lobby views)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified housing (possibly related to Gennessee Gateway / PIP Modular Housing)
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ca. 1960s-1970s |
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2 photographic prints (model photography)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Unidentified housing or retail project
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undated |
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printed exterior photograph
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified housing, "Housing in L.T."
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undated |
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35mm slide transparency (exterior view)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified housing, "Kaufman Broad, Staten Island"
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ca. 1960s-1970s |
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1 35mm slide transparency (model photograph showing terraced housing)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified institutional building, "Longwood"
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undated |
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1 35mm slide transparency (exterior photograph)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified master plan or campus
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ca. 1950s-1960s |
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3 35mm slide transparencies (model photography)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Unidentified project
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1996-1997 |
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correspondence with Brother Benedikt Walder (Brusata-Novazzano, Switzerland)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Unidentified project in Flushing, Queens, NY
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undated |
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site plan diagram with handwritten notes
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Unidentified proposal on 9th Street (New York, NY)
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undated |
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2 sheets of photocopied lot plans
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Unidentified residential interior
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undated |
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1 photographic print (view of living room and deck)
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Unidentified salon
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ca. 1990s |
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printed interior photograph
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Unidentified school or community building
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ca. 1950s-1960s |
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4 photographic prints (exterior views) mounted on single sheet
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
Union Settlement - Legget Children's Center (New York, NY)
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undated |
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project description sheet
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Box 3: Folder 13 |
Union Station Transportation Center Study (Washington, D.C.)
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ca. 1970 |
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bound document ("Phase II - Report 4: Final Development Plan and Program Review," roughly 150 pages, including 30 illustrations)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
United States Embassy to Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
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ca. 1988-1989 |
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letter to Senator Alfonse D'Amato expressing grievances with U.S. State Department (1992); 5 35mm slide transparenciess (plan; site photograph)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
University City Study (New York, NY)
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1966 |
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1 35mm slide transparency (model photography)
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Oversize 2 |
University City Study (New York, NY)
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1966 |
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3 copies of bound presentation document (45 pages, including various plans, perspectives, and model photographs); master plan includes Baruch School, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and College of Police Science
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Box 3: Folder 14 |
Upstate Medical Center / State University of New York (SUNY) Student Activities Building (Syracuse, NY)
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1974 |
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project description sheet; letter concerning later condition of building (1998); 4 printed photographs; 1 contact sheet; 6 medium-format photographic negatives (interior and exterior views); 3 medium-format photographic transparencies (exterior views); 35 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior views)
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Box 3: Folder 15 |
Usdan Center for the Performing Arts, "Summer Day Art Center" Camp (Huntington, NY)
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1970 |
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project description sheets; 2-page printed illustration set (photographs, plans, sections); 2 copies of Architectural Forum article; 20 photographic prints (interior, exterior, and aerial views); 3 contact sheets; 2 sheets of mounted model photographs; 1 aerial rendering; 5 medium-format photographic negatives (interior and exterior views); 15 medium-format photographic transparencies (exterior views); 3 6x6cm photographic transparencies (prints of exterior photographs)
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Box 3: Folder 16 |
Üsküdar American Academy Gymnasium and Cafeteria (Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey)
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1991 |
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project description sheets; 4-page descriptive essay; descriptive letter to editor of Progressive Architecture; 10 printed drawings (plans, elevations, axonometric, perspective); 4 printed photographs; press release; newspaper articles; Dekorasyon article; 206 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior photographs)
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Box 3: Folder 17 |
Üsküdar American Academy Master Plan (Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey)
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1989 |
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bound presentation document (approximately 85 pages, 17 illustrations including plans, perspective, axonometrics, elevations)
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Box 3: Folder 25 |
Utica Urban Renewal (Utica, NY)
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ca. 1961 |
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newspaper clipping from Utica Observer-Dipatch
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Oversize 2 |
Villas Lucania, "Fusco Dwellings" (Mamaroneck, NY)
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1985-1988, 1991 |
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6 cardboard panels with mounted photographs
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Box 3: Folder 18 |
Villas Lucania, "Fusco Dwellings" (Mamaroneck, NY)
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1985-1988, 1991 |
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project description sheets; 2 photographic prints; photocopies of newspaper reports and advertisements; photocopy of article from Sun Coast; 2 copies of promotional brochure; 7 medium-format photographic transparencies (interior and exterior views); 120 35mm slide transparencies (interior and exterior views)
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Box 3: Folder 19 |
Wards Island Bridge / 103rd Street Bridge (New York, NY)
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ca. 1976 |
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letters; newspaper articles; 3 35mm slide transparencies
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Box 3: Folder 20 |
Wilton Developmental Center (Wilton, NY)
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1974 |
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project description sheet; 2 printed drawing sheets (sections, plan of "Living Unit Cluster"); articles from Architectural Record and C&A; 24 photographic prints (model photography, projected drawing, interior and exterior views); 10 photographic transparencies mounted in two sheets; 1 model photograph, 1 plan); 13 medium-format transparencies (model photography, plan diagram, interior views) 1 additional medium-format transparency (plan diagram of circulation at different times of day; not originally filed with this project but likely related)
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Box 3: Folder 21 |
Wilton Developmental Center (Wilton, NY)
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1974 |
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177 35mm slide transparencies (primarily interior and exterior photographs
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Box 3: Folder 22 |
Wilton State School Camp, "Camp Wilton" (Wilton, NY)
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ca. 1967 |
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8 35mm slide transparencies (exterior views)
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Box 3: Folder 24 |
Windemere (Woodbury, NY)
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ca. 1980s |
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project description sheet; first floor plan of single house; 3 printed photographs; 1 medium-format photographic transparency; 2 35mm slide transparencies (interior view)
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Box 3: Folder 28 |
Woodbury Common (Woodbury, NY)
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ca. 1982, 1991 |
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contract correspondence; 1 35mm slide transparency (exterior photograph)
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Box 3: Folder 24 |
World Trade Center Site (New York, NY)
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2002 |
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2 copies of request for qualifications (1 bound, 1 loose set); correspondence
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Box 3: Folder 27 |
World Yacht Cabaret for New York Cruise Lines / Pier 83 (New York, NY)
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1996 |
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correspondence; incomplete contract document
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Box 3: Folder 25 |
Young Israel of Brookline (Brookline, MA)
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ca. 1994 |
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project description sheet; proposal correspondence and forms; 35 35mm slide transparencies (plan diagrams, perspectives)
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Series II: Professional Papers
Series II includes various promotional brochures and résumés listing and illustrating the work of Rossant's firms, with the majority stemming from the Conklin & Rossant era. Also included are documents relating to Rossant's participation in commissions and professional organizations, and essays and lectures Rossant published or presented in his capacity as an architect, concerning general themes on architecture and urbanism, or surveying the firm's work as a whole. Texts concerning specific projects are generally found in Project Records.
Box 6: Folder 1 |
Summary documents (Conklin & Rossant Architects)
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ca. 1980s-1990s |
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various firm profiles, introductory letters, project lists, and individual resumes dating from James Rossant's years in partnership with William J. Conklin.
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Box 6: Folder 2 |
Summary documents (Conklin & Rossant Architects)
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1990s-2000s |
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Rossant autobiographical narratives, project lists, introductory letters, and various resumes dating from James Rossant's sole partnership and collaborations.
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Box 6: Folder 3 |
Firm summary forms
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ca. 1993 |
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complete and incomplete paperwork sets describing Conklin Rossant Architects, including project summaries, lists of personnel, C.V.s, etc.
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Box 6: Folder 4 |
Portfolios
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1970s-1980s |
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3 copies of Conklin & Rossant portfolio ca. 1975 (36 pages, various projects, extensively illustrated); bound portfolio ca. 1981 (limited text; illustrations include National Capital Center, Dodoma; Ramaz School; and principally Just Bulbs Store / Superior Lamp Company Offices)
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Box 6: Folder 5 |
Portfolios
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1990s |
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2 general Conklin & Rossant portfolios ca. 1991 (various projects and illustrations); portfolio for submission to Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, California); one incomplete portfolio ("Representative Work" section, draft, with limited markup)
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Box 6: Folder 6 |
Portfolios
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ca. 1975 |
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Conklin & Rossant portfolio for submission to Cooper Square, missing unknown number of pages
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Box 6: Folder 7 |
Portfolios
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undated |
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pages from unlabeled binder, possibly a missing "Projects 1," including Reston Lake Anne Center, 333 E. 69th Street, Butterfield House, Ramaz Upper School, East Lake Wales, "Clouds Over Radiant City" essay, Alroll Aluminum Plant, Willow Park Center concrete block factories, Harbour Beach Club, New School For Social Research, Painters Industry Welfare Building, Bunkit, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Caryatid, Eagle Chase
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Box 6: Folder 8 |
Portfolios
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ca. 1990s |
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pages from binder "Projects 2," including Congregation Sons of Israel, Ramaz Upper School, Üsküdar American Academy Gymnasium, Usdan Center for the Arts, Wilton Developmental Center, Upstate Medical Center Student Activities Building, Reston Lake Anne Center, Island City
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Box 6: Folder 9 |
Portfolios
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ca. 1980s |
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pages from unlabeled binder, possibly a missing "Projects 3," including Myriad Gardens, Just Bulbs storefront, National Capital Center (Dodoma), Congregation Sons of Israel, Rossant Townhouse, Ramaz Upper School, Ellis Island International Conference Center
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Box 6: Folder 10 |
Portfolios
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ca. 1990s |
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pages from binder "Projects 4," including Myriad Gardens, Island City, National Capital Center (Dodoma), Ellis Island International Conference Center, Casa Fizie, Congregation Sons of Israel, Mason Pavilion
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Box 6: Folder 11 |
Portfolios
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ca. 2000 |
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pages from binder "Projects 5," including Windemere, Hamlet on Spring Pond, Admiralty, Villas Lucania, Ramaz Upper School, Buddha Green Restaurant, Rossant Townhouse, Ellis Island International Conference Center, Monument East, Myriad Gardens
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Box 6: Folder 12 |
Awards - Summary Documents
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ca. 1980s |
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various resumes of firm awards, "awards chronology" documents and summary sheets of quotations from critics; certification of listing in Who's Who In America
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Box 6: Folder 13 |
Awards - Submissions and Correspondence
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1975-1992 |
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correspondence and submission materials for various awards
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Box 6: Folder 14 |
Contacts 1/5
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undated |
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contents of "Contacts" binder, inside front pocket and loose sheets, with summary contact sheet and contact lists organized by project (Armonk Office Condominium, Metro North, Kuwaiti contacts, Community Church of the Pelhams, Woodbury Common, 33rd Street Station, Battery Maritime Building, Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street Station, Brooklyn Bridge Station, P.S. 150, Panama Canal Area Master Planning, P.S. 51, Huntington Affordable Housing, Villas Lucania [Mamaroneck Village])
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Box 6: Folder 15 |
Contacts 2/5
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undated |
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contents of "Contacts" binder, contact lists largely organized by project (Credit Lyonais Bank, Metro North Association, Market Square / Navy Memorial, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Myriad Gardens, Ellis Island International Conference Center, Jericho Jewish Center, Rifkin-Crowe House, Bloomingdale's, Hineni Heritage Center, Fairfield at St. James, 74 East 79th Street, Eagle Chase)
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Box 6: Folder 16 |
Contacts 3/5
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undated |
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contents of "Contacts" binder, contacts lists largely organized by project (Battery Park City, Brooklyn Borough Hall furniture, Brooklyn Borough Hall park, Queens Jewish Center, United States Embassy to Morocco, Villas Lucania [Mamaroneck Village], Rosehill Manor, Castro Convertibles, Piermont Landing, Cornwall Hotel, Canterbury Brook, Hunter's Point Community Development Corporation, Princeton Gate, Manhattan Beach, Howard Pool, National Capital Center [Dodoma, TZ])
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Box 6: Folder 17 |
Contacts 4/5
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undated |
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contents of "Contacts" binder, contact lists largely organized by project (Armonk Office Condos, Pure Foods, Huntington Affordable Housing, Sobro, Banks & Company, 51st St. [Beekman Center], CUNY / College of Staten Island, Hastings, Adath Israel Synagogue, Walt Whitman Road Office Center, 70 East 10th Street Lobby, Karachi Coastal Zone Planning, Peekskill Housing, East of Central Business District [White Plains, NY], Congregation Sons of Israel)
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Box 6: Folder 18 |
Contacts 5/5
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undated |
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contents of "Contacts" binder, contact lists largely organized by project (Tamiment Development Plan, Üsküdar American Academy Gymnasium, Cunningham Park, GSA Court Houses, Mason Pavilion, NYU School of Social Work, Police Service Area #5, Pittsburgh Apartments, East Dakota [931 First Avenue],Kingsboro Alcohol Treatment Center Control Room, Butterfield House Restoration, Atlantic Terminal)
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Box 6: Folder 19 |
Office and Architectural Correspondence
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1976-1999 |
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miscellaneous professional correspondence, responses to publication and financial inquiries, and some exchanges with other architectural and planning figures (Edward "Ed" Logue, Michael Deskey, Khalil Bennani, Philip Johnson [including remarks on Donald Trump], Mack Scogin [including remarks on Scogin & Elam work in Reston])
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Box 6: Folder 20 |
Job Inquiries
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1983-1999 |
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correspondence and other documents related to efforts to secure commissions and employment
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Box 6: Folder 21 |
Job Inquiries - Turkish Proposals
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1989-1993 |
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contents of "Turkish Proposals" file, primarily correspondence and contact lists with one photocopied site plan across two sheets. Documents largely concern efforts to secure retail, office, and master planning work in Turkey; some refer to an academic visit by James Rossant in April 1992, and to publications of Üsküdar American Academy projects.
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Box 6: Folder 22 |
Commentary and Publications
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1972-2001 |
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James Rossant correspondence and press clippings concerning architectural and urban-planning matters; responses to published articles, various venues
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Box 6: Folder 23 |
Commissions and Associations
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1980-2002 |
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minutes, correspondence and publication related to James Rossant's organizational affiliations (Arts Commission of the City of New York, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Fine Arts Federation, American Institute of Architects, etc.)
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Box 6: Folder 24 |
Miscellaneous Office Papers
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undated |
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directory listings of floppy diskettes, notes on website design, publicity photograph, C.V. of architect/planner Jaime Soldi, professional qualifications of design firm HSMM, sheet with layout notes and sketches (possibly for portfolio or website)
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Box 7: Folder 1 |
Lectures, Essays and Appearances
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1969-1980 |
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correspondence, clippings and texts, relating to: appearance before National Society of Professional Engineers at University of Virginia (1969); appearance on "Firing Line" (William F. Buckley television series, with Ada Louise Huxtable, 1971); appearance at Bennington College discussing new towns (1973); "An Architectural Viewpoint, Concrete," before the American Society for Concrete Construction (1974); "Architectural Meaning and Architectural Function in Housing for the Elderly" (Mt. Sinai Hospital, 1979; AIA Journal article "The Lively and Versatile Lofts of New York's SoHo" (1979); New York Academy of Medicine, 1980); "Speech to Engineers" (ca. 1980)
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Box 7: Folder 2 |
Lectures, Essays and Appearances
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1982-1986 |
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correspondence, clippings and texts, relating to: appearance at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (1982); appearance at the University of Tokyo, including correspondence with Fumihiko Maki, Kenzo Tange, Kazumasa Yamashita, Taeko Matsda (1984); "Work in Progress" lecture at Pratt Institute (1985); "Mumford and the Origins of Reston" talk at New Jersey Institute of Technology panel on Lewis Mumford, including correspondence with M. Christine Boyer and Tony Schumann (1985); "The City as Historic Document" talk at International University Foundation converence at Tulane University (1986); lecture given in Shanghai on firm's planning work and traditional Chinese cities (1986); address to Interiors Committee of the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects (NYC/AIA) (1986)
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Box 7: Folder 3 |
Lectures, Essays and Appearances
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1990-1997 |
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correspondence, clippings and texts, relating to: "Disneyland and the Death of Cities" lecture given at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul (ca. 1992); lecture on firm's projects at City College School of Architecture, New York (1996); "The Making of the National Capital Center: Dodoma, Tanzania," talk given at International Planning History Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece (1996); essay "SoHo, Or The Way Cities Will Be: The City of the Post-Industrial Future" (1996-1997)
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Box 7: Folder 4 |
Lectures, Essays and Appearances
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1998-2002 and undated |
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correspondence, clippings and texts, relating to: "Against Type: The Metropolis Re-Configured" talk at Pratt Institute (1998); "A Retrospective: The Architecture and Planning of James Rossant" talk given at the American University in Beirut (1998); retrospective lecture in Beijing (1999); "Works, The Architecture and Planning of James Rossant" talk given at the National University of Singapore (1999); International Competition for Liusha Peninsula in Nanning, Guangxi, China (ca. 2001-2002); "Against Type," lecture at the Cooper Union, New York (2002); "James Rossant: 'Theory and Work'" (n.d.); "Concerning Architecture and Urban Design" (n.d.); talk organized around three propositions on the city (n.d.); talk on firm's work and theme of architecture as art and the city as gallery (n.d.); photocopy of lecture slides with notes and overlays (n.d.)
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Box 7: Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous Event Invitations and Programs
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1983-1987 |
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invitations and programs for events not apparently involving any presentation by James Rossant, including: China's New Business and Investment Conference, London, UK (1983); Total Energy: China's Total Energy Exposition and Conference, Guangzhou, China (1984); Le Corbusier; 5 Projects exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York (1987); American Planning Association National Planning Conference, Whitney Museum, New York (1987)
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Oversize 2 |
AIA Membership Certificate
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1962 |
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certification of James Rossant's membership in the American Institute of Architects
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Series III: Academic Papers
Series III includes several folders covering James Rossant's teaching at Harvard University, New York University, and especially Pratt Institute, organized by institution, then by course or project. Also included is a small amount of correspondence and documentation relating to hiring and faculty issues at these institutions, and the contents of two binders, "Cities" and "Cities Plans Slides II." These last total 1,200 35mm slides, and likely comprise some portion of the contents of Rossant's long-running courses on the history and design of cities.
Box 7: Folder 6 |
Academic Resumes and General Correspondence
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undated |
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resumes and biographical summaries filed with academic papers; application materials and letter of reference for Bogliasco Fellowship Program; miscellaneous academic job offers and related correspondence; 4 4x6 photographic prints of James Rossant attending a design review (unknown date and location)
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Box 7: Folder 7 |
Harvard: Correspondence
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1984-1985 |
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design job description and paperwork, including submitted course description; certificate recognizing Conklin Rossant fellowship contribution
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Box 7: Folder 8 |
Harvard: Urban Revitalization Studio (West Midtown / Jacob Javits Exposition Center)
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1985 |
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schedule of studio option presentations; draft and final versions of syllabus; loose copies of site plans; student list; 2 copies of schedule for off-site activities on two days; handwritten notes; letters to outside presenters, guest jurors, and filmmaker Hiroshi Teshegahara (regarding Antonio Gaudi)
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Box 7: Folder 9 |
Harvard: Syllabi of Other Instructors
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1980-1985 |
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syllabi of Harvard urban design courses by other instructors
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Box 7: Folder 10 |
NYU: Correspondence
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1977-1980, 1985, 1996 |
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New York University Graduate School of Public Administration letters of offer; syllabus for "Service Systems and Site Planning" (Stephen J. Johnston); 1 pay stub; correspondence relating to later jury participation
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Box 7: Folder 11 |
NYU: Introduction to Physical Design, Workshop in Urban Design (with Elliot Willensky)
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1977-1980 |
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syllabi; notes for one lecture ("Warfare - From Persopolis to the National Defense Highway Act"); questions for Master's Comprehensive Examination; student course evaluations from Urban Planning Students Committee
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Box 7: Folder 12 |
Pratt: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents
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1985-2003 |
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Pratt Institute letters of offer; faculty telephone listing; various intra-faculty memoranda, invitations, newsletters, etc.; letter of reference for Theo David
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Box 7: Folder 13 |
Pratt: Theories of Urban Design
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1992-1997 |
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syllabi (including one sample from previous instructor)
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Box 7: Folder 14 |
Pratt: City Design: History and Theory
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1995-1998 |
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syllabi; seminar session notes
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Box 7: Folder 15 |
Pratt: Culmination Studio
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1997-1999 |
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syllabi; assignment descriptions
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Box 7: Folder 16 |
Pratt: Wilmington 2000 Study (Wilmington, DE)
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1996-1997 |
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correspondence and drafts; loose notes; site plan; 2 bound presentation documents including various illustrations
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Box 7: Folder 17 |
Pratt: Beirut Study (Solidere Area B)
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1997-1998 |
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correspondence, particularly with Prof. Tarek Al-Kazzaz (American University of Beirut)
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Box 7: Folder 18 |
Pratt: Waterfront Seminar
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1983-1986 |
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correspondence, lecture notes, schedules and promotional brochure for guest lecture in "Waterfronts Summer Studio / Seminar"
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Box 7: Folder 19 |
Pratt: Miscellaneous Classes and Projects
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1982-2001 |
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correspondence and course materials relating to various courses at Pratt Institute, including "International Practices," "The City House and the Country House," "4-Hour Sketch Problem: The Design of a New Hotel for SoHo," "The Metropolis Re-Configured," "History and Analysis of New York," renovation of the Brooklyn Bar Association building, untitled collaboration with the National University of Singapore
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Box 7: Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous Academic Papers
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undated |
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loose papers filed with academic material, including: partial reading lists; copy of Rosalind Krauss's "Grids" (1979); unidentified notes; mailer from Amtrak and the Department of Transportation including New York Times article "The Philosopher as a Hero Maker"; reprint of Antonio di Bitonto and Paolo Montani, "Un Edificio Problematico L' 'Oratorio' Dell'Osteriaccia Presso Portaria" (1985); syllabus of Urban Design Seminar at Columbia University taught by D.G. Shane (1996); photocopied site plan of central Bangkok
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Box 7: Folder 21 |
"Cities 1" 1/3
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undated |
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196 35mm slide transparencies from binder "Cities 1," with photographs and some published drawings of various world cities including Prague, Brasilia, San Gimignano, Alberobello, Siena, Pisa, Savannah, Versailles, Atlanta, Manaus, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Laon, Rio de Janeiro, Lucca, Florence, Mexico City, Cairo, Agrigento, Panama City, Warsaw, Milton Keynes, Radburn, and others; specific projects including the Guggenheim Museum (Frank Lloyd Wright, New York City), the Convent of La Tourette (Le Corbusier, Evry), V.C. Morris Gift Shop (Frank Lloyd Wright, San Francisco), Staatsgalerie (James Stirling, Stuttgart)
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Box 7: Folder 22 |
"Cities 1" 2/3
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undated |
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175 35mm slide transparencies from binder "Cities 1," with photographs and some published drawings of various world cities including Letchworth, Rome, Milan, Rome, Las Vegas, Siena, Cairo, Monreale, Warsaw, Mayagüez, Cambridge, San Francisco, Brasilia, Palermo, Prague, Manaus, SoHo (New York City), Istanbul, and others; specific projects including the proposed Garden City (Ebenezer Howard), the Centre Pompidou (Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Paris), the Unité d'habitation (Le Corbusier, Marseilles), the Philharmonic Hall (Hans Scharoun, Berlin)
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Box 7: Folder 23 |
"Cities 1" 3/3
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undated |
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154 35mm slide transparencies from binder "Cities 1," with photographs and some published drawings of various world cities including Istanbul, Brussels, Paris, Rome, Prague, Agrigento, Nairobi, and others; specific projects including the Hubertus House (Aldo Van Eyck, Amsterdam), the Marin County Civic Center (Frank Lloyd Wright, northern California), and El Capricho (Antoni Gaudí, Cantabrilla, Spain)
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Box 7: Folder 24 |
"Cities Plans Slides II" 1/3
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undated |
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198 35mm slide transparencies from binder "Cities Plans Slides II," with photographs and some published drawings of various world cities including Rome, Venice, Paris, Pisa, Siena, Jerusalem, Bath, Florence, Cairo, Pompeii, London, Los Angeles, Agrigento, Palermo, Thimphu, Warsaw, and others; specific projects including the Bauhaus (Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, Dessau), Lloyd's Building (Richard Rogers, London), structures for the 1968 Olympic Games (Frei Otto, Munich), Centre Pompidou (Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Paris), El Capricho (Antoni Gaudí, Cantabrilla, Spain), Garden City project (Ebenezer Howard), New Lanark Mills (Robert Owen, Scotland)
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Box 7: Folder 25 |
"Cities Plans Slides II" 2/3
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undated |
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258 35mm slide transparencies from binder "Cities Plans Slides II," with photographs and some published drawings of various world cities including Athens, Rome, Los Angeles, Cairo, Siena, Mexico City, Paris, Florence, San Gimignano, Tivoli, Prague, Cyprus, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Charleston, Berlin, Brasilia, Samarkand, Evry; specific projects including Cumbernauld Town Center (Geoffrey Copcutt, Leslie Wilson, et al.), Lloyd's Building (Richard Rogers, London), Learning From Las Vegas(Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour), V.C. Morris Gift Shop (Frank Lloyd Wright, San Francisco), Peachtree Center and hotel interiors (John Portman, Atlanta), Casa del Fascio (Giuseppe Terragni, Como), Marin County Civic Center (Frank Lloyd Wright, Northern California), convent of La Tourette (Le Corbusier, Evry), Centre Pompidou (Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Paris), Altesmuseum (Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Berlin), Staatsgalerie (James Stirling, Stuttgart), Glasgow School of Art (Charles Rennie Mackintosh), Jewish Museum (Daniel Libeskind, Berlin)
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Box 7: Folder 26 |
"Cities Plans Slides II" 3/3
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undated |
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219 35mm slide transparencies from binder "Cities Plans Slides II," with photographs and some published drawings of various world cities including San Juan (Puerto Rico), Mexico City, Pisa, Milan, Orange, Warsaw, Brussels, Panama City, New Delhi, Pisa, Beijing, Bruges, Pompeii, Rome, Prague, Charleston, Mantua, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Palermo; specific projects including Tristan Tzara House (Adolf Loos, Paris), Centre Pompidou (Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Paris), Lijnbaan (Bakema & van den Broek, Rotterdam), Peachtree Center (John Portman, Atlanta), Altesmuseum (Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Berlin), Glasgow School of Art (Charles Rennie Mackintosh), Lloyd's building (Richard Rogers, London), Staatsgalerie (James Stirling, Stuttgart)
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Oversize 2 |
National University of Singapore Plaque
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undated |
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fritted glass or lucite plaque given to James Rossant on occasion of guest lecture at National University of Singapore (August 25, 2000)
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Series IV: Personal Papers
Series IV covers material distinct from Rossant's professional and teaching careers. An incomplete selection of his student work (1946-1952) includes keepsakes as well as incomplete student notebooks from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the early 1950s. Otherwise, the bulk of this series deals with Rossant's output as a fine artist, including gallery correspondence, resumes, brochures, reproductions of his designs for imaginary cities, and some miscellaneous sketches and cartoons. Also included are the contents of a binder of Asian travel photography and a handful of letters (including personal correspondence and non-architectural letters to businesses and publications) which offer biographical insight into James Rossant's life, interests, and personality.
Box 7: Folder 27 |
Student Papers: Miscellaneous
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1946-1952 |
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diploma from New York High School of Science (1946); copy of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (February 1950), given to James Rossant by guest editor Paul Rudolph; examination 'blue books' (1952)
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Box 7: Folder 28 |
Student Papers: "Harvard GSD Lecture Notes 1951-52"
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1951-1952 |
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lecture notes and student papers from Harvard Graduate School of Design and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from courses on Land Economics (Leo Grebler), Government and the Conservation of Natural Resources (no instructor listed), Seminar in Policy and Administration (John M. Gaus) and others, including notes on New Towns and planning, intermixed with technical coursework and extensive marginalia and cartooning (particularly of automobiles)
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Box 7: Folder 29 |
Student Papers: Harvard GSD Planning Material
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1951-1952 |
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lecture notes and student papers from Harvard Graduate School of Design and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from courses on Urban Land Economics (Leo Grebler) and others, including drafts of paper on the automobile nad the development of miami, with extensive marginalia and cartooning including sketches of modular housing and automobiles, and early references to Colette Rossant
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Box 7: Folder 30 |
Design Sketches: Automobiles and Prefabricated Housing
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1952-1955 |
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folder of car designs labeled by James Rossant as belonging to his time stationed in Munich with the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps (1953 or 1954 to 1955); photocopied sketches of prefabricated housing units elevated in three-dimensional matrix, with label "Labström Neda) (1952-1953)
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Box 8: Folder 1 |
Artistic C.V.s and Artist's Statements
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ca. 1980s-2000s |
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C.V.s, essays and book proposals concerning James Rossant's artistic production in general and the "Cities in the Sky / Cities of the Plain" series particularly
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Box 8: Folder 2 |
Artistic Correspondence
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1977-1997 and undated |
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letters and grant materials relating to James Rossant's artistic production, including correspondence with Kenneth Frampton, Elaine Evans Dee, Fumihiko Maki, Phillip Johnson, and various gallerists, editors and friends
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Box 8: Folder 3 |
Art Prints and Gallery Materials
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1976-2000 |
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prints of various artworks; promotional materials and postcards (including "Artists' Postcards" series) relating to various gallery shows; 1 35mm slide transparency of "Paris Show" featuring Colette Rossant in front of mounted artwork
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Box 8: Folder 4 |
Art Publications and Criticism
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1976-1998 |
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clippings of print announcements and critical responses to art works, including Paul Goldberger, Sarane Alexandrian, Laurie Attias and others
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Box 8: Folder 5 |
Loose Art, Sketches and Photographs
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1972-1987, undated |
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original and photocopied sketches including some imaginary cities, promotional image for Colette Rossant's "Zee Cooking Show," and view of the World Trade Center; contact sheets showing sculptural work, construction of a geodesic dome, and travel photography of Le Corbusier's church of Notre Dame du Haut
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Box 8: Folder 6 |
"Asia" 1/2
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1986, 1998 |
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172 35mm slide transparencies of travel photography from binder "Asia," including views of Aleppo, Damascus, Delhi, Beijing, and Hong Kong
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Box 8: Folder 7 |
"Asia" 2/2
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1972, 1980s-1990s |
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172 35mm slide transparencies of travel photography from binder "Asia," including views of Hong Kong, Delhi, Calcutta, Ayuthaya, Bangkok, Istanbul, and the restaurant L'Oasis (Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France)
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Box 8: Folder 8 |
Personal Correspondence
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1975, 1990-1999, undated |
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personal correspondence with friends, family, retail businesses and government agencies, not related to James Rossant's architectural or artistic production; letter to the New York Times with proposed solution to the Falkland Islands crisis
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Box 8: Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous Clippings
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1952-1996 |
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newspaper clippings and reproductions from journals and books on various topics, including: report on historic preservation in New York City (1952); obituary of Talbot F. Hamlin (1956); obituary of Grosvenor Atterbury (1956); report on construction of bridge for Merritt Parkway (1957); report on slum clearance in Lagos (1957); report on changing slum clearance regulations in New York City (1957); report on archaeological excavations in Pella, Greece (1957); report on reconstruction of Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. (n.d., probably 1950s); partial clipping of John Summerson review of Thomas Howarth's Charlies Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement (1952); coverage of Frank Lloyd Wright speaking on American culture (1956); report on high-speed construction of bolted steel frames (1957); partial clipping of review of Frederick Gutheim's 100 years of American Architecture show at the National Gallery of Art (1957); report on "King Kong"-themed party hosted by James and Suzan Wines, with quote from James Rossant (1976) review of Carl Condit's The Railroad and the City (1980); Folke T. Kihlstedt, "The Automobile and the Transformation of the American House, 1910-1935" (1980-1981); review of Reyner Banham's Megastructure by Folke T. Kihlstedt (1980); Inside... newsletter of the New York School of Interior Design (1985); ACSANews newsletter of the Asosciation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (1996); excerpt from a book by Alain Jouffroy mentioning James and Colette Rossant (n.d.; photocopy is marked 2008)
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Box 8: Folder 10 |
Memorial Document
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2010 |
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booklet from James S. Rossant memorial service at the Ramaz School (New York, NY), April 16, 2010, including personal and architectural photography, and poem "Watching My Father Draw" by Juliette Rossant
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Series V: Electronic Media
Series V includes mixed digital and filmic media, and is principally comprised of 5.25" floppy diskettes and CD-ROMs, the labels of which indicate project records and office files, chiefly from the 1980s and 1990s. For a small number of projects dating from the 1990s and 2000s, including the World Trade Center site competition, the Dim Sum Go Go Restaurant, and the children's book "The Little Blue Duck," the CD-ROM collection appears to comprise the primary or sole form of documentation in the archive. One 16mm film reel and one VHS tape are also included.
Box 8 |
Floppy Diskettes 1/5: Projects A-E
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1980s-1990s |
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case of 18 5.25" floppy diskettes, with labels indicating the following projects: Congregation Sons of Israel (Briarcliff Manor, NY); Credit Lyonais Bank; East 59th Street Development Study; Ellis Island Restoration and World Conference Center (New York, NY)
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Box 8 |
Floppy Diskettes 2/5: Projects F-P
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1980s-1990s |
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case of 18 5.25" floppy diskettes, with labels indicating the following projects: Hineni Heritage Center (New York, NY); Huntington Station Revitalization Plan (Huntington, NY); Mason Pavilion / Francis and Patricia Mason House Addition (Rye, NY); McClaren (unidentified); Metro North Riverview Houses / P.S. 50 Vito Marcantonio School (New York, NY); National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania); "New School Tower" (likely New School for Social Research, Kaplan Building and courtyard [New York, NY]); Piermont Landing (Piermont, NY); "Pitti - Per" (unidentified)
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Box 8 |
Floppy Diskettes 3/5: Projects R-T
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1980s-1990s |
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case of 15 5.25" floppy diskettes, with labels indicating the following projects: Rossant Townhouse (New York, NY) [label indicates "TWNHS"]; Shelter Cove / Green Spring (unidentified); Sandyville Housing (Tamiment, PA); unnamed Trump project; United States Embassy to Morocco (Rabat, Morocco); unidentified Turkish proposals
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Box 8 |
Floppy Diskettes 4/5: Projects U-V, Professional
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1980s-1990s |
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case of 19 5.25" floppy diskettes, with labels indicating the following projects and office files: Üsküdar American Academy (Istanbul, Turkey); Villas Lucania [Fusco] (Mamaroneck, NY); various office files and forms including job descriptions, "Rolodex File," and "Quality Assurance Plan"; handwritten list of AutoCad drawing layers for unidentified project
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Box 8 |
Floppy Diskettes 5/5: Professional, Personal
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1980s-1990s |
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case of 1 3.5" floppy diskette and 24 5.25" floppy diskettes, with labels indicating the following office and personal files: "Arts, Letters - Cotton Ducreux" & Cities in the Sky; "JSR Personal"; Arts Commission of the City of New York, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; Colette Rossant cookbooks; furniture designs; miscellaneous
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Box 8 |
VHS Videocassette: Future Watch
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1990 |
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VHS cassette with recording of CNN program FutureWatch, 5/19/1990 featuring James Rossant discussing imaginary city drawings, with references to planning of Reston, Virginia, and the National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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Box 8 |
16mm Film: "Reston Rev."
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ca. 1970s |
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boxed 16mm film reel labelled "Gulf - 791 - 120 Sec - 'Reston Rev. Color - Young & Rubicam"
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Box 8 |
CD-ROMs
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1990s-2000s |
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case of 46 CD-ROMs, with labels indicating the following projects or other contents: Dim Sum Go Go Restaurant (New York, NY); "Germonville" (unidentified); "Getty" (unidentified); "Hair Box" (unidentified); Heron House (Reston, VA); Jacobson House (unidentified); "Kodak EasyShare Files"; "Loft Architecture & Sketches - Older JSR Jobs"; "Manhattan Scans"; "Miscellaneous JSR Materials - Germany 2002, Loft 2002, New Folder (AIA)"; illegible; New York Studio School Master Plan (New York, NY); Rossant House; "Rossant Web Layout"; "Storage - Claverack - Watercolor Paintings"; World Trade Center Site; digital children's book project "The Little Blue Duck" (written by Marianne Rossant, illustrated by James Rossant, programmed by Christian Niemitz); "BCI"; "NY Live View; software from Safety Technology International; copy of Bob Dylan album Desire (1976); unlabeled discs
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Series VI: Architectural Drawings
Series VI contains 577 large-format original and reprographic architectural drawings, organized alphabetically by project name.
Tube 1: Roll 1 |
Academic: Wilmington 2000 Study (Wilmington, DE)
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1996-1997 |
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5 drawing sheets (perspectives, including downtown skyline with rooftop light sculptures)
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Tube 1: Roll 2 |
Baltimore CBD North (Baltimore, MD)
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ca. 1969 |
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1 drawing sheet (perspective showing multi-level "Wet Park")
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Tube 1: Roll 3 |
Bhutan National Conference Center and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thimphu, Bhutan)
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ca. 1986 |
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24 drawing sheets (plans, sections, elevations, site section, site plan, interior and exterior perspectives, construction details)
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Tube 1: Roll 4 |
Bhutan National Conference Center and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thimphu, Bhutan)
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ca. 1986 |
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18 drawing sheets (plans [some with markup], elevation, section-elevation, aerial and courtyard perspectives, diagrammatic plans, topographic maps)
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Tube 2: Roll 1 |
Bhutan National Conference Center and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thimphu, Bhutan)
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ca. 1986 |
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77 drawing sheets, largely but not exclusively sketches/overlays (plans, sections, elevations, axonometrics, details, perspectives, marginalia including female nudes, etc.)
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Tube 2: Roll 2 |
Bunkit children's furniture for the Hollaender Manufacturing Co.
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1976 |
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4 drawing sheets (plan, elevation, detail and axonometric views of furniture system)
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Tube 2: Roll 3 |
Central Park Stables, Arena and Police Station Competition (New York, NY)
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1966 |
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4 drawing sheets (exterior perspectives)
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Tube 2: Roll 4 |
Cities in the Sky
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1978 |
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6 drawing sheets (axonometrics of imaginary cities, some with additional cartooned elements)
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Tube 3: Roll 1 |
Eagle Chase (Woodbury, NY)
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1986 |
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2 drawing sheets (plans)
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Tube 3: Roll 2 |
East Lake Wales master plan, including Nalcrest and Fedhaven village centers (East Lake Wales, FL)
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ca. 1961-1963 |
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7 drawing sheets (perspective nad plan of proposed use for "pyramid" of [excavated?] fill, perspectives of town centers and housing, elevation and plan of church or community center)
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Tube 3: Roll 3 |
Ellis Island Restoration and World Conference Center (New York, NY)
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1988-1989 |
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47 drawing sheets (existing and proposed plans, various buildings, partial plan and elevation of waterfront housing and marina [possibly from a different project])
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Tube 3: Roll 4 |
Ellis Island Restoration and World Conference Center (New York, NY)
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1988-1989 |
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3 drawing sheets (sections and elevations)
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Tube 4: Roll 1 |
Ellis Island Restoration and World Conference Center (New York, NY)
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1988-1989 |
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17 drawing sheets (site plans, floor plans, elevations, section, aerial and waterfront perspectives)
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Tube 4: Roll 2 |
G Street Pedestrian Concourse, Downtown Washington Feasibility Survey (Washington, D.C.) / [Other Creator: Wallace, McHarg, Roberts & Todd]
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1 drawing sheet (interior perspective of concourse / mall)
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Tube 4: Roll 3 |
Germantown New Town, "Germontown" (Germantown, MD)
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ca. 1966 |
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4 drawing sheets (overall aerial view, perspectives showing plaza and terraces), annotated "for Life magazine"
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Tube 5: Roll 1 |
International Urban Development Competition (Regina, Canada)
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1974 |
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3 drawing sheets (context plan with descriptive text, interior perspective of concourse inside 'Ultrastructure,' partial aerial perspective of 'Ultrastructure' including elevated geodesic dome / Sky Park, plan, section through 'Ultrastructure' and surrounding context)
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Tube 5: Roll 2 |
International Urban Development Competition (Regina, Canada)
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1974 |
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4 drawing sheets (isometric and plan views of 'Ultrastructure' in context; explanatory sections; texts on land use, implementation, and environmental performance [largely illegible], diagrams of implementation sequence, vignettes of historical precedents [typical North American urban and small-town streets, bazaars of Isfahan, Grand Central Terminal], site context plans)
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Tube 5: Roll 3 |
Jericho Jewish Center (Jericho, NY)
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1983, undated |
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10 drawing sheets (exterior rendering, elevations, plans, interior perspective, interior elevations, sections)
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Tube 6: Roll 1 |
Judd Residence (George Judd House) (Waccabuc, NY)
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1960 |
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4 drawing sheets (site plan with sketches, plans, elevations, section, construction details)
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Tube 6: Roll 2 |
Judd Residence (George Judd House) (Waccabuc, NY)
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1960 |
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4 drawing sheets (site plan, plans, elevations, sections, construction details)
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Tube 6: Roll 3 |
Just Bulbs Store / Superior Lamp Company Offices (New York, NY)
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ca. 1979-1982 |
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7 drawing sheets (plans, sections, interior elevations, construction details)
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Tube 6: Roll 4 |
Just Bulbs Store / Superior Lamp Company Offices (New York, NY)
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ca. 1979-1982 |
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10 drawing sheets (plans, exterior elevations, construction details)
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Tube 6: Roll 5 |
Live-Work Center for the Ford Foundation (Calcutta)
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1961 |
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1 drawing sheet (perspective view of courtyard plaza)
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Tube 7: Roll 1 |
Lower Manhattan / Battery Park City (New York, NY)
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1965 |
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2 drawing sheets (aerial view of 'Wall Street East' development, including East River waterfront with proposed housing and marina)
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Tube 7: Roll 2 |
Lower Manhattan / Battery Park City (New York, NY)
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1969 |
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2 drawing sheets (interior perspectives of Westside Mall concourse with monorail/people-mover)
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Tube 7: Roll 3 |
Mason Pavilion / Francis and Patricia Mason House Addition (Rye, NY)
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1990 |
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7 drawing sheets (site plan, construction notes, plans, interior and exterior elevations, construction details)
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Tube 7: Roll 4 |
Monument East / Oldtown Urban Renewal (Baltimore, MD)
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ca. 1965 |
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1 drawing sheet (perspective of townhosue units with tower)
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Tube 8: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1978-1979 |
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7 drawing sheets dated 1978-1979 (no months given) (aerial perspectives, perspective of 'Processional Way' with inverted-pyramid structure, perspectives of plaza spaces)
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Tube 8: Roll 2 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1979 |
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16 drawing sheets dated 1979 (June-August) (plans and one section of various 'Controls'; plans of growth strategy, terraces, spatial sequence, and major circulation; isometrics of terraces)
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Tube 9: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1979 |
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18 drawing sheets dated 1979 (October-November) (isometric; various plans including site plan, land use, surveys and open space, survey, landscape, various utilities and infrastructure, hierarchy of ministries)
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Tube 9: Roll 2 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1980 |
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6 drawing sheets dated 1980 (no months given) (aerial perspectives; perspective of Iseni Park; 'Overall Master Plan: 1980 Revision')
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Tube 10: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1980 |
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15 drawing sheets dated 1980 (March) (plans including site plans, Iseni Park, landscape, paving, railway; diagrams of 'Controls: People's Square'; perspectives of 'Tropical Garden,' Ujamaa Square, other 'vignettes' and isometrics)
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Tube 10: Roll 2 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1980 |
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13 drawing sheets dated 1980 (June-December) (plans including site plan, general plan of context, Unguja Boulevard, Phase 1 building locations, open space; diagrams of 'Controls': energy and minerals, land/housing/urban development; isometric)
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Tube 11: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1981 |
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16 drawing sheets dated 1981 (February-March) (plans including grading, storm drainage, Diplomatic Area, People's Square complex, National Sports Complex, major pedestrian ways, close-up plan of Terrace 1; 'Controls' diagrams of International Hotel and Foreign Affairs; road sections)
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Tube 12: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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1981 |
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16 drawing sheets dated 1981 (April-June) and 1982 (April) (plans of land use and landscape; 'Controls' diagrams of hotels, High Court, Bank of Tanzania, Typical Parastatal building, Finance building, Building Plot Plan of Commercial Link Area; diagrammatic plan of international hotel)
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Tube 13: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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undated |
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19 drawing sheets (no dates) (oversize aerial perspectives; isometrics and axonometrics of terraces; 'vignettes' including axonometrics and perspectives of plaza spaces; interior perspective of Hotel Galleria; perspectives and plans of sculptural gateway or portal)
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Tube 13: Roll 2 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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undated |
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12 drawing sheets (no dates) (overall site plans, one with sketches and highlighting; plans of road network, busway, and land use; park plan with color underlay; timeline charts of staged development)
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Tube 14: Roll 1 |
National Capital Center (Dodoma, Tanzania)
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undated |
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13 drawing sheets (no dates) (isometrics of gridded prismatic volumes; close-up plans of various spaces; 'Controls' diagram of Prime Minister's Office; east-west site sections; section baseline drawings)
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Tube 14: Roll 2 |
Office Building for the Redevelopment Land Agency Competition (Washington, D.C.)
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ca. 1960s-1970s |
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16 drawing sheets (site plan, floor plans, sections, elevations)
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Tube 14: Roll 3 |
Outdoor Lamp Designs for the Lightolier Company
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undated |
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2 drawing sheets (plan, elevation and detail views of several lamp types)
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Tube 14: Roll 4 |
Poughkeepsie Downtown Renewal (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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ca. 1969 |
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1 oversize drawing sheet (printed elevation of waterfront with terraced buildings and geodesic climate domes)
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Tube 15: Roll 1 |
Reston, VA: Hunter's Wood Village Center
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1964-1965 |
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4 drawing sheets (perspectives, site plan, topographic context plan)
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Tube 15: Roll 2 |
Reston, VA: Lake Anne Village
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ca. 1965 |
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1 drawing sheet (elevation of townhouse units on lakefront)
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Tube 15: Roll 3 |
Reston, VA: Lake Anne Village
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1964-1965 |
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3 drawing sheets (elevation of Heron House, perspective of Chimney Road townhouses, perspective of village center [fragile - screentone overlays are loose and peeling])
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Tube 16: Roll 1 |
Roosevelt Island / Welfare Island Housing for the Urban Development Corporation (New York, NY)
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ca. 1970 |
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1 drawing sheet (perspective)
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Tube 16: Roll 2 |
Roosevelt Island / Welfare Island Housing for the Urban Development Corporation (New York, NY)
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ca. 1970 |
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15 drawing sheets (site plans, floor plans, unit plans, apartment distribution diagram, partial axonometric showing elevation details, section-elevation)
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Tube 17: Roll 1 |
Rossant House (Austerlitz, NY)
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1999 |
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4 drawing sheets (plans, elevations, sections)
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Tube 17: Roll 2 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1983 |
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22 drawing sheets, largely sketches/overlalys (plans, elevations, details, other drawings)
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Tube 17: Roll 3 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1983 |
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18 drawing sheets (plans, elevations, sections, wall sections, planting plan)
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Tube 18: Roll 1 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1983 |
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14 drawing sheets, some with markup and marginalia (plans, sections, wall sections, construction details, notes, including Doric column details)
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Tube 18: Roll 2 |
Rossant Townhouse (114 Sullivan Street) and garden pavilion / "The Tempietto" (New York, NY)
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ca. 1983 |
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5 drawing sheets, some with markup/red-lining (plans, sections, elevations, construction details)
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Tube 18: Roll 3 |
Sandyville Housing at Tamiment Resort (Tamiment, PA)
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ca. 1990 |
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4 sheets (elevations, sections, plans)
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Tube 18: Roll 4 |
Unidentified Hotel Plan Diagrams (possibly Baltimore Inner Harbor, Tower Ten, or other project)
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undated |
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6 drawing sheets (diagrammatic plans and sketches)
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Tube 19: Roll 1 |
United States Embassy to Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
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1988-1989 |
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1 drawing sheet (site plan)
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Tube 19: Roll 2 |
Üsküdar American Academy Gymnasium and Cafeteria (Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey)
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1990 |
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10 drawing sheets (site plans, plans, elevations, sections, site section)
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Tube 19: Roll 3 |
Villas Lucania, "Fusco Dwellings" (Mamaroneck, NY)
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ca. 1985-1987 |
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23 drawing sheets (plans, sections, interior and exterior elevations, site plan, perspectives, construction details)
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Tube 19: Roll 4 |
Wayside Chapel For a Lakefront Site (Student Sketch Problem, University of Florida)
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1949-1950 |
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1 drawing sheet (plan, section, rendering)
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