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Architecture

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 175 Collections and/or Records:

Portsmouth City Art Project: The Water's Hours and The Sky's Hours, 1973

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12801-13088
Scope and Contents

This depicts two adjacent, brown colored, ceramic or concrete, vertical slabs lettered The Water's Hours with levels drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals and The Sky's Hours with strokes of a sundial drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals, respectively. In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Projet pour un Parc Republicain / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12505-12732
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a landscape viewed from above with a classical Greek temple and trees. The path in the center has the shape of an axe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12484-12711
Scope and Contents

This is a proposal for a garden path of bricks stamped with names of trees taken from Sir William Temple's book "Gardens in Virgil's Time," viz., 'The trees were the elm, the pine, the lime-tree, and the Platanus, or plame-tree, whose leaf and shade, of all others, was the most in request...' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Proposal: Ein Vorschlag fur die Bundesgartenschau, Magdeburg, 1999 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Simig, Pia Maria; Clark, Thomas A.; Clark, Laurie., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35450-37186
Scope and Contents

This proposal calls for installation of calligraphic plaques within a stone walls enclosed garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Proposal for a Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 1986

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12339-12565
Scope and Contents

Printed by Stellar Press. Deals with the ideas of Rousseau on nature that formed the ethical and political behavior of the leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Proposal for a Temple of Apollo/Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Stewart, Mark ; Rogan, Peter., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-12603-12835
Scope and Contents

This is the plan for a new neo-classical temple at Finlay's Little Sparta. The image in the photograph is a photomontaged building to be erected against the landscape of Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Proposition pour un Jardin Commemorant la Revolution Francais et Les Droits de l'Homme 1789-1989: Hotel des Menus Plaisers Versailles / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Chematoff, Alexandre ; Finlay, Sue ; Sloan, Nicholas ; Bann S., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-34850-36559
Scope and Contents

Stephen Bann contributed an essay on Finlay's proposal, "A revolutionary garden in Versailles." In it, he explains Finlay's choice of trees and bushes and their arrangement in terms of metaphors for the French revolution and the rights of man. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Rarae Aves 6 / Ex Libris ; Apollinaire G ; Bayer H ; Burliuk D ; Cassandre AM ; Depero F ; Hugnet G ; Jarry A ; Malevich K ; d'Albisola T ; Munari B., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-13920-14225
Scope and Contents

Includes description of "L'Anguria Lirica" held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Revue Nul=0: Werner Ruthnau: 2 Vortrage in Amsterdam. No.3 / Herman de Vries, editor., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-38795-40709
Scope and Contents

The subject of this issue, Werner Ruthenau, was an architect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Seth Temple Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0339
Abstract

Architect of Davenport, Iowa. These are architectural drawings, and they are not really organized, but they are not exactly unprocessed either. They are kept in three large-size wallet type folders. They are candidates for presesrvation.

Dates: 1895-1900

Shape of Things Past / Collins, Glenn; Laffoley P., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-43516-45588
Scope and Contents

This essay describes how Paul Laffoley plans to submit a proposal for a building adapted from a design by Antoni Gaudi for ground zero at the New World Trade Center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003