Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Fonds, 1965-1985.

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Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Fonds, 1965-1985.

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The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) Fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic material which document the activities of the IAUS from its inception in 1967 until its dissolution in 1983. Those activities include the publication of three periodicals (Oppositions, October and Skyline), as well as numerous books, conferences, lectures, exhibitions and educational programming. In addition, the IAUS Fonds documents the activities of the IAUS' director, architect Peter Eisenman.

521 posters, 301 textual records, 212 negatives, 189 files, 142 slides, 33 audiocassettes, 6 panels, 3 dummies, 1 book, 0,59 l.m. textual records, 0,32 l.m. photographic materials

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Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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Biographical/Historical Note American architect, educator and theoretician, Peter Eisenman founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City in 1967. Critics of that time dubbed him one of the New York Five (along with Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier), a loose, theoretical and aesthetic grouping of New York architects that presaged Post-Modernism. The Corbusier-inspired design of House ...