Architecture
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Barry Ginsberg and Joe Costelli interview, 1994 December 15, 1994 December 15
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.2
Scope and Contents
This is an interview with Doctors Joe Costelli and Barry Ginsberg of FIT. Costelli was the chair of the math and science department at the time of the interview and Ginsberg a retired professor emeritus. Ginsberg begins by describing his start at the institute in 1956 under former Department Chair Bill Leider. At the time there were approximately 20 faculty members and 200 students. He describes the tight-knit quality of FIT and weekend trips to the Hotel Grossinger. In tandem with his work...
Dates:
1994 December 15
Marty Zelnik interview, 1995 April 4, 1995 April 4
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.35
Scope and Contents
Professor of Interior Design and Chair of the Faculty Association at the time of this interview, Martin Zelnik was hired as a full-time professor in 1969. Zelnik received his BFA from Brandeis University and an MFA of Architecture from Columbia University. He discusses changes in student demographics, noting that students are less traditional and often older than when he started. He talks about how most faculty remain practitioners in their fields, and discusses the linkages between his...
Dates:
1995 April 4
September 18-19, 1993, 1993
folder
Identifier: SC.214.1.1.408
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a column on architect and interior designer Robert Couturier and black and white portrait of Couturier, black and white photos and photocopies of his furniture designs and a bio of Robert Couturier.
Dates:
1993
Steven Cervantes illustrations
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 39698004334716]
Identifier: SC.289
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 2 undated original pen and watercolor illustrations by Steven Cervantes. One depicts the exterior of a 12 storey building (possibly a department store) and the other is a complex fantasy architecture-inspired surface design. Both have a label on the reverse indicating that they came from the archive of the Kenneth Paul Block Foundation.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Special Collections and FIT Archive
Symposium records, 2019
folder
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.10.1.2.34
Scope and Contents
Includes the papers and presentation delivered at the 2019 Symposium. The names of the presenters and the title of their presentations contained in this folder are: Anna Muller "Counterculture, Craft, and Feminine Power: Crochet from 1966-1976" ; Monica Geraffo "DIY-stopia: Archizoom's 'Dressing Design' and 'Dressing is Easy' and the Paradox of Hand Sewing in Technological Utopias" ; Megan Gillen "The Honeycomb Stitch: Smocking on Garments from 1887 to 1910" ; Faith Cooper "Punk of the...
Dates:
2019