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“We have not supposed there is a poetry of ideas.”
– Charles Eames
Chuck Pratt
Architecture 4395
The Constructive Vision
Prof. Ed Baum
Fall 2003
From The Work of the
Office of Charles and Ray Eames 1941-1978
1941
Molded Plywood Chair Seats
1942
Molded Plywood Experiments
Molded Plywood Splint
1943
Splint Production
Molded Plywood Experiments
1945
Plywood Chair
1946
MOMA One-Man Show
Plywood Metal-legged Chair
Plywood Folding Screen
1947
MOMA “Low-Cost Furniture” Competition
1949
Arts & Architecture Case Study House #8
1950
film: Travelling Boy
Billly Wilder House
Plastic Armchair
1951
Wire Chair and Sofa
1952
film: Blacktop
film: Parade
House of Cards
1953
A Rough Sketch for a Sample Lesson for a Hypothetical Course
film: Bread
film: A Communications Primer
Hang-It-All
1954
film: S-73
1955
film: House
film: Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India
film: Two Baroque Churches
Stacking Chair
1956
Lounge Chair
film: Lounge Chair
film: Spirit of St. Louis (montage)
1957
film: Stars of Jazz
film: Day of the Dead
film: Toccata for Toy Trains
film: The Information Machine
1958
film: Herman Miller at the Brussels World”s Fair
film: The Expanding Airport
film: DeGaulle Sketch
Aluminum Group Chairs and Tables
1959
film: Kaleidoscope Shop
film: Time & Life International Lobby
film: Glimpses of the USA
1960
film: The Fabulous Fifties
film: Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair
film: Introduction to Feedback
1961
exhibition: Mathematica (with “peep” shows)
Eames Contract Storage
film: ECS
1962
film: The Good Years
film: The House of Science
film: Before the Fair
film: IBM World”s Fair Presentations #1 and #2
1963
Tandem Shell Seating
1964
film: House of Science
IBM Pavilion at the New York World”s Fair
1965
film: Westinghouse from A to Z
film: The Smithsonian Institution
film: Computer Day at Midvale
film: The Singular Case of the Plural Green Mustache
film: IBM at the Fair
exhibition: Nehru; His Life and His India
1966
film: View from the People Wall
film: Leading Edge
Smithsonian Carousel
1967
film: National Aquarium
film: The Scheutz Machine
1968
film: A Computer Glossary
film: Babbage”s Calculating Machine
film: IBM Museum
film: Lick Observatory
film: Powers of Ten (1)
Chaise
1969
film: Image of the City
film: Tops
exhibition: What Is Design?
1970
film: Soft Pad
film: Fiberglass Chairs
film: Polyorchis Haplus
film: The Black Ships
Drafting Chair
Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1, 2, and 3
1971
Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 4, 5, and 6
film: Computer Landscape
film: Clown Face
Molded Plastic Chair
Two-Piece Secretary”s Chair
1972
film: A Computer Perspective
film: Sumo Wrestler
film: Cable
film: Alpha
film: Banana Leaf
film: SX-70
film: Design Q&A
1973
film: Exponents
film: Franklin and Jefferson Presentation
film: Two Laws of Algebra
film: Nicholas Copernicus
1974
film: Newton”s Method
film: Kepler”s Laws
film: Callot
IBM Newton Cards
1975
film (and proposal): Metropolitan Overview
exhibition: The World of Franklin and Jefferson
1976
film: The World of Franklin and Jefferson Paris Opening
film: The World of Franklin and Jefferson
film: Atlas
film: Something About Photography
film: Look of America
1977
film: Daumier
film: Powers of Ten (2)
film: Polavision
1978
film: Sonar One-Step
film: Art Game
film: Merlin
film: Cézanne
film: Degas
1979
film: IBM 590 Report (completed after Charles’s death in August 1978)