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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Pidgeon Audio Visual Media Collection, Ms2023-118, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Pidgeon Audio Visual Media collection was transferred to Special Collections and University Archives from the VT Art and Architecture Library in September 2023.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Pidgeon Audio Visual Media Collection was completed in October 2023.

Content Description

Pidgeon Audio Visual (PAV) was founded by Monica Pidgeon in London in 1978 in collaboration with Radio 3 producer Leonie Cohn. PAV produced and published audio cassette/slide lectures given by architects about architecture and related disciplines. Monica Pidgeon (nee Lehmann), born in 1913 in Chile, was editor of Architectural Design from 1946 to 1975, and later became the editor of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Journal .

Pidgeon was made an honorary fellow of the RIBA in 1970, of the Architectural Association in 1979, and of the American Institute of Architects, for her work on PAV, in 1987.

Scope and Content

Signs of Occupancy , Alison and Peter Smithson. From the title card description: "Signs of occupancy talks about two things: firstly, how the language of architecture can indicate its use and, beyond that, how it can invite the affection and the design activities of its occupiers and their successors."

Design Is One , Massimo and Lella Vignelli. From the title card description: " The Vignellis take turns describing a variety of commissions they have carried out in the fields of graphics, furniture and interiors."

Wood and Water , Sylvia Crowe. From the title card description: "Sylvia Crowe is the doyenne among the most respected of Britain's landscape architects. For her recorded talk she has concentrated on the landscaping of forests and reservoirs, showing several of her projects and discussing the related problems she has encountered."

A Tale of Two Cultures , Kathryn (Ushida) Findlay. From the title description: "Findlay discusses how the Japanese see the creation of space and how that differs from the western approach. This is illustrated in the projects that Findlay describes."

Arrangement

Items are arranged chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Architecture (discipline)
• Architecture -- Study and teaching
• International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
• Landscape architecture

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Pidgeon Audio Visual Media Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).