Notebooks and sketchbooks
1947-2010
Subseries
This sub-series documents Melvin Charney’s education and career through notebooks and sketchbooks. The sub-series includes class notes from the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, travel journals and sketchbooks, lecture notes, as well as sketchbooks containing materials from multiple projects spanning his career.
Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.
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Spiral-bound volume including study sketches, primarily of landscape and architecture, with minimal accompanying notes. Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
1 File
book: 12,4 × 18,3 × 1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Post binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Toronto construction;
- Stuttgart;
- Kingston;
- German series;
- Chicago construction;
- Unknown.
1 File
book: 17,9 × 11,9 × 3,2 cm (7 1/16 × 4 11/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound volume including sketches largely abstract in nature, with minimal accompanying notes. Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
1 File
book: 12,6 × 18,3 × 1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Notebook containing lecture notes in black ink. Likely contemporary to Melvin Charney's time as a student at Yale University.
1 File
book: 19,5 × 12,9 × 0,9 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Sketchbook including notes and sketches of Melvin Charney's early professional activities, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Youville Square [Place d'Youville];
- Rudolph's parking garage, New Haven
- ACSA conference, June 1964;
- Rue St. Hubert and rue Napoléon, Montreal;
- Le Collège et l'Église de Nominingue, Quebec;
- Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Quebec;
- Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Quebec;
- Saint-Faustin–Lac-Carré, Quebec.
Sketchbook inscribed on inside front cover: 776-6524
1 File
book: 20,8 × 13,3 × 1,1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches in English (predominant) and French, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Monument to the National Assembly of Quebec;
- Un dictionnaire...;
- Venice Biennale, Meta-Cities.
1 File
book: 17,9 × 12,2 × 2,2 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Displacements exhibition;
- Visions of the temple;
- The white city re-visited;
- Parables and other allegories;
- Un dictionnaire...;
- Halifax Garden;
- A city in movement;
- Struttin' Seattle.
1 File
book:17,8 × 12 × 2,3 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- American city series;
- CCA garden;
- Cities on the move;
- Saigon;
- Cities on the move, Kansas;
- One size fits all series;
- Trees;
- Sherbrooke.
1 File
book: 17,9 × 12 × 2,1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Sketchbook including notes and sketches. Possibly contemporary to Melvin Charney's time living in Paris, France.
1 sketchbook(s)
book: 11 × 18 × 1,4 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Sketchbook including notes and sketches. Possibly contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
1 sketchbook(s)
book: 24,7 × 17 × 1,3 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Notebook containing press clippings covering local and international events.
Notebooks inscribed in black ink on front cover: SCIENCE SCRAPBOOK MELVIN CHARNEY
1 notebook(s)
book: 23,7 × 18,5 × 2,5 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 × 1 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound notebook including notes in black ink, related to travel details for Melvin Charney's trips to Paris and Brussels.
1 notebook(s)
book: 14,5 × 11 × 1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 5/16 × 3/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Pliny... on my mind;
- Lethbridge construction;
- CCA garden;
- Venice biennale;
- Death machine;
- Canadian tribute to human rights;
- Visions of the temple;
- Variations of the theme of a table and chair.
1 File
sheet (smallest): 21,5 × 14 cm (8 7/16 × 5 1/2 in.) sheet (largest): 20,9 × 14,7 cm (8 1/4 × 5 13/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Post binder containing notes and sketches related to the following projects, locations, and/or events:
- Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal;
- Venice biennale, 1986;
- Visions of the temple;
- The German series;
- Canadian tribute to human rights.
1 File
sheets: 16,9 × 9,4 cm (6 5/8 × 3 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Québec City;
- Plains of Abraham;
- CCA garden;
- Calgary square [Bankers Hall];
- Construction in flight;
- All the riches in the world;
- Hampstead.
1 File
sheet (smallest): 21,3 × 13,8 cm (8 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet (largest): 21,4 × 14,4 cm (8 7/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Post binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations and/or projects:
- Portrait dancing deconstruction on temple;
- Trois-Rivières;
- In flight: que la fête commence;
- Jardin des plantes series;
- The garden... ;
- In flight series;
- German series;
- Skyscraper, waterfall, brooks - a construction;
- Grain elevators;
- Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art;
- After the revolution series;
- Some place to be somebody;
- Sticks and stones ...;
- Un dictionnaire... ;
- Malewitsch [Malewich] reconstructed;
- Parable 12;
- London competition.
Spine label inscribed: 90-92
1 File
sheets: 17 × 9,4 cm (6 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- London;
- Jerusalem;
- Halifax, Nova Scotia;
- Un dictionnaire ... ;
- Parables series.
1 File
sheets: 17 × 9,4 cm (6 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Halifax, Canada;
- German series;
- Jerusalem;
- A slice of a garden;
- Power Plant Gallery, Toronto;
- Parable series;
- Koolhaas, Toronto;
- Silo no. 2;
- White cities;
- Israel Museum;
- Un dictionnaire ...;
- Parable 22.
1 ring binder(s)
sheets: 17 × 9,4 cm (6 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Cities on the move;
- Monument to Canadian Aid Workers;
- The size of things;
- New York exhibition;
- Golems on the move;
- American city series;
- Saigon;
- Federation CJA building entrance.
1 ring binder(s)
sheets: 17 × 9,4 cm (6 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Sherbrooke columns;
- Ottawa exhibition;
- One fit sizes all, no. 4;
- Body building;
- Esplanade Frontenac;
- HEC [École des hautes études commerciales] sculpture piece;
- Sable Castelli Gallery exhibition, Toronto;
- Bodyworks;
- Cities on the run series.
1 ring binder(s)
sheets: 17 × 9,4 cm (6 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to an unknown project.
1 ring binder(s)
sheets: 17 × 9,5 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and study sketches (including 11 studies of floor plans, and 2 drawn maps of the island of Crete and the Aegean Sea). Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
1 File
sheets: 21,3 × 13,7 cm (8 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
The binder is split (incompletely) where the covers meet the spine.
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ruled notebook of Melvin Charney's class notes from his studies at Strathcona Academy, Outremont. Includes magazine and newspaper clippings.
Notebooks front cover is inscribed twice in black ink: SCIENCE, and Melvin Charney's childhood address
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ruled spiral-bound notebook of Melvin Charney's class notes along with magazine and newspaper clippings.
1 notebook(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound sketchbook containing notes and study sketches. Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
1 sketchbook(s)
book: 11,9 × 16,8 × 1,1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound sketchbook containing sketches with minimal accompanying notes. Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
1 sketchbook(s)
book: 11,9 × 18 × 1,1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound notebook containing notes in black ink on architecture and art history.
1 notebook(s)
book: 19,9 × 13,6 × 1,5 cm (7 13/16 × 5 3/8 × 9/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound sketchbook containing sketches.
1 sketchbook(s)
book: 13,7 × 20,3 × 1 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ruled notebook containing notes and sketches on design and research.
1 notebook(s)
book: 15,7 × 9,7 × 0,7 cm (6 3/16 × 3 13/16 × 1/4 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects:
- Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat);
- Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy);
- Small weekend house (3 stats);
- Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat);
- Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats);
- Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats);
- Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats);
- Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats);
- Child centre (3 stats);
- Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats);
- Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat);
- Morse Jewellers (4 stats);
- Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North;
- Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat);
- Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat);
- Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat);
- Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
1 ring binder(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Portfolio containing architectural conceptual drawings and studies of elevations, notes, printouts of drawings from Melvin Charney's time as a student, or early professional career. Includes a reprographic copy of a study of C.N.E.J., completed under the supervision of architects Guillaume Gillet and Claude Charpentier of Paris, and a blueprint and two reprographic copies of sections and detail drawings for the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Zion (Miller Avenue, Montreal, Quebec) under the supervision of M. W. Roth, of Montreal.
1 portfolio(s)
sheet (smallest): 5,2 × 8,8 cm (2 1/16 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet (largest): 77,4 × 45,8 cm (30 1/2 × 18 1/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
041-005-002
Portfolio containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including conceptual drawings, photographic prints, reference materials, reprographic copies of artworks and architectural drawings (including elevations, sections, site plans), and a map related to the following projects:
- Mont-Royal Metro Station (6 reprographic copies);
- Canadian Government pavillion, World Expo, Osaka Japan (4 reprographic copies);
- Unknown project(s);
- Curé Grenier School, Notre-Dame des Laurentides, Quebec;
- Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana (2 reprographic copies);
- The Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, Connecticut (5 reprographic copies);
- U.C.C. building, Montreal (12 reprographic copies);
As well as:
- Schwarzenbach residence (J. M. Johansen, architect) (20 reprographic copies).
1 portfolio(s)
sheet (smallest): 12,9 × 8,9 cm (5 1/16 × 3 1/2 in.) sheet (largest): 77 × 101,6 cm (30 5/16 × 40 in.)
Includes a panel.
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
041-004-001
Portfolio containing paintings, drawings, sketches, and graphic design work (two of which are matted). Several pieces were reproduced for inclusion in Melvin Charney's portfolio for admission to Yale.
1 portfolio(s)
sheet (smallest): 12,6 × 20,2 cm (4 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet (largest): 40,9 × 55,3 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
041-005-001
Book containing magazine and newspaper clippings (in English) of various events from around the world.
Incscribed twice in black ink: SCIENCE (on front cover), and: Melvin Charney 6292 De Vimy Strathcona VIII B Room 18 (inside front cover)
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ruled notebook of Melvin Charney's class notes in blue (predominant), red, and black inks, and graphite, from his studies at Strathcona Academy, Outremont.
Inscribed twice, in black, blue, and red ink: SCIENCE AND GEOMETRY (on front cover), and: Melvin Charney 6292 De Vimy Strathcona Academy AT 7452 DO 2511 (inside front cover).
1 book(s)
book: 27,2 × 21,2 × 1,3 cm (10 11/16 × 8 3/8 × 1/2 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ruled notebook of Melvin Charney's class notes in blue (predominant), red, and black inks, and graphite, from his studies at Strathcona Academy, Outremont.
Inscribed twice in black ink: SCIENCE (front cover), and: Melvin Charney 6292 De Vimy Strathcona VIII B Room 18 Strathcona Academy AT 7452 (front flyleaf)
1 book(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes by Melvin Charney during his time as a student at McGill University.
Inscribed in black ink: SCIENCE
1 ring binder(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing one architectural report by Melvin Charney, written during his time as a student at McGill University.
Labelled: ERIC MENDELSOHN mel charney b. arch 4
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing assignments by Melvin Charney, written during his time as a student. Includes a sketch of the Globe Theatre, and a detail map of London, both pasted onto ruled sheets.
Inscribed: THEATRES IN SHAKESPEAR[sic]'S LONDON CHARNEY M. SECTION 7 MONDAY CONF. MISS SIMPSON
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
sheet (smallest): 7,2 × 10 cm (2 13/16 × 3 15/16 in.) sheet (largest): 12,5 × 8,7 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
inscribed
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing a report by Melvin Charney during his time as a student.
Labelled: ART in the life of MAN
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing architectural report by Melvin Charney during his time as a student at McGill University. Includes study sketches.
Labelled: ARCHITECTURAL REPORT BY: MEL CHARNEY B. ARCH. 3
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
sheet (smallest): 17,5 × 23,7 cm (6 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet (largest): 27,7 × 21,2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing a report written by Melvin Charney during his time as a student at McGill University. Includes photographs.
Inscribed in black ink: of city and man
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
sheet (smallest): 7 × 11 cm (2 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.) sheet (largest): 8,5 × 12,3 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing a report written by Melvin Charney during his time as a student at McGill University.
Inscribed in black ink: ARCHITECTURAL PAINT PROBLEMS
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Duo-Tang® folder containing sketches.
Labelled: ART in the life of MAN by: Mel Charney
1 loose-leaf binder(s)
sheets: 28,6 × 21,5 cm (11 1/4 × 8 7/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing sketches with references to the following locations and/or projects:
- American portrait series;
- Milk River, Alberta;
- Settings series.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: AMERICAN PORTRAIT SERIES / NOTES 1985-1990
1 file(s)
sheets: 21,4 × 27,7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English and French, including notes, reference materials, and sketches. Includes references to the following projects:
- A museum construction;
- Fragments;
- Streetwork;
- Théâtre d'aujourd'hui;
- German series 1.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: NOTES / SKETCHES 1978 → 1980
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 19,5 × 12,5 cm (7 11/16 × 4 15/16 in.) sheet (largest): 27,7 × 21,4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing notes and sketches related to the following projects:
- Unidentified projects;
- Streetwork.
Further investigation is required to identify the projects present.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: NOTES 1977 - SEPT '78
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 14,6 × 7,3 cm (5 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.) sheet (largest): 27,7 × 21,4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Assorted drawings, sketches, and a photograph related to the following projects:
- Chicago construction;
- Kingston construction;
- Fragments (1 photograph, 1 drawing).
Further investigation is required to identify the projects present.
1 sketch(es)
sheet (smallest): 20,1 × 25,1 cm (7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.) sheet (largest): 42,9 × 35,4 cm (16 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Post binder containing notes from Melvin Charney's time as a student.
related to Melvin Charney's time as a student at .
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing exams and notes from Melvin Charney's time as a student at McGill University.
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ten post binders containing exams and notes from Melvin Charney's time as a student at McGill University.
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Five notebooks from Melvin Charney's time as a student.
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Three notebooks from Melvin Charney's time as a student.
1 book(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Consists of sketches, plans, elevations, sections and details relating to a variety of projects. Identified projects include Bodyworks ("Bodyworks: She-Male 05.11.03"), Les Maisons de la Rue Sherbrooke, Streetwork - Art Gallery of Ontario, A Kingston Construction, and A Chicago Construction.
1 File
sheet (smallest): 56 × 89 cm sheet (largest): 92.2 × 155 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches (109 drawings) referring to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- Sable-Castelli exhibition, Toronto;
- Cities on the move;
- American city: Venice;
- Assemblée nationale du Québec [National Assembly of Quebec];
- CCA garden;
- Kansas City, Missouri;
- One size fits all;
- The parade of the engineers;
- Stepping out;
- Longueuil, Quebec;
- Bodyworks.
1 File
book: 29,6 × 26,5 × 3,8 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects:
- A museum construction;
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts;
- New York piece;
- Tryptich;
- Toronto construction;
- Kassel piece;
- Forgotten city series;
- Table and chair;
- CCA garden;
- Settlers square, Calgary;
- In flight ...;
- Square Berri;
- All the riches in the world;
- Canadian tribute to human rights;
- Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art [Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal];
- Hampstead;
- Jerusalem;
- Lenin's tomb;
- Engineer's golems.
1 File
book: 29,7 × 27,7 × 5,4 cm
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Spiral-bound album containing sketches, and correspondence in English and French regarding public lectures given by Melvin Charney.
1 album(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Sketchbook containing notes and sketches.
1 sketchbook(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Notebook containing notes and sketches. Further investigation is required to identify the project(s) represented within.
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Ring binder containing documents in English, including reprographic copies of architectural drawings, detail studies, and sketches related to the following projects:
- Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana (in collaboration with John M. Johansen; 2 reprographic copies);
- U.C.C. Building, Montreal (in collaboration with Victor Prus; 4 reprographic copies);
- Unidentified projects.
1 File
sheet (smallest): 12,5 × 34,8 cm (4 15/16 × 13 11/16 in.) sheet (largest): 27,1 × 35,8 cm (10 11/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
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