Civic and Cultural Publications

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• Collection: Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe collection, 1946-1996
•    Series: Civic and Cultural Publications, 1946-1962

People

• Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (creator)
• Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (archive creator)

Title

Civic and Cultural Publications

Dates of creation

1946-1962

Level of archival description

Series

Extent and Medium

• 0.05 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

The five diverse pamphlets and publications primarily document certain architecturally-related events during Vancouver's explosive growth through the 1950s. Included are a fund-raising campaign brochure for the expansion of the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1949-1951, and an invitation to the inauguration of the Frederick Lasserre Architecture and Fine Arts Building at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The building was constructed by architects Thompson, Berwick, Pratt in 1957-1958, but officially opened in 1962 after the death of Lasserre (1911-1961), UBC's first director of the school of architecture. The series also includes "Project '58", a relatively rare privately-printed pamphlet given to Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe by architect Geoffrey Massey. Written by Wells Coates, with Massey, Arthur Erickson, Peter Oberlander, and E.J. Watkins, the illustrated proposal recommended the creation of a local urban-design centre in 1958 to forestall the rise of private development through the implimentation of a master plan strategy for Vancouver.

Material in this series was produced between 1946 and 1962. Series contains a pamphlet, invitation brochures and publications.

Reference Number

CD046.S1

Arrangement

Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.

Location

Vancouver British Columbia Canada

Related units of description

• Notes to the essay by Wells Coates are in the CCA's Wells Coates Fonds (AP030).

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  • Reference Number: ARCH175886
  • Title: What is Modern Architecture?
  • Dates of creation: 1946
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
  • Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (archive creator)

  Description:

  Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946 (2nd edition)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 19 x 25.5 cm

  Physical Description:

  - 36 pages.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe/
  Gift of Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
  

  Folder Number:

  CD046-001-001

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  • Reference Number: ARCH175888
  • Title: .. so Art doesn't mean a thing to You?
  • Dates of creation: 1951
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (archive creator)

  Description:

  City of Vancouver Art Gallery Building Campaign, 1951

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Dimensions:

  sheets (folded): 12 x 17.5 cm

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe/
  Gift of Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
  

  Folder Number:

  CD046-001-002

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  • Reference Number: ARCH175890
  • Title: Project '58
  • Dates of creation: 1956
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Unknown (author)
  • Unknown (publisher)
  • Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (archive creator)

  Description:

  A Proposal for an Urban Design for the Central Area, City of Vancouver for Exhibition during the BC Centennial, unknown author or publisher, 1956

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 24.5 x 34 cm

  Physical Description:

  - 16 pages.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe/
  Gift of Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
  

  Folder Number:

  CD046-001-003

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  • Reference Number: ARCH175891
  • Title: Five Ways to cut Municipal Construction Costs
  • Dates of creation: ca. 1956
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (archive creator)

  Description:

  Numbers 1 to 5. Plywood ManufacturersAssociation of British Columbia, Vancouver, ca. 1956

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 15 x 15 cm

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe/
  Gift of Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
  

  Folder Number:

  CD046-001-004

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  • Reference Number: ARCH175897
  • Title: Invitation for the Opening of the Frederick Lasserre Building for Architecture, Fine Arts and Planning, UBC
  • Dates of creation: 29 May 1962
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 14.5 x 18 cm

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe/
  Gift of Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
  

  Folder Number:

  CD046-001-005