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Rooftop gardens
between 1974 and 1976
Project
File related to the project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group about rooftop gardens at the McGill University Settlement Community Centre in the St-Louis district of Montréal, in 1976, and the related publication "Rooftop Wastelands". The material in this file was produced between 1974 and 1976. The file contains textual records, including dummies for the publication, photographs of the rooftop gardens, reprographic copies of plans for the rooftop gardens and copies of the publication "Rooftop Wastelands". The file also includes printing plates.
Materiel in this project series was kept in its original order during processing.
Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada
The documents are in English.
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "The Problem is" by Samir Ayad et Witold Rybzynski about a project of prefabricated houses for the developing countries undetaken in 1971.
1 book(s)
Bound volume of electostatic print on paper
book: 28,2 × 21,9 × 0,8 cm (11 1/8 × 8 5/8 × 5/16 in.)
Bound (stapled) volume.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-012-016
1 File
Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-012-017
Group also includes photographs of the rooftop installations, some of which in the mock-up version of a report.
1 File
Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-012-018
1 File
Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-012-019
1 File
Island of Montréal Québec Canada
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-012-020
Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens.
1 book(s)
Bound volume of electrophotographic print on paper
book: 28,1 × 21,9 × 0,3 cm (11 1/16 × 8 5/8 × 1/8 in.)
Bound volume of 32 pages.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-002-03
Objects that have been catalogued:
inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the disk, in blue felt-tip pen: "Rooftop wastelands pictures"
1 CD
case: 12,5 × 14 cm
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-26
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheet: 20,5 × 25,5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-20
Objects that have been catalogued:
Group consists of two copies of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of an allotment garden on a city roof.
2 book(s)
Bound volume of electrophotographic print on paper
book: 28 × 21,8 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)
Bound (stapled) volumes of 32 pages.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-24
1 reprographic copy(ies)
Electrophotographic print on paper
sheets: 25,4 × 20,3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-25
Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of an allotment garden on a city roof.
1 textual record(s)
Electrophotographic print on paper; typescript on paper
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-003-27
Group consists of photographs for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations. The group also includes the enveloppe that was containing the photographs
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper
sheets: 20,5 × 25,5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-19
Group consists of part of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations.
1 textual record(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paper with typescript and ink; gelatin silver print on paper with ink and graphite; gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paper
sheet (smallest): 11,6 × 17 cm (4 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.) sheet (largest): 22,9 × 21,1 cm (9 × 8 5/16 in.)
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-21
Group consists of photographs of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wastelands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens, including photographs of the rooftop garden installations and photographs of people gardening.
1 photographic material(s)
Gelatin silver print on paper (photographs and contact sheet); negatives
photographic materials: 0,01 l.m.
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-005-22
Group consists of two sets of aluminium offset plates for the offset printing of the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Rooftop Wasterlands" about the project of two years of work on rooftop gardens.
32 printing plate(s)
Ink on aluminium sheet
plate (smallest): 39,2 × 25,3 cm plate (largest): 46 × 28,1 cm
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Vikram Bhatt/
Gift of Vikram Bhatt
149-008-04
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