Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds, 1947-1987.

Main entry:

McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group.

Title & Author:

Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds, 1947-1987.

Description:

13.28 linear meters of textual records, approximately 83,334 photographic material, 563 drawings, 315 printing plates, 52 books, 41 artefacts, 17 panels, 11 audiocassettes, 3 sketchbooks, 2 models, and 2 CD-R

Restrictions:

Access by appointment only.

Notes:
For copyright information or permission to reproduce material from the collection, please contact the CCA (reproductions@cca.qc.ca).
Documents are primarily in English, some in French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Punjabi.

Summary:

The Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds documents the publications related to the research projects for low-cost housing and energy conservation undertaken by the Minimum Cost Housing Group of the McGill School of Architecture from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. The documents in the fonds consist of textual records, photographs and artefacts relating to over 20 of the group's publications, theses, research papers, offices records and reference material.

Resources:
Finding aid
Finding aid

Subject:

McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group.
Buildings Environmental engineering.
Architecture and energy conservation.
Architecture, Domestic.
Constructions Technique de l'environnement.
Architecture et économies d'énergie.
energy efficient buildings.

Form/genre:

Fonds (collections)
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Drawings.
Slides (photographs)
Photographs.
Artifacts (object genre)
Reproductions.
Negatives (photographs)
Audiocassettes.
Sketchbooks.
Documents.
Project files.
Architectural models.

Added entries:

Bhatt, Vikram.
Rybczynski, Witold.

Minimum Cost Housing Group archives

Holdings:

Location: Library archives collection 295737
Call No.: AP149
Status: Available

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