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Guy Desbarats fonds
AP109
Synopsis:
The Fonds Guy Desbarats documents most aspects of Desbarats professional career as a teacher, critic and architect as well as personal materials relating to his time as a university student and after. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of drawings, photographs and textual records relating to 81 architectural projects. Many commissions from the early 1950s are represented, including schools and residences designed for Abra, Balharrie & Shore in Ottawa, and various projects produced in association with Raymond Affleck. Additionally, projects by the firm Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise (later known as Arcop) are represented.
1947 - 1998
Guy Desbarats fonds
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AP109
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The Fonds Guy Desbarats documents most aspects of Desbarats professional career as a teacher, critic and architect as well as personal materials relating to his time as a university student and after. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of drawings, photographs and textual records relating to 81 architectural projects. Many commissions from the early 1950s are represented, including schools and residences designed for Abra, Balharrie & Shore in Ottawa, and various projects produced in association with Raymond Affleck. Additionally, projects by the firm Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise (later known as Arcop) are represented.
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1947 - 1998
PH1980:1164
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Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee. Title from NCLC caption card: "We give them houses to live in".
February 1912?
View of dilapidated structures housing about 50 people working for Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina, United States
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PH1980:1164
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Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee. Title from NCLC caption card: "We give them houses to live in".
textual records, photographs
PH1980:0044:010
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Page from an advertisement album about local businesses in San Francisco. The album is titled: The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons.
1879-1880
Advertisement page for Whittier, Fuller & Co., Pioneer White Lead Works, San Francisco, California, United States
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PH1980:0044:010
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Page from an advertisement album about local businesses in San Francisco. The album is titled: The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons.
textual records, photographs
1879-1880
Project
AP178.S1.1976.PR02
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This project series documents the Parcelas 191 e 192 in Porto, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 34/70. The office assigned the date 1976 for this project. The Comissariado para a Renovação Urbana da Área de Ribeira/Barredo was an organization responsible for the rehabilitation of the historic district of Porto. Alvaro Siza was selected to study the area and to propose architectural solutions for the Mercado da Ribeira (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR01 in this fonds) Parcelas 191 e 192, and Largo da Lada (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR03 in this fonds). For this project, Siza worked on two houses. Special attention was paid to the windows. This project was realized. Drawings include studies, elevations, sections and working drawings. Textual materials include project documentation. Photographic materials include photographs of drawings.
1962-1974
Parcelas 191 e 192 [Plots 191 and 192], Porto, Portugal (1976)
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AP178.S1.1976.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the Parcelas 191 e 192 in Porto, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 34/70. The office assigned the date 1976 for this project. The Comissariado para a Renovação Urbana da Área de Ribeira/Barredo was an organization responsible for the rehabilitation of the historic district of Porto. Alvaro Siza was selected to study the area and to propose architectural solutions for the Mercado da Ribeira (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR01 in this fonds) Parcelas 191 e 192, and Largo da Lada (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR03 in this fonds). For this project, Siza worked on two houses. Special attention was paid to the windows. This project was realized. Drawings include studies, elevations, sections and working drawings. Textual materials include project documentation. Photographic materials include photographs of drawings.
Project
1962-1974
drawings
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5 presentation drawing(s)
AP140.S2.SS1.D9.P2
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reprographic copies of three, no longer extant, final presentation drawings, but without the full explanatory typescript texts that accompanied those presentation drawings, showing a diagrammatic cross section illustrating the 10 1/2 ft and 7 ft horizontal modules, 7 ft vertical modules, and the 30 degree sloped roofs, a diagrammatic cross section for the structure, a sequence of three axonometric drawings representing the system of construction, from the parallel load-bearing walls to finished building, a roadside elevation and section for terraces of staggered houses, cross sections for houses, plans and elevations for terraces of staggered houses, diagrammatic plans for the roofs of terraces of staggered housing extending an existing village, plans, diagrammatic plans and sections for housing along footpaths off the main street, plans for houses, typical end elevations, and explanatory typescript text
1955 or after
Reprographic copies of three, no longer extant, final presentation drawings
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AP140.S2.SS1.D9.P2
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reprographic copies of three, no longer extant, final presentation drawings, but without the full explanatory typescript texts that accompanied those presentation drawings, showing a diagrammatic cross section illustrating the 10 1/2 ft and 7 ft horizontal modules, 7 ft vertical modules, and the 30 degree sloped roofs, a diagrammatic cross section for the structure, a sequence of three axonometric drawings representing the system of construction, from the parallel load-bearing walls to finished building, a roadside elevation and section for terraces of staggered houses, cross sections for houses, plans and elevations for terraces of staggered houses, diagrammatic plans for the roofs of terraces of staggered housing extending an existing village, plans, diagrammatic plans and sections for housing along footpaths off the main street, plans for houses, typical end elevations, and explanatory typescript text
drawings
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5 presentation drawing(s)
1955 or after
books
The Problem Is
AP149.S1.1971.PR01.001
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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.
October 1971
The Problem Is
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AP149.S1.1971.PR01.001
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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.
books
October 1971
Project
Westpen
AP144.S2.D101
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File documents an unexecuted project for Westpen, an animal enclosure for the property at West Green House at Hartley Wintney, in Hampshire, England, and also the location for the project Greenbird (AP144.S2.D96). The pen can be adapted for several uses and its pivoting and sliding gates can be removed when not used for livestock, to be converted into a sculptured landscape for picnicking and leisure activities. Conceptual drawings include diagrammatic sketches which show the movement of animals through the pen for collecting, weighing, cleaning, and shearing. Sketches show pivoting rails, and preliminary plans are annotated with individual gate dimensions. Design development and working drawings illustrate the development of the pen components: 8 ft swing slide and cattle gates; 3 ft sheep gates; a sheep dip and footbath area; a sheep drafting and guillotine gate; and feed bins. Plans and details show the concrete apron and pre-formed gate sockets. Reprographic copies made from a consultant's drawings show the configuration of gates and hurdles. Some material in this file was published in Price-Works II' (London: Architectural Press, 1984), 72, 79. Material in this file was produced between 1977 and 1979. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, model, photographic materials and textual records.
1977-1979
Westpen
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AP144.S2.D101
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File documents an unexecuted project for Westpen, an animal enclosure for the property at West Green House at Hartley Wintney, in Hampshire, England, and also the location for the project Greenbird (AP144.S2.D96). The pen can be adapted for several uses and its pivoting and sliding gates can be removed when not used for livestock, to be converted into a sculptured landscape for picnicking and leisure activities. Conceptual drawings include diagrammatic sketches which show the movement of animals through the pen for collecting, weighing, cleaning, and shearing. Sketches show pivoting rails, and preliminary plans are annotated with individual gate dimensions. Design development and working drawings illustrate the development of the pen components: 8 ft swing slide and cattle gates; 3 ft sheep gates; a sheep dip and footbath area; a sheep drafting and guillotine gate; and feed bins. Plans and details show the concrete apron and pre-formed gate sockets. Reprographic copies made from a consultant's drawings show the configuration of gates and hurdles. Some material in this file was published in Price-Works II' (London: Architectural Press, 1984), 72, 79. Material in this file was produced between 1977 and 1979. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, model, photographic materials and textual records.
File 101
1977-1979
DR1994:0014:016
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- This photograph is of 19 photographic exhibition panels showing Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) [3 panels]; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona, Spain) [3 panels]; Promontory Apartment Building (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; model for Cantor Commercial Center Office Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; model for Cantor Drive-in Restaurant (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; and various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) buildings including the Boiler Plant [2 panels], Minerals and Metals Research Building [1 panel]; unidentified views [2 panels]; and perspective drawings for unidentified buildings [2 panels].
architecture, exhibition design
negative exposed between 1949 and 1969
View of exhibition panels showing various projects by Mies van der Rohe
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DR1994:0014:016
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- This photograph is of 19 photographic exhibition panels showing Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) [3 panels]; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona, Spain) [3 panels]; Promontory Apartment Building (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; model for Cantor Commercial Center Office Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; model for Cantor Drive-in Restaurant (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; and various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) buildings including the Boiler Plant [2 panels], Minerals and Metals Research Building [1 panel]; unidentified views [2 panels]; and perspective drawings for unidentified buildings [2 panels].
architecture, exhibition design
ARCH256020
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Right row (bottom to the top): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba; Pavilion of Economic Progress; Chatelaine House; Africa Place; Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion; Canadian Pacific-Cominco Pavilion. Middle right row (bottom to the top): - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion; - Africa Place; - Steel Pavilion. Middle left row (bottom to the top): - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Left-row (bottom to the top): Sainte Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH256020
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Right row (bottom to the top): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba; Pavilion of Economic Progress; Chatelaine House; Africa Place; Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion; Canadian Pacific-Cominco Pavilion. Middle right row (bottom to the top): - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion; - Africa Place; - Steel Pavilion. Middle left row (bottom to the top): - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Left-row (bottom to the top): Sainte Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery