Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Melvin Charney, 1947-2012
•    Série(s): Projects, 1955-2012
•      Projet: Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970

Personnes et institutions:

• Melvin Charney (architect)
• Melvin Charney (archive creator)

Titre:

Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario

Date:

1969-1970

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 0.18 l.m. of textual records
  132 photographic materials
  19 reprographic copies
  17 drawings
  3 ephemera

Présentation du contenu:
The project series documents Melvin Charney's work for the design competition for the Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial (RCAF) at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. The project was identified by Charney as the MEMO Series. The competition called for the design of a building of “appropriate character” which would commemorate “the birth and growth of Canadian aviation”. The competition program was very specific, requesting a building on a predefined site, with rooms designed for specific activities.

MEMO was formally submitted by Charney and consisted of 91 pages of plans, designs, photographs and instructions on 335-5136 metric graph paper. Instead of constituting a true design for a building, MEMO consists of pages of memorandums intended for the organizers of the competition. The memos describe different ideas of how to conceptualize “the birth and growth of Canadian aviation”, as a critical response to what Charney saw as a “narrowness” in the competition’s vision. Charney referred to the idea of erecting a “singular building in an isolated part of the country” and considering it a memorial as being a “restrictive if not repressive act”.

Source: Montréal : Musée d’art contemporain. (1979) Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. (p. 14-17)

Numéro de référence:

AP041.S1.1969.D2

Mode de classement:

Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English, French

Contient:

• DR2012:0012:011, Sketches and plans for the Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, 1969-1970
• DR2013:0002:001, Photographs, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998
• DR2013:0002:002, Photographs, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, circa 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:064:001, Collages and presentation panels, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:064:002, Collages and presentation panels, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:064:003, Collages and presentation panels, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:077:003, Photographic materials, press clippings and sketches, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1950-1995
• DR2012:0012:082:003, Texts, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, circa 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:082:004, Copies of texts, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:082:005, Competition requirements, correspondence, magazine clippings, maps, notes, and sketches, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1971
• DR2012:0012:082:006, Draft and copies of texts, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1970-1979
• DR2012:0012:082:016, Draft texts for publication, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, circa 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:082:017, Magazine clippings, notes, and stats, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1971-1984
• DR2012:0012:087:002, Photographs, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:087:003, Magazine and newspaper clippings, notes, and publications, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, between 1971 and 2012
• DR2012:0012:103:003, Catalogue of artworks included in the project, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, circa 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:103:011, Photographs, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970, 1975
• DR2013:0002:003:001, Panel with photographs, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1970
• DR2012:0012:077:001:003, Proofs of visual material for Charney's proposal, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, circa 1969-1970
• DR2012:0012:077:001:004, Press clippings, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1970