Small House Designs for Central Mortgage & Housing
1956 - 1969
File 5
This project series documents John Bird’s Small House Designs for the Central Mortgage & Housing Corporation (CMHC). The designs, which were a response to the CMHC’s open call for public housing plans, were created between 1956 – 1969. The project records consist of schematic and working drawings, textual project records, and books containing material by Bird related to the project.
The records in this project series have been arranged by material type.
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30 schematic drawing(s)
Ink, graphite on tracing paper; coloured pencil on diazo prints
21.5 x 28 cm to 34 x 24 cm
John Bird fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de John Bird/
Gift of John Bird
108-01-018 S
8 working drawing(s)
Ink on linen; diazo prints with revisions in red pencil
sheet (smallest): 56 x 76 cm sheet (largest): 57 x 77 cm
John Bird fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de John Bird/
Gift of John Bird
108-04-019 M
textual documents, 28 schematic drawings, correspondence (1956-1969) with CMHC plan selection committee, calculations, instructions on preparing working drawings, CMHC folder, plans, elevations, sections
1 file(s)
Typescripts, blue and black-line prints
folder: 37.5 x 24.1 x 0.7 cm
John Bird fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de John Bird/
Gift of John Bird
108-02-020 TD
collection of small house designs prepared by Canadian architects for Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Design 263 (p. 52-53), and Design 762 (p. 148-149) are by John Bird.
1 book(s)
book: 28 x 21 x 1.3 cm
200 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm
John Bird fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de John Bird/
Gift of John Bird
108-02-021 TD
collection of small house designs prepared by Canadian architects for Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Design 762 (p. 134-135) is by John Bird.
1 book(s)
book: 27.6 x 21.3 x 1.7 cm
196 p. : ill, plans ; 28 cm
John Bird fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de John Bird/
Gift of John Bird
108-02-022 TD
1 book(s)
book: 28 x 21.7 x 0.2 cm
15 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm
John Bird fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de John Bird/
Gift of John Bird
108-02-023 TD
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