Canadian Centre for Architecture

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• Fonds: Gene Summers fonds, 1957 - 2004
•    Series: Professional documents (1957-2004), 1957 - 2004
•      Sub-series: Architectural projects, 1957 - 1985
•        Project: Canadian Centre for Architecture, circa 1981

People

• Gene Summers (creator)
• Ridgway Ltd. (architectural firm)
• Gene Summers (archive creator)

Title

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Dates of creation

circa 1981

Level of archival description

File 22

Extent and Medium

• 27 reprographic copies

Scope and Content

At the request of the firm's president, Phyllis Lambert, Ridgway Ltd. began preliminary design work in 1981 on the Canadian Centre for Architecture, an institution devoted to the study of architecture. Ultimately, the Ridgway proposal for the CCA was not retained. The project, completed in 1989, was designed by Peter Rose with Phyllis Lambert, consulting architect, and Erol Argun, associate architect.

Reference Number

AP114.S1.SS1.D22

Arrangement

The records in this project series has been arranged by material type.

Location

Montréal Island of Montréal Québec Canada

Related units of description

• See also Series 1, Sub-series 2 for preliminary sketches of CCA furnishings.

Inventory

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197093
  • Title: Site plans, floor plans, sections and elevations for Shaughnessy House and new buildings
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Description:

  Site plans, floor plans, sections and elevations for Shaughnessy House and new buildings; reflected ceiling plans, lighting plans.

  Quantity / Object type:

  21 flat(s)

  Stage and Purpose:

  • presentation drawings (proposals)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 23 reprographic copies

  Technique and media:

  Flats and flats with goldenrod masking paper

  Dimensions:

  sheets (smallest): 31 x 46 cm sheets (largest): 41 x 46 cm

  Credit line:

  Gene Summers fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Gene Summers/
  Gift of Gene Summers
  

  Folder Number:

  114-013-004 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197114
  • Title: Site plans for Shaughnessy House
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  4 presentation drawing(s)

  Stage and Purpose:

  • presentation drawings (proposals)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 4 reprographic copies

  Technique and media:

  3 positive photostat prints; 1 negative

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 41 x 46 cm

  Credit line:

  Gene Summers fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Gene Summers/
  Gift of Gene Summers
  

  Folder Number:

  114-013-005 S