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Village housing for CIAM X
circa 1955
File 9
File documents an unexecuted project, presented at CIAM X (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne), for village housing, England, United Kingdom. Material in this file was produced in 1955 and probably after.
File contains presentation drawings, textual records, and photographic materials.
Material in this project series was likely kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
England United Kingdom
Documents are in English, French, and German.
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one drawing shows plans, elevations, cross sections and longitudinal sections for terraces of staggered houses, cross sections for houses, plans for a large detached house, plans for a typical three-bedroom house, a diagrammatic cross section for a house showing the 10 1/2 feet and 7 feet horizon tall modules, the 7 feet vertical modules, and the 30 degrees sloped roofs, a diagrammatic cross section for the structure, a diagrammatic plan for grouped houses, a sequence of two axonometric drawings representing the system of construction, from the parallel load-bearing walls to finished building, and explanatory typescript texts; a hand-coloured drawing shows a roadside elevation and a sectional elevation for a terrace of staggered houses and was probably part of a no longer extant final presentation drawing for the CIAM X Congress
2 presentation drawing(s)
Ink, graphite, coloured pencil, typescript on translucent paper and cardboard
sheet (smallest): 18 x 27 cm (7 1/16 x 10 5/8 in.) sheet (largest): 48 x 67 cm (18 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
- The mounted hand-coloured drawing for a roadside elevation and section for terraced cottages was originally in a sink mat stamped "Team X. Village Project. 1955".
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0411
Objects that have been catalogued:
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
5 presentation drawing(s)
sheet (smallest): 46 x 68 cm (18 1/8 x 26 3/4 in.) sheet (largest): 51 x 68 cm (20 1/16 x 26 3/4 in.)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
views of presentation drawings, parts of presentation drawings, and mounted photographs of three, no longer extant, final presentation drawings
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0412
Objects that have been catalogued:
3 negative(s)
negatives: 12 x 16 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0413
3 negative(s)
Glass negatives
negatives: 17 x 22 cm (6 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Glass negatives. Manipulate with care.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0410
three sheets of explanatory typescript texts on tracing paper, in English and French, inscribed "Aug. 1955", which were probably used for the final presentation drawings for the CIAM X Congress
3 textual record(s)
Typescript and graphite on translucent paper
sheet (smallest): 44 x 29 cm (17 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.) sheet (largest): 45 x 30 cm (17 11/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
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