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Lightweight Enclosures Unit
1956-1995, predominant 1969-1986
File 79
File documents the work of the Lightweight Enclosures Unit (LEU) which was set up by Frank Newby and Cedric Price after their completion of a UK government research programme into air structures in 1969 (see Air Structures Research AP144.S2.D63). The work of LEU included research and design into the social, economic and structural development of lightweight enclosures. The LEU published a bibliography for the industry on air structures in 1972 titled 'Air Structures Bibliography, B0001-0069 and B0070-0119. It also helped produce the report BS6661:1986 'Design, construction and maintenance of single-skin air supported structures', and reviewed lightweight enclosures in AD 8/71, p 465. LEU was commissioned to write 'Air Support Structures: BSI Draft for Development Code of Practice' (DD50). This work is documented in DOE Air Structure (AP144.S2.D91). Frank Newby continued to work on the review of DD50 up until the 1980s. Material in this file was produced between 1956 and 1993.
Group DR2004:1356 contains a 1973 drawing attributed to Pierre Martin for S.A.S. (Lausanne).
Group DR2004:1353 contains reference drawings by architect Rurik Ekstrom, for Antioch Pneumatic Campus, Columbia Maryland (1972).
Group DR2004:0132 contains material that relates to 'Air Structures' a conference on Antioch Campus in Columbia, Maryland, US May 22-34, 1973.
DR2004:0135 contains publications by Frei Otto and the Institute of Lightweight Structures at the University of Stuttgart, and a transcript of an Air Structures Lecture, presented in Maryland, possibly by Cedric Price.
DR2004:0137, DR2004:0139, and DR2004:0141 contain materials that relate to DD50 'Draft for Development: Air Supported Structures' for British Standards Institution, 1976 (see DOE Air Structure AP144.S2.D91).
DR2004:0142 contains papers from the 'International Symposium on Pneumatic Structures' - Delft, 1972.
DR2004:0145 contains material on 'Pneuma Jam'.
DR2004:0146 contains material that relates to Christo (1973 projects).
Group DR2004:0127 contains material that relates to Christo and his project, Valley Curtain.
The group DR2004:0159 contains materials from the following manufacturers:
Kurashiki Rayon Co., Ltd; Krupp Universalbau; Kleyer; Kellbro Construction Ltd; AEI; Norris Brothers Limited; Kaltenbach; Irvin Industries Ltd; Gotthard; Graydon; Gourock; Goodyear; Firestone; Environmental Structures; English Electric; Dynamit Nobel; Dunlop; Williaam Cox; Cidair; Birdair Structures Inc.; Frankenstein Beaufort; Barracuda; Air-Tech Industries, Inc.; Air Inflatable Products Company; Airco; M.L. Aviation; M.U.S.T.; Plasteco Milano; P.N. Structures; Polydrom; Peter Potter Ltd; RFD-GQ limited; RP Structures Ltd; Scanhover; Seattle Tent & Awning Company; Sheltair; Stromeyer; C.F. Taylor; O. Van Den Buys; and John Edgington & Co. Ltd.
File contains conceptual drawings, reference drawings, photographic materials, a poster, and textual records.
Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.
Columbia Maryland United States
English, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, German
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2 conceptual drawing(s)
Ink on reprographic copies
sheets: 36 x 70 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
2 conceptual drawing(s)
Ink on translucent paper
sheets: 37.5 x 72 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 textual record(s)
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
exterior views of various structures, including Bindair structure in Canada, Tampa Airport, and experimental air structure
27 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
sheet (smallest): 9 x 9 cm sheet (largest): 9 x 13 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 textual record(s)
- Group DR2004:0120 inlcudes 2 magazine boxes both labeled # 99.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 25.5 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
correspondence, trade catalogues, clippings, press release, reports on standards and air structures, form, sketch, and notes
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37.5 x 4 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
correspondence, trade catalogues, publication, clippings, notes, reprints of articles, and report on air structures standards
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 3 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
poster for 'Air Structures', a conference by the Building Research Institute at the Antioch Campus, Columbia, Maryland, May 22-24 1973
1 poster(s)
Silkscreen print on paper
sheet: 49 x 39.5 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
publications, clippings, reprints of articles, research reports, and notes on German pneumatic research labeled 72 Air Structures Research
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
trade catalogues, brochures, publications, clippings, reprints of articles, symposium and conference papers, program for 1967 Stuttgart Colloquium on Pneumatic Structures, reports, publications by the Institute of Lightweight Structures, correspondence, Lightweight Enclosures Unit bibliographies, and transcript of Cedric Price's air structures lecture presented in Maryland
1 file(s)
folder: 28 x 39.5 x 8 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
photographs of interior, exterior, and detail views of pneumatic structures, sketches, microfiche, reprint of articles
1 file(s)
folder (fermé): 37 × 25,5 × 8 cm
- Box labeled '99 L.E.U., Photographs'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
drawing of flowchart, correspondence, invoices, clippings, receipts, list of payment receipts, meeting notices, order forms, list of addresses, and subscription forms, most relating to the Lightweight Enclosures Unit bibliographies and BRI's Draft for Development Air Supported Structures (AP144.S2.D91)
1 ring binder(s)
ring binder: 35 x 28.5 x 8 cm
- Binder labeled '99B'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
reports and papers on air structures, reprints of articles, manual, price list, promotional material, trade catalogues, publications, and clippings
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 5 cm
- Group labeled 'Air Structures Research 6' and possibly originally contained in a magazine box.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
trade catalogues, brochures, clippings, notes, calculations, and BRI's Draft for Development Air Supported Structures (see AP144.S2.D91)
1 file(s)
folder: 25.5 x 37.5 x 3 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
photographs, correspondence, invoices, trade catalogues, brochures, publications, clippings, appendices from Draft for Development Air Supported Structures, and subscription forms
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
sketch, drawings, correspondence, invoices, brochures, publications, clippings, conference programs, notices of meetings, reprints of articles, meeting notes, reports, minutes of meetings, order forms, and commentaries and revisions to BRI's Draft for Development Air Supported Structures (see AP144.S2.D91)
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37.5 x 5 cm
- File is labeled '99B'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
correspondence, publications, reports, including 3 bound technical reports by the United States Army National Laboratories, 2 binders, and 38 bound papers from the International Symposium on Pneumatic Structures, Delft, 1972
1 textual record(s)
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 ring binder(s)
ring binder: 35 x 28 x 6 cm
- This binder is labelled '99'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 ring binder(s)
ring binder: 35 x 28 x 6 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 ring binder(s)
ring binder: 35 x 28 x 6 cm
- This binder is labelled '99/Letters only/1'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
correspondence, calculations, brochures, publication, clippings, form, notes, including notes on Christo's projects, questionnaire, draft reports, bibliographies, and press release for the report 'Air Structures' (AP144.S2.D63)
1 ring binder(s)
ring binder: 35 x 28 x 6 cm
- This binder is labelled '99/2/Memos &/notes only/For letters see/file No. 1'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
correspondence, trade catalogues, brochures, clippings, office memoranda, notes, minutes of meetings, and bound copy of Lightweight Enclosures Unit, Air Structures Bibliography B0070-B0119
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Lightweight Enclosures Unit, Air Structures Bibliography B0001-B0069 with annotations, draft of Air Structures Bibliography B0070-B0119, and an envelope containing research and forms for the bibliography
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 3 cm
- This file is labelled 'F.N. inspection folder/Compacta 649.650.651/Bibliography'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 2 cm
- The envelope that originally contained this file was labelled 'Lightweight Enclosures Unit Questionnaire/Blank pages, several of each'. It is unknown whether this label was assigned by Cedric Price's office.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 26 x 37.5 x 2 cm
- The envelope that originally contained this file was labelled 'misc. LEU forms and papers/2'. It is unknown whether this label was assigned by Cedric Price's office.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
photographs, correspondence, trade catalogues, brochures, publications, clippings, work log, notes on bibliography, meeting notes, sketch and calculations, research notes, questionnaire forms, and press release for 'Air Structures' report (AP144.S2.D63)
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 5 cm
- The envelope that originally contained this file was labelled 'misc. LEU forms and papers & 1971 periodicals and clippings/3'. It is unknown whether this label was assigned by Cedric Price's office.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm
- This file is labelled 'LEU/General'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 3 cm
- The envelope that originally contained this file was labelled 'Air Structures Research/Misc. papers'. It is unknown whether this label was assigned by Cedric Price's office.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 4 cm
- The envelope that originally contained this file was labelled 'Air Structures Bibliography/Lightweight Enclosures Unit/includes LEU order forms'. It is unknown whether this label was assigned by Cedric Price's office.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
product sample, microfiche, LEU questionnaires with manufacturers' and users' responses, LEU bibliography order form, bibliography sections, notes, and sample questionnaires
1 file(s)
folder: 25 x 37.5 x 5 cm
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
includes 41 files containing correspondence, manufacturers' promotional material, brochures, publications, reports, manuals, technical drawings, photographs, notes, technical manual, poster, product specifications, price lists, trade catalogues, and clippings
1 textual record(s)
The group DR2004:0159 contains materials from the following manufacturers:
Kurashiki Rayon Co., Ltd; Krupp Universalbau; Kleyer; Kellbro Construction Ltd; AEI; Norris Brothers Limited; Kaltenbach; Irvin Industries Ltd; Gotthard; Graydon; Gourock; Goodyear; Firestone; Environmental Structures; English Electric; Dynamit Nobel; Dunlop; Williaam Cox; Cidair; Birdair Structures Inc.; Frankenstein Beaufort; Barracuda; Air-Tech Industries, Inc.; Air Inflatable Products Company; Airco; M.L. Aviation; M.U.S.T.; Plasteco Milano; P.N. Structures; Polydrom; Peter Potter Ltd; RFD-GQ limited; RP Structures Ltd; Scanhover; Seattle Tent & Awning Company; Sheltair; Stromeyer; C.F. Taylor; O. Van Den Buys; and John Edgington & Co. Ltd.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
promotional materials, brochures, correspondence, including some that relates to DOE Air Structure (AP144.S2.D91), reports including 'Draft for Development Code of Practice for Air Supported Structures' (1975), notes, clippings, publication, including 'Domebook 2', and photomechanical prints of drawings
1 file(s)
folder: 29 x 37.5 x 6 cm
- Folder for this file is titled 'Bibliography / Ref: / 0001-0069 / LEU'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 6 cm
- Folder for this file is titled 'Lightweight / Enclosures Unit / Bibliography / Publications for Review / Dec. 72'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 37.5 x 1 cm
- Folder for this group is titled 'LEU / Designs for Prett'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
electrical plans and details, plans, elevations, site plans, details, schedules, and HVAC plans and details included in reference drawings by Rurik Ekstrom, of Antioch Pneumatic Campus, Columbia Maryland
1 roll(s)
Adhesive tape on reprographic copies
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 roll(s)
Ink on translucent paper and reprographic copy
- Exterior of roll is inscribed with: 'Zurich Air Structure Jan 74 (Canadian designer)'.
Cedric Price fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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