McEwen, Indra Kagis, creator.

Indra Kagis McEwen collection, 1987-2020.

1.32 l.m. textual records, 2 artworks, 1 audiocassette.

The Indra Kagis McEwen collection documents Indra McEwen's research and writing, including some of her student work. The bulk of the collection is composed of notes and bibliographical references which are recorded on index cards and housed in plastic boxes, each of which is devoted to a specific theme. Other textual records include notes and correspondence related to the author's research on Vitruvius. Eight notebooks document projects as a student and as an academic, including attendance at lectures and conferences on architecture, art and the humanities. The collection includes a print copy of Indra McEwen's doctoral thesis with marginalia by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and a manuscript of her translation of Claude Perrault's work on the architectural orders (two parts). Student work includes a studio project for a sound map of Montréal. Also included are an artwork representing the ten scrolls on which Vitrivius' 'De architectura' was originally written and an artwork related to the book 'Socrates' Ancestor'.

Architect and historian. Affiliate Associate Professor, Art History, Concordia University. Author of three books: 'All the King's Horses : Vitruvius in an Age of Princes'. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2023; 'Vitruvius : Writing the Body of Architecture'. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003; and, 'Socrates' Ancestor : An Essay on Architectural Beginnings'. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Her translation into English of Claude Perrault's 'Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des anciens' was published, with an introduction by Alberto Pérez-Gómez, in 1993, by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.

McEwen, Indra Kagis Archives.
Vitruvius Pollio.

fonds (collections)
Archives

Location: Library main m fonds 318510
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 1
Status: External loan

Location: Library main m fonds 318510-1
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 2
Status: External loan

Location: Library main m fonds 318510-2
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 3
Status: Available

Location: Library main m fonds 318510-3
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 4
Status: Available

Location: Library main m fonds 318510-4
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 5
Status: Available

Location: Library main m fonds 318510-5
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 1A
Notes: Artwork - originally in box 1
Status: External loan

Location: Library main m fonds 318510-7
Call No.: 318510
Copy: box 6
Notes: Notebooks
Status: Available