Fonds Max Wolfe Roth

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• Fonds: Fonds Max Wolfe Roth, 1933-2000

Personnes et institutions

• Max Roth (architect)
• Max Roth (archive creator)

Titre

Fonds Max Wolfe Roth

Dates de création

1933-2000

Classification

• archives

Niveau de description archivistique

Fonds

Collation

• 7,589 drawings (including reprographic copies)
• 303 photographs
• 82 notebooks
• 22 panels
• 2.83 l.m. textual records
• 0.33 l.m. slides
• 7 stamps
• 1 slide rule
• 1 model

Présentation du contenu

The Max Wolfe Roth fonds, 1933-2000, documents the professional career of architect Max Wolfe Roth. The fonds comprises of materials related to 15 student projects, 1933-1937, that Roth designed during his architecture studies at McGill University and 333 professional projects, 1937-2000, that he produced as principal of the office Max W. Roth, Architect. These built projects are primarily located in Montréal, Sherbrooke, Québec City, Thetford Mines, and several towns in the Laurentian areas; other Canadian projects are sited in Ontario, Alberta, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia. The fonds also includes several projects built in the United States and one that was planned for Israel.

In addition to completing a wide range of building types, such as commercial, residential, cultural, institutional, religious, and industrial buildings, Roth also produced interior designs and custom furniture. The fonds holds an extensive number of architectural drawings, consisting of concept sketches and surveys, design development, working, consultant, presentation and publication drawings. Designs for interior spaces and furniture are also included in this fonds. Presentation panels show architecture drawings, models and the exterior views of completed buildings from various perspectives. Photographic materials comprise of a portrait of Max Roth showcasing the interior of one of his residences as well as various photographs and slides of models, drawings, details, construction sites, buildings before their renovation, and the interior and exterior of completed buildings.

Textual documentation consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, contracts, estimates, bills, certificates of payments, statements, calculations, specifications, schedules, project notes, memos, notebooks, product information, presentation brochures, business cards, periodical clippings, and architecture journals.

Objects in the archive include stamps, a slide rule and a presentation model of the Canadian Jewish Congress Headquarters Building – the Samuel Bronfman House.

Numéro de réference

AP125

Mode de classement

This fonds has not yet been arranged.

Note biographique

Max Wolfe Roth (1913-2001) was born in Montréal, Québec. In 1933, Roth began his studies at McGill University’s School of Architecture and four years later, he graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture. In 1938, Roth established the Montréal office of Max W. Roth, Architect, and in 1962, he became a member of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada. In 1970, he founded an interior design studio, Roth Designs Limited. From 1984- 2001, Roth worked in partnership with William D’Onofrio – the firm operated as Roth+D’Onofrio, Architectes.

Throughout his extensive career, Roth designed over 1500 architectural projects. From the late 1950s and onwards, Roth collaborated with a number of Montréal firms on various projects, including Greenspoon, Friedlander & Dunne for the reconstruction of Temple Emanu-El Synagogue (Montréal, 1959), Ian Martin for the Pont Viau Shopping Centre (Laval, 1960), and the office of Eliasoph & Berkowitz for an unrealized headquarters for the Canadian Jewish Congress (Montréal, 1963). Roth also employed artists for modern sculptures and murals in his buildings; the Leon Adler Office Building in Ville St. Laurent (1954), for example, incorporated artworks by Joseph Iliu and Robert Roussil.

Roth produced a number of well-known projects for the Canadian World Exposition (Expo’ 67) in Montréal: La Ronde’s Garden of Stars, the bookstore in the British Pavilion, and the interior of the Pavilion of Judaism. Roth also submitted a design for the Québec Pavilion competition in 1964, which received a jury mention.

Other built projects designed by Roth in Montréal include the St. Regis Tavern (1951), the Ruby Foo’s hotel (1962, with hotel addition, 1986), the Beth-El Synagogue (1956, alterations to addition, 1968-69), the Dominion Lock Factory (extended and altered from 1959-1972), and the Canada Park Pavilion (1973-1974, Israel) for the Canadian Jewish National Fund.

Conditions d’accès

• Access by appointment only.

Conditions de réproduction

• For copyright information or permission to reproduce material from the fonds, please contact the CCA (reproductions@cca.qc.ca).

Modalités d’entrée

• Gift of William D’Onofrio Architect, with the support of Stephen J. Roth and Sharon Lichtman

Historique de la conservation

Max Wolfe Roth fonds was donated to the Canadian Centre for Architecture on December 12, 2003 by William D’Onofrio. A subsequent addition was made in 2012 by Sharon Lichtman.

Notes de l’archiviste

• This fonds has not yet been arranged. A fonds level description was created by Patricia Di Palma on February 22, 2017.

Localisation

Montréal Île de Montréal Québec Canada

Mention de crédit

When citing the collection as a whole, use the following citation:
Max Wolfe Roth fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Langue et écriture des documents

English