• Larry Richards (draughtsman)

Conceptual sketches for the installation for cars by architects

January 1988

This consists of a boxed set of related pieces from L.W. Richards participation in "The Architecture Series" at the Power Plant contemporary art gallery in 1988-89. L.W. Richards renovated and drove a Pontiac Firebird, named "Power Plant". The project was the subject of Vikky Alexander's essay "Back to the Future" in the Power Plant Gallery's "The Architecture Series", 1989, pp.25-31. The project was reviewed by Adele Freedman (Globe and Mail, March 5, 1988, p.C12), Christopher Hume (Architect designs gallery on wheels, Toronto Star, Feb. 27, 1988, p. G15), and pictured and discussed in The Canadian Architect, Vol. 33, no. 4, April 1988, p.6. The set pf pieces includes: a) B&W photograph of the Power Plant car in an auto-body workshop, b) The Architecture Series, booklet with Alexander's essay, c)newspaper and magazine clippings/reviews, d)orangesteel brochure rack, that L.W. Richards designed, from the Power Plant car (~ 18" x 18" x 3"), e) nine B&W brochures titled "Cars by Architects" that fit into the red-orange rack, and f) ~ 20 colour slides of the Power Plant car in various locations in Toronto.

Blue marker (?) on wove paper

sheet: 28 x 21,6 cm

DR2007:0020:001:001

signed and dated