Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Melvin Charney, 1947-2012
•    Série(s): Projects, 1955-2012

Personnes et institutions:

• Melvin Charney (architect)
• Melvin Charney (archive creator)

Titre:

Projects

Date:

1955-2012

Niveau de description archivistique:
Series

Collation:

• 24,30 l.m. of textual records
  5575 drawings (including 1283 reprographic copies)
  1937 photographic materials
  4 models
  3 ephemera
  2 maps
  2 artworks
  1 notebook

Présentation du contenu:
This series documents Melvin Charney's artistic, architecture and design projects from 1950 to 2012. It includes material related to his installations, architectural projects, his artworks and photographic projects. This series contains over 70 projects, including Charney's proposal for the Canadian government pavilion for the Japan world exposition, in Osaka, in 1967, his design for the Canadian tribute to human rights, in Ottawa, in 1986-1987, his installation Les maison de la rue Sherbrooke presented during the Corridart in 1976 for the Montréal Summer Olympics and Un dictionnaire presented, amongts others, at the 7th Venice Biennale in 2000.

The series drawings and sketches, such as conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings as well as some his mixed media artworks. It also contains some photographs including photographs of the installations design by Charney, reference photographs, textual documents, such as notes, rapports and proposals, correspondence and reference materials.

Numéro de référence:

AP041.S1

Mode de classement:
Materials in this series are arranged in chronological order by the project’s start year.

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English, French, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean

Sources complémentaires:

• For more material related to press coverage of Melvin Charney's project the series AP041.S5.SS01. Photographic materials related to projects are also arranged under another series to preserve the original order in which the documents were acquired by the CCA. This material is arranged under the sub-series AP041.S6.SS04. For more materials related to the group exhibitions or exhibition curated by Melvin Charney in which some of the projects included in this series were presented, see also the series AP041.S3.

Contient:

• AP041.S1.1950.D1, Unidentified projects, 1960-2012
• AP041.S1.1958.D1, Library for the city of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, circa 1958
• AP041.S1.1960.D2, Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1960
• AP041.S1.1963.D1, A. Reisen education center, 1963
• AP041.S1.1963.D2, Metro Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec, 1963-1964
• AP041.S1.1964.D1, Curé Grenier School, Notre-Dame des Laurentides, Québec, 1964-1967
• AP041.S1.1965.D1, Centroparc south, Longueuil, Québec, 1965
• AP041.S1.1966.D1, Hampstead Green, Hampstead, Québec, 1966
• AP041.S1.1967.D1, A north-south section through Montréal, 1967
• AP041.S1.1967.D2, Canadian government pavilion, Japan world exposition, Osaka, Japan, 1967
• AP041.S1.1969.D1, 3620 Marlowe Avenue, Westmount, Québec, 1969
• AP041.S1.1969.D2, Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Competition, Ottawa, Ontario, 1969-1970
• AP041.S1.1970.D1, Task Force on Low Income Housing, 1970
• AP041.S1.1970.D2, Un dictionnaire, 1970-2001
• AP041.S1.1973.D1, A mobile museum system for Quebec, 1972-1973
• AP041.S1.1975.D1, Une histoire, 1975-1978
• AP041.S1.1975.D2, Fragments..., 1975-1978
• AP041.S1.1976.D1, Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke, Montréal, Québec, 1976
• AP041.S1.1977.D1, Streetwork, 1977-1979
• AP041.S1.1979.D1, A museum construction, 1979
• AP041.S1.1979.D2, Edifice, 1979
• AP041.S1.1979.D3, Room 202, Project Studios One, Long Island City, New York, 1979
• AP041.S1.1979.D4, A Piece off the Wall, John Weber Gallery, New York, New York, 1979-1981
• AP041.S1.1979.D5, The square within the square, 1979
• AP041.S1.1980.D1, Development of parliamentary zone, Canberra, Australia, 1980-1981
• AP041.S1.1981.D1, The German series, 1981-1982
• AP041.S1.1981.D2, Wall, frame, door... construction, 1981-1982
• AP041.S1.1981.D3, A Chicago construction, 1981-1983
• AP041.S1.1982.D1, A Toronto construction, 1982
• AP041.S1.1982.D2, A construction in Calabria, 1982-1984
• AP041.S1.1983.D1, A Kingston construction, 1983
• AP041.S1.1983.D2, Pliny on my mind, 1983
• AP041.S1.1983.D3, Sudbury and District Chamber of Commerce Centennial Project sculpture competition, Sudbury, Ontario, 1982-1983
• AP041.S1.1984.D1, Public fountains for the City of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, 1984
• AP041.S1.1985.D1, A Lethbridge construction, 1985
• AP041.S1.1985.D2, From Laugier to Popova, 1985
• AP041.S1.1985.D3, A Sherbrooke construction, 1985
• AP041.S1.1985.D4, A construction in Venice, 1985-1986
• AP041.S1.1985.D5, Art Gallery of Peterborough sculpture competition, Peterborough, Ontario, 1985
• AP041.S1.1986.D1, The Canadian tribute to human rights, Ottawa, Ontario, 1986-1987
• AP041.S1.1987.D1, Garden of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, 1987-1995
• AP041.S1.1988.D1, Sketches of Paris, 1988
• AP041.S1.1989.D1, Une construction à Québec, 1989
• AP041.S1.1989.D2, Faubourg St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, 1989-1992
• AP041.S1.1989.D3, In Flight, 1989-1994
• AP041.S1.1989.D4, Bankers Hall Plaza competition, Calgary, Alberta, 1989
• AP041.S1.1990.D1, All the riches in the world, 1990
• AP041.S1.1990.D2, Square Viger, Montréal, Québec, 1990-1991
• AP041.S1.1990.D3, Parable series, 1990
• AP041.S1.1990.D4, Square Berri, Montréal, Québec, 1990-1992
• AP041.S1.1991.D1, Rue de la Commune, Montréal, Québec, 1991-1992
• AP041.S1.1992.D1, Canada War Memorial, Green Park, London, England , 1992-1993
• AP041.S1.1993.D1, The Remains of Lenin's Tomb, 1993
• AP041.S1.1993.D2, Walking stiffs, 1993
• AP041.S1.1993.D3, The white city, 1993
• AP041.S1.1994.D1, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Sculpture Competition, Halifax, Nova Scotia , 1994
• AP041.S1.1995.D1, Man 1/man 2, 1995
• AP041.S1.1998.D1, Plans for an unidentified baseball stadium, possibly in Montréal, Québec, 1998-1999
• AP041.S1.1998.D2, Art installation at the Assemblée Nationale du Québec, Québec City, Québec, 1998-2001
• AP041.S1.1999.D1, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Québec, 1999
• AP041.S1.2000.D2, A celebration of parliamentary democracy, 2000
• AP041.S1.2000.D3, Factories, signposts, houses, flags - a popular celebration, 2000
• AP041.S1.2001.D1, Tree series, 2001-2003
• AP041.S1.2001.D2, Place des Moulins, Esplanade Frontenac, Sherbrooke, Québec, 2001-2003
• AP041.S1.2002.D1, Fragments d'une histoire de génie..., 2002
• AP041.S1.2008.D1, Domaine des Franciscains, Montréal, Québec, 2008
• AP041.S1.2009.D1, Canadian Navy monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 2006-2010
• AP041.S1.2009.D2, Quai 10, Québec, Québec, 2008-2009
• AP041.S1.2010.D1, None is too many, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2010
• AP041.S1.2010.D2, McGill University Health Centre, Glen Site, Montréal, Québec, 2010-2012
• AP041.S1.2011.D1, Complexe sportif Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, 2011