Fonds Catherine Chard Wisnicki, ca. 1947, 1995, 1997.

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Fonds Catherine Chard Wisnicki, ca. 1947, 1995, 1997.

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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki Fonds contains five original photographs dating from about 1947, and some post-exhibition documentation consisting of one VHS video cassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki (1995), and one textual document (1997), a handwritten thank-you note from the architect to Robert Desaulniers, director of the Department of Archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The large b/w photographs by Vancouver photographer Tony Archer show exterior and interior views of the house built for wealthy lumber company executive William S. Brooks. Chard Wisnicki assisted Charles Pratt with the design of the Brooks House while working in the office of Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt in 1946-1947, and her husband Paul Wisnicki, together with W. Frank Urry were the engineers for the project.

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Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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William S. Brooks House (Vancouver, B.C.)

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Pratt, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1911-1996

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Archer, Tony, 1939-

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Desaulniers, Robert, 1950-

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Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt

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Wisnicki, Catherine Chard, 1917-

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Canadian architect who designed some of the earliest examples of modernist architecture in Canada. Catherine Chard graduated from McGill University in Montréal, Québec with a B.A. in history in 1939. That year she began studies at McGill's school of architecture, and graduated with a B. Arch. in 1943 as the first woman to do so. Between 1941-1946, Chard worked in numerous architectural offices - for the National Research Council in Ottawa, the Aluminum Company of Canada (Alcan) in Montréal, w...