Melvin Charney collection on the R. Buckminster Fuller Project, 1951-1957.

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Melvin Charney collection on the R. Buckminster Fuller Project, 1951-1957.

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Collection of documents related to a seminar conducted by R. Buckminster Fuller at the McGill University School of Architecture in Sept. of 1956. The seminar was organized through the efforts of the Architectural Undergraduate Society. Students participating in the seminar constructed a geodesic dome at the Montreal Building Trades Training Centre. Documents include the upper portion of a form on letterhead of the Architectural Undergraduate Society, a proposal (7 leaves), a report compiled by J. Hirayama, J. Miller and C.H. Rubenstein, 2 sheets with handwritten notes, 1 newspaper clipping and a b&w photograph thereof, 1 col. photo, a Mar. 1957 issue of The Canadian architect, 3 clippings from periodicals, and 1 page proof. The documents were received in an envelope with a label bearing the McGill University logo and, in typescript "R. Buckminster Fuller -- 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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Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

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Architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher, creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car. From the description of Letter, 1958 Feb. 10, Clemson, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018576 Mark Burginer is a California-based architect, whose interest in Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry led to some correspondence between them during the early 1980s. From the description of Letters to Mark Burginger, 1980-1981. (Unknown)...

Architectural Undergraduate Society

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Charney, Melvin.

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Melvin Charney (1935-) was born in Montréal. B. Arch., McGill University, Montréal, 1958; M. Arch., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1959. Professor, School of Architecture, Université de Montréal, since 1964. Working as artist/architect with solo and group exhibitions since 1972. Works include: Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (Corridart), 1976; Édifice (Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal), 1979; A Chicago construction, 1981-1983; A Toronto construction, 1982; A Lethbridge constructi...

Miller, J., 1963-

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McGill University. School of Architecture

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Hirayama, Jusaburō, 1933-

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Rubenstein, C. H.

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