Harry Seidler - papers, 1939-1946

MLMSS 7078/Boxes 30X-33X

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413934

University course notes and papers, 1939-1946, being mainly ms. notes and including sketches, drawings, essays and assignments by Harry Seidler while he was a student in architecture at the University of Manitoba, Canada (1941-1944) and at Harvard University, U.S.A. (1944-1946); along with copies of sketch plans and architectural plans by other architects probably accumulated during the course of Seidler's studies.
ca.1941; 'Wood Structural Design Data' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1940-1941; 'Theory of Structures' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1941-1942; 'Theory of Planning - Second Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1941-1942; 'History of Architecture 1 - Second Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1942-1943; 'Illumination - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1942-1943; 'Structural Design - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1942-1943; 'Foundations - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1942-1943; 'History of Architecture 2 - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/30X)
1942-1946; 'Town Planning - Third and Fourth Year', and including notes 'Harvard - 1945-1946' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1942-1943; 'Landscape - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1941-1942; 'Design Problems' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1942-1943; 'Plumbing - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1942-1943; 'Professional Practice - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1942-1943; 'Structural Design Problems - Third Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1943-1944; 'History of Fine Arts - Fourth Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1943-1944; 'Reinforced Concrete Design - Fourth Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/31X)
1943-1944; 'Reinforced Concrete Testing Report - Fourth Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/32X)
1943-1944; 'Heating and Ventilation - Fourth Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/32X)
1943-1944; 'Professional Ethics - Fourth Year' (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/32X)
1944; 'Graduation Thesis of Harry Seidler, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Canada', being bound volume including specification for a proposed housing apartment project at Norwood, Winnipeg, Canada; with nine large blueprint scale drawings of proposed project (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/32X)
1939-1944; 'Harvard Projects', including ts. course assignment set by Professor Walter Gropius to design a centre for recreation at South Boston along with photographic copies of plans by Seidler and others. Plans include: 'A Theatre for Harvard', unsigned; 'W.C.H.'(3), signed K.H. Cheong, April 1944; 'Student Club Dormitory', signature illegible; 'T.R.F.L.' (4) signed Pritchard, 27 Sept. 1944; 'A Settlement House for East Harlem' (4), signed Victor A. Lundy; 'F.P.R.C.' (4), signed K.H. Cheong, Feb. 1944; plan of the path of the sun at Latitude 42 degrees north, signed Harry Seidler, 25 Sept. 1943; 'House in Belmont' (2); 'W.U.A.' (4) signed Harry Seidler; 'South Boston Nursery' (4), signed Harry Seidler; 'South Boston Recreation Center' (7) signed Harry Seidler. Plans by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer include house for Mr Edward Fischer (4), 1939; residence for Dr Weizenblatt, Ashville, N.E. (40, 1940. (Call No.: MLMSS 7078/33X)