Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1915-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
- 19406 architectural drawings
- 86 maps
- 30 aerial photographs
- 24 posters
- 18 photographs
- 17 diagrams
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Subseries consists of 19,406 architectural drawings (9318 original and 10,088 reprographic prints) documenting the work of Arthur Erickson between 1953 and 1975. The drawings include sketches, preliminary plans, design development drawings, presentation drawings, and working drawings for two-hundred projects. The subseries documents many of Erickson's most notable projects, including Filberg Residence, Dyde Residence, Boultbee Residence, Graham Residence, Expo 67 Canadian Pavilion and Theme Pavilions, MacMillan Bloedel Building, Smith Residence, Shannon Mews, Simon Fraser University, Expo 70 Canadian Pavilion, the University of Lethbridge, the Bank of Canada Head Office, the Museum of Anthropology at University of British Columbia, and Robson Square. The projects are arranged by project number and in rough chronological order. At the end of the subseries are drawings relating to several unidentified projects.