Fonds consists of architectural drawings, photographs, articles, writings, notes, sketches, and correspondence of Norbert Schoenauer between 1960 and 1970. The fonds includes architectural drawings for the projects Smyth Road Competition (Ottawa), Kanata Beaverbrook Community master plan (Ottawa), Fathers of Confederation Memorial Building (Charlottetown), Mimosa Street (Montreal), and Chomedey Civic Centre (Laval). The fonds also includes professional records documenting Schoenauer’s writings The Court-Garden House, The Point-Block Concept, Architecture Montreal, The New City Centre, Our Garden, Streetscape and Standards, Site and Scale, and various book reviews. The fonds is divided into two series: 1. Professional records - writings, and 2. Project records - drawings.
Schoenauer, NorbertSketches of plot plans, sections, elevations, and parking plans
Consists of site plan and perspective
Preliminary site plans, sketches
Includes sketches, design development drawings, and presentation drawings
Kanata Teron, Beaverbrook, townsite maps, land surveys, traffic and building location proposals, and draft subdivision plan.
Draft and article published in the Canadian Architect, Vol. II, No. 3. There is also a copy of a booklet which also contains the article and was sent to architect friends of Schoenauer. Some replies from said friends are included, i.e. Jan C. Rowan, editor, Progressive Architecture; Ian MacLennan, Vice-President, C.M.H.C.; Albert Bush-Brown, President, Rhode Island School of Design; David Crinion, C.M.H.C.
Includes rough sketches and development drawings
Draft and published version of article in Habitat. Also correspondence re: publication with H.R.B. MacInnes, editor of Habitat; Roger Montgomery, School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis. Also a letter from Gretel Seeler von Gernet, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, regarding review of article in German-Canadian perioducal Der Nordwestern. This edition of Habitat also includes a review of the Smyth Road Competition in which Schoenauer and Bill Schacter won second prize.
Sketches of plot plans, sections, elevations, parking plans, and land survey map.