Architecture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Design thesis entitled, 'A centre for research and instruction in physical planning'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1395
Scope and Contents
The title of the design thesis is A centre for research and instruction in physical planning and it relates to a proposal for Gordon Square, London W.1. The item is in typescript and has photographs inserted. The work traces the activities of the Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction, and offers a proposal for a new building for the Association.
Dates:
1943-1947
Diagram of Castle Coeffin and accompanying notes, September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/74
Scope and Contents
Diagram of Castle Coeffin [Caisteal Chaifeann, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] drawn by Alexander Carmichael and accompanying notes describing a porthole facing Glensanda, large holes in the outside walls as if for bars and the dimensions and situations of the remaining structure. The dungeon is marked on the diagram along with measurements.
Dates:
September 1870
Diagram plan of St Clair's Castle, 26 September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/132
Scope and Contents
Diagram plan of St Clair's Castle [Dùn Mhic Leòid, Loch Tangasdale, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] noting the length of walls, openings within walls, water level and other measurements.
Dates:
26 September 1872
Diagrams of St Moluag's Catherdral and accompanying notes, September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/43
Scope and Contents
Diagrams of St Moluag's Catherdral [Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and accompanying notes which tell how there were human remains dug up from the foundations of the cathedral 'when the dyke was built round the bur[in]g pl[ace] a few y[ea]rs ago.' The diagrams show measurements of walls, niches, windows and doors with some annotations.
Dates:
September 1870
Drawings of George M. Sutherland, Architect, Galashiels
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1319
Scope and Contents
The drawings are of various sizes ranging from approximately A0 size down to 26cm x 35 cm and show the following:
- some pieces showing architectural features/mouldings generally
- George Heriot's Hospital Edinburgh - Details of Council Chambers - 1/2" scale
- George Heriots Hospital, Edinburgh. 1/2" detail of North Entrance Doorway
- Oak Cabinet 'French' dated...
Dates:
1900-1910
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates:
2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Jain Temple, Calcutta [India], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/213
Scope and Contents
Photoraph of a Jain Temple in Calcutta, [India] in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Journal account entitled 'Notes' from a trip looking at archaeological sites on An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, 18 December 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/3
Scope and Contents
Journal account entitled 'Notes' from a trip looking at archaeological sites in which Carmichael describes leaving Lochmaddy [Loch nam Madadh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] and arriving at Ord [An t-Òrd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. He notes that two stone coffins were found at Ionnaraulaviag or Ionnaraulaigidh [Inbhir Amhlabhaig/Inver Aulavaig] in the summer of 1864. He notes stones and rocks called Clach ullain, Eilean Ruridh [Clach Ullain and Eilean Ruairidh] and that on the latter...
Dates:
18 December 1865
Journal account of a trip to the Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis including archaeological notes, January 1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/4
Scope and Contents
Journal account of a trip to the Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis including a description of the standing stones at Callanish [Calanais], telling how local people call them 'Na Tursachain' and 'na Fir bhreige' adding 'They make out that they cannot be counted'. He also describes another stone circle nearby at Gearradh na h-abhine [Gearraidh na h-Aibhne/Garynahine] as 'a circle within a circle' and names some of the island's other stone circles: Taigh nan Druiean at Grimartaidh and Gleann sagairt...
Dates:
January 1866
Letter of Sir James Matthew Barrie to Sir Edwin Lutyens, 6 August 1919, 10 March 1970
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0028
Scope and Contents
Signed autograph letter from Sir James Matthew Barrie to his friend and creative collaborator the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, praising Lutyens' design for the Cenotaph, London.
There is an accompanying letter from Nicholas Taylor of the Lutyens Trust, dated 10 March 1970, thanking the then owner Ben Sonnenberg Jr for letting him see a copy of the letter.
There is an accompanying letter from Nicholas Taylor of the Lutyens Trust, dated 10 March 1970, thanking the then owner Ben Sonnenberg Jr for letting him see a copy of the letter.
Dates:
6 August 1919; 10 March 1970