METHODOLOGY
AND GUIDE TO THE USE OF THE INVENTORY
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The purpose of this inventory
is to provide a comprehensive listing of the drawings by Percy Nobbs and his
associates, which form part of the John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection
(CAC). The information provided for the projects has been based on the Canadian
Architecture Collection publication Percy Erskine Nobbs and his Associates,
A Guide to the Archive (1996), and amended where necessary.
PROJECT
DESCRIPTIONS
All information noted
on the project and drawing description sheets designed for the purposes of
the inventory has been compiled from the drawings and from office records.
The terms used to define project types were derived from the Time Saver Standards
of Building Types (1973).
The components of a standard
entry in the inventory are:
1.Record number the unique
reference number which identifies each project and operation.
2.Architect's name: unless
specified by the section heading, the name is supplied on the first line of
the description.
3.Project title: based
as closely as possible on the drawings and office records, but edited and
standardized for clarity and consistency (e.g. where Nobbs and Hyde used both
"house" and "residence", "house" is used in
the inventory). Major editorial additions or changes to titles are indicated
by square brackets. In certain instances, related drawings have been grouped
together and assigned a common title (e.g. Student Prize and Competition Drawings
of P.E. Nobbs). The term 'proposal' indicates projects which are known to
have been unexecuted.
4.Place: the city, street
and address are shown for all operations, as is the province or state (except
for Quebec where the majority of operations were carried out). For projects
outside of North America, the country is also given. Where the location was
not specified by the architects, it has been added if known. Building names,
parks and campuses have also been considered to be addresses. Street numbers
have been given as found, as it is beyond the scope of this inventory to verify
them. Square brackets indicate modern street names.
5.Client: as supplied
by the drawings or office records.
6.Operation number: beginning
in 1907, Hyde gave a sequential operation number to each of his commissions.
This sequence was continued in his partnership with Nobbs, and later in Nobbs's
partnerships with Valentine and Francis Nobbs. Any operation by Nobbs that
was not included in the above sequence (primarily, but not exclusively, Nobbs's
projects before his partnership with Hyde) has been listed in chronological
order with undated operations placed at the end. An operation number whose
first digit is a zero (0) has then been assigned. These numbers, found in
Section 1, are not singly sequential as intervals of five have been left in
case other operations need to be added to the existing chronological sequence.
If an operation involved several stages, a letter in square brackets has been
added to the operation number, according to the precedent set by Nobbs who
used a combined alpha-numeric system in such instances.
7.Date: months and years
during which the major part of the operation was carried out as indicated
by the drawings.
8.Building type: a general
designation indicating the nature of a project, including details of size,
materials and structure.
9.Drawing description:
the number of drawings, and their medium and support.
10.Drawing inventory:
listed in hierarchical order according to the sequence in which drawings are
produced in standard architectural practise, i.e. survey, measured, sketch,
presentation, development, working, detail, shop, consultant and record.
11.Photographic material:
photographs of drawings, models, works in progress, completed operations and
related subjects kept by the office.
12.Related papers: correspondence,
notes, specifications, contracts, financial records and clippings.
13.Comments: include important
supplementary information, which adds to the understanding of a project.
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