FRANK PENTLAND CHAMBERS | CAC Accession No: 14 |
DESCRIPTION Frank Pentland Chambers (fl. 1929-42) studied at Cambridge University and at the Royal Academy in London. Later he emigrated to Canada and held the position of Assistant Professor of Architecture at the McGill University School of Architecture from 1929 until 1942. The drawings were formerly used by the McGill University School of Architecture as teaching aids. Architectural Drawings, 1920-30, 4 drawings. The archive contains student drawings by Chambers, primarily of Italian architecture, as well as a design for a small museum submitted by Chambers in 1925 for the Tite Prize of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Photographs, n.d., ca. 70 photographs. Sculptures created by Chambers while he was was student at the Royal Academy and his submission for the The Prize are recorded on photographs. Personal Papers, n.d., 45 cm. Papers from Chambers' student years include notebooks on various subjects including German grammar, lectures on architectural aesthetics and a typescript of a murder mystery set in an artists' colony. The information about the photographs and the papers was taken from the McGill Universtity Archives guide, Vol. 2, page 15. The accession does not mention these items, nor does the file in the small collections drawer. |