- UTA 1699-2-B2019-0009/003(19)
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- 1961-1967
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
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Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Correspondence, January 1975- December 1976
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Letter, Irene Richards to Larry, 14 June 1977, with attachments on local architecture in Indiana
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Correspondence, January- April
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Correspondence, October 1979- October 1981
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Letter from Don Matheson, 19 November 1984, with slides
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Ball State University. Exhibition
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Nova Scotia Technical College. Master plan
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School of Architecture. Courses: Architecture 345 - 474 (Rome program)
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Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Course and exhibit, Option studio, Clementine Hunter Museum and University of Waterloo
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William Dendy [architectural library and nomination for OAA]
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Frank Gehry lecture, 1992 Hagey Lecture Series, University of Waterloo
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[Correspondence and drawing, University of Waterloo]
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Committees on building and property design, University of Waterloo
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Employment: University of Toronto
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Professor Richards was lured to the University of Toronto in 1980 by the new Dean, Blanche van Ginkel, who had earlier recruited several new young faculty members, including Alberto Perez Gomez and Daniel Libeskind. Both had left by the time Richards arrived and he soon found out why. He “walked into a rat’s nest of warring factions. The inflexible ideologues, led by Prof. Peter Pragnell, were totally closed to student and younger faculty’s interests in post-modernism.” Richards soon became disillusioned and found reward only through the new ‘Introduction to Architecture’ course he developed and taught at University College. He also coordinated the 1980-1981 fourth-year core programme and (with Michael Kirkland) the fall 1981 studio in Venice. After a year he left Toronto for the position of associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo.
Although Professor Richards maintained contact with the University of Toronto (he withdrew his candidacy for the deanship in 1985) and actually moved from Waterloo to
Toronto in 1990, it was not until January 1997 that he returned to the Faculty, this time as
dean, an appointment that was to last 7 and a half years. “He led a division of 22 core and 48 part-time faculty, 20 staff, and 275 graduate students, which offers three degree programs: a professional Master of Architecture, a professional Master of Landscape Architecture, and a post-professional Master of Urban Design. He gained approvals for and implemented two long-range academic plans, the 2000 PLAN and the 2004 PLAN, leading to the reinvigoration of the creative life of the school. His accomplishments included facilitating the incremental renovation of the building at 230 College Street by leading Toronto architects and establishing the Faculty’s first endowed chair, The Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design, launched in 2003. He established the Faculty’s first Advancement Office and raised more than $8-million in new funding through the division’s “Design the Future” campaign. [He also]…played a key role in assisting the University with architect selection processes for major projects on its three campuses.” On the St. George campus three significant buildings by international architects were erected: the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Bimolecular Research (Alliance + Behnisch Architekten), the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building (Norman Foster) and Graduate House (Morphosis, Thom Mayne).
The earliest records in the series consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports and associated material documenting Professor Richards’ stint as assistant professor in 1980-1981; the files cover the activities mentioned above. There are also files on the 1985 search for a dean and the attempt to close the School, followed by several on Richards’ appointment as dean. Files are then arranged in descending order of hierarchy, beginning with the Governing Council, its Physical Planning and Design Advisory Committee’s campus planning initiatives (concerning, especially, Graduate House), and meetings of principals, deans, academic directors and chairs. Except for the above committees, those mentioned in Professor Richards’ curriculum vitae are largely absent from this series.
The records of the School/Faculty from 1997-2007 include correspondence; Richards’ activities and his reports; budgets, the 2000 and 2004 long-range plans, and fundraising initiatives. There are files on the restructuring of courses and the renaming and repositioning of the School (using, in part, the expertise of designer Bruce Mau) and the renovations to 230 College Street (the Shore Moffatt Library and the Eric Arthur Gallery). Richards kept extensive files on trips to Japan, Hong Kong and China relating to the Faculty’s ‘Designs for Living’ cultural exchange project. The series concludes with files on the creation of the Gehry Chair; courses taught; lecture series; exhibitions; and publicity. The files on the courses taught contain course outlines, assignments, tests, examination questions, and some lectures.
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Correspondence (2004-2006); activities reports, budgets
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Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
UNI230S: Introduction to Architecture
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Address for application to the School of Architecture, UofT
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[Correspondence, meeting notes, events, Faculty of Architecture, UofT]
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Correspondence, notes, proposals re: architect selection for the Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building
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Letter re: creation of new faculty, al&d, University of Toronto
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Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
"Mid-Century Icons: Architectural Photography from the Panda Collection"
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[Reference letters - restricted]
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Robert N. Pearson house (1973) - Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University (1985-1988)
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Rolled drawings for Arthur's Restaurant, Plymouth, Mass.
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Prencipe House, South End, Boston Photos of interior renovations by Larry Richards
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Il Tino - barn to house renovation and addition, for Romero Romei, 24 February 1972
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Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Residence design, 91 Warren Avenue, Boston. Drawings
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Sherwood Townhouse development, Sherwood, Prince Edward Island. Layout
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Urban design proposal for Faenza, Italy: 'Interventions in an historic centre' , 1984 (1st folder)
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Home Street Home' design competition (1987) - Notes on Union Station (2002?)
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Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Cameron Freedman condo, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - sketchbook and notes
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Architecture, art and design juries
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Professor Richards has been since the early 1980s an active participant on architecture, art and design juries. The juries adjudicated projects ranging from student competitions to architectural grants (Canada Council), urban design awards (Etobicoke, Mississauga, Scarborough, Toronto), public art competitions (City of Waterloo, ice sculptures in Toronto), building projects (Coptic community master plan and cathedral, new city hall for Markham, Ontario), redevelopment projects such as Harbourfront and Pearson Airport, to architectural awards. Professor Richards was not a member of the jury for the Kitchener City Hall competition (1989) but he assembled a lot of material and also wrote about it. He was also a member of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority’s selection committee for lead architect in its Lester B. Pearson International Airport transformation project (1997).
The files contain correspondence, notes, photographs, architectural drawings, press coverage and reports. The arrangement is chronological and by the name of the project. The full name and date of each competition is listed in Professor Richards’ curriculum vitae (B2007-0011/001(02)-(06).
Advising, assessing and consulting
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
In addition to his work as a juror, Professor Richards was active as a consultant or advisor to a number of projects, most associated with architectural and design, but some with academic matters such as tenure and the external supervision of theses. Some of the activities listed in his curriculum vitae are filed with other series and others are not documented in this series. The arrangement is chronologically by the name of the organization or individual concerned. The files may contain any or all of the following: correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, photographs, architectural drawings and site plans.
Within accession B2007-0011, the most heavily documented of his consulting work is with the selection of an architect for the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, the Environmental Sciences Building at Trent University; as a thesis advisor (1989-1990) to Brian Christianson of Miami University whose thesis was on Canadian architecture; as a member of the 2006 program review for the School of Architecture at McGill University; and his being a consultant to and a member of the Royal Ontario Museum’s architectural advisory committee regarding ‘Renaissance ROM’ and Daniel Libeskind’s project. Two other well documented activities are his work as a member of the curatorial advisory board of Power Plant (1987-1990) and as a member of the visiting team of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (USA) to Texas State University (1992).
B2019-0009 includes documentation of Richards’ work with Kin Yeung, founder and owner of the fashion brand Blanc de Chine. After having met Yeung on a trip to Hong Kong in the early 2000s, Richards began consulting for the company to help grow its international visibility. Over the span of more than a decade, Richards worked on a range of projects including interior design for the brand’s New York retail locations (including Bleu de Chine), Yeung’s private apartments, writing and editing an unpublished biography of Yeung, and founding the Toronto studio, WORKshop. Material includes extensive correspondence, draft manuscripts, notes, journals, reflective commentaries, as well as plans and drawings for interior design projects.
Consultant to President and Architect Selection Committee, Trent University, 1988
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Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery design competition, 1986. Background file on clay and glass
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds
Part of Larry Wayne Richards fonds