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Avery Drawings & Archives

Taliesin Associated Architects architectural drawings and records, 1959-1991

400 linear feet
The collection includes the project files and architectural drawings of the Taliesin Associated Architects, the firm that was established after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959. Projects include commissions that were left on Wright's desk at the time of his death as well as independent commissions and renovation work. Over 1,000 architectural projects are represented either in the paper records, the architectural drawings, or both.
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Avery Drawings & Archives

John M. Johansen architectural drawings and papers, 1939-2007

1,423 drawings
John Maclane Johansen received his architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942 where he studied under Walter Gropius. He worked under Marcel Breuer and at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before opening his own private office in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he became known as one of the Harvard Five. He later formed a partnership with Ashok Bhavnani. Major projects include the Oklahoma (Mummers) Theater in Oklahoma City; the Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; the Charles Center Theater Building (Mechanic Theater) in Baltimore, the United States Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, and the Island House and Rivercross apartments on Roosevelt Island, which he completed with Bhavnani. Johansen also designed numerous private residences in Connecticut and New York, and a series of conceptual projects such as the Leapfrog City project and the "Moon Module" house. The collection largely documents Johansen's professional career, and includes original and reprographic architectural drawings, photographs, negatives, professional papers, publications, reference files, and one scale model.
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Architect-Artist, 1994 Box 2, Folder 5

Architect-Artist, 1994
Copy of a booklet titled [i]John M. Johansen: Architect-Artist[/i] put together by former clients

Copy of a booklet titled [i]John M. Johansen: Architect-Artist[/i] put together by former clients, who were selling their house, for prospective buyers

  1. Series II: Professional Papers, 1955-2001

Sprayform Project, 1959 Box 2, Folder 23

Descriptions, letters of endorsement from various architects regarding Johansen's attempt to

Descriptions, letters of endorsement from various architects regarding Johansen's attempt to request funding for Sprayform Project from Portland Cement Assocation

  1. Series II: Professional Papers, 1955-2001

Collected Books & Excerpts, 1952-1989 Box 3, Folder 1-6

MoMA, [i]Built in USA: Post-war Architecture[/i]; Paul Heyer, [i]Architects on Architecture[/i
Architects[/i]; Antonella Calderazzi, [i]Contro L'Ortodossia E Il Bello Estetico Un' Architettura Per Il

MoMA, [i]Built in USA: Post-war Architecture[/i]; Paul Heyer, [i]Architects on Architecture[/i]; Don Metz and Yuji Noga, [i]New Architecture In New Haven[/i]; Werner Ruhnau, [i]Versammlungsstätten[/i]; Bruno Zevi, [i]Cronache di architettura[/i]; Eva Jacob, [i]New Architecture in New England[/i]; Alison Sky and Michelle Stone, [i]Unbuilt America[/i]; Ann Ferebee, [i]Urban Design Case Studies[/i]; Carmine Benincasa, [i]Architettura come dis-identita[/i]; Bruno Zevi, [i]Il Linguaggio Moderno Dell'Architettura[/i]; Francesca Saveria Bedoni, [i]L'architettura frantumata John Mac Lane Johansen[/i]; Arthur Drexler, [i]Transformations in Modern Architecture[/i]; Fredric Hobbs, [i]Eat Your House[/i]; Abby Suckle. [i]By Their Own Design[/i] and [i]El Porque de Nuestros Disenos[/i]; Muriel Emanuel, [i]Contemporary Architects[/i]; Antonella Calderazzi, [i]Contro L'Ortodossia E Il Bello Estetico Un' Architettura Per Il Futuro: John Johansen[/i]; Peter Blake and Bernard Quint, [i]Modern Architecture/America[/i]; "Lingotto - La Consultazione Internazionale"; Sylvia Hart Wright, [i]Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture[/i]; Vittorio Giorgini, [i]Urbology[/i]

  1. Series III: Office Records, 1952-1995
Avery Drawings & Archives

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives : Taliesin Fellowship talk transcripts and audio recordings, 1948-1956

6 manuscript boxes
"Talk to the Taliesin Fellowship" was a regular lecture series at Taliesin where Wright addressed the fellows and apprentices on a range of philosophical and personal topics. The collection consists of transcripts and audio recordings of those talks as well as additional talks given by Wright to various public audiences.
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Avery Drawings & Archives

Taliesin Associated Architects projects in Iran : architectural drawings and records, 1968-1980

8 document boxes
This collection is composed primarily of the projects (built or unbuilt) that Taliesin Associated Architects (TAA) conducted in Iran in collaboration with Nezam Amery and his office NAKK spanning from 1965 to 1979. The collection includes final and working project drawings, correspondences, contracts, estimates, calculation, photographs, and additional papers. It also includes records of litigation after 1979 in the United States Courts. While the time of the projects overlaps, the series are arranged chronologically based on the dates each contract was signed.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Daniel Talbot Papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2008

495 linear feet
The Dan Talbot Papers document the business operation of the New Yorker Films, an independent film acquisition and distribution company, dating from 1960s to 2008, as well as movie theaters in the Upper West Side Manhattan which he operated, dating from 1960 to 2007. It is of particular relevance to New Yorkers as the Talbots operated the New Yorker Theater, Cinema Studio, Metro, and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, on the Upper West Side, as popular venues to view independent and foreign films.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Meyer Schapiro papers, 1919-2006

400 linear feet
This collection encompasses the professional, personal, and artistic life of art historian Meyer Schapiro.
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"Architects and the crisis: an open letter to the architects, draughtsman, and technicians of America" -- Editorial notes and clippings, 1932 Box 220, Folder 10

"Architects and the crisis: an open letter to the architects, draughtsman, and technicians of
(Published in a pamphlet created by the Architects' Committee of League of Professional Groups for

(Published in a pamphlet created by the Architects' Committee of League of Professional Groups for Foster and Ford)

  1. Series IV: Writings
  2. Subseries: IV.2: Articles, 1929-1994
  3. Sub-Subseries: IV.2.1, 1929-1930s
Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Herbert H. Lehman Papers, 1878-2002, bulk 1930-1963

607 linear feet
This collection documents the personal and political life of Herbert H. Lehman, who served as lieutenant governor, governor, and senator of New York, and as director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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Avery Drawings & Archives

Selma Rattner research papers on James Renwick, 1856-2001, bulk 1960s-2001

35.5 linear feet

This collections contains the professional research, writing, publications, and correspondence produced and collected by Rattner through her study of the architect James Renwick, Jr. The bulk of Rattner's research addresses the life and works of Renwick, but other research topics represented in her papers range from the Renwick family genealogy to the institutional architecture of New York City. Types of research material include personal research notes (in notecard format, both typed and holograph), correspondence (1963-2001), newspaper and magazine clippings, Xerox copies of archival material and secondary sources, transcribed articles and correspondence, brochures from historic sites, photographs and slides of buildings and sites, sketches, historic structure inventory forms, landmark nomination forms, landmark designation reports, and postcards.

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Avery Drawings & Archives

Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979-(bulk 1949-1964).

56 Linear Feet
Douglas Putnam Haskellan (1899-1979) was an American writer, architecture critic and magazine editor. This collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, lectures, transcripts, clippings, notes, printed matter, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia mainly relating to Douglas Haskell's editorship at Architectural Forum and his professional activities. The collection includes items dating from 1866 to 1979, with the majority of materials dating from the period of 1949 to 1964.
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Architects Box 26, Folder 5

Architects
Society of Architects at the Society's 47th annual convention, April 5-7, 1961. ; Typescript of speech. 9
Where does architecture go from here? I. The Architect, more Needed than Pitied. By John E

A Second Report on Your Profession, prepared by the AIA Committee on the Profession, April 1962.; Report. [18 pp.]

  1. Series II: Personal Correspondence

"Rejected Architects" exhibition, 1931 Box 107, Folder 13

"Rejected Architects" exhibition, 1931
Carolina. Clauss & Daub, architects. Photo by Louis H. Dreyer. Plans and elevations.
, Princeton, New Jersey. Plans, elevations, and model views. Clauss & Daub, architects.

(1) 6x10, B&W photographic print. Johnson, H.H., Mrs., residence, proposed, Pinehurst, North Carolina. Clauss & Daub, architects. Photo by Louis H. Dreyer. Plans and elevations.

  1. Series XIII: Photographs
Avery Drawings & Archives

Craftsman Architects drawings, 1904-1915

1,163 drawings

Original and reprographic architectural drawings of Craftsman homes designed by The Craftsman Architects from offices in Syracuse and New York City, under the direction of Gustav Stickley, most of which were published nearly monthly in THE CRAFTSMAN magazine. Sixteen architectural designs for private clients, seven Craftsman fireplace-furnace systems for private clients, and additional drawings for Craftsman hardware are also included.

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