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Eleanor Raymond Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1986-0001-009331040
Overview: Eleanor Raymond, FAIA, AB ‘09, M.Arch ‘36, was born in 1887 in Cambridge, MA. Upon her graduation from the Cambridge School of Architectural and Landscape Design for Women in 1920, Raymond joined Henry Atherton Frost’s architecture firm, thus beginning a professional career that spanned some sixty years of practice. Raymond’s primary interest was in domestic architecture and her work is marked by a regional modernist aesthetic. Raymond was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of...

Hugh Stubbins Archive: The Schools Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1988-0004-009367006
Scope and Contents: The Hugh Stubbins Archive documents more than fifty years of professional practice in drawings, plans, correspondence, research files, photographs and memorabilia. As well as documenting the work of Stubbins as an individual designer, the Archive offers access to a broad array of building types (ranging from private residences to educational complexes to stadiums to office buildings) and to the operating history of a mid-20th century architectural firm. The Schools Collection...

Jerzy Soltan Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2008-0003-014379248
Scope and Contents: The Jerzy Soltan Collection includes, in large part, teaching and administrative files related to his academic years at the GSD and his consulting activities, research files on various topics and architects (mainly related to Le Corbusier and Team 10 members), as well as writings by himself and others. The collection also contains a few set of drawings and numerous slides of architectural sites, sketches and drawings, including projects and built works by Soltan in Europe and in the United...

Papers of Dan Kiley

Collection Identifier: DES-1995-0004-006399835
Scope and Contents: This collection includes landscape drawings representing the work of Dan Kiley, and The Office of Dan Kiley, ca.1941-ca.1995.The collection includes landscape architecture drawings for a broad representation of his landscape designs, including site plans, planting plans, and topographical maps gifted by Dan Kiley in 1995. It should be noted that a large amount of drawings and several hundred boxes of job files remained in Vermont to be gifted at a later date, but because of a...

Papers of John Charles Olmsted

Collection Identifier: DES-1977-0001-000603289
Scope and Contents:

The collection includes some 5,000 letters exchanged with his wife, Sophia White Olmsted (1862-1956), during the years 1898-1920. During this period Olmsted traveled for lengthy periods on firm business and this correspondence provides insight into the realities of both practice and domestic concerns. There are also correspondence files with professional colleagues, scattered manuscript materials of professional interest, as well as family papers, ephemera and photographs.

Papers of Richard Webel

Collection Identifier: DES-1997-0003-007385057
Scope and Contents: Papers of Richard Webel is comprised of architectural drawings and sketches produced by Richard Webel during his residency at the American Academy in Rome (1926 –1929), architectural drawings, project photographs, and sketches produced by Innocenti and Webel over 60 years of practice, Webel's personal photographs, and publication and exhibition materials for "Making Landscape of Continuity" (1996). The archival materials included consist primarily of work from Innocenti and Webel...

Papers of William Lyman Phillips

Collection Identifier: DES-1997-0002-007605360
Content Description: A substantial collection of materials related to the personal life and professional practice of landscape architect William L. Phillips. Included are project files, photographs, clippings and ephemera, as well as research files assembled by Phillip's biographer Faith R. Jackson. [See Box 4, Series III.] Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of both personal and site records. Correspondence, plans, photographs, slides, drawings and...

Photographs Collected by Henry Hobson Richardson

Collection Identifier: DES-1936-0001-001561485
Scope and Contents: The photographs which comprise this collection were assembled by Henry Hobson Richardson and include 53 volumes of photographs of sites, structures and works of art in Europe, the United States and Asia. The photographs were arranged thematically by Richardson under a variety of rubrics and include building types, components, materials and geographical location. Although the bulk of the photographs were acquired in the 1870s and 1880s, some are of earlier vintages. Photographers represented...

Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2019-0008-15420111590
Scope and Contents: The Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection includes original architectural drawings dating from 1972 through 1998 that consistently emphasize the idea of architecture as a cultural practice with its own specificity in terms of history, theory and systems of representation. The drawings therefore include works both built and unbuilt (including competitions), among them: Facade/Mask House, Fountain House, Country House, House in the Island of Dejerba, The Steps of Providence, Four...

Shurcliff, Arthur A. and Shurcliff, Sidney N., Papers

Collection Identifier: DES-1981-0001-000603275
Scope and Contents:

The Shurcliff Collection includes drawings and plans related to firm projects, as well as professional and personal correspondence. Also included are miscellaneous manuscript and printed materials, an early billbook, a personal diary and hundreds of photographs and slides. These visual materials relate not only to firm work, but served as research images in the Shurcliff office.

The Edward Larrabee Barnes Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1993-0001-004165878
Scope and Contents: The Edward Larrabee Barnes Collection includes architectural drawings, photographs, clippings, lectures, and publications related to Barnes’ architectural practice that spans over five decades of work during the 20th century.His early works consisted of small commissions: private houses, camps and university projects. Later works were larger in scale and range from museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (1966-1971, 1984) and the Dallas Museum of Art (1983-1984, 1993),...

The Franziska Porges Hosken Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2004-0001-012607169
Scope and Contents:

The Franziska Porges Hosken Collection includes student work as well as materials related to Hosken’s work as a designer and journalist, focused on architectural and urban planning topics.

The collection includes student work and materials related to her professional practice as an architect and designer and includes: design work, furniture, jewelry, interior design. It also includes writings and research, and materials related to Women's International Network.

The Jackson House Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2007-0002-.011320691
Scope and Contents:

The Jackson House Collection is comprised of drawings, plans, a model, correspondence and ephemera related to the design, construction and alterations to the Jackson House, designed by architect Eliot Noyes, with architect G. Holmes Perkins as supervising architect, and built in Dover, MA. Original construction, 1941; additions, 1948; and alterations,1990.

The Josep Lluis Sert Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1982-0003-000603276
Scope and Contents: The Sert Collection includes thousands of drawings and plans related to his work as an architect and urban designer, as well as substantial files of correspondence, manuscript material, photographs and slides. The collection’s contents also document his activities as a writer and lecturer and his involvement in professional and civic organizations.The drawings, plans, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, slides and ephemera are drawn from the personal and professional files...