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The Albert Szabo and Brenda Dyer Szabo Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2012-0001-014379277
Content Description: The collection contains the work of Albert Szabo (the Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art Emeritus in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and professor of Architecture Emeritus at the Graduate School of Design) and of his wife Brenda Dyer Szabo (who was also a practicing architect) and their work in the Americas, Asia, Europe and particularly the Middle East.The collection includes materials related to Szabo's leadership in the Department of Visual and...

The Alex Krieger Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2022-0001-99156655774303941
Content Description:

The collection consists of material related to Krieger's teaching at Harvard (course readers, teaching notes, syllabi, etc.), to his academic research and university service (public engagement, committees, etc.), and to some of his professional practice. It also contains some publications by Krieger, such as books and articles.

The Alison and Peter Smithson Archive

Collection Identifier: DES-2003-0001-009455761
Scope and Contents: The Alison and Peter Smithson Archive includes project files, architectural drawings, sketches, photographs aperture cards, clippings, correspondence, published and unpublished texts drawn from the professional files of architects Alison and Peter Smithson. The collection is comprised of material assembled and maintained by Alison and Peter Smithson, and documents more than fifty years of practice through their architectural work and writings. Projects, both built and unbuilt,...

The Antoine Picon Teaching and Research Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2021-0001-99156217779903941
Scope and Contents:

The collection mostly consists of writing (typescripts and notes) and reference material (photocopies of archival material with notes, reproductions of various secondary literature, and slides). It also contains teaching material (course readers and lecture notes), as well as assorted material related to conferences, lectures, and other public presentations. The bulk of the material from is from 1981 - 2000.

The Architecture of Ulrich Franzen

Collection Identifier: DES-2000-0001-008649663
Scope and Contents: Ulrich Franzen’s collection is comprised of over sixty projects, including private residences, educational structures (notably projects at Cornell University: MVR Hall, the Growth Chamber Laboratories and the Agronomy Building), commercial and industrial commissions (The Philip Morris Research Center and Headquarters at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in New York), and cultural sites ranging from Houston's Alley Theater to the Harlem School of Arts.The collection includes...

The CIAM Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1982-0002-000603297
Scope and Contents:

The CIAM Collections includes correspondence files and manuscript material related to the planning and proceedings of the organization’s conferences (1928-1956) as well as organizational files and photographs.

The correspondence, reports, photographs and ephemera related to the International Congress of Modern Architecture, drawn from the files of Josep Lluís Sert, who was both a founding member of the organization and its president (1947-1956).

The Curutchet Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1977-0002-000603292
Overview:

Drawings, correspondence and photographs related to the design, by Le Corbusier (1887-1965), and construction of the Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina.

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 Ernest Weissmann Archive

Collection Identifier: DES-2013-0003-014379936
Scope and Contents: The Ernest Weissmann Archive is comprised of 43 linear feet of personal and professional papers. Most material documents his many years of extensive and significant international work in housing, urban, and regional development as an officer of the United Nations based in New York. It includes drafts and final versions of lectures, writings and reports, as well as extensive visual documentation (mainly slides) carried out during UN missions. It also contains some material related to his...

The Ferrari Hardoy Archive

Collection Identifier: DES-1995-0001-007823498
Scope and Contents: The Ferrari Hardoy Archive includes drawings, plans, competition entries, manuscripts, correspondence and research materials related to Jorge Ferrari Hardoy’s work as a designer, architect and city planner.Jorge Ferrari Hardoy’s papers span approximately forty years: from his student years in the 1930’s to the mid-1970’s. There are substantial files related to CIAM Argentina and Grupo Austral, the forums for the discussion of modern architecture in Argentina during the late 1940’s....

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 Franziska Porges Hosken Research Files for "Kathmandu Valley Towns"

Collection Identifier: DES-2004-0002-009826389
Scope and Contents: "The Kathmandu Valley Towns: A Record of Life and Change in Nepal", published by J. Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1974. The book is documentation of Hosken's analysis of village and town communities in the Kathmandu Valley. Her travels in Nepal were formative in her future focus on women's health issues, particularly in the developing world.The collections consists of her research files connected to the publication of "The Kathmandu Valley Towns: A Record of Life and Change in...

The George B. Ford Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1990-0003-014378624
Content Description: The Ford Collection includes drawings, plans, substantial correspondence files, numerous reports and studies (in both preliminary and final formats), and a particularly significant collection of photographs, manuscript materials, clippings, and ephemera relating to war damage and reconstruction in eastern France. A substantial portion of the Ford Collection was orginally part of the Harriet B. Ford Collection at Smith College. The collection also contains materials that were formerly in the...

The George Collins Collection on Linear City Planning

Collection Identifier: DES-2001-00001-008766565
Scope and Contents: The George Collins Collection on Linear City Planning is comprised of research files and correspondence assembled and maintained by architectural historian George Roseborough Collins (1917-1993) related to linear planning and, more specifically, to the Ciudad Lineal of Madrid by Arturo Soria y Mata (1844-1920), as well as related photographic and printed works.The collection includes research files comprised mainly of reference material, clippings, manuscripts, typescripts,...

The GSD History Collection, Academic Affairs

Collection Identifier: DES-2009-0001-011762445
Scope and Contents: This collection includes documents relating to the organization and administration of academic courses and programs at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, mainly between 1936 and 1993. Materials include curriculum development papers, departmental papers related to seminars, exhibitions and lectures, information on scholarships, fellowships and awards. It also includes some faculty papers, course materials, and materials related to professional development courses offered through...

The GSD History Collection, Administrative Affairs

Collection Identifier: DES-2009-0002-011762440
Scope and Contents: This collection includes documents relating to the organization and administration of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, mainly between 1936 and 1993.Materials include official registers, directories, news and press releases, and materials related to publications, exhibitions, conferences, lectures, and special events. It also includes some alumni association materials, library and building facilities, and GSD life photographs. The vast majority of the materials span the years...

The GSD History Collection, Student Affairs [Student Work]

Collection Identifier: DES-2008-0004-010247279
Scope and Contents: The collection includes theses, course syllabi, drawings and photographs of student work produced between 1900 and 1960 at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and its preceding School of Architecture and School of Landscape Architecture.The bulk of the collection consists of photostats of student work and original student drawings, as well as typescript theses statements and course syllabi, produced at Harvard in relation to courses and programs in architecture,...

The Herbert Langford Warren Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2007-0004-011579748
Scope and Contents:

Includes travel sketchbooks, professional drawings, correspondence and photographs by and about Herbert Langford Warren, and architectural renderings from the office of Smith & Warren. It also includes watercolors for a Proposed Press at Harvard. Although the bulk of the collection is the work of H.L. Warren there is also correspondence and a diary from the Warren family, primarily written by Winifred Warren.

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...

The Kenzō Tange Archive -- 丹下健三アーカイブ

Collection Identifier: DES-2011-0012-014379275
Scope and Contents: The Kenzō Tange Archive is comprised of architectural drawings, architectural models, clippings, manuscript notebooks, and print publications from the professional practice of architect, urban planner, and educator Kenzō Tange (1913-2005). More specifically, the archival materials included consist primarily of architectural drawings for 140 projects and printed materials collected by Tange. The architectural and urban projects, both built and unbuilt, were developed during Kenzō Tange's...

The Louisa Vaughan Conrad Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2006-0001-010217584
Scope and Contents:

The Louisa Vaughan Conrad Collection includes photographs, correspondence, clippings, trade catalogs, and business records mainly by and about the Boston 1940s furniture showroom Pillsbury and Vaughan.

The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1930s to the early 1940s and includes personal papers, student papers and business papers. The latter are mainly related to Pillsbury and Vaughan (1940-1942), and its successor firm Artek in Boston (1943).

The Marcel Breuer Lectures Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2010-0002-011320691
Scope and Contents:

The Marcel Breuer Lectures Collection is comprised of 17 lectures and writings by Marcel Breuer, both in manuscript and/or typescript form.

The Norman T. Newton Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2004-0003-012577982
Scope and Contents: The bulk of this collection is comprised of World War II files related to Norman T. Newton's work in the Sub Commission of Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (correspondence, final reports, and maps). It also includes pre- and post- WWII publications on conditions of works of art and historic monuments.The collection is comprised of World War II files of correspondence, news clippings and memorabilia, official military records, photographs (pre and during the war), and Sub...

The Roberto Burle Marx Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1999-0002-008949519
Scope and Contents: The collection contains research files and correspondence exchanged between Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), William Howard Adams, and the Museum of Modern Art during 1990-1991.The research files and correspondence included in the collection are related to the preparation of the exhibition Roberto Burle Marx: The Unnatural Art of the Garden, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1991 and curated by William...