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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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 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 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...

Hugh Stubbins Archive: The Early Years Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-1988-0003-009333574
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 Early Years Collection...

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 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 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 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...

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 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 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...

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...

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,...

Barcelona pamphlets, circa 1980-2000

File — Box 109: [Barcode: DL2B76], Folder: 22Identifier: DES, 2013, 0007, 014379908
Scope and Contents:

Series J contains records and collected ephemera from Doris Cole and Hal Goyette's architectural travels. Records include itineraries, correspondence, photographs, and pamphlets. Material dates from 1979-2018.

Three Sert Projects Pamphlets, 1989 - 1993

File — Box 10: Series D; Series F [Barcode: DL221I]Identifier: DES, 2012, 0001, 014379277, D, DA, DA.10
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...

Folder C50: Fairchild Tropical Garden Pamphlets, 1967 - 1993

File — Box 2: Series C; Series D [Barcode: DL23IC]Identifier: DES, 1997, 0002, 007605360, C, C50
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...

Folder J.3: Pamphlets and Journals, 1910 - 1930

File — Box 7: Series J [Barcode: DL1291]Identifier: DES, 1990, 0003, 014378624, J, J.3
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...

Folder C13: Bok Tower Gardens Pamphlets, 1929 - 1990

File — Box 1: Series A; Series B; Series C [Barcode: DL23IB]Identifier: DES, 1997, 0002, 007605360, C, C13
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...

Folder C15: Mountain Lake Sanctuary Pamphlets, 1940, 1957, 1961

File — Box 1: Series A; Series B; Series C [Barcode: DL23IB]Identifier: DES, 1997, 0002, 007605360, C, C15
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...