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Applied Structural Design typescript, circa 1941
Thomas H. McKaig (1890-1967) was an engineer and architect in Buffalo, N.Y. Copy of typescript (Addenda and corrections, 2 unnumbered leaves; 190 leaves; Index, 2 unnumbered leaves)
Topics: Design ArchivesArchitectural Drawings of the Darwin D. Martin House and Graycliff, 1904-1988 (bulk 1904-1930)
Architectural and landscape plans for the Darwin D. Martin House and Graycliff, the summer home of the Darwin D. Martin family which were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd, Digital CollectionsArchitectural fragments from the Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, Japan)
Architectural fragments from the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, Japan), collected by Edgar Tafel. The fragments include oya stone and terra cotta architectural blocks, decorative tiles and bricks, one window with panels of clear and amber leaded glass, and one copper exterior piece.
Black and white photographs of the fragments, a May 1968 Forum article about the Imperial Hotel's demolition and a brochure from the Imperial Hotel can be found in the collection's accession file. Please see University Archives staff for access to these materials.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydArchitecture and Planning (School of) records, 1977-2002
Records of the School of Architecture and Planning from 1977-2002.
Topics: Design ArchivesAudubon New Community Records, 1964-1987 (bulk 1975-1987)
Records, 1975-1987 with earlier documents from 1964 onward, of the Audubon Association, Inc. pertaining to the Audubon New Community of Amherst, New York; concerning the operation, maintenance, and government of a planned new community which began construction in 1973.
Topics: Design ArchivesBanham (Reyner) "Buffalo: The Industrial Heritage" Course Records, 1904-1986 (bulk 1977)
Documents "Buffalo: The Industrial Heritage", a summer course taught by Reyner Banham in 1977. Contents include contemporary and historic photographs of Buffalo's industrial buildings (including the Larkin Complex) and field notes.
Topics: Design Archives, Frank Lloyd Wright, UB PeopleBethune (Zina) collection on Louise Bethune
Documents the life and work of the first American professional woman architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune. Includes records on the Bethune and Dubke families, the life and work of Dr. Charles William Bethune (Louise Bethune's son), and photographs of the Blanchard family.
Topics: Women's History in WNY, Design Archives, Digital CollectionsBird (Walter) Papers, 1912-2006
The papers of Walter Bird, founder of Birdair, Inc. and a pioneer of lightweight structural design, consist primarily of his professional activities.
Topics: Design ArchivesBlueprints of the W.W. Davies Residence, Louisville, Kentucky, undated
Blueprints by Frank Lloyd Wright for a residence in Louisville, Kentucky, which was not built.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydBuffalo and Western New York Building Codes and Zoning Ordinances Collection, 1936-2004
A collection of building and housing codes, and zoning, health, and sanitation ordinances for the city of Buffalo, New York, the town of Amherst, New York, and Erie County, New York. Documents cover the period 1936-1986. Also includes some similar documents for other municipalities in Western New York.
Topics: Design ArchivesBuffalo and Western New York Building Codes, Reports, and Planning Documents, 1953-1994
A collection of building and housing codes and zoning ordinances for the city of Buffalo, N.Y., the town of Amherst, N.Y., and Erie County, N.Y. Documents cover the period 1936-1986. Also includes some similar documents for other municipalities in Western New York.
Topics: Design ArchivesCohen (Harold and Mary) Papers, circa 1950-2010
Correspondence, notes, publications, photographs/slides, and documentation regarding the research and work of Harold and Mary Cohen.
Topics: UB People, Design ArchivesConversations Regarding the Future of Architecture lp record, 1956
1956 recording of interviews with architects Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Richard J. Neutra, as collected and edited by John Peter.
Topics: Design Archives, Audio/Visual collectionsDarwin D. Martin Digitization project, 2006-2008
Includes papers on the Western New York Library Resources Council grant process and report, spreadsheets and papers produced during the digitization process.
Digital images of photographs, primarily 1904-1937, kept by the Martin Family, depicting the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, New York, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. These photographs illustrate the exterior, interior and grounds of the Martin House and the related structures, including the George Barton House. Included is an album showing the construction of the Martin House, July 23, 1904 to May 9, 1905; several views of the Martin House by Chicago photographer Henry Fuermann, some of which were used in an article about the house in the May 1908 Architectural Record; a series of portraits of Martin family members taken by Louise Mueller in 1912, which also show the interior of the house; and numerous family photographs. Also included are photographs of members of the Martin family and a few photographs showing the Martin family summer home "Graycliff" at Derby, New York. Later photographs show the house during the period of occupancy by Buffalo architect Sebastian Tauriello, circa 1954-1965, and during the occupancy of the house by State University of New York at Buffalo President Martin M. Meyerson, circa 1967-1970.
Digital images in Series II and III are searchable by keyword online in UB Libraries Digital Collections. Digital images in Series IV are available only on CD-ROM.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd
Darwin D. Martin House Restoration planning materials, 1990-1997
Surveys, studies, reports and manuals regarding the restoration of the Darwin D. Martin House from 1990-1997.
Topics: Wright, Frank Lloyd, Design ArchivesDawson (Charles R.) Planning Consultant Records, 1949-2008
This collection contains the records of Charles R. Dawson, a prominent planning practitioner in the Western New York area who was responsible for many planning documents for local communities. Includes reports, court documents, correspondence, plans, maps, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining to Charles R. Dawson's individual consulting practice.
Topics: Design Archives, Buffalo and WNY HistoryFrank Lloyd Wright collection, reference files, 1904-1997
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd Wright on Record lp record, 1956
LP recording of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, interviewed in 1956 by Ben Raeburn (Horizon Press); Marianne Mantell and Barbara Holdridge (Caedmon Records). The recording is nearly 2 hours in length.
Topics: Design Archives, Audio/Visual collections, Wright, Frank LloydFriends of the Darwin D. Martin House records, 1966-1982
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd
Graycliff Construction Photographs, circa 1926-1938
Construction photographs for Graycliff, the summer home of the Darwin D. Martin family which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd, Digital CollectionsHistoric American Building survey drawings, Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, 1987
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd
Huff (William S.) Collection on Louis I. Kahn, 1949-2012
The William S. Huff collection on Louis I. Kahn contains a complete set of drawings for the Tribune Review Publishing Company building in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and drawings for the Margaret Esherick House in Philadelphia. Also included are an extensive collection of newspaper clippings and periodical articles about Kahn, photographs and slides of other buildings designed by Kahn (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Yale University Art Gallery addition, Yale Center for British Art, Carborundum Company Warehouse and Office, and First Unitarian Church and Community Center, Rochester, New York), correspondence with Kahn, correspondence with others about Kahn's work, and correspondence with Kahn's widow Esther Israeli Kahn and others pertaining to passage of legislation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to purchase Kahn's papers. There are also numerous small, original works by Kahn, and ephemera. Transcripts of interviews by Alvaro Malo on four of Kahn's buildings--Yale Center for British Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Phillips Exeter Library, and Salk Institute for Biological Studies--and books about Kahn and his work are also included.
Topics: Design Archives, Digital Collections
Huff (William S.) Collection on the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, 1953-2012
The Hochschule fur Gestaltung (HfG) material covers the range of the HfG's fourteen academic years and later accomplishment of many of the school faculty and a number of its students. When the HfG abruptly closed in 1968, a number of persons had the presence of mind to box documents and artifacts and to deposit them in a storehouse of the Ulmer Museum, which is part of the Cultural mandate of the City of Ulm, one of three governmental funders of the HfG. Eventually, the City of Ulm established the HfG-Archiv as part of the City Archive. This, of course, is the prime depository of the archaeology of the HfG and is expected to remain so. Because of the nature of the base of the HfG-Archiv collection, there is the possibility that the Huff papers include items that the HfG-Archiv does not have. For one, the HfG-Archiv does not have original pedagogic notes and aquarelle charts on the theory of color that were written expressly for Huff by Bauhausler and HfGer teacher, Helene Nonne-Schmidt.
Topics: Design ArchivesHuff (William S.) Papers, 1952-1988
This collection contains compilations of first year Department of Architecture architectural design assignments, 1975-1986, and course records, project assignments, and student lists, 1975-1987; sketch model for a wood construction problem and prototype for a toy problem from first year architecture design studio; documentation and slides on all departmental, all day sketch problems, 1980 (William S. Huff, Richard C. Cordts, and Alvaro Malo were principal faculty members); designs and writings by Richard C. Cordts, and A. J. C. Wilson; poster and postcard announcement for ArtSpace (Buffalo, March 8-April 6, 1986); poster of Max Bill exhibition (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1974); "Book one: The Background: programming for a new experimental school of design" (1985). Included are files of the periodicals Perspecta: the Yale architectural journal and Oppositions: a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture, and Papers of the American Association of Architectural Bibliographers.
Topics: Design Archives, UB PeopleIvan Chermayeff stationery and placecard die set, 1967
Dies for stationery and placecards, and samples, of the University at Buffalo seal designed by Ivan Chermayeff, in use from 1967 to 1982.
Topics: Design ArchivesJohn Bis files on the Darwin D. Martin House, 1987-1993
This collection contains records related to the Darwin D. Martin House while it was overseen by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. Also included are surveys, studies and other documents related to the Darwin D. Martin House Historic Structure Report.
Topics: Wright, Frank Lloyd, Design ArchivesLarkin Company Plans, 1904, 1912
Architectural plans for the Larkin Company's administration building which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydMartin (Darwin D.) Correspondence with O.S. Lang, 1904-1921 (bulk 1904-1909)
Correspondence between Darwin D. Martin and O.S. Lang, the general contractor for the Martin House, and correspondence of Martin and Lang with suppliers of building materials and furnishings for the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydMartin (Darwin D.) Digital Images, circa 1860s-1970s
Digitized from photographs kept by the Darwin D. Martin family depicting the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, New York, and their summer house, "Graycliff", in Derby, New York, both designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and photographs of the Martin family.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd, Digital CollectionsMartin (Darwin D.) family papers, circa 1878-1935
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd
Martin (Darwin D.) Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, Oral Histories 1971-1980
Oral history interviews with persons associated with the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, and other buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Topics: Design Archives, Oral History, Wright, Frank LloydMartin (Darwin D.) Photographs, circa 1860s-1970s
Photographs kept by the Darwin D. Martin family depicting the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, New York, and their summer house, "Graycliff", in Derby, New York, both designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and photographs of the Martin family.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd, Digital CollectionsMilstein, Wittek & Davis Associates Records, MS 97
Topics: Design ArchivesParkwyn Village Drawing Blueprint, 1947
Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Parkwyn Village was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1947 as a Usonian community. The architectural drawing is a blueline print (41x60") of an original ink and colored pencil drawing.
Topics: Design ArchivesPolivka (J.J.) Papers, 1945-1959
Papers of J.J. Polivka, internationally renowned Czechoslovakian structural engineer. Collection documents his collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on many of Wright's later projects including the Guggenheim Museum. Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs and photograph negatives.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydSchool of Architecture and Environmental Design accreditation records, 1973
The collection includes School of Architecture and Environmental Design Accreditation evaluation reports, correspondence, and memorandum.
Topics: Design ArchivesSchumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Fabrics designed by Frank Lloyd Wright [fabric sample], circa 1955
Fabric sample (silk?), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, for Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Fabrics. Item details: design #104 in silk, approximately 49" wide and 11" high.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydStudent Projects School of Architecture and Planning collection, circa 1990
A collection of student projects, School of Architecture and Planning.
Topics: Design Archives, Buffalo and WNY History, Wright, Frank LloydUniversity Archives Historical Film collection
Over 130 16mm films in University Archives have now been digitized and are available for view online. Among the footage are the annual Moving Up Day parades, commencements, football games, marching band formations, student unrest, and campus construction. Some gems were uncovered, including rare footage of the interior of the Darwin Martin house, mid-century downtown Buffalo, Lionel Hampton, and a Buffalo Sabres vs. Buffalo Norsemen hockey game.
Topics: Audio/Visual Collections, Buffalo and WNY History, Campus Unrest, Design Archives, Digital Collections, Sports, Student Life, UB People, University History Resources, Wright, Frank LloydWright (Frank Lloyd) - Darwin D. Martin Papers, circa 1888-1979
Correspondence between Darwin D. Martin of Buffalo, New York and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, concerning the Wright designed homes for the Martin family.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank LloydWright (Frank Lloyd) Major periodical articles, circa 1930s-1980s
A collection of major periodicals featuring articles about architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Topics: Design Archives, Wright, Frank Lloyd