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Subseries C1: Course Materials, 1895-2020, undated

 Sub-Series

Subseries Abstract

The Course Materials subseries contains analog and born-digital records for courses developed and taught by Alofsin. Records include notes, lectures, readings, course development documents, randomly selected student work, photographs, 35 mm slides, and lecture recordings on audiocassettes.

Alofsin's lectures included images captured on 35 mm photographic slides. Alofsin used his own copy stand to shoot his own 35 mm slides, primarily sourced from print publications. He would select and arrange slides into slide carousels for each lecture. Carousels are storage devices used to advance a selection of multiple slides, on demand, through a slide projector machine to cast the image on a large screen for group viewing. Slides received in carousels have been rehoused, in original order, into archival storage.

Materials are arranged into sub-subseries by course:

  • C1a: History of Architecture and its Myths Survey III, ARC 328/387H, 1895-2012, undated
  • C1b: Historiography Seminar, ARC 388R, 1942-2007, undated
  • C1c: Arrivals of Modernism, ARC 388R, 1945-2001, undated
  • C1d: Modernism in Architecture, ARC 388R, 1953-2013, undated
  • C1e: History of Ornament, ARC 388R, 1882-2013, undated
  • C1f: Theory I, ARC 386R, 1973-2001
  • C1g: Theory II, ARC 386L, 1979-2010
  • C1h: Origins of Architecture Survey I, ARC 318K/388K, 1985-1996, undated
  • C1i: Central European Architecture: Architecture of the Habsburg Lands, ARC 388R, 1986-1996
  • C1j: Frank Lloyd Wright Courses, ARC 388R, ARC 348R, 1988-2015, undated
  • C1k: Organic Design Workshop, ARC 350R/386M, ARC 388R/368, 1989-2001, undated
  • C1l: Survey II Nineteenth Century Architecture, 1995-1996, undated
  • C1m: Methodologies of Architectural Theory, ARC 386M, 1996-1997
  • C1n: American Homes, ARC 368R/388R, , 2010-2017, undated
  • C1o: Gotham and Modern Architecture, 2017-2020, undated
  • C1p: Studio Courses, 1987-2009
  • C1q: Independent Studies, Lectures, and Other Materials, 1987-2006
  • C1r: Student Work, 1988-2009, undated
  • Dates

    • Creation: 1895-2020, undated

    General

    Lectures 2 and 3 were originally housed in the same slide carousel.

    Repository Details

    Part of the Alexander Architectural Archives Repository

    Contact:
    University of Texas Libraries
    101 E. 21st Street
    Austin Texas 78712 United States
    (512) 495-4621