Lisa Germany collection

Collection

Identifier: LGZ

Scope and Content of the collection

Manuscript and photographic material, scrapbooks, and cassette tapes (12.5 linear feet) document Lisa Germany's scholarship on architect Harwell Hamilton Harris. Materials include correspondence, notes, photographs, drafts, and permissions for Germany's 1991 publication Harwell Hamilton Harris. This collection includes records created by Lisa Germany, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and Harris' wife, Jean Murray Bangs Harris.

Harwell Hamilton Harris collected transcribed correspondence dated 1886-1890, by Carl Bennet, a patron of Louis Sullivan. Jean Murray Bangs' materials are mostly undated notes and drafts of an unpublished manuscript on the history of food. She retained a 1896 copy of the Bangs family genealogy. Also included are records related to her writing on California architects Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck.

Dates

Creation: 1886-1992
Creation: bulk 1950-1992

Creator

Germany, Lisa (contributor, Person)

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Biographical Sketch of Lisa Germany Zeigler

Scholar Lisa Germany has written on architecture since the early 1980's, contributing to publications such as Architectural Record, Harvard Design Magazine, Progressive Architecture, Texas Monthly, and Texas Architect. The collection documents Germany’s scholarship on the career of architect Harwell Hamilton Harris. The collection also contains records created by Harris, and his wife, Jean Murray Bangs Harris. Record types include correspondence, notes, photographs, drafts, and permissions for Germany's 1991 publication Harwell Hamilton Harris, as well as Harwell Hamilton Harris collected transcribed correspondence and Jean Murray Bangs Harris’ writings on California architects Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck.

Partial Extent

12.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection includes records created by Lisa Germany, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and Harris' wife, Jean Murray Bangs Harris. Lisa Germany's scholarship on architect Harwell Hamilton Harris includes correspondence, notes, drafts, photographic prints and negatives, scrapbooks, and cassette tapes related to her publication Harwell Hamilton Harris (Austin: Univeristy of Texas Press, 1991). Harwell Hamilton Harris' materials contain writings by the architect, which include lectures, reviews, articles, and detailed answers to questions posed by Lisa Germany. Harris' lecture notes and a collection of transcribed letters by Carl Bennett, a patron of Louis Sullivan, document his scholarship on modern architecture. Jean Murray Bangs materials include notes and drafts of an unpublished manuscript on the history of food and records related to her writing on California architects Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck.

Related Material

Please refer to the Harris collection at the Alexander Architectural Archives: Harwell Hamilton Harris: An Inventory of his Papers, Photographs and Drawings, 1906-1990.

References to works by or about Lisa Germany

-- compiled by Kathryn Pierce

Engel, Peter. "Harwell Hamilton Harris by Lisa Germany" [book review]. Progressive Architecture 73, no. 9 (Sept, 1992): 115,138.
Germany, Lisa. "Architecture for Art's Sake." Texas Architect 48, no. 6 (Nov, 1998): 12-13.
Germany, Lisa. "Be Prepared [Hugo Leipziger-Pearce]." Texas Architect 48, no. 5 (Sept, 1998): 58-59.
Germany, Lisa. "Browder House, Austin, Texas, James Coote. "Center: A Journal for Architecture in America 3 (1987): 112-113.
Germany, Lisa. "Cowboy Artists of America Museum [Kerrville, Texas]."Texas Architect 34, no. 2 (Mar, 1984): 48-51.
Germany, Lisa. "Echo Chambers. "House Beautiful 140, no. 4 (Apr, 1998): 82.
Germany, Lisa. "Every inch alive": the Houses of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Harvard Design Magazine (Summer, 1997): 60-62.
Germany, Lisa and Grant Mudford. Great Houses of Texas. New York: Abrams, 2008.
Germany, Lisa. Harwell Hamilton Harris. Austin: Center for the Study of American Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 1985.
Germany, Lisa. Harwell Hamilton Harris. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
Germany, Lisa. Harwell Hamilton Harris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Germany, Lisa. "Harwell Hamilton Harris [obituary]". Texas Architect 41, no. 1 (Jan, 1991.): 10.
Germany, Lisa. "Harwell Hamilton Harris 1903-1990 [obituary]". Progressive Architecture 72, no. 1 (Jan, 1991. ): 25.
Germany, Lisa. "Henrietta Chamberlain King: A Portrait in Propriety." Center: A Journal for Architecture in America 9 (1995): 6-15.
Germany, Lisa. "Herzog & de Meuron Call It Quits at UT." Texas Architect 50, no. 1 (Jan, 2000): 12-13.
Germany, Lisa. "Herzog on Texas." Texas Architect 49, no. 2 (Mar, 1999): 49-50.
Germany, Lisa. "H.H. Harris in Texas." Texas Architect 35, no. 4 (July-Aug, 1985): 66-69.
Germany, Lisa and Julie Strong. Historic Walking Tours: Bremond Block. Austin: Visitor Information Center, 1994.
Germany, Lisa. "Homemaker." Texas Architect 13, no. 5 (1985): 160.
Germany, Lisa. "James N. Gray Company, Lexington, Kentucky." Architectural Record 186, no. 2 (Feb, 1998): 130-133.
Germany, Lisa. "The Modernist Stripe." House & Garden 156, no. 9 (Sept, 1984): 148-154.
Germany, Lisa. "Prairie music: plans for a development on the Texas prairie respect the lawn and the sky [Big Sky, Denton, Texas]." Landscape Architecture 89, no. 9 (Sept, 1999): 76-80.
Germany, Lisa. Texas State Cemetery Walking Tour. Austin: City of Austin, 1995.
Germany, Lisa. "U.T. holds the Swiss: when the University of Texas at Austin ran Herzog & de Meuron out of town, they lost the chance to have a great art museum - and a great architecture dean." Architecture 89, no. 1 (Jan, 2000): 154.
Germany, Lisa. "UT Regents resist Herzog plan" Texas Architect 49, no. 5 (Sept, 1999): 12-13.
Good, R. L. "A Californian in Texas: Harwell Hamilton Harris, by Lisa Germany [book review]." Texas Architect 42, no. 6 (Nov, 1992): 71.
Kappe, Ray. "Harwell Hamilton Harris [by] Lisa Germany [book review]." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 52, no. 1 (Mar, 1993): 119-120.
Klimek, Ray. "Harwell Hamilton Harris by Lisa Germany [book review]." Sites, no. 25 (1993) : 156-158.
Williamson, Susan, Joel W. Barna, Lawrence Connolly, Lisa Germany, and Gerald Moorhead. "1999 TSA Design Awards." Texas Architect 49, no. 5 (Sept, 1999): 34-49.
Williamson, Susan, Gerald Moorhead, John Davidson, James D. Hill, Cyndy Severson, and Lisa Germany. "The Coming Century: Texas Architect Presents 19 Young Architects, Designers, Teachers, and Students Who re Leading the Way to the New Millennium." Texas Architect 50, no. 1 (Jan, 2000): 22-39.