James G. Reeves collection
Scope and Content of the collection
The collection includes drawings, project lists and files, documents relating to his coworkers at SWA Group, documents about SWA Group projects, office records, professional correspondence, clippings, brochures, notes, and postcards. The collection also consists of photographs, slides, four project CDs, audio tapes, and a floppy disk.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1967-2002
Creator
- James G. Reeves (contributor, Person)
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Biographical Sketch of James G. Reeves (1941 - 2002)
James G. (Glenn) Reeves was a landscape architect and educator. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas in 1967 and his Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Michigan in 1970. Reeves taught design and graphics at University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, California Polytechnic State University, Rice University, and Harvard Graduate School for Design.
Reeves started working at Sasaki Walker and Associates (SWA Group) in Houston in 1970 and became head designer in 1989. He served as project designer and community planner for projects in cities in over half of the states, as well as in Europe, east Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. His areas of focus included urban design projects, campus master planning, site development programming, environmental analysis, and landscape architecture.
Reeves was a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is known for several large public projects: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, John Carpenter Plaza in Dallas, and the award-winning Williams Square in Fort Worth. The National Sculpture Society posthumously awarded him the Henry Hering Art and Architecture Award for his work on Pioneer Courage Park in Omaha, Nebraska.
Partial Extent
2.5 Linear Feet
Partial Extent
7200 drawings
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
James G. Reeves was a landscape architect and educator. Reeves taught design and graphics at University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, California Polytechnic State University, Rice University, and Harvard Graduate School for Design. Reeves started working at Sasaki Walker and Associates (SWA Group) in Houston in 1970 and became head designer in 1989. Records include drawings, project lists and files, office records, professional correspondence, clippings, brochures, notes, and postcards.
References to works by or about James G. Reeves
- Dillon, David, "Mustangs Bound Proudly Across Prairie-Like Plaza." Architecture: The AIA Journal (1985) 74: 60-61.
- Dillon, David, "Williams Square: Where Public Space Becomes Public Art." Southern Accents (1989) 12: 176B-176J.
- Hohmann, Heidi. "Running Against the Wind: Williams Square [Las Colinas, Dallas, Texas] and Its Galloping Mustangs Garnered Extravagant Praise in the 1980s - How's the Place Holding Up?" Landscape Architecture (2002) 92 (1): 119-120,119.
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Subject
- Reeves, James G., -, 1941 (contributor, Person)
- SWA Group (contributor, Organization)
- JVR & Associates (contributor, Organization)
- Title
- James G. Reeves collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Alexander Architectural Archives Repository
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