Hugo Leipziger-Pearce collection

Collection

Identifier: HUGO

Scope and Content of the collection

See more See less

Correspondence, printed material, maps, photographs, and audio visual items (1920-(1955-1978)-1990) chronicle the urban planning and academic careers of Hugo Leipziger-Pearce.

The papers offer significant information about architecture courses at the University of Texas School of Architecture (UTSOA), focusing on community and regional planning, and urban planning education in general. The Oral Interview Series consists of a transcript and supporting documents. The interview documents Leipziger-Pearce's arrival in the United States and highlights his professional accomplishments.

The Printed Material Series contains the majority of writings by Leipziger-Pearce as well as articles and seminar proceedings he collected on the subjects of urban planning, urban problems, housing, and the environment. Brochures in the collection include published studies and master plans for several metropolitan areas in the United States and Europe. Many of Leipziger-Pearce's publications are available through the Architecture and Planning Library.

Leipziger-Pearce's professional planning activities documented in the files include Irving, Texas; Fort Worth City Center; the Lower Rio Grande Valley and projects in Germany. Many planning projects were done in conjunction with courses at UTSOA and involve student participation.

Photographs show aerial views of United States cities and historic sites in Mexico and Peru. Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG) material in the Slide and Film Series represents the joint effort of AACOG and the UT Planning Department to develop multi-media and film presentations in areas of community and regional planning. These projects analyze area planning problems, establishing goals and a framework in which to achieve them. Presentations were done in conjunction with seminars aimed at increasing public interest in urban planning.

Two Films, One-Third of a Dream and Planning Versus or For the Individual were produced at UT. The latter is supplemented with a publication of the same name by Leipziger-Pearce. Material in this series has not been previewed and the contents of many items are unknown. Digital representations of some of the items in the Audio/Visual Material Series are available online through the Texas ScholarWorks .

Texas ScholarWorks

Dates

Creation: 1920-(1955-1978)-1990

Creator

Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo, 1902-1998 (contributor, Person)

Policies Governing Use and Access

See more See less

This collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using archival materials. As all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site, advance notice of at least three working days is required for retrieval. Certain items may require additional time for flattening or humidifying before they can be viewed. Access is by appointment only. Please contact the archives' reference staff for further information.

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasions of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person).

The Alexander Architectural Archives operate in accordance with applicable federal or state laws and regulations, providing unrestricted access to university records not covered by state and federal right to privacy acts.

The Alexander Architectural Archives, The University of Texas Libraries, and The University of Texas at Austin, assume no responsibility for infringement of literary property rights and copyright or for liability to any person for defamation or invasion of privacy that results from a researcher's use of collections.

Researchers agree to indemnify and hold harmless The University of Texas at Austin, and their officers, employees, and agents from and against all suits, claims, actions, and expenses arising out of use of collections held by the libraries. Please alert staff if anything inappropriate is found during research.

Copyright interests in this collection may not have been transferred to the University of Texas. Researchers assume full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply. Additionally, the public use of material must be cited. See citation information below.

Digital Materials

Texas ScholarWorks is a campus-wide repository for electronic materials, and as such holds digital works and provides related services. The Repository was established to provide open, online access to the products of the University's research and scholarship, to preserve these works for future generations, to promote new models of scholarly communication, and to help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education.

The Alexander Architectural Archives make available born digital and digitized materials from its collections through the use of Texas ScholarWorks, and on the Texas ScholarWorks website, the Alexander Architectural Archives Sub-Community houses digital materials from collections within its repository to enable researchers to access these materials remotely.

Biographical Sketch of Hugo Leipziger-Pearce (1902-1998)

See more See less

Hugo Leipziger-Pearce was born on December 8, 1902, the son of a court-appointed expert on furniture and interiors of castles and the numerous manor houses in Silesia and neighboring Poland. Early on, he was introduced not only to beautiful interiors and to architecture in general but also to famous architect Hans Poelzig. Poelzig, until 1916, was the Director of the Art Academy in Breslau [the precursor to the Bauhaus]. After finishing the "Real Gymnasium" Hugo Leipziger-Pearce was enrolled in the Art Academy, where he was the student of several notable German architects of the time, including August Engell, Otto Mueller, and Adolph Rading.

In the 1920's, Leipziger-Pearce traveled and studied at the University of Hamburg studying art history and economics. While Leipziger-Pearce never completed any official course of study, an examination made later in the US determined that his studies were the equivalent of a Master's degree. He was admitted to the German Institute of Architects in 1927.

In 1927 Leipziger-Pearce returned to Breslau to open a practice with a colleague, Gerhard Schonborn. His first commission was a housing group with 64 units in Namslau. This was the beginning of mass housing, which would become the theme of his life: housing for everyone in a city for everyone.

In 1934 he accepted a position with an architectural firm Stephenson and Turner in Australia. His design for the firm's Women's Hospital in Melbourne, which Sir Arthur Stephenson wrote in 1955, "is still regarded as an outstanding instance of contemporary design," was prize-winning. His work in Melbourne brought him to New York to complete work on the Australian Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair.

It was in New York that Leipziger-Pearce was given the unique opportunity to come to The University of Texas at Austin to develop a curriculum in city and regional planning. Leipziger-Pearce arrived at the University in 1939 and stayed until his retirement in 1974, with a brief stay in Germany from 1950-51, where the US State Department appointed him a "Special Consultant" to the US High Commissioner for the former American Zone. During his long tenure at UT Austin, Leipziger-Pearce initiated the Program in Community and Regional Planning and directed it for 19 years. He also worked with the Urban Planning Assistance Progam for Texas.

Hugo Leipziger-Pearce died on July 13, 1998.

Sources: "Portrait of Hugo Leipziger-Pearce" by Dr. Gert Kalher, Architectural Critic, Hamburg, Germany from Der Architekt (Journal of the German Institute of Architects), May 1992. Translated by Hugo and Martha Leipziger-Pearce

Acosta, Teresa Palomo. "In Memoriam: Hugo Leipziger-Pearce" https://utexas.app.box.com/s/emi5y6vqcfzoqsr4uojxq8x44f1yphdc/file/475228931636

Partial Extent

16 Linear Feet

Partial Extent

104 photographs

Language of Materials

English

German

Additional Description

Abstract

Professor Hugo Leipziger-Pearce (1902-1998), established the Community and Regional Planning Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and worked as an independent planning consultant in Texas and Germany. In this collection, correspondence, job files, printed material, maps, photographs, and audiovisual items chronicle the urban planning work and academic career of Hugo Leipziger-Pearce.

Other Finding Aids

Unpublished inventory in Archive.

Related Materials

A related collection is located at the German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt Germany.

References to works by or about Hugo Leipziger-Pearce (1902-)

Kahler, Dr. Gert. "Portrait of Hugo Leipziger-Pearce." Der Architekt (May 1992)
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "An Account of the Research into Low-Cost Housing Units on Open Public Corridors." Wohnungswirtschaft, 1931.
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo.The Architectonic City in the Americas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1944.
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Architecture as a Political Weapon." The Journal of the American Institute of Architects (November 1950).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Architecture in the Americas, Its Significant Forms and Values." Inter American Intellectual Interchange - Institute of Latin American Studies University of Texas, 1943.
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. Capital Improvement Program for Irving, Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1960.
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "The City, the Housing and the Community Plan." Municipal Studies no. 19 and Engineering Research Series no. 34 of the University of Texas (October 8, 1942).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. City-Planning, Housing-The First Line of Advance. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1940 (1941).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. Development Plan for Mercedes, Texas. Mercedes: City Planning Commission, 1958.
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Housing and City Planning, The First Line of Advance. Part One." Journal for Architecture, Engineering, and Industry (1941).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Housing and City Planning, The First Line of Advance. Part One." Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (1941).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Housing at the Crossroads." Bulletin of the School of Design (May 1952).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "The Lesser of Two Evils." Wohnungswirtschaft (1930).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Der Mensch in der Region, in der Stadt, in der Wohnung." T A G S 5,-7 (Jahrgang, April 1959).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Modern Architecture Needs a Frame of Reference." Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Industry 10 (Spring 1959).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "The Planner as an Educated Man." Planning (1947).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Quality Control in City Building." Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Industry 6 (January 1944).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Regional Planning and the Interdisciplinary University." Image (1966).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Regional Planning is Essential." Texas Cities and the Population Explosion - School of Journalism; the Public Affairs Reporting Program University of Texas at Austin no. 2 (1961).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Roots and Directions of Organic Architecture." The Texas Quarterly (Spring 1960).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Toward a New Day in Public Housing." Wohnungswirtschaft (1928).
Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo. "Urgent Need to Plan Balanced Land Uses." Trinity Valley Progress (November/December 1962).