Architecture, Domestic--Texas

The Anthony Alofsin Archive consists of manuscripts, printed materials, drawings, photographic materials, artifacts and born-digital records that document Alofsin's career as a scholar, professor and an architect alongside his creative and personal life.

Ayres and Ayres, Architects, records represents extensive documentation of a prominent San Antonio firm spanning a period of 83 years of practice (1894-1977). Atlee Bernard Ayres (1872-1969) and his son Robert Moss Ayres (1898-1977) formed a partnership in 1925. Papers, photographs, and drawings document the long practice of the San Antonio architects. The firm library was donated to the Architecture and Planning Library Special Collections.

Wees (1861-1942) was a German-born architect who practiced in St. Louis and Paris, Texas. He settled in Paris, Texas after being called there to rebuild the city which was destroyed by fire in 1916. Reports, an oral interview, specifications, newspaper clippings, and drawings provide information about buildings that architect Wees designed for Rufus F. Scott in Paris, Texas.

During the better part of the twentieth century, John Astin Perkins was considered "the decorator of choice" in Dallas and was credited with bringing New York Style to that city. With a career spanning 70 years, his work encompassed schools, clubs, homes, office buildings, hotels, and department stores. Drawings, photographs, ledgers, correspondence, awards, ephemera, scrapbooks, and published materials document the architectural and interior designs of John Astin Perkins.

John G. York (1914-1980) was a modernist architect who practiced in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. York was appointed to the faculty at the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture in 1960 and eventually became dean. The collection includes architectural drawings and manuscript material documenting York's work as a solo architect in Texas and his continuing career as an architect while teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

Lawrence W. Speck Associates was founded in January 1980. In 1988, Speck entered into a partnership with Page Southerland Page, later merging his practice with Page in order to concentrate on his duties as Dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. The collection includes correspondence, specifications, job files, drawings, photographs, financial documents, presentation materials that document Speck’s career as an architect and as Dean of the School of Architecture.