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architectural drawings (visual works)

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Scope Note: Drawings of architecture and drawings for architectural projects, whether the project was executed or not. The term may also refer to any image in a two-dimensional medium that serves this same purpose, including prints and computer images.

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Giles drawings

 Collection
Identifier: GILES
Abstract Architect Alfred Giles (1853-1920) was born in London and emigrated to the United States, starting his own practice in San Antonio in 1876. He opened a branch office in Monterrey, Mexico and extended into Northern Mexico, while maintaining his practice in Texas. Giles is known for his designs of county courthouses, public buildings, and private residences he designed in central Texas and Mexico. While the majority of the materials documenting his career were lost or destroyed, the collection...
Dates: 1878-1907
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Alfred Zucker collection

 Collection
Identifier: ZUCK
Abstract Architect Alfred Zucker (1852-1913) practiced in Texas, Mississippi and New York. He was instrumental in the development of a new mercantile district on lower Broadway in the late 1880s and designed many warehouses and loft buildings in New York City. He formed a partnership with James Riely Gordon in 1902, but fled to Montevideo, South America in 1904 to escape a lawsuit filed by Gordon who alleged fraud and misrepresentation. Architectural drawings and clippings from architectural...
Dates: 1880-1904
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Anthony Alofsin Archive

 Collection
Identifier: ALFSN
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1864-2023
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Arch B. Swank Jr. collection

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Identifier: SWANK
Abstract Arch B. Swank Jr. (1913-1999) is one of the great innovative figures of Texas architecture, working on such projects as the semiconductor complex in Richardson (1958) for Texas Instruments and the Great Southwest Corporation's industrial park in Arlington (1958). Architectural drawings and reproductions, building specifications, financial documentation, correspondence, legal documentation, reports, photographic material, maps, minutes, creative works, printed material, and material samples...
Dates: 1951-1992
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Ayres and Ayres, Architects records

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Identifier: AA
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1894-1977
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Buford Duke, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: DUKE
Abstract Buford Woodrow Duke, Jr. (1938-2000) served as a faculty member in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin from 1981-2000. He was a practicing architect who was known for his environmentally conscious designs and teachings, emphasizing "Gentle Architecture," energy efficiency, passive solar heating, and earth shelter architecture. The collection documents Duke’s professional and faculty work. Record types include architectural drawings, faculty papers, photographic...
Dates: 1971-2000
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Charles Stevens Dilbeck collection

 Collection
Identifier: DILB
Abstract

Charles Stevens Dilbeck (1907-1990) designed hundreds of houses during his long career, contributing significantly to the residential environment in Dallas and the surrounding area. In addition to his single-family homes, he built a number of apartment buildings, hotels, shopping centers, and country clubs. The collection consists of architectural drawings and specifications.

Dates: 1929-1969
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Chester E. Nagel collection

 Collection
Identifier: NAGEL
Abstract Chester E. Nagel (1911-2004) studied architecture at The University of Texas, graduating in 1934, and later studied with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, receiving his Master's degree in 1940 and later returning as an assistant professor. Early in his career he worked for the National Park Service; later he was involved with The Architect's Collaborative and eventually set up his own practice in 1958. The Chester E. Nagel collection includes...
Dates: circa 1939-1971
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Corneil G. Curtis collection

 Collection
Identifier: CURT
Abstract

Corneil G. Curtis (1890-1963) spent his architectural career in Texas, first in Dallas, then Paris, Houston, and Austin. The collection consists of architectural drawings and specifications that document the work of Corneil Curtis.

Dates: circa 1930s-1950s
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

Donald S. Nelson collection

 Collection
Identifier: NEL
Abstract Donald S. Nelson (1907-1992) spent the majority of his architectural career working in the Texas firm of Broad and Nelson, specializing in institutional and commercial works and planning. Personal papers, office files, professional association material, job files, specifications, books, visual material, artifacts, and drawings document the activities of the architectural firm of Broad and Nelson, and related firms; Flint and Broad; Thomas D. Broad; Thomas, Jameson and Merrill; and Jack...
Dates: 1910-1975
Found in: Alexander Architectural Archives

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