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Start Over Date range 1975 Subjects Architects and community

Abbye A. Gorin Architectural Collection 0.42 Cubic Feet 1 box

Gorin, Abbye A.
Abbye A. Gorin is an architectural researcher and writer of Metairie, Louisiana. Her collection contains a six-minute film entitled "The Rivergate, 1968-1995," produced by Barbara Coleman and written by Gorin and Betty Moss. The film was created as a tribute to the building and as a protest to its demolition. Also present are a 42-page "Catalog of Work," various magazines with articles about or written by Gorin, an audiocassette interview with the sculptor Angela Gregory, and a DVD containing 19 reissued interviews with Abraham Guillen and Samuel Wilson, Jr.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Beverly Willis Architectural Collection 100 Linear Feet

Willis, Beverly, 1928-

The Beverly Willis Architectural Collection span the years 1954 to 1999 and are comprised primarily of records documenting Willis' work as an architect in San Francisco between 1960 and 1990. The collection documents the application of computers to architectural design and land analysis, the development of CARLA (Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis) in the 1970s, the history of twentieth-century urban planning, particularly in San Francisco; and the contribution of women to twentieth-century American architecture. Willis, a noted artist, photographer, teacher, and writer, employed the full range of visual arts and design skills to influence and guide architectural projects of major significance.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Czeslawa Zielinska Architectural Collection 0.75 Cubic Feet 2 boxes and 1 oversize folder

Zielinska, Cz.
Czeslawa Zielinska is a Polish-born Canadian architect and the inventor the GETSET Building System and, with her husband Zenon, of the UCOPAN, a pre-cast concrete building system. The collection includes promotional material, published articles, and booklets about UCOPAN as well as copies of landscape and building sketches drawn during her travels.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Diana Lee-Smith Architectural Papers 0.4 Cubic Feet 1 box

Lee-Smith, Diana, b.1940
This collection contains the papers of Diana Lee-Smith, British architect and planner living in Nairobi, Kenya. Projects focus on housing and shelter concerns in Africa. This collection consists of a number of papers, publications, books and magazines that were written or edited by Lee-Smith.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Diane Elliott Gayer Architectural Papers, 20 Cubic Feet 10 standard file boxes, 1 half-document box, 3 flat file boxes, 11 telescoping boxes, and 2 oversized folders

Gayer, Diane Elliott
The Diane Elliott Gayer Architectural Papers contain teaching materials, students' work, writings, correspondence, project documentation in the form of files, photographs, and rolled drawings, conference programs and other ephemera related to Gayer's professional engagement, charrette materials and reports, portfolios, and some office records.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

IAWA: International Archive of Women in Architecture Records 15.5 Cubic Feet 10 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 tube box

Dunay, Donna
The records of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) consist of files created by IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov, various IAWA officers, and Special Collections archivists. Materials include founding documents, meeting minutes, newsletter information, correspondence with supporters and donors, and internal correspondence.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

IAWA Small Collections, 32 Cubic Feet 22 boxes; 40 oversize folders

Treant-Mathe, Juliette
The IAWA Small Collections was compiled from a variety of sources by Special Collections staff for use in reference and research. The collection consists primarily of biographical materials for women architects, architectural historians, and designers including curriculum vitas, firm brochures, exhibit notices, photographs, and publications. Drawings, sketches, course notes, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to architectural collections are also present.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lilia Gramatikova Architectural Collection 1.2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Gramatikova, Lilia
Lilia Gramatikova is an Bulgarian architect who practiced in Bulgaria, Mongolia, and East Germany from 1953-1985. The collection consists of 72 hand-drawn architectural drawings of two projects: Music High School for Folk Instruments and Folk Singing in Shiroka Lukka, Bulgaria (1974) and Territorial Information and Computing Center in Vrasta, Bulgaria (1981). Also present is a drawing (photocopy) of Gramatikova's personal residence in Sofia (1965) and a folder containing biographical information.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Myriam Waisberg Architectural Papers 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Waisberg, Myriam
Myriam Waisberg was a Chilean architectural historian. This collection contains a number of publications, research papers, books and articles written by Waisberg during her career in Chile. Most of her work is dedicated to religious architecture in the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso in Chile and her work with the University of Chile.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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