| Title: | Reyner Banham papers |
| Dates: | 1877-1988, undated (bulk 1960-1988) |
| Number: | 910009 |
| Creator/Collector: | Banham, Reyner |
| Extent: | 20.7 linear feet (29 boxes, 5 flatfiles) |
| Abstract: | British-born architectural historian and critic, educator, and editor, 1922-1988. The collection contains draft manuscripts, printed material and research notes for eight of Banham's published books, for unpublished projects, and many articles and reviews related to the history of architecture and design. Included are the notes and manuscripts for his public lectures and his teaching. Other files document his participation on design juries and his consultation work. |
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| Language: | Collection material is in English |
| Repository: | The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688 (310) 440-7390 |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Jocelyn Gibbs and Emmabeth Nanol |
Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was a British-born architectural historian, critic, and educator. He taught at the University of London, SUNY Buffalo, New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. His writings and lectures influenced a generation of architects and historians of modern architecture. Banham's writings include reviews, journalistic and scholarly essays, and monographs. Of his many monographs, perhaps the best known are: Theory and design in the first machine age (1960), Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies (1971), Architecture of the well-tempered environment (1984), and Concrete Atlantis (1986). After his death, Mary Banham edited A critic writes, a compilation of Banham's essays (1996).
The collection contains research notes, manuscripts, and printed materials for eight of Reyner Banham's published books, for unpublished projects, and many articles and reviews related to the history of modern and contemporary architecture and design. Included are the notes and manuscripts for his public lectures and his teaching. Other files document his participation on design juries and his consultation work. Printed materials and reports from the International Design Conference in Aspen (1950-1988) document Banham's involvement with the Aspen design conference during its formative years.
The papers are arranged in six series:
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Series I. Book manuscripts, 1877-1987;
Series II. Articles and reviews, 1970-1988, undated;
Series III. Conferences, lectures, symposia, 1965-1988, undated;
Series IV. Consulting and design juries, 1966-1988, undated;
Series V. Miscellaneous papers, 1913-1988, undated;
Series VI. International Design Conference in Aspen, 1950-1988, undated
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The Getty Research Institute holds further material relating to Series VI. International Design Conference in Aspen. See also the International Design Conference in Aspen records, 1949-2006, Accession no. 2007.M.7.
Reyner Banham Papers, 1877-1988, undated, bulk 1960-1988, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 910009.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa910009
The Getty acquired the bulk of the papers from Mary Banham in 1991. The International Design Conference in Aspen material was added in 1993.
Kelly Nipper processed the collection in 1996; further processing occurred in 2000. Emmabeth Nanol physically reprocessed the collection and made minor changes to the finding aid under the supervision of Ann Harrison in 2012.
| Series I. Book manuscripts, 1877-1987, undated 12.71 linear feet (13 boxes, 2 flatfiles) | |||||||||||
| Includes notes, drafts, printed material, correspondence, reviews and other research materials for Banham's Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies (1971), Megastructure (1976), Buffalo: an architectural guide (1981), Scenes in American Deserta (1982), Architecture of the well-tempered environment (1984), Concrete Atlantis (1986), Visions of Ron Herron (1990), and "Making architecture: the paradoxes of hi-tech" (unpublished). The bulk of the material in the series derives from Scenes in America Deserta and Concrete Atlantis. Banham's unpublished project on "High-Tech" architecture includes fairly extensive research materials on the works of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement note | |||||||||||
| Arranged by publication. | |||||||||||
| Scenes in America Deserta, 1970-1982, undated | |||||||||||
| Research materials, 1970-1980, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Papers | |||||||||
| Includes: clippings; maps; black-and-white photographs; some manuscript materials. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 1 | Color photograph and slide | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Multiple manuscripts, 1976-1981, undated | |||||||||
| Correspondence and printed materials, 1975-1982, undated | |||||||||||
| Includes notes and some manuscripts. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 3-4 | Papers | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 27* | 1 | Oversize map of Monument Valley, Navajo Tribal Park | |||||||||
| Concrete Atlantis, 1877-1987, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Correspondence and research, 1963-1985 | |||||||||
| Letters, notes, manuscript proposal, and printed matter. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Correspondence, 1982-1986 | |||||||||
| Most letters regard publication, with some manuscripts. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Annotated drafts, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 4-6 | Manuscript, 1986, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Reviews, 1986-1987 | |||||||||
| Photographs, undated | |||||||||||
| Some figures missing. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Lists and annotated photocopies of photographs | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | One set of numbered illustrations | |||||||||
| Mostly 5 x 7 black-and-white prints. | |||||||||||
| 3 | 3-7 | Figures 3 to 128 | |||||||||
| Mostly 8 x 10 black-and-white prints. Some prints with multiple copies. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Illustrations 1 to 14 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Kellog | |||||||||
| 4 | 3-5 | Other photographs and contact sheets | |||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 29 | Color photographs, negatives and slides | ||||||||||
| Includes MIT Graphic Arts: Photo Department; Figure #199; Kellog. | |||||||||||
| Illustrations and printed materials, 1953-1984, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 6-9 | Papers | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 27* | 2 | Oversize | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 10 | HAER inventory, 1907-1919 | |||||||||
| Photocopies of Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) survey records of buildings. | |||||||||||
| Research materials, 1877-1985 | |||||||||||
| Photocopies of articles and illustrations, printed materials, and manuscripts. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1-6 | General | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 1 | Oversize | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | This is tomorrow, 1956, 1987 | |||||||||
| Photocopy of catalogue, published 1956, plus manuscript outline, dated 1987. | |||||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Megastructure, 1961-1982, undated | |||||||||
| Includes proposal, bibliography, notes. | |||||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Visions of Ron Herron, 1984 -1987, undated | |||||||||
| Includes photocopies of sketches, notes, letters. | |||||||||||
| Architecture of the well-tempered environment, 1903, 1967, 1982-1983, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 4-6 | Papers and drawings, 1967, 1982-1983, undated | |||||||||
| Flatfile | |||||||||||
| 1** | Blueprints and sketches, 1903, undated | ||||||||||
| Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies, circa 1970 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Notes, drawings and printed materials | |||||||||
| Includes maps and postcards. | |||||||||||
| 7 | 2-5 | Black-and-white photographs and postcards | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 2 | Oversize | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 2 | Negatives | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Buffalo: an architectural guide, 1978-1987, undated | |||||||||
| Research materials including photocopies of articles and illustrations, notes and manuscripts. | |||||||||||
| High-Tech book project, 1965-1987, undated | |||||||||||
| Research materials, 1965-1986 | |||||||||||
| Photographs, photocopies of articles and printed materials. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1-2 | General | |||||||||
| Photographs, photocopies of articles and printed materials. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 3 | Oversize | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Correspondence, 1983-1987 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Draft outline, introduction and proposal, 1987 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5-6 | Publications and promotional materials, 1980-1985 | |||||||||
| Includes promotional packet for Nicholas Grimshaw and partners. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1-2 | Richard Rogers research, 1977-1986 | |||||||||
| Photocopies of articles. | |||||||||||
| Renzo Piano research, undated | |||||||||||
| See also Box 17. | |||||||||||
| General | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to FIAT-Lingotto and Torino. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 3-4 | Papers | |||||||||
| Photocopies of articles and photographs, some of FIAT in Lingotto and Torino. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 3 | Color photograph | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 5 | IRCAM: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music (Paris, France, 1973-1977) | |||||||||
| Fiat VSS experimental vehicle (Turin, Italy, 1978-1980) | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 6 | Papers and black-and-white photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 4 | Slides | |||||||||
| Progetto delle stazioni per la metropolitana genovese (Genova, 1983) | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 7 | Papers and black-and-white photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 5 | Color photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 8 | "Il Prometeo" di L. Nono (Venezia-Milano, 1983-1984) | |||||||||
| Piano and Palladio (1986) | |||||||||||
| Civic and cultural centre: rehabilitation of basilica, Vicenza. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 9 | Papers and black-and-white photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 4 | Photocopies of plans and drawings | |||||||||
| Industrialized construction system for evolving-type homes (Perugia, Italy, 1978) and One-family homes (Cusago, Milan, Italy, 1972-1974) | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 10 | Papers and black-and-white photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 6 | Color photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 11 | IBM travelling exhibition (1982) | |||||||||
| 9 | 12 | Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza, Italy, 1984-1985) | |||||||||
| Stadio San Nicola (Bari, Italy) | |||||||||||
| Opened in 1990. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 13 | Black-and-white photographs | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 7 | Color photograph | |||||||||
| Flatfile | |||||||||||
| 2** | Oversize | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 14 | Palazetto dello sport (Ravenna, Italy, 1986) | |||||||||
| 9 | 15 | Cedric Price research, 1979-1987 | |||||||||
| Clippings, notes, letters and photocopies. | |||||||||||
| Series II. Articles and reviews, circa 1970-1988, undated 0.4 linear feet (1 box) | |||||||||||
| Series includes notes, manuscripts, whole issues of magazines and tear sheets of articles written by Banham, published in Casabella, Art in America, A+U, New Society, and other publications. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement note | |||||||||||
| Arranged in rough chronological order. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 1-2 | Notes for articles, 1970s-1988 | |||||||||
| 3 notebooks and a few loose pages, with handwritten versions of articles, including one on the TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority]. | |||||||||||
| Published articles (photocopies), 1974-1980 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 3 | "A question of magic," 1976 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | "Buffalo Archaeological," 1980 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | "Catacombs of the Modern Movement," 1980 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | "Europe and American Design," 1974 | |||||||||
| 10 | 4 | "Valley of the Dams," 1977 July 21 | |||||||||
| About the TVA, in New Society (whole issue). | |||||||||||
| 10 | 5 | "Ransome at Bayonne," 1983 | |||||||||
| Typed manuscript in 2 versions, with notes, apparently written for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), 1983. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 6 | Correspondence regarding Banham article, 1985 | |||||||||
| For article on "Modern Nomadism" (called "Domesticity of movement") for catalog of the 17 triennale di Milano. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 7 | "The Most Beautiful Power Plant in the World," 1985 November | |||||||||
| In California (whole issue). | |||||||||||
| 10 | 8 | "Art space angst," 1986 January 24 | |||||||||
| Published article about the Lloyds of London building by Richard Rogers, in New Society (whole issue). See also: Box 10, Folder 20 for another article, in manuscript, about Lloyds building. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 9 | "Modern monuments," 1986 November 14 | |||||||||
| In New Society (whole issue). | |||||||||||
| 10 | 10 | Interview with Reyner Banham, 1986 March | |||||||||
| In Progressive Architecture (PA); several sets of tear sheets, plus whole issue. | |||||||||||
| "In the neighborhood of art," 1981-1987 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 11 | General, 1981-1987 | |||||||||
| Includes correspondence, receipts, notes, Banham's manuscript and research for article about the De Menil museum for Art in America, June 1987. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 12 | Art in America (whole issue), 1987 June | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 5 | The Architecture and Design: Review of Houston, 1981 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 13 | "Well Suited to Its Site and Institution," 1987 May | |||||||||
| Tear sheets from magazine, Architecture, about Elena Baskin Visual Arts Studios. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 14 | "Making Architecture: The High Craft of Renzo Piano," 1987 | |||||||||
| Two copies of typed manuscript called "Making architecture," for A+U magazine, with letter from Banham to the magazine. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 15 | Book reviews, 1987 | |||||||||
| Manuscripts, for TLS ( Times Literary Supplement); with letter to the paper from Banham. | |||||||||||
| Casabella, 1984-1987, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 16 | Correspondence, 1984-1987 | |||||||||
| Letters from Casabella editors and Banham's carbon copy replies, regarding articles he is writing for the magazine. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 17 | "The Engineering of Utopia," 1987 | |||||||||
| Manuscript of article on the Tennessee Valley Authority and with letters from Banham. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 18 | Museums: U.S.A., undated | |||||||||
| Manuscript. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 19 | "End of Silicon Valley," 1987 | |||||||||
| Manuscript and letter from Banham. | |||||||||||
| Other articles, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 20 | "Grain Elevators: Symbol and Substance" | |||||||||
| Proposal for an article. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 20 | "The Quality of Modernism" | |||||||||
| 10 | 20 | The English Terraced House | |||||||||
| 10 | 20 | MIT Press book reports | |||||||||
| 10 | 20 | "New Lloyds of Old London" | |||||||||
| 10 | 20 | "A Black Box: the Secret Profession of Architecture" | |||||||||
| Unpublished article. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 20 | "Fagus & Fiat" | |||||||||
| 10 | 20 | "The Becher Vision" | |||||||||
| Series III. Conferences, lectures, symposia, 1965-1988, undated 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Includes correspondence, printed material and manuscripts related to research on Frank Lloyd Wright's Ocatillo project, 1980; a 1980 lecture at the Neuberger Museum; a conference presentation at the University of Delaware, 1981; L'Americanisme et la modernité colloquium, Paris 1985; Open Spaces, City Places conference, Tucson 1987; and the SE/SAH 1987 conference lecture (about the TVA) in Knoxville, Tennessee. The series also includes multiple manuscripts of a 1988 undelivered lecture titled, "A Set of Actual Movements." Teaching materials course outlines and a bound course reader from Banham's classes at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), with some emphasis on "High-Tech" architecture, are also found in this series. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement note | |||||||||||
| Conferences and lectures are arranged by venues, with teaching papers, mostly UCSC materials, at the end of the series. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1 | "A set of actual monuments," 1988 February 8 | |||||||||
| 1 handwritten and 2 typed versions of lecture in manuscript, with heading: "An inaugural lecture which was not delivered on Monday Feb. 8, 1988 at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, by Reyner Banham, First Sheldon H. Solon Professor of the History of Architecture." | |||||||||||
| SE/SAH conference, 1965, 1987, undated | |||||||||||
| Southeast chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 2 | Problems of the Art Gallery, 1984-1987, undated | |||||||||
| Letters and printed material relate to lecture and travel arrangements. | |||||||||||
| 12 | 3 | TVA lecture, 1965, 1987 | |||||||||
| Manuscript of lecture (1987), and transcript of interview (1965) with architect of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). See also: TVA article in Box 10. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 8 | Color photograph, undated | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 4 | Open Spaces, City Places Conference, Tucson, 1987 | |||||||||
| Conference held November 19-21; 2 copies of manuscript of Banham's lecture ("Riders of the empurpled page") with slide list, letters and printed program. | |||||||||||
| 12 | 5 | Colloque L'Americanisme et la modernité, Paris, 1985-1986 | |||||||||
| Correspondence, printed conference material, manuscript of Banham's lecture, and notes. Symposium at École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales l'Institut Français d'Architecture, October 23-25, 1985. | |||||||||||
| University of Delaware conference paper, 1980-1981 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 6 | Papers | |||||||||
| Includes manuscript of "What the Traffic Would Bear," slide list and correspondence. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 6 | Poster | |||||||||
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Ocatillo Desert Camp project, 1980-1983 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 7 | Papers | |||||||||
| Research files on F.L. Wright's Ocatillo camp (for lecture?): manuscripts (by Colin Flavin and Neil Levine) and correspondence. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 9 | Slide | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 8 | Neuberger Museum lecture, 1980 | |||||||||
| Manuscript of lecture and slide list. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1 | Notebook, 1985-1987, undated | |||||||||
| Handwritten notes regard travel, lectures, research, and readings. Includes some notes for Paris' "A et M," 1985 and Tucson's "WOTPS," 1987. | |||||||||||
| 13 | 2 | Other lectures, 1970-1986 | |||||||||
| IDCA talk, 1970 (photocopy), See also: Series VI for more IDCA materials; Berkeley chat, 1986 (notes); Manuscript of lecture for SAH 1981 annual meeting; transcript of lecture at SUNY, Buffalo School of Architecture and Environmental Design, circa 1983. | |||||||||||
| University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) 1981-1988, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 3 | Course material, undated | |||||||||
| Bound reader of photocopied articles about palaces. | |||||||||||
| 13 | 4-5 | Winter course: The Rise of High Tech Architecture, 1981-1988 | |||||||||
| Course description, preliminary material for teaching, correspondence, course reader (bound photocopied articles), book lists and other materials for course. | |||||||||||
| 13 | 6 | Slide lists, undated | |||||||||
| Series IV. Consulting and design juries, 1966-1988, undated 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes, 1 flatfile) | |||||||||||
| Manuscripts, correspondence, photocopies of articles, photographs, drawings and printed materials regarding Banham's involvements as a juror for the Brooklyn Museum competition, 1986 and Progetto Bicocca, 1986; expert for renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house, 1986; essayist for Museum of Moving Image exhibit proposal. Also includes materials relating to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) exhibit Blueprint for modern living, 1989 including 3 versions of NEH grant applications. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement note | |||||||||||
| Arranged by project. | |||||||||||
| Brooklyn Museum Competition, 1966-1986, undated | |||||||||||
| Regards a publication about the competition, and Banham's involvement. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1-3 | Catalogue introduction (by Banham) and competition documents, 1966-1986, undated | |||||||||
| Manuscript, photocopies of clippings and correspondence. | |||||||||||
| Flatfile | |||||||||||
| 3** | Brooklyn Museum drawings, undated | ||||||||||
| Blueprint architectural drawings (6) and photocopied illustrations (2) of the Brooklyn Museum. | |||||||||||
| Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses, 1985-circa 1988 | |||||||||||
| An exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in 1989. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 1 | Correspondence, 1985-1987 | |||||||||
| Most correspondence with Elizabeth Smith, regards planning the exhibit and related events; abstract essay by Thomas Hines; with printed materials about the project and NEH grant. | |||||||||||
| 15 | 2-4 | NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities] grant applications, 1986 | |||||||||
| Working title: Case Study Houses: History and Legacy. 3 versions of the application. | |||||||||||
| 15 | 5 | "Klarheit, Ehrlichkeit, Einfachkeit...and wit too! The Case-study Houses in the World's Eyes," circa 1988 | |||||||||
| Banham lecture about case study houses, for MOCA. | |||||||||||
| 15 | 6 | Grant application assessments, 1981, undated | |||||||||
| Banham's draft letters of evaluation for 2 grant applications: Léon Ploegaerts study of Henry van de Velde, 1981; and Design Communications grant, undated, to document the Doumani house (Venice, California). | |||||||||||
| 15 | 7 | Progetto Bicocca jury, 1985-1986 | |||||||||
| Banham manuscript, "BICOCCA '86" and correspondence and printed material | |||||||||||
| 15 | 8 | Robie house cooling and ventilation recommendations, 1985 | |||||||||
| Correspondence and printed material. | |||||||||||
| 15 | 9 | Motion Picture Design and Vernacular Architecture, 1986-1987 | |||||||||
| Printed material regarding Museum of the Moving Image; correspondence with Donald Albrecht regarding grant application proposal. | |||||||||||
| Series V. Miscellaneous papers, 1913-1988, undated 1.8 linear feet (3 boxes) | |||||||||||
| Series comprises curriculum vitae; professional correspondence including letters from Columbia University regarding teaching for summer session, 1982 and Banham's Sheldon W. H. Solow professorship at New York University, 1987; printed materials including Alan Waterhouse's manuscript; four spiral-bound volumes of drawings and texts of Renzo Piano's works; research on ventilation and solar power and Rudolph Schindler. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement note | |||||||||||
| Arranged topically. Correspondence is further arranged by date except for two groupings of letters regarding Banham's teaching at Columbia University and his Sheldon H. Solow professorship, NYU. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 1 | Curriculum vitae, circa 1984 | |||||||||
| Correspondence, 1976-1987, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 2 | Columbia University, 1981-1985 | |||||||||
| Regards teaching summer session. | |||||||||||
| 16 | 3 | Sheldon H. Solow professorship, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, 1987 | |||||||||
| Correspondence regards bringing Banham to NYU (New York University) and includes material for his inaugural lecture. See also: Box 12, folder 1 for manuscript of proposed lecture. | |||||||||||
| 16 | 4 | 1976-1982 | |||||||||
| 16 | 5 | 1983-1984 | |||||||||
| 16 | 6 | 1985-1986 | |||||||||
| 16 | 7 | 1987 | |||||||||
| 16 | 8 | undated | |||||||||
| Includes some notes. | |||||||||||
| 16 | 9 | SAH materials, 1980-1985 | |||||||||
| 16 | 10 | Banham's proposal: Art & Technology: The Elusive Synthesis, undated | |||||||||
| 16 | 11 | Various notes and printed materials, 1982-1987, undated | |||||||||
| Photocopies of draft historical survey report regarding the New York harbor and "The Independent Group: towards a redefinition" by Anne Massey; materials regarding The Charles E. Peterson Prize. | |||||||||||
| 16 | 12 | Alan Waterhouse manuscript, 1980 | |||||||||
| "Architecture, urbanization and the state;" "The effects of architectural commodities on land use patterns;" application for research grant (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). | |||||||||||
| 16 | 13 | Computer print-out of Banham files, circa 1988 | |||||||||
| Renzo Piano material, 1986-1987, undated | |||||||||||
| 1 loose drawing (reproduction) and 4 spiral-bound volumes of drawings and text (photocopies). | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 17 | Drawing of unidentified Turin building, undated | ||||||||||
| reproduction of (1916) drawing showing elevation and sections | |||||||||||
| 17 | Bercy Commercial Centre, 1987 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Palazzo dello sport, Ravenna, 1986 October | ||||||||||
| Building workshop S.R.L. | |||||||||||
| 17 | Progetto per il nuovo stadio, 1987 February | ||||||||||
| Includes 4 photographs. | |||||||||||
| 17 | Extension IRCAM: construction report, Paris, 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 1-7 | Heating, ventilation and solar power, 1913-1988, undated | |||||||||
| 11 | 7 | R.M. Schindler, 1975 | |||||||||
| A + U: A Monthly Journal of World Architecture and Urbanism, No. 59. | |||||||||||
| Series VI. International Design Conference in Aspen, 1950-1988, undated 4.2 linear feet (8 boxes, 2 flatfiles) | |||||||||||
| Correspondence, reports and printed matter, including conference materials, relate to Banham's involvement in the IDCA, as well as his project to document the history of the conference in his monograph The Aspen Papers (1974). | |||||||||||
| Arrangement note | |||||||||||
| Arranged in three groupings: manuscripts containing Banham's manuscripts for publication, The Aspen Papers; twenty years of design theory from the International Design Conference in Aspen; correspondence regarding the publication; research materials including correspondence, photographs, conference papers and printed materials. | |||||||||||
| Manuscripts, 1965-1973, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1-4 | Aspen Reader, 1965-1973, undated | |||||||||
| 18 | 5 | Portions of the 1st and 2nd Aspen conferences (by Banham?), undated | |||||||||
| 18 | 6 | Correspondence regarding The Aspen Papers, 1969-1973 | |||||||||
| Regards book project, published in 1974. | |||||||||||
| Research materials, 1950-1988, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 7 | Correspondence, 1950-1968, undated | |||||||||
| Transcripts, 1953-1970, undated | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 8 | John Allpass and Peter Eisenman interview, 1968 | |||||||||
| 18 | 9 | Arthur Cohen, 1962 | |||||||||
| Manuscripts and correspondence. | |||||||||||
| 18 | 10 | J. Gordon Lippincott, undated | |||||||||
| 18 | 11 | William Lynch talk, 1965 | |||||||||
| 18 | 12 | Nikolaus Pevsner, 1953 | |||||||||
| 18 | 13 | Cora T. Walker, 1970 | |||||||||
| 18 | 10 | Miscellaneous, 1968-1970, undated | |||||||||
| Lists and photographs, 1951-1972 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 15 | Committee lists (most photocopies), 1951-1972 | |||||||||
| 18 | 16 | Chairman and speakers lists, 1951-1968 | |||||||||
| 18 | 17 | Attendance list, 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 19 | 1-2 | Photographs of speakers and panelists, circa 1965-1968 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Annual report, 1951-1960 | |||||||||
| Conference papers, 1951-1988 | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 19 | 4-13 | 1951-1959 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 20 | 1-11 | 1960-1969 | |||||||||
| Includes some correspondence, printed material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 21 | 1-3 | 1970 | |||||||||
| List of participants. | |||||||||||
| 21 | 4 | 1971 | |||||||||
| List of participants. | |||||||||||
| 21 | 7 | 1988 | |||||||||
| Graphic materials, 1951-1988, undated | |||||||||||
| Bound conference papers, brochures and pamphlets. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 21 | 8-11 | 1951-1959 | |||||||||
| 21 | 12-15 | 1960-1963 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 22 | 1-6 | 1964-1969 | |||||||||
| 22 | 7-12 | 1970-1979 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 23 | 1-9 | 1980-1988 | |||||||||
| 23 | 10 | Design Quarterly, 1986-1987 | |||||||||
| 23 | 11 | Aspen Institute, 1970, undated | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 7 | Oversize | |||||||||
| Posters | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 26 | 1974 | ||||||||||
| Flatfile | |||||||||||
| 4** | 1960-1973, 1975-1980 | ||||||||||
| Flatfile | |||||||||||
| 5** | The Towering Inferno (1974) | ||||||||||
| Printed materials about IDCA, 1951-1970, undated | |||||||||||
| Calling cards; pamphlets; Impressions from the Design Conference of Aspen by R. Hunter Middleton and Alexander Ebin, 1951; clippings; full issue publications. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 24 | 1-3 | General | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 25 | 8 | Oversize | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 24 | 4-5 | Speakers statements and biographies, 1963 | |||||||||