Architectural drawings (visual works)
Subject
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 17 Collections and/or Records:
Architectural drawings and maps of Yale University buildings and grounds
Collection
Call Number: RU 1
Overview:
The materials consist of design, preliminary, working, shop, and "as built" architectural drawings and maps of buildings and grounds owned or used by Yale University. The drawings range from original concepts to full scale details of equipment and ornamentation. The media vary from water colors, pen and ink sketches, pencil on tracing paper drawings to blueprints and photostats.
Dates:
circa 1728-2002
Otto Eggers proposal sketches for John Russell Pope's "Yale University: A Plan for Its Future Building"
Collection
Call Number: RU 607
Overview:
The collection consists of photographs and lithographs of sketches by Otto R. Eggers that were used in John Russell Pope's "Yale University: A Plan for Its Future Building," submitted to the Yale Corporation in 1919.
Dates:
1919
Washington Hood papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2687
Overview:
The papers consist of journals, correspondence, drawings, maps, architectural plans, family papers and business papers relating to Washington Hood, his father John McClellan Hood, and the Hood family. Journals document Hood's surveys of the Ohio and Michigan border in 1835 and of northeastern Oklahoma in 1839, and also include notes on painting and engineering. Family papers consist chiefly of correspondence and include letters to and from family members that describe Hood's expeditions. John...
Dates:
1772-1861
Joel Sanders Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 2095
Overview:
The records consist of project records produced by Joel Sanders Architects (JSA) and academic and research files and slides of Joel Sanders.
Dates:
1975-2018, bulk 1990-2015
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Joel Sanders Papers
Richard Gamble Knight papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1999
Overview:
The papers comprise images captured during Richard Gamble Knight's tenure from 1957 to 1961 as an employee of the architectural firm Eero Saarinen and Associates, and during other periods of Knight's life, such as his student years. Consisting of photographic prints, negatives, and slides, the images range from projects designed by Saarinen and Associates (including Dulles International Airport, John Deere and Company, Trans World Flight Center, and CBS Building in New York), to candid shots...
Dates:
Circa 1952-2003
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Richard Gamble Knight papers
Luce Hall, Yale University, records documenting design and construction
Collection
Call Number: RU 708
Overview:
The records consist of photographs and a set of mylar drawings documenting the construction of Luce Hall at Yale.
Dates:
1991-1994
Vincent Peranio Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1346
Overview:
The Vincent Peranio Papers consists of correspondence, legal and financial records, scripts, photographs, props, miniature set models, concept art, architectural plans, ephemera, computer media, one audiocassette, and other materials documenting the career of production designer and art director Vincent Peranio. Peranio had a close working relationship with American director John Waters, and included are materials related to the production of Waters movies such as ...
Dates:
1966-2017
John P. Peters Collection of Drawings and Plans of an Archeological Excavation at Nippur
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1996
Overview:
Circa 55 archeological illustrations and 95 archeological plans collected by John P. Peters and relating to the excavation of Nippur in Iraq, circa 1888-1895. Drawings are of various architectural structures (primarily ziggurats) and antiquities.
Dates:
circa 1888-1895
Roth and Moore Architects records concerning the Seeley G. Mudd Library, Yale University
Collection
Call Number: RU 1019
Overview:
The records consist of memoranda, correspondence, notes, drawings, specifications, and awards documenting Roth and Moore Architects' design and construction of the Seeley G. Mudd Library, Yale University.
Dates:
1977-1986
School of Architecture, Yale University, Exhibit materials from "Architecture or Revolution: Charles Moore and Architecture at Yale in the 1960s"
Collection
Call Number: RU 906
Overview:
The materials consist of vintage posters, photographs, slides, and drawings used in the Yale School of Architecture's 2001 exhibit on Charles Moore.
Dates:
1965-2002
Shepherd Stevens papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 865
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, architectural drawings, sketches, diaries, photographs, lecture materials, writings, and other documents pertaining to the life of Shepherd Stevens (1880-1962), an American architect and professor of architecture at Cornell (1915-1920) and Yale (1920-1947) universities who was educated at Columbia University (1899-1903) and trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, where he received his ...
Dates:
1789-1961, bulk 1840-1961
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Shepherd Stevens papers
Austin Strong papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 619
Overview:
The Austin Strong Papers contain correspondence, theater scripts, artwork, notebooks, diaries, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, printed material, and professional and personal papers. The papers primarily document Strong's professional work as a playwright, stage designer, theater producer, author, artist, and landscape architect. A small amount of material documents his work as a volunteer air raid warden in the 1940s.
Dates:
1899-1951
Yale University building assignment plans
Collection
Call Number: RU 4
Overview:
The records consist of assignment plans showing, by floor, the complete layout of various Yale buildings at the time the drawings were rendered.
Dates:
1924-1976
Yale University building project records
Collection
Call Number: RU 5
Overview:
The records consist of proposals, specifications, correspondence, memoranda, reports, schedules, drawings, a 16mm film, and administrative records, maintained by the Yale Office of Facilities, documenting construction and renovation projects for Yale buildings. Also included is detailed information about the design and installation of mechanical, laboratory, and other equipment and systems.
Dates:
circa 1891-2007
Yale University Library records concerning renovation projects
Collection
Call Number: RU 801
Overview:
The records consist of assessments, plans, estimates, summaries, pictorial records, and architectural plans documenting the renovation of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale.
Dates:
circa 1965-2007
Yale University Library records concerning the construction of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
Collection
Call Number: RU 270
Overview:
The records consist of construction and renovation records, photographs, bid addenda, and related materials documenting the design and construction of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale.
Dates:
1973-1995
Ernest E. Young and Janet Buschman papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3697
Overview:
Approximately 100 autograph letters, signed, from Ernest E. Young to Janet Buschman, 1954 June 23-1955 July 18, undated; and 8 sketchbooks containing architectural drawings of San Francisco, California, buildings; interior designs; book illustrations; ships and trains; and human figures and animals, 1974-2005, undated. Accompanied by a scrapbook kept by Buschman during her time as treasurer of the San Mateo Junior College Flying Club, 1948-1949, and 8 letters from Buschman's sister, Iris...
Dates:
1948-2005