Lisa Germany papers, 1886-1992 1950-1992.

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Lisa Germany papers, 1886-1992 1950-1992.

This collection includes records created by Lisa Germany, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and Harris' wife, Jean Murray Bangs Harris. Lisa Germany's scholarship on architect Harwell Hamilton Harris includes correspondence, notes, drafts, photographic prints and negatives, scrapbooks, and cassette tapes related to her publication Harwell Hamilton Harris (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1991). Harwell Hamilton Harris' materials contain writings by the architect, which include lectures, reviews, articles, and detailed answers to questions posed by Lisa Germany. Harris' lecture notes and a collection of transcribed letters by Carl Bennett, a patron of Louis Sullivan, document his scholarship on modern architecture. Jean Murray Bangs materials include notes and drafts of an unpublished manuscript on the history of food and records related to her writing on California architects Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck.

<12.5> linear ft. (manuscript materials, photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, sound cassettes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7019004

University of Texas Libraries

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University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture

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The School of Architecture was established within The University of Texas Engineering Department in 1910, when Dean T. U. Taylor of the Department of Engineering appointed Hugo F. Kuehne as the first faculty member of the School of Architecture. In 1920, the Department of Engineering became the College of Engineering, and the School of Architecture became the Department of Architecture within the College of Engineering. Architecture functioned as a "semiautonomous school" until it was granted fu...

Harris, Jean Murray Bangs.

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Germany, Lisa

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Harris, Harwell Hamilton, 1903-1990

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Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) was born in Redlands, California. He apprenticed with the noted modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolf Schindler until 1933, at which time he established his own practice in Los Angeles. In 1943, he taught for one year at Columbia University before returning to California. From 1952 to 1955, he was the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He taught at North Carolina State University from 1962 until retirement. Harris...