Buford Duke, Jr. collection, 1971-2000, undated.

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Buford Duke, Jr. collection, 1971-2000, undated.

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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 and member of the American Institute of Architects, completing significant works with Gwathmey-Duke (1968-1973), Winesett-Duke (1973-1974), and with Benham-Blair and Affiliates (later the Benham Group), including a State Office Building in Sacramento, Calif. Duke was known for his environmentally conscious designs and teachings, emphasizing "Gentle Architecture," energy efficiency, passive solar heating, and earth shelter architecture. Documentation of his work is arranged into six series: Personal Papers (1981-1994, 0.02 linear ft.), Professional Papers (1974-1988, 0.4 linear ft.), Faculty Papers (3.34 linear ft.), Teaching Files (1981-2000, 5.0 linear ft.), Students' Work (1982-2000, 1.67 linear ft.), and Drawings (1971-1998, 145 rolled drawings).

<10.43> linear ft. (<2,311> slides, <67> negatives, <217> col. photographs, <6> b&w photographs, <3> contact sheets, <7> flat drawings, <145> sheets of rolled drawings, <2> film reels (16 mm.), <2> videocassettes (VHS), <3> sound cassettes (60 min.), 25 document boxes (mostly printed and manuscript material)).

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Duke, Buford, 1938-2000.

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Benham Group

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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...