Architectural drawings, 1892-[ongoing].

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Architectural drawings, 1892-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53079604

The Dept. of Facility Planning collection is comprised of approximately 800 sets of architectural drawings and plans for campus buildings at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. A small number of drawings are for buildings on the Gallup campus and for the University owned D.H. Lawrence Ranch outside Taos, N.M. Specific drawings include floorplans, elevations, mechanical and electrical plans, and detail drawings, as well as master plans, site plans, and landscaping plans. Highlights of the collection are numerous hand drawn pencil and color perspectives. Many architectural firms worked with the Dept. of Facility Planning, formerly known as the Office of the University Architect. Plans in the collection include those by: Joe Boehning; Dean/Hunt & Associates; Ellison & Associates; Flatow, Moore, Bryan & Fairburn; Holien & Buckley; W.C. Kruger & Associates; Meem, Zehner, Holien and Associates; Antoine Predock; and Stevens, Mallory, Pearl & Campbell. The collection also contains plans by landscape architects Eckbo, Dean, Austin & Williams, and by Bridgers & Paxton, Engineers. The earliest items are plat maps of the campus dated 1892. Drawings for many projects of John Gaw Meem, are found in this collection. Also part of the collection are fourteen architectural models.

65 drawers (16.25 lin. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7664369

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Wm. W. Ellison & Associates.

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Edward Holien and William Buckley (Firm)

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Flatow, Moore, Bryan & Fairburn

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Max Flatow obtained an architectural engineering degree from the University of Texas in 1941. As a first lieutenant in the army, he initially worked for the Army Corp of Engineers, building air bases and other military facilities. In 1945, he moved to New Mexico as a member of a covert operation, now known as the Manhattan Project. Flatow designed buildings for research of the atom bomb, meeting with project leader Robert Oppenheimer during his involvement. In 1947, along with college roommate J...

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University of New Mexico. Office of the University Architect

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Boehning, Joe.

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Meem, John Gaw, 1894-1983

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The original objective of the interview was a survey of the early development of the Santa Fe art colony and the personalities who made it famous. The interviewer is unidentified. Interviewees include renowned architect, John Gaw Meem; Will Shuster, painter and founder of Los Cinco Pintores, Santa Fe's first modernist art group; and Karl Larsson, Swedish immigrant, silversmith, and painter-teacher. From the description of Oral history interview with John Gaw Meem, Will Shuster, and K...

University of New Mexico. Dept. of Facility Planning.

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The University of New Mexico is built in the Pueblo Revival Style of architecture, a style introduced to campus around 1901. Architect John Gaw Meem perpetuated the regional style, designing many buildings on the UNM campus, 1933-1959. In 1963, architect Van Dorn Hooker was appointed UNM's University Architect. After his retirement the Dept. of Facility Planning was established in 1988. The department oversees the master planning of the main and branch campuses of UNM, as well as general campus ...

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Stevens, Mallory, Pearl & Campbell

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Dean/Hunt and Associates.

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Hooker, Van Dorn, 1921-....

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Mr. Hooker was the first official University of New Mexico Architect. He held this position from December 1963-July 1987. In 1996, he donated materials he collected while the University Architect. From the description of Papers, 1892-1987. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 42427551 Van Dorn Hooker was born in Carthage, Texas in 1921. Hooker received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Texas and practiced in Austin, Texas until...

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Predock, Antoine

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Antoine Predock was born in Lebanon, Missouri in 1936. Predock attended architecture school at the University of New Mexico, and received his Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University. His firm, Antoine Predock Architect PC, established in 1967, is based in Albuquerque. Predock's architectural design incorporates listening to the land, and building with environmental sensitivity. He embraces all facets of the culture of a site, with a dedication to its spiritual connection. Predock is a ...

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