Thaddeus Longstreth architectural records and personal papers, 1925-1984.

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Thaddeus Longstreth architectural records and personal papers, 1925-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63578829

This collection is the primary archive of the architectural work of Thaddeus Longstreth. The bulk of the collection comprises records of Longstreth's architectural practice (111 projects spanning the years 1943 to 1984). The collection also contains a smaller amount of personal material. Longstreth preserved a substantial amount of material related to his collaborations with Richard Neutra, beginning with his work in Neutra's office in California, and concluding with his supervision of Neutra's institutional and domestic commissions in the eastern United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Particularly notable for students of Neutra are Longstreth's many color slides taken during the construction of the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California. Notable for students of Philadelphia architecture are materials related to several houses designed by Neutra in the Philadelphia region. Materials on Neutra's California projects include numerous photographs by Julius Schulman, who also photographed one house near Philadelphia.

Architectural drawings 3365 sheets : various media.Photographs 1713 photoprints, 2271 slides.Files 21 cubic feet.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Longstreth, Thaddeus (American architect, 1909-1997)

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Thaddeus Longstreth was born in Cincinnati, OH, son of George Brown Longstreth and Anna Margaret Pullen. His father died when Longstreth was young, and he was educated in New England boarding schools, first at the Fessenden School in Waltham, Massachusetts and then the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. After earning a bachelor's degree at Yale in 1933, Longstreth worked for three years in the aircraft industry. Longstreth entered Princeton's Graduate School of Architecture...

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...