Alexander Architectural Archives

Roland Gommel Roessner was a resident architect, professor in The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (1948-1982), responsible for establishing the school's Professional Residency Program and early user of computers to augment teaching. This collection highlights Roessner's two careers, academic and architectural design, from 1936 to 1991. Record types include 35mm slides, scrapbooks, publications, and architectural drawings.

Roy E. Graham, an architect and educator, taught at The University of Texas, School of Architecture from 1964-1984. The majority of the collection relates to the Graham's publication on Texas historic forts, published in 1968. Record types include, manuscript material, photographs, correspondence, and reference files.

Samuel B. Zisman (1908-1970) spent the bulk of his architectural career in private practice in San Antonio, Texas but was also involved in planning projects throughout the U.S. and internationally. The Samuel B. Zisman papers consist of professional logs, correspondence, and postcards that reveal the career of this architect, planner, and author.

Sinclair Black (1940-) taught design courses at The University of Texas School of Architecture and founded Austin architectural firm of Black, Atkinson, and Vernooy, specialists in individual building and urban design. The collection contains Black, Atkinson and Vernooy's project files and drawings representing projects in Austin, Texas.

Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930), London architect, designed many large public commissions throughout England between 1875-1915; he worked with E. Ingress Bell and later with his son Maurice Webb. The collection consists of architectural drawings, photographs, and tearsheets from British architectural periodicals that document the career of Sir Aston Webb.

Arnold Dunbar Smith (1866-1933) and Cecil Claude Brewer (1871-1918) formed a partnership in London in 1895, establishing a reputation as arts and crafts architects working in the so-called "Free Style" of the 1890s. The firm's work was mainly domestic, using vernacular traditions, until their design for the National Museum of Wales (1910) in which they employed the then-popular Beaux-Arts style. The collection is comprised of architectural drawings which best represent Smith and Brewer's domestic work.

The Society for Commercial Archeology (SCA), founded in 1977, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advocacy and preservation of 20th century roadside architecture in North America. The collection documents the activities and business of the Society for Commercial Archeology, including SCA publications and tours. Record types include minutes, reports, publications, pamphlets, tour guides, postcards, and correspondence. The collection also contains slides and photographs documenting the commercial landscape and SCA events. Further accruals are expected.

Theo S. (born Theodore Stuart) Maffitt was born April 6, 1895 in Palestine, Texas, the city whose architecture he was later greatly to affect. His son, Theodore (Ted) S. Maffitt, Jr. joined his practice, renamed Theo S. Maffitt and Theodore S. Maffitt, Jr. in 1948. The collection includes architectural drawings of projects completed between 1919 and 1981, predominantly in Palestine and Anderson Counties.

Thomas A. Pressly, Jr., educated in Virginia and Texas, was head of the architectural firm Thomas A. Pressly, Jr. A.I.A. in San Antonio. After his retirement he devoted himself to professional painting. The Thomas A. Pressly, Jr. collection includes papers, and photographic prints.

Thomas M. Price (1916-1998) was Galveston's foremost modern architect. Price opened his own firm in 1947 where his designs included private residences, hotels, motels, schools, a social club, a beach house and commercial buildings. The collection documents Price’s architectural work in the Texas and beyond. Record types include architectural drawings and photographic material.