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"Design Waller Creek: A Competition," was an international design competition sponsored by the Waller Creek Conservancy to develop urban parks along Waller Creek in Austin, Texas. The Waller Creek Conservancy is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and maintain urban parks around Waller Creek. Records consist of competition entries, the competition manual, and a summary report.
Walter Rolfe (1900-1967) taught at the University of Texas School of Architecture and practiced architecture in Houston and Beaumont, Tex. The collection includes papers, correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, books, awards and medals, paintings and drawings that document Rolfe's life and work.
A selection of photographic prints, and one catalog document a small portion of the work of architectural photographer and American historian Wayne Andrews.
Wayne Bell is a historic preservation architect and a Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. In 1973, after working for the Texas State Historical Survey Committee and the Texas Parks and Wildlife department, Bell helped establish the master's degree in historical preservation program at the UT School of Architecture, one of only four in the country at the time. Concurrently with his UT work, Bell also was a founder and senior principal of Bell, Klein and Hoffman, an Austin architectural firm specializing in historic preservation.
The Weinreb Architectural collection represents a small selection of the inventory of antiquarian architectural bookseller Ben Weinreb (1912-1999). Sketchbooks of drawings and plans, architectural drawings, lithographs and other reproductions of largely European architecture constitute the Weinreb Architectural collection.
William Storrer (1936- ) is an educator and a noted scholar of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The Storrer papers include manuscript, research and reference materials. The collection consists of photographic prints, slides, drawings, papers, books and periodicals primarily relating to all editions of his definitive publications: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog; The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Guide to Extant Structures; The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion; and FLlW Update.
William Clayton Barbee, an architect and educator, became the principal architect at Barbee Architects, Inc., an interior architecture and preservation firm practicing in Austin, Texas. The majority of the collection reflects Barbee's early architectural research in areas of historic architecture and interiors between 1976 and 1999. Materials include detailed photographic documentation of historic Texas homes restorations, HABS documentation of New Mexico sites, as well as representative works from his professional practice.
William P. (Bill) Hersey and John Kyrk worked together as architectural illustrators from the early 1970s until Hersey's death in 1989. Based in California, the two traveled across the United States, often in a Volkswagen bus they operated as a mobile studio, producing contracted renderings for architects, firms, and developers. In addition to architectural drawings, the collection includes other visual material like travel sketches and botanical illustrations, fliers, rubbings, and wood engravings as well as manuscript ephemera such as diary snippets, printed parables, and poetry.
William Norton Bonham was an architect who established his own practice until joining Pan American World Airways as director of architecture for Inter-Continental Hotels. Bonham later founded and built the San Antonio-based Diversified Design Disciplines/International (3D/I) into a major firm and established an international consulting practice. The William Bonham collection documents the 1981 international conference that 3D/I organized on architecture and its influence.
The Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation collection consists of records from the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation, a program operated by The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture located at the Winedale Historical Center in Fayette County, Texas. The collection also includes some administrative material from the Winedale Historic Site, an outdoor museum and study center dedicated to Texas history.
