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Drury Blakeley Alexander (1924-2011) was an architectural educator who served as professor at the University of Texas School of Architecture and continued to serve the city through the Historic Landmarks Commission. Alexander was a champion of the preservation of the University of Texas' historic buildings and a special friend to the Architecture and Planning Library.
George Dahl, one of Dallas' most prominent architects, was born in Minneapolis in 1894, of Norwegian immigrants. In 1943, Dahl founded his own company, George Leighton Dahl, Architects and Engineers, Incorporated. Creative works, correspondence, printed material, photographs, financial documentation, works of art on paper, audio recordings, and a scrapbook, document the life and work of architect George Dahl.
Greene LaRoche and Dahl was a Dallas architectural firm formed from the partnership of Herbert Miller Greene (1871-1932), Edwin Bruce LaRoche (1885-c.1943), and George Leighton Dahl (1894-1987). This collection contains selective drawings from the firm of Greene LaRoche and Dahl, and its predecessor and successor firms, from 1902 through 1953, including Hubbell and Greene Architects, Herbert M. Greene Company, Greene and LaRoche, LaRoche and Dahl, and George L. Dahl Architects and Engineers.
The University of Texas Buildings Collection consists of architectural drawings and manuscript material documenting buildings on The University of Texas at Austin campus and from other University of Texas System campuses. The Collection includes original drawings and prints for buildings that no longer exist, or for changes in interior or exterior design that have been superseded in later years. The majority of the collection consists of records generated by Robert Leon White during his tenure as the University's Supervising Architect (1924-1958).
The Texas Architectural collection is a grouping of individual project records of Texas properties. Records were acquired over time from various sources, each with their own provenance.
Harvey Partridge Smith (1889-1964) was a San Antonio architect and early preservationist. The collection consists of measured drawings and field notes documenting Smith's work on Spanish missions in San Antonio.
Created in 1977 by the Executive Committee of the Texas Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA), The History of Planning in Texas Project focus was to create a record of the experiences of planners from around Texas. The collection contains transcriptions, monographs, reports, slides, and documentation relating to the history of planning in nine metropolitan areas: Austin, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, and San Antonio.
Arch B. Swank Jr. (1913-1999) is one of the great innovative figures of Texas architecture, working on such projects as the semiconductor complex in Richardson (1958) for Texas Instruments and the Great Southwest Corporation's industrial park in Arlington (1958). Architectural drawings and reproductions, building specifications, financial documentation, correspondence, legal documentation, reports, photographic material, maps, minutes, creative works, printed material, and material samples document his work.
Ayres and Ayres records represents extensive documentation of a prominent San Antonio firm spanning a period of 83 years of practice (1894-1977). Atlee Bernard Ayres (1872-1969) and his son Robert Moss Ayres (1898-1977) formed a partnership in 1925. Papers, photographs, and drawings document the long practice of the San Antonio architects. The firm library was donated to the Architecture and Planning Library Special Collections.
Charles Stevens Dilbeck (1907-1990) designed hundreds of houses during his long career, contributing significantly to the residential environment in Dallas and the surrounding area. In addition to his single-family homes, he built a number of apartment buildings, hotels, shopping centers, and country clubs. The collection consists of architectural drawings and specifications.
