Collections : [Avery Drawings & Archives]

Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) was an American architectural critic, educator, and architectural and urban designer primarily based in New York. His design work with his firm Michael Sorkin Studio, consulting work as the president of the non-profit Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research, academic positions in the United States and Vienna, and his extensive body of publications provided him a public platform to widely share his criticism, design pedagogy and views of architecture. The collection focuses on Sorkin's writings, lecturing, and design work produced between 1978 and 2020. It also includes correspondence, academic work, files on personal life, and consulting or institutional projects.

Olgivanna Lloyd Wright (Olga Lazović, Olga Lazović Hinzenburg) b. Montenegro, December 27, 1898- March 1, 1985, married Frank Lloyd Wright in 1928. She was a dancer, author, and composer and helped found and operate the Taliesin Fellowship. She was vital to the preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy through the Taliesin Fellowship, preservation and fundraising campaigns, and publications on her late husband and his work, including her books Our House, The Shining Brow, the Roots of Life, and Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words. The collection contains extensive correspondence as well as Olgivanna Lloyd Wright's notes, drafts and typed manuscripts of her books and unpublished writing, autobiographical material, transcriptions of taped audio material including weekly talks to the Taliesin Fellowship as well as public talks, and newspaper clippings of published articles.