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1963-1992
This collection is made up of six series: Series I: Faculty Papers, Series II: Formal Structure in Indain Architecture, Series III: Formal Structure in Islamic Archtecture of Iran and Turkistan, Series IV: Professional Papers, Series V: Visual Material, Series VI: Drawings.
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Source of acquisition--Kay Herdeg. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2010. Accession number--2010.016.
Klaus Herdeg was born March 4th 1937 in Paris, France to Swiss parents. Educated at Stiener Schools in both Switzerland and England, Herdeg went on to earn a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Cornell University. In 1965 Herdeg was awarded Cornell University's Eidlitz fellowship with which he traveled extensively throughout northwestern India producing measured drawings of monumental architectural complexes. This work would later be compiled and produced into a traveling exhibit and book titled Formal Structure in Indian Architecture.
Herdeg worked as an architect in both Europe and the United States, becoming a licensed architect in New York State in 1970. The majority of his career, however, was spent in academia. Herdeg began work as a professor at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 1966. At Cornell, Herdeg witnessed a period of turmoil climaxing with the lighting of a burning cross outside Wari House, the subsequent Willard Straight Hall Takeover by members of the Afro-American Society in 1969 and the presumed arson of the Africana Studies and Research Center in 1970. Resigning from Cornell in response to the firing of four untenured faculty members on ideological grounds, Herdeg was recruited by Dean James Polshek to join the faculty at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 1973.
Before commencing his teaching duties at Columbia, Herdeg traveled to Iran and modern day Uzbekistan with funds garnered through Harvard Graduate School of Design's Wheelwright Prize to study Islamic architecture. Herdeg's work in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union culminated in another traveling exhibition and book titled Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan published in 1990.
At Columbia University, Herdeg taught a variety of design studios as well as courses on Indian and Islamic architecture that proved to be popular with students. In 1974 Herdeg was selected by the Landmarks Conservancy to consult on a project for the preservation and adaptive reuse of the Federal Office Building, also known as the Federal Archive Building, in Greenwich Village. Herdeg's work for the project would later be published in 1976 in a book titled Working Paper 1: Creative Analysis for the Reprogramming of Landmarks.
While a professor at Columbia, Herdeg inaugurated an exchange program for students with Tianjin University that began in 1982. The program derived from an unsolicited invitation Dean Polshek received from Tianjin University regarding the idea of an architectural exchange between the two universities. Polshek delegated the responsibility of developing and organizing the program to Herdeg, who in 1980 had traveled, as part of an expedition headed by the Agha Khan, to Kashagar and other sites in Mainland China. Through his travels Herdeg developed an interest in concession era Chinese architecture producing a number of large drawings of important early-twentieth century buildings in Tianjin. In 1984 Herdeg was made Chairman of the Division of Architecture and a year later his book The Decorated Diagram was published.
Klaus Herdeg died on February 21, 2009 in New York City.
This collection was processed by Vincent Wilcke in 2013.
This collection is composed primarily of correspondence, memoranda, course material, photographs, drawings and slides. Much of the material pertains to Herdeg's career as a professor at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning as well as his career as a professor and subsequent department head at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). Many of the photographs are proofs used in Herdeg's
Series I is comprised of three subseries: Cornell University, Columbia University and Design Studio and Travel in Asia. The first subseries contains minutes to faculty meetings, department memoranda and course material. There are also numerous copies of the Cornell Daily Sun with articles surrounding the mounting racial tension at Cornell University in the later 1960s, specifically the Willard Straight Hall Takeover by members of the Afro-American Society in 1969 and the presumed arson of the Africana Studies and Research Center in 1970. There is also newspaper coverage and department correspondence surrounding the unwarranted dismissal of faculty members from Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. The subseries also contains material relating to symposiums held at Cornell and a large collection of student work from a 1971 summer session taught by Herdeg. Folders largely retain their original contents.
The second subseries contains course material from Herdeg's work as a professor and subsequent department head at Columbia University. The material is primarily in folders by course with much of material corresponding to studio courses. Class rosters, syllabi, and assignment sheets are common as are lecture notes. The material is arranged chronologically with much of it either from the Fall or Spring semester of an academic year.
The third subseries contains material corresponding to an exchange program Herdeg developed with Tianjin University for architecture students. The material includes notes and correspondence leading up to and following each summer program, as well as bound reports consisting of student work. A collection of Chinese travel publications and other ephemera is also present. The material is largely bound reports of each summer program consisting of student work, however a collection of Chinese travel publications is also present. The material was separated from Herdeg's other work at Columbia University due its volume, specific subject matter and the fact that Herdeg organized and developed the programs outside of the prescribed GSAPP curriculum.
Series II is comprised of material relating to Herdeg's traveling exhibit and later publication
Series III is comprised of material relating to Herdeg's traveling exhibit and later publication
Series IV is comprised of material relating to Herdeg's career outside of academia. The series contains information on design competitions Herdeg entered including a student housing competition for ETH Zurich, a competition to design a new city hall building for Amsterdam, and a competition to design a new headquarters for the PAX Life Insurance Company. There is also work conducted by Herdeg for RP&M Steiger Architects in which Herdeg studied and analyzed the growth patterns of small suburban towns surrounding Zurich. The remainder of the material is largely devoted to Herdeg's work for the Landmarks Conservancy in designing an adaptive reuse scheme for the Federal Office Building (FOB), also known as the Federal Archive building. The repurpose of the building, located in the Greenwich Village, was entrusted to the Landmarks Conservancy in the 1970s by the US General Services Administration. The Conservancy directed the project: conducting a feasibility study, consulting with federal, state and city agencies and the local community board; exploring legal and economic issues and selecting a developer. Also present is material surrounding Herdeg's study and analysis of Alvar Aalto's Villa Mariea and blueprints for a studio Herdeg designed for Friedel Dzubas in Massachusetts.
Series V is divided into two subseries: Photographs and Negatives, and Slides. Throughout the entire collection visual material was collected and organized separately as not to falsely associate it with written material. In both subseries, the material is organized by the location of its subject matter. The first subseries has a large collection of photographs form Herdeg's travels in India, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. The photographs and negatives of India, Iran and Uzbekistan have been identified by specific site. Other photographs and negatives present are a collection of prints of China, a majority of which are images of concession-era architecture. Also present are a collection of photographs of Herdeg's work on the Federal Office Building for the Landmark's Preservation Commission including photographs of the model Herdeg produced and assorted views of the building. There are also photographs of selected sites for studio projects and student work from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Preservation and Planning as well as photographs of a symposium held at Cornell in 1970. Throughout the entirety of the photograph collection Herdeg frequently taped fragments of photographs together to create panoramic views.
Subseries 2 represents a large volume of slides that pertain to a wide breadth of subject matter. A majority of the slides are photographic images of China from the trips Herdeg organized with Columbia University. The remainder of the collection is divided between slides Herdeg used for lectures, slides of student work from final pin-ups, and slides of photographs taken while traveling. Locations include sites in the Middle East, Russia, and Italy.
Series VI is comprised of five subseries: Formal Structure in Indian Architecture, Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, Professional Work, Student Work, and Chinese Concession Architecture. The first subseries includes sketches on tracing paper, base drawings on velum and final ink on Mylar drawings of the buildings and monuments Herdeg visited and surveyed in India.
The second subseries includes sketches on tracing paper, base drawings on velum and final ink on Mylar drawings of the buildings and monuments Herdeg visited and surveyed in China, Iran and Uzbekistan.
The third subseries includes sketches on tracing paper, base drawings on velum and final ink on Mylar drawings of Herdeg's entry for a Student Housing Competition for ETH Zurich.
The fourth subseries includes the final boards for Herdeg's thesis at Cornell University.
The fifth subseries includes sketches on tracing paper, base drawings on velum and final ink on Mylar drawings of a series of concession era buildings Herdeg studied in Tianjin. Many of the buildings Herdeg documented in Tianjin are located in what was the French concession and were designed by Paul Muller. Muller was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he studied architecture. Moving to China in the 1920s, Muller held a position at the engineering department of the Public Discussion Bureau. While in Tianjin, Muller also worked as an architect for Brossard & Mopin and served as a professor of architecture at the Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce.
Series VII is comprised of three subseries: Drafts, Research, and Books. The first subseries includes bound and unbound manuscripts for
Series VIII is comprised of miscellaneous bound and unbound material sent to or collected by Herdeg throughout his career. This material includes manuscripts for presentations by Hassan Fathy and publications from Doxiades Associates.
Klaus Herdeg papers, 1963-1992, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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Includes Cornell University's College of Architecture staff directory (1966-1967), correspondence regarding Herdeg's appointed position and Herdeg's Academic Personnel Appointment Form
Includes the transcript of a lecture on city planning given at a conference and other material regarding the conference
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 101, Fall 1967 and Design 102, Spring 1968 at Cornell University. [Accession 2015.012]
Includes syllabi, reference material and student work
Binder with preparatory notes, syllabus, submission requirements, etc. for 1968 Summer School program at Cornell University. Course co-taught with Professor Dominguez. [Accession 2015.012]
Includes memoranda and correspondences regarding students' issues with Cornell University's Department of Architecture during the 1968-1969 academic year
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 101, Fall 1968 and Design 102, Spring 1969 at Cornell University. [Accession 2015.012]
Includes a list of advisors and advisees for the 1968-1969, 1970-1971, 1972-1973 academic years as well as numerous letters of recommendation letters written by Herdeg and correspondences between Herdeg and students and Herdeg and department heads
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 101, Fall 1969 course at Cornell University. [Accession 2015.012]
Loose notes, student work, other material for Design 101, Fall 1969 course at Cornell University. Photographs : 16 items; Photostats : 3 items. [Accession 2015.012]
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 103, Design 107/109, Design 108/110, Design 513, Architectural Technology 601, and Arch. 603-604, Fall 1969 at Cornell University. Critics include Profs. May, O. M. Ungers, Roger Sherwood, Seligmann, T. Heyde, and Ralph Crump. [Accession 2015.012]
Includes correspondences, sketches, quotes, drafts of text and a bibliography for the development of a book tentatively titled [t]Form as a Tool[/t]
Includes minutes on faculty meetings, reports, newspaper clippings and letters regarding school affairs with a concentration of documents relating to the position of African American Studies at the Cornell in reaction to the presumed arson of the Cornell African Studies and Research Center on April 1, 1970
Includes memoranda and correspondences regarding end of the year prizes, scholarships and awards
Includes a series of memoranda regarding the restructure of Cornell University's College of Architecture Art and Planning as well as a report compiled by the Structure Committee titled "Proposed Organizational Structure For the Department of Architecture College of Architecture, Art, & Planning Cornell University"
Includes as series of memoranda and newspaper clippings surrounding Cornell University's America is Hard to Find weekend, which was a weekend celebration of non-violent resistance to war and injustice
Includes a series of newspaper clippings from the Cornell Chronicle, minutes of faculty meetings, and memoranda regarding proposal to increase faculty salaries and to change the school's policy on faculty raises
Includes a series of memoranda and correspondences regarding the faculty's teaching budget and the structure of the Cornell University's Department of Architecture
Includes notes for a lecture on formal structure in architecture given at Cornell University, M.I.T., Princeton University, The Catholic University in Washington D.C., The University of Oregon and The University of North Carolina in Raleigh
Includes an outline, newspaper clippings, publication material and a manuscript regarding The Provincial City
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 102, Fall 1970 at Cornell University.[Accession 2015.012]
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 101, Design 106, and Design 108/110, Spring 1970 at Cornell University. [Accession 2015.012]
Bound notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 102, Fall 1970 at Cornell University. Course co-taught with Professor Dennis. [Accession 2015.012]
Binder with notes, syllabus, and other material for Design 105, Fall 1970 at Cornell University. [Accession 2015.012]
Includes a series of correspondences regarding Cornell University's Department of Architecture's spring symposium titled "The Provincial City"
3 folders containing the transcript for The Provincial City
Includes a memorandum regarding suggestions for the upcoming centennial celebration of Cornell University's Department of Architecture, Art, and Planning, which was founded in 1871
Includes syllabi, proposed assignments and memoranda regarding a class taught in part by Herdeg about the direction of technology and the mitigation of the damaging consequences of its unrestrained application
Includes syllabi and assignment sheets
Contains newspaper clippings, faculty meeting minutes and memoranda regarding the search for a new dean for Cornell University's Department of Architecture, Art and Planning as well as the removal of the college of Fine Arts from the Department of Architecture, Art and Planning to the College of Arts and Sciences
Includes documents regarding the selection of students for Eidlitz fellowships
Includes documents regarding the appointment of perspective faculty members and guest lecturers for the department of architecture at Cornell University
Includes interview related expense reports, lists of prospective students and interview notes taken by Herdeg
Includes correspondences regarding the creation of a new course
Includes correspondences between Herdeg and perspective summer session students regarding their qualifications for the program
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on 18th and 19th century Western European Historical housing Prototypes in England and France
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on contemporary US single detached houses
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on archetypal Mediterranean civilization architecture .
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on Western European historical architectural prototypes from the 13th century to the 17th century
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on Heroic period architectural prototypes from 1910 to 1940
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on contemporary architectural models and analysis
Includes course material for the 1971 summer term on US historical architectural prototypes from the 18th and 19th centuries
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Includes minutes of committee meetings and memoranda
Includes reports on selected acquisitions by the Fine Arts Library of Cornell University
Includes memoranda, faculty correspondences and newspaper clippings regarding the controversy over the firing of four untenured faculty in Cornell University's Department of Architecture over ideological reasons
Includes Herdeg's lecture on Architectural Drawing Representations
Includes term grades and graded exams
Includes memoranda regarding prospective faculty members to Cornell University's Department of Architecture
Includes doodles, course assignments and student grades
Memoranda
Includes material surrounding Herdeg's stint as a Telluride Associate, notes on student interviews, correspondences
Includes sketches and blueprints of the main office of Cornell University's Department of Architecture
Includes lecture notes and course evaluations
Includes a range of material regarding academic affairs, courses taught and personal correspondences
Includes the transcript of a lecture given in Avery Hall on September 25 on the Influence of the Bauhaus Legacy on American architectural students at Harvard in the 1940s
Includes the transcript of a lecture Herdeg gave for the Architectural League in April of 1974
Includes memoranda and correspondences between Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Dean, James Polshek, and prospective lecturers, as well as a transcript of an interview of Romaldo Ginvgon by Kenneth Frampton
Includes a series of design problems given at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the fall semester of 1974
A variety of material including a series of correspondences between Herdeg, Dean Polshek and Arthur Drexler in an attempt to establish an architecture and design course collaboration between GSAPP and MOMA, as well memoranda surrounding revising the Kinnie Fellowship distribution
Includes problems 1 - 6 for Studio I as well as a curriculum timeline for the semester
Includes course material for Recording and Analysis
Includes a Columbia University Bulletin pertaining to the period of 1976-1978, a "Course Manual" and a student roster
Includes correspondences between the faulty members Dean Polshek and Richard Plunz regarding teaching assignments and the possibility of hiring Thomas Schumacher, a student roster of the architecture school, and course material surrounding Herdeg's section of Studio I
Includes notes for a lecture titled "Flexibility and Change: Literal and Interpreted"
Includes the course syllabus, problems 2-6, a student roster, final review notes and comments on student projects
Includes course material, a bound volume of student work and three assorted engravings of unidentified cityscapes
Includes course material and notes
Includes notes for a lecture titled "Flexibility and Change: Literal and Interpreted" and Site / Context - Approach / Entry
Includes course material and a student/faculty handbook to the M.Arch. program
Includes course material, written student work, articles and readings as well as notes
Includes course material, site maps, clippings and articles regarding hospitals design, and negatives
Syllabus
Includes correspondences between Herdeg and Judy Matson of the Hudson River Museum regarding Herdeg's participation in an exhibit titled "1000 Boxes"
A series of correspondences regarding the design competition for an addition to Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum
Course material: readings, syllabi and student problems
Course material
Herdeg's course proposals
Material relating to an undergraduate course taught at Barnard
Includes details about the publication of student work from three Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture Seminars
Includes course material and letters from potential students asking to be placed in the course
Course material, maps, a class roster and background research
Includes course material, background research and photo copies of student work
Includes course material, letters from potential students asking for placement in the course, student research project proposals, background research, notes
Includes a transcript of lecture given at Cornell University.
Includes syllabi, bibliographies and other course material
Course material including an excerpt from The Decorated Diagram, regarding the analysis on Villa Mairea with supporting material on Villa Mairea and photographs as well as course notes and letters of prospective students asking for admittance in the course
Newspaper clippings; correspondence; Xeroxes; The New York Review of Books (December 22, 1983); Columbia, The Magazine of Columbia University (December 1984); photograph : 1 item. [Accession 2015.012]
Background material and research
Background material, research and notes
Background research, course material, notes with a correspondences regarding a student with health issue
Course material, two bound volumes regarding the history and urban renewal of the Lower East Side, photocopied maps and information regarding zoning
Course material, student roster, background research on educational architecture and English as a second language instruction, maps of the Lower East Side and maps of Tokyo
Includes course material and assorted photocopies of Villa Mairea, the Altes Museum etcetera for use in the course
Includes course material and photocopied background research on Islamic architecture
Includes course material and background research on transportation concourses like Grand Central Terminal including the January 1985 issue of Stone World
Includes information regarding traffic engineering, bus dimensions and the architecture and design of bus terminals
Includes course material and a collection of maps and views of Manhattan
Includes course material, an architectural jury schedule, department memoranda and atlas folios of the Lower East Side and the East Village
Includes course material
Includes Columbia University Abstract 87-88, department correspondences, a course roster, a course schedule, a paper concerning the role of the engineering in the third year fall term studio
Includes information on the section of Studio VI Herdeg taught, research on Tudor City and Turtle Bay, material surrounding an exchange program with visiting Juniors to Columbia University, class rosters and a paper on the Croton Aqueduct
Includes course material, news paper clippings, student course evaluation sheets
Includes information on Herdeg's section of studio as well as more general information regarding the 1988 fall semester including department memoranda, suggested reform to the studio raffle system, student rosters, perspective faculty member resumes and CVs
Includes a comparative analysis of a concession building in Tainjin and a traditional land boat in Suzhou
Includes course material including syllabi, review schedules, course schedule and maps and background information on Queens New York City, the site for the clinic
Includes course material, a New York Times article on the Euro-centric lens American education focuses on and letters of student interest in the course
Includes material regarding final reviews correspondences between Herdeg and faculty members and between Herdeg and students, also student reviews of the course
Includes course material
Includes a bound volume with student work
Notes; business cards; greeting cards; Architectural Journal no. 7 (1987); Great Earth Rural Building Developing Foundation (Beijing) [Accession 2015.012]
Newspaper and magazine clippings [Accession 2015.012]
Three sets of material on China and Chinese architecture sent to Klaus Herdeg [Accession 2015.012]
List of participants and program; photographers : 2 items; pamphlets [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; photographs : 2 items; pamphlets [Accession 2015.012]
Photographs : 72 items; negatives [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; notes; newspaper and magazine clippings; photographs : 8 items; negatives [Accession 2015.012]
Receipts; booklet; agenda for 1981/82 [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; greeting cards; photographs : 5 items [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; Xeroxes; notes; pamphlets; invoices [Accession 2015.012]
Magazine clippings; correspondence; Xeroxes [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes; notes; photograph : 2 items [Accession 2015.012]
Newspaper and magazine clippings [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes on Chinese architecture, includes Architectural Department of Tianjin University, China, "A Brief Description of Ancient Chinese Gardens: Outline," (January 1982); Architectural Department of Tianjin University, "A Brief Description of Ancient Chinese Gardens," Architectural Department of Tianjin University, "The Selected Works of the Architecture on Ancient China for Reference;" Else Glahn, "Chinese Building Standards in the 12th Century" Scientific American (June 1981); and others [Accession 2015.012]
Pamphlets, includes "Brief Introductions of the Building Construction Design and Research Institute of Tientsin University"; maps; postcards; and other ephemera [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; Xeroxes, includes Dai Fu-Dong, "Stone and Man: Rock Buildings in Gweizhou," (February 1983); Dai Fu-Dong, "Brief Review About Hospital Building Synthetic Planning: Marching Forward in the Integration of Needs and Possibilities," (September 1983); Dai Fu-Dong, "A Think Tank on the Top of PANAM," (December 1983) [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; Xeroxes; notes; pamphlets; postcards : 2 items; photographs : 14 items; Tianjin University, 1895-1980 [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes; notes; fact sheet; student reports by Susan H. Goldstein, Bryce Sanders, and David N. Cohn [Accession 2015.012]
Receipts [Accession 2015.012]
Newspaper, magazine, and journal clippings [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes on Chinese architecture, includes Wenzhong Zhoung, "A Brief Description of Ancient Chinese Gardens: Outline;" Tadashi Sekino, Summer Palace and Lama Temples in Jehol (Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1935); and others [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; notes [Accession 2015.012]
Pamphlets, maps, postcards, and other ephemera [Accession 2015.012]
Includes trip proposal, itinerary, promotional poster, and student work
Correspondence; Xeroxes; notes [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes; notes [Accession 2015.012]
Receipts [Accession 2015.012]
Newspaper clipping; Xeroxes of magazine articles [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes on Chinese architecture, including Architectural Department of Tianjin University, China, "A Brief Description of Ancient Chinese Gardens" (January 1982); China Building Technology Development Centre, China Building Selection no. 3 (1983); Architectural Journal, no. 12 (1982) [Accession 2015.012]
Pamphlets, maps, and other ephemera[Accession 2015.012]
Includes application form, correspondences and the ACC's annual report from 1990
Includes a comparative analysis of a concession building in Tianjin and a traditional land boat Suzhou as well as photocopies of photographs found in Box 9
Includes original drawings of buildings in Tianjin, correspondences with Qiu Kang, and list of slides copied by Avery Slide Library
Includes travel brochures, a publication on the architecture of Qingdao and a publication from Dalian University Of Technology
Includes university publication from Dalian University of Technology, Tianjin University as well as a publication from the Shanghai Technology Trade Show 1988, and Architecture from September 1985
Correspondence; pamphlets; greeting cards; notes; photograph : 1 item [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; NEA application [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; pamphlet [Accession 2015.012]
Lecture flyer; CV [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; Asian Cultural Council Annual Reports for the years 1985, 1986, and 1987; photograph : 1 item [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; postcards; photograph : 1 item [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence; notes; photographs : 31 items; pamphlets; business cards [Accession 2015.012]
Pamphlets; maps; photographs : 38 items, many collaged into panoramic views; postcards : 3 items [Accession 2015.012]
Print of Ronald Rose and Allyne Winderman, "Machiya: The House in the City Kyoto, A Research Proposal" [Accession 2015.012]
Correspondence, regarding trip from Oct. 6 to Nov. 14, 1981 [Accession 2015.012]
Folders filled with documents given to participants of seminar held from October 19 to 22, 1981, including pamphlets, newspaper clippings. Folders labelled: "Information," "Participants," "Programme," "Kashgar," and "Xi'an" [Accession 2015.012]
Seminar on the Changing Rural Habitat, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 19 to 22 October 1981, documents include "Abstracts of Case Studies and Technology Papers;" Rafique H. Keshavjee, "Islam in Rural Areas: An Analytic Introduction;" Lee Horne, "Rural Habitants and Habitations: A Survey of Dwellings in their Settings in the Rural Islamic World"; The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, The 1983 Award [Accession 2015.012]
Includes correspondences relating to Herdeg's application for the Eidlitz fellowship to study architecture in India as well as correspondences during Herdeg's trip and after he returned to Zurich and was appointed as a faculty member at Cornell University.
Contains a small travel diary with notes and sketches from Herdeg's journey to India
Includes correspondences regarding the publication of the exhibition folios into a book
Includes the transcripts for lectures and expositions talks Herdeg delivered accompanying the opening of Formal Structure in Indian Architecture
Includes correspondences between Herdeg and instructions receiving Formal Structure in Indian Architecture, travel schedules, campus plans and Herdeg sketches for how the exhibition was to be installed and set up
Includes correspondences regarding ordering the portfolio and filled out order forms
Includes correspondences regarding the reprinting of Formal Structure in Indian Architecture
Includes correspondences, order forms and samples regarding the advertisements printed for the reprinting of Formal Structure in Indian Architecture
Includes correspondences and notes regarding the exhibits travel in Switzerland
Includes the key to published and unpublished photographs and edits to the text
Includes 8 draft pages with edits
Material is written in a Slavic language in the Cyrillic alphabet
Includes flyers for an opening of Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan held in Avery Hall at Columbia University
Includes background research material on Islamic architecture of Iran and two timelines constructed by Herdeg of Islamic history
Includes brochures for Kerman, Khiva, Bukhara, and Central Asia and Kazakhstan as well as two travel diaries
Includes a sketch book containing Herdeg's preliminary drawings and dimension for later drawings in Formal Structures in Islamic Architecture
Includes a series of articles on Islamic architecture
Includes 4 photographs and five drawings
Includes work done for RP&M Steiger Architects on a series of Urban Design Problems relating the issues of the suburban growth surrounding Zurich particularly in a series of small historic towns
Includes material relating to a publication at Harvard critiquing contemporary urban design and architecture paradigms
Includes competition material published in Amsterdam for a new city hall building
Includes newspaper article, correspondences and photocopied of submitted drawings
Includes background information on swimming pool design
Includes competition publication material
Includes material relating to Herdeg's competition entry
Includes material relating to Herdeg's competition entry
Includes sheets of drawn diagrams
Includes correspondence with Alberto Longoni and photocopies of Longoni drawings
Includes photocopies of text
Includes course material Herdeg had prepared
Includes newspaper clippings and real estate prospectus
Includes newspaper clippings on the adaptive reuse of loft buildings
Includes writings on significance and National Register of Historic Places Inventory Form for the Federal Office Building/ US Appraisers Warehouse
Binder with photographs : ca. 80 items [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes; contact sheets : 5 items [Accession 2015.012]
Xeroxes of presentation material (diagrams, plans, photographs) [Accession 2015.012]
Includes a visitors pamphlet, written work and notes about the house as well as a comprehensive set of analytical drawings
Transcripts of three lectures given: I "Nature vs. Artifice", II "Chinese Gardens", III "Decorated Diagram"
Includes 5 prints of peasant women in Gujerat, 7 prints of bus passengers in Rajput and 28 prints of unidentified subjects
Includes 6 assorted prints and 1 photographic postcard of Jaipur
Includes 14 assorted prints of Ahmedabad
Includes 34 assorted prints of the Sun Temple Modhera
Includes 4 prints of maps of India, 5 miscellaneous prints, 5 assorted prints of river laundry and 32 assorted prints of unidentified sites
Includes 11 assorted prints of Jodhpur, Pokaran, Jaisaumen and Osian
Includes 12 assorted prints of Bombay
Includes 4 prints of architectural drawings and 5 prints of Adalaj
Includes 3 prints of architectural drawings and 18 assorted prints of Kapadwanj
Includes 2 prints of architectural drawings and 30 assorted prints of Jaisalmer
Includes 39 prints of the Mandu Mosque
Includes 60 assorted prints of the Mandu palace
Includes 57 prints of Chandigarh
Includes 4 prints of architectural Drawings and 29 assorted prints of Fathpur Sikri
Includes 61 assorted prints of the Sarkhej Roza Complex
Includes 55 assorted prints of the Fatehpur Sikri Palace Complex
Includes 2,022 assorted 35 millimeter negatives, 6 larger format negatives and approximately 70 contact sheets
Includes 107 assorted 35 millimeter negatives and 47 assorted prints of Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Includes 3 Prints of a house and garden in Nayin
Includes 12 assorted prints of two houses in Yazd
Includes 1 print of Maidan Shah Isfahan
Includes 10 assorted prints of Madrasa Madir I-Shan Isfah
Includes 14 assorted prints of Maidan-I-Shan Isfahan
Includes 12 assorted prints of the Bazar Caravansari Isfahan
Includes 5 assorted prints of Kerman
Includes 1,264 assorted 35 millimeter negatives, 14 assorted prints, 18 assorted large format negatives and 66 contact sheets
Includes 40 photographic postcards of Iran
Includes 8 assorted prints of the religious and mortuary complex at Kashgar
Includes 5 assorted prints of Khiva
Includes 14 assorted prints of Samarkand
Includes 6 assorted prints of Bukhara
Includes 4 assorted prints of gardens in Yazd, Kashan and Shiraz
Includes 2 assorted prints of unidentified subjects
Includes 42 assorted photographic postcards
Includes 1 print of Venice
Includes 1 print of the Mosque Al-Hakim
Includes 66 assorted 35 millimeter negatives of Villa Mairea and Finland Hall, 26 assorted prints of Villa Mairea, 30 assorted prints of the National Pensions Institute and Finland Hall, 15 assorted color prints of Villa Mairea, and two contact sheets
Includes 24assorted prints of Herdeg's submission to the PAX Life Insurance Company Competition (See Box 6 Folder 25)
Includes 41 assorted prints of unidentified twentieth century buildings
Includes 13 assorted booklets of photographic post cards of China
Includes 63 assorted prints of architecture in unidentified Chinese cities likely dating from the second quarter of the twentieth century
Includes 22 assorted prints of unidentified Chinese buildings as well as two trip schedules and architectural drawings
Includes 64 assorted prints of Chinese buildings including The Morgan Apartment House, the Hong Kong Apartment House, 3 Villas in Jin Feng and a Villa in Splin Jaem
Includes 545 assorted labeled 35 millimeter negatives and 17 contact sheets
Includes 15 assorted prints of Chinese buildings likely dating from the second quarter of the twentieth century
Includes 25 negatives, 1 contact sheet and 20 assorted prints of a studio excursion at Tianjin University during a Columbia University summer program
Includes 27 assorted prints of buildings in Peking (Beijing) bound in an album
Includes 30 assorted prints of buildings in Shanghai
Includes 613 assorted 35 millimeter negatives of studio projects and 2 contact sheets
Includes 9 contact sheets and 21 35 millimeter negatives
Includes 4 contact sheets and 572 assorted 35 millimeter negatives of studio projects
Includes 41 contact sheets and 37 assorted prints of studio reviews at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, with photographs of a 1978 showing of Formal Structure of Indian Architecture
Includes 19 assorted prints, 8 contact sheets and 166 negatives of the Provincial City Symposium ( See Box 1 Folders 18-24)
Includes three contact sheets, and 93 assorted 35 millimeter negatives of Herdeg's Harvard Square Project
Includes 24 assorted prints of the FOB building and the model produced during its study (See Box 7 Folders 13-21)
Includes 30 assorted prints of a model produced of the FOB (See Box 8 Folder 42 and Box 7 Folders 13-21)
Includes 4 assorted prints of the FOB Building (See Box 8 Folder 42-43 and Box 7 Folder 13-21)
Includes 26 assorted 35 millimeter negatives and 18 assorted photographs of the Bronx studio in the Spring semester of 1982
Includes 69 assorted prints and 36 assorted 35 millimeter negatives of the Lower East Side for a Spring semester studio
Includes 7 assorted prints of a student arcade project
Includes 164 slides of Chengde, 82 color slides of Chinahina and 270 miscellaneous slides of China
Includes 68 slides of Tianjin, 18 slides of Hong Kong, 15 slides of western China and 239 miscellaneous slides of China
Includes 232 Slides
Includes 232 Slides
Includes approximately 309 slides
Includes approximately 309 slides
Includes approximately 348 slides
Includes approximately 348 slides
Includes a total of 467slides of Tianjin, Dalieu, Qujngdao, Shanghai and Hing Kong
Includes a total of 514 slides of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tietsin, Dalien, Chanjchuu and Harbin
Includes a total of 438 slides
Includes 244 Slides
Includes 294 Slides
Includes 231 Slides of Russia
Includes 132 Slides
Includes 173 Slides
Includes 135 slides of Islamic architectural diagrams, 28 slides of Samarkand and 58 slides of Sultan Aecha Mosque
Includes 11 slides of the Spring 1984 Studio VI, 20 Slides of the Spring 1984 Bus terminal Studio, 10 Slides of Andre Rebecca Parti-wall project 1976, 57 Slides from the fall 1983 studio, 31 slides of the 1986 studio, 10 slides of student work from 1977, 12 slides from the monastery studio 1987
Includes 159 slides of Studio VI
Includes 58 Slides from the 1986 Diamond Way Studio, 49 Slides from a fall 1983 studio, 34 slides of a 1989 studio and student work from 1985
Includes 156 Slides
Includes 161 Slides
Includes, 28 Slides of Chinese Architectural drawings, 60 slides of watercolors by TB Young, 100 Slides of a Safari in Africa, 8 Slides of Rome, 50 Slides of Texas, California and New York, 35 Slides of Rome, 9 Slides of Villa Mairea, 34 Slides of Casa del Faccio
Includes 16 Slides
Includes 29 drawings
Includes 38 drawings
Includes 16 drawings
Includes 23 drawings
Includes 6 drawings
Includes 7 drawings
Includes 6 drawings with a student drawing of a vernacular dwelling in Ghana
Includes 29 drawings
Includes 10 drawings
Includes 7 drawings
Includes 6 drawings
Includes 21 drawings
Includes 38 drawings
Includes 4 drawings
Includes 71 drawings
Includes 29 drawings
Includes 5 drawings
Includes 3 drawings
Includes 73 drawings and a package of diagrams on tracing paper
Includes 7 drawings
Includes 13 drawings
Includes 12 drawings
Includes 13 drawings
Includes 3 drawings and 2 boards
Includes 3 boards
Includes a set of blue prints
Includes original design drawings
Includes 1 board
Includes 4 boards with drawings
Includes 5 boards with drawings
Includes 5 boards with drawings
Foldable presentation booklet with drawings and photographs of model of Monte Albán archaeological site in Mexico by Mario Corea, Klaus Herdeg, and Guillermo Shelley [Accession 2015.012]
Includes 18 drawings
Includes 78 drawings
Includes 54 drawings
Includes 78 drawings
Bound manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era," labelled "Original Pix"; Xeroxes of "Preface (draft I)"
Unbound manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era," labelled "No Pix, No Annotations, No Appendices, as submitted to MIT"
Notes for Preface; Xeroxes of "Preface (draft I)," labelled "ca. Sept. 79"; loose Xeroxes of "I. Introduction"; Xeroxes of "Figures"
Bound manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era," labelled "Work Copy CR"
Bound manuscript of "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era"
Manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram," in red three-ring binder
Invoices : 2 items
Newspaper clippings; Xeroxes; notes
Research material for "The Decorated Diagram," organized on index cards and arranged in five categories: "Gen. Ideas," "Scope of Total," Rel. Articles," "Harvard Pers. Research," and "Biographies"
Handwritten notes
Handwritten notes; Xeroxes of syllabi from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1946-53
Xeroxes of syllabi from Harvard Graduate School of Design; notes
Xeroxes; diagrams by Herdeg : 2 items
Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; notes
Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; The Asia Society 25th Anniversary Capital Fund Campaign News vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring 1980)
Clippings; Xeroxes; leaflets; photographs : 38 items; slides 2 items; negatives : 3 items
Xeroxes
Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; notes; The Architectural Forum vol. 183, no. 1 (January/February 1973); Progressive Architecture (February 1984); map of Lincoln Nebraska; negatives of 1001, 5th Avenue : 3 items
Xeroxes; notes; acetate of Altes Museum floor plan : 1 item; syllabus
Xerox
Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; New York Times Magazine (May 20, 1979; January 23, 1983; August 14, 1983); photograph : 1 item; acetates of Johnson Museum : 2 items
Newspaper clipping; Xerox; CV
Xeroxes; notes
Newspaper clippings; Xeroxes
Newspaper clipping
Xeroxes; notes
Xeroxes
Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; notes; letter from Edward L. Barnes announcing selection of Henry N. Cobb as Chairmen of the Architecture Department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Xeroxes; notes
Xeroxes; notes
Klaus Herdeg, (softcover) "The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy," (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983): 2 copies; Klaus Herdeg, (hardcover) "The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy," (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983): 1 copy; Klaus Herdeg, (hardcover) "Die Geschmuuckte Formal, Harvard: Das Bauhaus-Erbe und sein amerikanischer Verfall," (Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1988): 1 copy
Manuscripts of "The City of the Future: Aesthetics in the C.O.F.," "The City of the Future: Comtemporaneity," and "Ce que j'ai appris a Louqsor"
Doxiades Associates, Consultants on Development and Ekistics (December 1963); Doxiades Associates, Islamabad: The New Capital of Pakistan no. 64 (March 1964); Ekistics Revies on the Problems and Science of Human Settlement vol. 19 no. 110–115 (January–June 1965)
Building Code of the City of New York (New York, Cincinnati, Toronto, London, Melbourne: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1970); Space Standards Committee (New York State, Urban Development Corporation, May 11, 1972); Legacies of a Radical Era, Architecture at Columbia: 1968-80 (Columbia GSAPP, April 26, 1980); "Commercial: Parking"; "Residential: Apartments"
Land Use Planning Considerations, Route 132-C, Second Avenue Subway, East 34th St. to Whitehall St., Manhattan (Transit-Land/Use Working Committee, April, 1972); Transit Recommendations and Related Surface Improvements, Route 132-C, Second Avenue Subway, Lower East Side, Manhattan (Transit/Land-Use Working Committee, March, 1973)
"The Reconstruction of Beirut, Central District: The Major Urban Redevelopment Project of the 1990s"; I. M. Goodovitch, "The Saddle Shape Vertebra Method for Prefabricated Houses," (Israel: Ministry of Housing and Development); Masood Khan, "The Walled City of Lahore: Conservation, Historical Continuity and Change" (August 1990); Klaus Herdeg, Masood Khan, and Hashim Sarkis, "Kashan and Beirut Workshops (Cambridge, MA: Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 1991)
Connection (Winter/Spring 1968); Journal of Architectural Education vol. 33, no. 2 (November 1979); Journal of Architectural Education vol. 34, no. 1 (Fall 1980); Crit no. 7 (Spring 1980); The Kaleidoscope Review (April 1980); Asia (August 1983)
Precis vol. 1 (Spring 1979); Precis vol. 2 (1980); Precis vol. 3 (1981); Precis vol. 4 (1983); Precis vol. 5 (Fall 1984); Abstract (1988-89; 1989-90; 1990-91; 1992-93; 1993-94)
Steven Rankin, Wolf Point Development: Urban Design Prototype (December 18, 1972), with note from Steven Rankin addressed to Herdeg; Hatice Yazar, "Architecture in Miniature: Representation of Space and Form in Illustrations and Buildings in Timurid Central Asia," (M.S.Arch.S ., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June, 1991); Chuan Wang, "The Garden Houses in Beijing and Suzhou: A Comparison" (Fall 1991)
Architecture of the Arts: The State University of New York College at Purchase (New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971); Maki: Three Projects in Progress, Architecture in Place; Peter Wolf, The Evolving City: Urban Design Proposals by Ulrich Franzen and Paul Rudolph (New York, NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1974)