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This collection documents the life and career of J. Max Bond, Jr., one of the most influential and prominent African-American architects and educators in the United States. The collection primarily documents Bond's professional activities rather than his building projects; however, the collection does contain project records and office records. The collection is made up of six series: Office Records, Personal Papers, Faculty Papers, Professional Papers, Project Records, and Reference Materials.
1955-2009
The collection is made up of six series: Office Records, Personal Papers, Faculty Papers, Professional Papers, Project Records, and Reference Materials.
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 and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
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J. Max Bond, jr. papers, 1955-2009, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
J. Max and Ruth Clement Bond Papers at Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Source of acquisition--Jean Bond. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2009. Accession number--2009.015.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
This collection was processed by Shelley Hayreh, Archivist of Drawings & Archives in 2011.
2011-10-25 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
J. Max Bond, Jr. was born on July 17th, 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was the second of three children born to James Max Bond, Sr. and Ruth Elizabeth Clement Bond. His father, a prominent American educator, served as President of the University of Liberia during the 1950s.
As the son of two educators, Bond grew up on various university campuses in the South. The Bond family lived on the campus of Dillard University from 1938 to 1940 where J. Max Bond, Sr. served as Dean. The family moved to Alabama in 1940 when Bond, Sr. accepted the position of Dean of the School of Education at the Tuskegee Institute (today Tuskegee University). From 1944 to 1947, the family lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where Bond, Sr. worked for the US State Department's Inter-American Educational Foundation. After living in Haiti for a few years, the family settled back in the US in Atlanta, GA. Bond, Jr. attended Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta. After graduating in June of 1949, Bond was accepted into Morehouse College, however, his parents felt he was too young for college. In the fall of 1949, Bond entered into The Cambridge School in Cambridge, MA. The train rides between Atlanta and Washington were segregated during this time so Bond would have to change to or from a segregated car in the train yard at D.C. Bond was the second African American student to attend the Cambridge School. He later wrote that "If [the Cambridge School] was a progressive school I can't imagine what a conservative one would have been like."
Bond was one of 11 African American students out of 1100 admitted to Harvard College in the fall of 1951. He graduated magna cum laude in June 1955, majoring in Architectural Science. In the fall of 1955, Bond entered the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before entering, he was interviewed by Serge Chermayeff and he later wrote that they had a lively exchange where Chermayeff was impressed or at least amused by his youthful cockiness.
Bond's first year at H.G.S.D. proved challenging. As Bond later wrote, a faculty member at the School took him aside and said, "Mr. Bond you seem like a bright young man, but there have never been any great Negro Architects. So why don't you pick another profession." Despite the challenges facing minority students in H.G.S.D. , Bond continued to pursue his degree, graduating in 1958 with a Master of Architecture.
Bond spent the summer after obtaining his M.Arch. at H.G.S.D. in Tunisia. The architectural landscape had a strong impact on Bond, writing later, "I loved the spare landscape (including the olive groves) and the repetition of domes and arches. All in all it was the most impressive architectural experience I had ever had." In the fall of 1958, Bond left Tunisia for France on a Fulbright Grant where he worked with André Wogenscky, Le Corbusier's Chef d'Atelier. Bond worked on projects such as the Unite d'habitation de Briey-en-foret and a submission for a C.I.A.M. meeting.
Leaving France in the fall of 1960, Bond moved to New York where he worked for a time at Gruzen & Partners and later for Pedersen & Tilney. During this time, Bond met his wife Jean. They were married on October 7th, 1961.
Max and Jean moved to Accra, Ghana in the fall of 1964 because, as he wrote later, "of our interest in Africa and Pan-Africanism, [and because we shared] the feeling that Nkrumah was creating a progressive Socialist state. Others in our group shared the desire to live outside the U.S. Du Bois was in Ghana and we felt we could contribute something."
In Ghana, Bond work as an architect for the Ghana National Construction Company. While with the G.N.C.C., Bond worked on projects of interest to President Kwame Nkrumah, including the President's office and residence as well as the Regional Library in Bolgatanga. The Ghana Library Board had programmed several new regional libraries as part of the country's campaign to achieve full literacy. Therefore, the building was designed to include reference, adult and children's sections, and a small auditorium for the literacy program. The design of the building was based on local architecture in that each major space is expressed almost as a separate building, and all are entered from a common area. The building was designed to respond to the local hot-dry climate by natural means rather than by relying solely on air-conditioning. It was probably Bolgatanga Library that he had in mind when he wrote later, "I've always felt I grew up as an architect in Ghana."
Bond began his teaching career in 1965 as an instructor at the University of Science & Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He accepted the position just a few months before Nkrumah was overthrown in a military coup in February 1966. Every summer, the U.S.T. sponsored research programs for the students, in which they would either work in the school's design office or go out to document villages and indigenous architecture. For one of these research programs, Bond spearheaded a report, Banda Nkwanta, in which the students measured a village and then in studio proposed ways of providing new neighborhoods. Bond later wrote, "Those of us on the faculty learned as much as the students."
Max and Jean returned to the US in the 1967, now with two children (Carey, born December 1964 and Ruth, born May 1966). Back in New York, Bond helped establish and served as the executive director of the Architect's Renewal Committee in Harlem (A.R.C.H.), one of the early community design centers that developed during the late 1960s and 1970s.
In 1968, Bond started teaching at Columbia in the Graduate School of Architecture & Planning. He served as Assistant and Associate Professor from 1969 until 1980, Professor from 1980 to 1985, and Chairman Division of Architecture from 1980 to 1984. After leaving Columbia, Max became the Dean of the School of Architecture and Environmental Studies at City College of New York until 1991.
In 1969, Max co-founded with Donald P. Ryder the architectural firm Bond Ryder Associates. The firm quickly became one of the leading African-American architecture firms in New York and the East Coast. From its inception, the firm was involved in a broad range of projects, including: medium and high density urban housing; urban planning and design; university, religious, and community complexes.
Max served as design architect for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and Dr. King's entombment. The architecture of the Center was designed to reflect the nature of Dr. King's work and the continuing Civil & Human Rights Movement. Therefore, the formal organization, building proportions, elements and materials each have a spiritual, cultural, and in some cases economic relationship to the goals of the Center.
In 1983, the firm became Bond Ryder James, Architects, P.C. Alongside J. Max Bond, Jr. and Donald P. Ryder as principals was John A. James. Some of the notable projects designed by the firm include Schomburg Center in New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; several housing developments; Permanent Mission of India to the U.N.; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; and the Housing Study Choice and Flexibility in Housing for Battery Park City.
In 1991, Bond Ryder Associates joined forces with Davis, Brody Associates. As one of the four partners of DBA, Max continued to be responsible for the planning and design of major institutional, residential, cultural, and commercial developments. DBA associates included Tibbalds-Monro in London, Mwamuka-Mercuir in Harare, and Linda Mvusi/DA in Johannesburg. In 1994, the firm became Davis Brody Bond, which later became Davis Brody Bond Aedas. Davis Brody Bond served as the associate architect for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. At his death, Bond was the partner in charge of the museum portion of the memorial.
Besides being an educator and an architect, Bond was also very active in a larger professional realm. His extensive community service commitments included membership on the New York City Planning Commission from 1980 to 1986, the Municipal Arts Society Board, Board of Regents to the American Architectural Foundation, and the Trustee Board of the Studio Museum of Harlem. Max also served on many juries, panels, and design award juries including New York State Council on the Arts-Infill Housing Design Competition, Jamaican Governor General's Design Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts panels and the Presidential Design Awards Jury, and the Chrysler Awards. He was also a part of President-Elect Clinton's Round Table on "Design Initiatives Toward an Inclusive and Competitive America."
Among his many awards and honors are Honorary Doctorate from New Jersey Institute of Technology, membership with the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Award for Architecture from the Atlanta Urban Design Commission for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center; 1987 Whitney M. Young, Jr. citation Award from the American Institute of Architects; and the Harry B. Rutkins Memorial Award for Service the Profession from the New York Chapter of the AIA.
J. Max Bond, Jr. died of cancer at the age of 73 on February 18, 2009.
[Quotes have been taken from biographical notes stored on Bond's Desktop Files located in Box 26, Folder 8.]
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contains papers related to the architectural firms where J. Max Bond, Jr. served as principal or partner. The series is made up of financial papers, the firms' mission statements, firm brochures, project photographs for the firm brochure, project lists and portfolios, some correspondence, and legal papers. The series in divided by subseries according to the firm, and include: Subseries 1: Bond Ryder Associates, Subseries 2: Bond Ryder James, Subseries 3: Davis Brody Associates, and Subseries 4: Davis Brody Bond, which also includes records for Davis Brody Bond Aedas.
Box 01 Folder 08
Legal Agreements with Kallman McKinnell & Wood, Architects, Inc.
Box 01 Folder 09
Box 01 Folder 10 to 19
10 folders.
Box 01 Folder 20
Includes notes and photographs. (2 folders)
Box 29
Box 01 Folder 22
Box 01 Folder 23
The Dime Savings Bank of New York, FSB, against Trevor A. Salmon, Crossland Savings FSB, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, J. Max Bond Jr. & Donald P. Bond Ryder Architects PC. Ryder, The United States of America.
Box 01 Folder 24
Box 01 Folder 01
Box 01 Folder 02
Box 01 Folder 03 to 04
(2 folders)
Box 01 Folder 05
Box 01 Folder 06
Mostly images of MLK Center, but also includes images of Equitable Building, Studio Museum, and Boltanga Library.
Box 01 Folder 07
Includes project summaries of Marcus Garvey Park Housing, Atlantic Terminal Housing, Hampton Houses, Mary Holmes College Dormitories, Battery Park City, Towers on the Park Condominiums, Douglass Circle Housing.
Box 02 Folder 01 to 04
(4 folders)
Box 02 Folder 05
Box 02 Folder 06
Box 02 Folder 07
Box 02 Folder 08
Box 02 Folder 09 to 11
(3 folders)
Box 02 Folder 12
Includes new clippings on the DBA.
Box 02 Folder 13
Engineering News-Record, Interior Design Magazine, Building Design & Construction, Modern Healthcare, Crain's NY Business.
Box 02 Folder 14
Box 02 Folder 15
Box 02 Folder 16 to 18
(3 folders)
Box 02 Folder 19
Box 02 Folder 20 to 24
(5 folders)
Box 03 Folder 01 to 07
(7 folders)
Box 03 Folder 08 to 21
(14 folders)
Box 04 Folder 01
Box 04 Folder 02
Box 04 Folder 03
Box 26 Folder 01
Images of project done by DBB interns stored on CD-ROM.
Box 04 Folder 04
Box 26 Folder 02
Publicity Handout announcing the partnership of The Freelon Group and Davis Brody Bond in the planning and design for the National Museum of African American history and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Box 04 Folder 05 to 18
(14 folders)
Box 04 Folder 19
Box 26 Folder 03
Presentation Report presented to Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Box 04 Folder 20
Box 26 Folder 04
PowerPoint Presentation stored on CD-ROM.
Box 04 Folder 21
Includes some correspondence.
Box 04 Folder 22
is made up of some correspondence, pocket diaries/day planners, event invitations, Bond's Ghana Driver's License, alumni material for the Cambridge School and Harvard Graduate School of Design, photographs and slides from various travels and of family members, an oral history transcript of Bond's mother Ruth Clement Bond, and papers related to South Africa protests and activism.
Box 04 Folder 23
12 items.
Box 05 Folder 27
Includes a group photo of members of the Bond Family including J. Max Bond, Jr. and Julian Bond.
Box 05 Folder 28
Box 05 Folder 29
Yearbook and Certificate.
Box 05 Folder 30
Box 26 Folder 05
1 Letter from J. Max Bond, Jr. to his parents Dr. and Mrs. J. Max Bond, sent from U.S.T. in Kumasi, Ghana.
Box 26 Folder 06
Images stored on CD-ROM.
Box 05 Folder 31
Box 05 Folder 32 to 34
(3 folders)
Box 05 Folder 35
Box 05 Folder 36
Correspondence and other papers regarding the construction of a personal home for J. Max and Jean Bond in Ghana; also included is J. Max Bond, Jr.'s Ghana Private Motor Driver's License issued in 1964.
Box 05 Folder 37
Alumni Material.
Box 05 Folder 38
Box 06 Folder 01
Includes a photograph of J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 33 Folder 11
2 items; includes sketches and floor plans.
Box 06 Folder 02
Possibly relatives of J. Max Bond, Jr. [?]
Box 06 Folder 03
Box 06 Folder 04
Includes photographs from vacations and various family functions; locations include Cuba, Columbia, Tuskegee, Martha's Vineyard, the Hamptons.
Box 06 Folder 05
Box 06 Folder 06
Interview conducted by Jewell Fenzi for The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
Box 06 Folder 07
Includes Notice of Classification and Order to Report for Armed Forces Physical Examination.
Box 06 Folder 08
Box 06 Folder 09
Includes Unity Movement Pamphlets, Memorandums and Addresses by Dr. Horace Mann Bond, I.B. Tabata.
Box 06 Folder 10
Includes "An Open Letter to Michael I. Sovern, President of Columbia University, From the Black Faculty and Administrators of Columbia University."
Box 06 Folder 11
Box 24 Folder 08
Taken by George Bond(?)
Box 24 Folder 09
Image of J. Max Bond with Bond Ryder Associates.
Box 24 Folder 10
Box 26 Folder 07
Image of J. Max Bond, Jr. with DBB associates.
Box 24 Folder 11
Box 24 Folder 12
Box 24 Folder 13
Box 24 Folder 14
Box 24 Folder 15
Box 24 Folder 16
Box 24 Folder 17
2 slides of an unidentified home.
Box 24 Folder 18
Includes images of a parade possibly in Harlem celebrating MLK, Jr. and various images taken during a trip to Europe.
Box 24 Folder 19
Includes images of family members, Puerto Rico, Dakar, and Morgan State.
Box 24 Folder 20
Box 24 Folder 21
Box 24 Folder 22
Box 24 Folder 23
Box 24 Folder 24
Box 24 Folder 25
Includes images of D.C. House and Family.
Box 24 Folder 26
Includes images of D.C. House and Family.
Box 24 Folder 27
Box 24 Folder 28
Box 24 Folder 29
Box 24 Folder 30
Box 25 Folder 09
documents J. Max Bond, Jr.'s diverse career as an educator at institutions including Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, Columbia University, and City College of New York. The series includes the research study Banda Nkwanta spearheaded while Bond was an instructor at KNUST. For the most part, the series contains reports and studies, some syllabi and class notes, and limited correspondence.
Box 05 Folder 01
Collaborative studio between CU GSAPP and City College Architectural Center at CCNY School of Architecture and Environmental Studies.
Box 05 Folder 02
Correspondence and JMB's resume.
Box 25 Folder 23
Research study done at University of Science & Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
Box 05 Folder 03
Architecture Dean Search Committee.
Box 05 Folder 04
Architectural History Project.
Box 05 Folder 04A
Five Year Plan for School of Architecture and Environmental Studies.
Box 05 Folder 05
Notes and Reports.
Box 05 Folder 06
Sesquicentennial Gala.
Box 05 Folder 07
School of Architecture and Environmental Studies.
Box 05 Folder 08 to 09
Correspondence. (2 folders)
Box 30 Folder 01
Prepared by the second year studio of the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.
Box 05 Folder 10
"A proposal for an exhibit and symposium to be held at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University."
Box 05 Folder 11
Request for project submissions to be considered for publication; also included is a listing of minority students and faculty in the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning during 1983-1984.
Box 05 Folder 12
Draft report of the Charrette held at Columbia University on December 3 and 4, 1983; Prepared by the Minority Student Faculty Organization.
Box 05 Folder 13
Submitted to the Ford Foundation by the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and The Phelps-Stokes Fund.
Box 05 Folder 14
Box 05 Folder 15
Box 05 Folder 16
Meeting Minutes.
Box 05 Folder 17
Box 05 Folder 18
Box 05 Folder 19
Box 05 Folder 20
Indo-US Subcommission on Education and Culture.
Box 05 Folder 21
Box 05 Folder 22
Drawer 198
1 item : Pamphlet produced by faculty and students at K.N.U.S.T. for the International Union of Architects Conference on Architectural Education in Paris, 1965. Printed at the University Press, K.N.U.S.T., Kumasi, May 1965.
Box 05 Folder 23 to 24
(2 folders)
Box 05 Folder 25
Box 05 Folder 26
is the heart of the collection and contains materials related to work done by J. Max Bond, Jr. outside of the various architectural firms he practiced in. The majority of the material in the series relates to the many juries, panels, design award juries and working group Bond served on throughout his career, as well to Bond's work with Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH). The series also includes lectures and writings by J. Max Bond.
Box 06 Folder 16
Correspondence, notes, and proposals.
Box 06 Folder 17
Correspondence, notes, proposals and clippings.
Box 06 Folder 18
Correspondence, notes, and proposals.
Box 06 Folder 19
Correspondence, notes, proposals and clippings.
Box 06 Folder 20
Box 06 Folder 21
Box 06 Folder 22
Box 06 Folder 23
Box 06 Folder 36
Max Whitney M. Young Citation, 1 photograph of Max Bond, and Miscellaneous correspondence.
Box 06 Folder 24
Honoring J. Max Bond; includes video of the event on CD-ROM.
Box 06 Folder 25
Box 06 Folder 26
Box 06 Folder 27
Box 06 Folder 28
Box 06 Folder 29
Box 06 Folder 30 to 32
(3 folders)
Box 06 Folder 33
Box 06 Folder 34
Box 06 Folder 35
Box 07 Folder 01
Box 07 Folder 02
Box 07 Folder 03
Box 07 Folder 04
Box 07 Folder 05
Student paper by Joseph Bergamini for Professor Tony Schuman at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Box 07 Folder 06
"An Evening on the New Public Works: Design & Policy Excellence in Public Housing and Infrastructure."
Box 07 Folder 07
Box 07 Folder 08
Box 07 Folder 24
Poster promoting Bond.
Box 07 Folder 09
Conference.
Box 07 Folder 10
New York Chapter.
Box 07 Folder 11
Forum.
Box 07 Folder 12
Box 07 Folder 13
Box 07 Folder 14
Box 07 Folder 15
Box 07 Folder 16
Box 07 Folder 17
Box 07 Folder 18
Box 07 Folder 19
Box 07 Folder 20
Box 07 Folder 21
Box 07 Folder 22
Box 07 Folder 23
Box 07 Folder 25
Box 07 Folder 26
Proposed project: "Towards an Architecture of Engagement."
Box 07 Folder 27
Havana, Cuba.
Box 33 Folder 10
Box 07 Folder 28
"Limitless Layers: Uncovering the full potential of all design possibilities."
Box 07 Folder 29
Box 30 Folder 02
Appendices.
Box 30 Folder 02
Promotional Video. VHS : 1 item.; CD-ROM: 1 item.
Box 07 Folder 30
Box 30 Folder 02
Final Jury Report.
Box 30 Folder 02
Photographic Memento Album.
Box 08 Folder 01
Box 08 Folder 02 to 03
Requests for proposals, Programming document, Reports, and Newspaper clippings. (2 folders)
Box 08 Folder 04
Box 06 Folder 14
Promotional material.
Box 08 Folder 05
Nominee submission list.
Box 08 Folder 06
Correspondence and clippings.
Box 08 Folder 07
Public Hearing on Columbia University's Manhattanville Rezoning and Community Board 9's 197-a Plan.
Box 08 Folder 08
Box 25 Folder 01
Box 25 Folder 02
Box 25 Folder 03
Box 25 Folder 16
Box 25 Folder 17
Box 25 Folder 04
Box 25 Folder 05
Box 25 Folder 06
Box 25 Folder 07
Box 25 Folder 08
Box 08 Folder 10
Invitations to join roundtables and committees.
Box 08 Folder 11
2 pamphlets.
Box 08 Folder 12
Box 08 Folder 13
Conference notebook.
Box 08 Folder 14
Co-Sponsored by The New York City Partnership, Inc., David Rockefeller, Chairman, and The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Box 08 Folder 15
Box 08 Folder 16
Box 08 Folder 17
Box 09 Folder 08
Box 08 Folder 18
Box 08 Folder 19 to 20
(2 folders)
Box 08 Folder 21
Box 08 Folder 22
Box 08 Folder 23
Box 08 Folder 24 to 25
(2 folders)
Box 08 Folder 26
Box 08 Folder 27
Box 08 Folder 28
Box 08 Folder 29 to 30
(2 folders)
Box 08 Folder 31 to 32
(2 folders)
Box 08 Folder 33 to 34
(2 folders)
Box 09 Folder 01
Box 09 Folder 02
Box 09 Folder 03
Box 09 Folder 04
Box 09 Folder 05
Box 09 Folder 06
Box 09 Folder 07
Box 09 Folder 09
Regarding a grant to study Architecture at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, France.
Box 09 Folder 10
Box 09 Folder 11
Box 09 Folder 12
Regarding travel to Cuba.
Box 09 Folder 13
Box 26 Folder 08
Archived on CD-ROM; includes files for Apollo Performing Arts Center, drafts of writings and talks, and biographical notes .
Box 09 Folder 14
Box 09 Folder 15
Box 09 Folder 16
Box 09 Folder 17
Correspondence.
Box 09 Folder 18
Box 09 Folder 19
Box 09 Folder 20
Box 09 Folder 21
Box 09 Folder 22
Box 09 Folder 23
Nomination of Donald R. Blair.
Box 09 Folder 24
Box 09 Folder 25
Box 09 Folder 26
Agenda.
Box 09 Folder 27 to 28
(2 folders)
Box 10 Folder 01 to 02
(2 folders)
Box 26 Folder 09
Minutes of a Council Meetings held at the Office of the Chief Architect, G.N.C.C.
Box 10 Folder 03
Box 16 Folder 14
Interim Report produced by Doxiades Associates.
Box 16 Folder 15
Box 10 Folder 04
Box 10 Folder 05
Box 06 Folder 12
Summary Proposal.
Box 10 Folder 06
Physical development meeting minutes, Design/Planning Study, Correspondence, and Notes.
Box 10 Folder 07 to 09
Binder (in 3 folders)
Box 10 Folder 10
Harlem Area Statistics For Planning Areas, Briefing Information, HUDC booklets.
Box 10 Folder 11
Box 10 Folder 12
Box 10 Folder 13
Facilities Evaluations.
Box 10 Folder 14
Ideas: correspondence, notes, and clippings.
Box 26 Folder 10
Seminar on Architecture and Community Planning.
Box 10 Folder 15
Interview conducted by Thomas A. Dutton.
Box 10 Folder 16
17 items.
Box 10 Folder 17
Box 10 Folder 18
Box 11 Folder 01
Box 11 Folder 02
Box 11 Folder 03
Florence lecture.
Box 11 Folder 04
Notice of Settlement.
Box 11 Folder 05
Affidavit of J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 24 Folder 02
Includes slides, photographs, notes, and CD-ROM.
Box 11 Folder 06
CCAC Architecture Lecture Series.
Box 11 Folder 07
Lecture presented at Tuskegee University.
Box 24 Folder 04
Slides.
Box 11 Folder 08
Contemporary African Architecture and Urbanism Symposium.
Box 11 Folder 09
Urban Land Institute.
Box 11 Folder 10
Morgan Lecture for the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville.
Box 11 Folder 11
Lecture presented at the School of Architecture & Environmental Studies at City College of New York.
Box 11 Folder 12
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) of the National Research Council.
Box 11 Folder 16
Box 11 Folder 13
Given at Howard University and Cooper Union; includes slides and CD-ROM.
Box 11 Folder 16
Box 11 Folder 14
Includes a CD-ROM entitled "NYU Presentation 3.2.05."
Box 11 Folder 15
Box 11 Folder 16 to 18
(3 folders)
Box 11 Folder 19
Box 11 Folder 20
Box 24 Folder 05
Includes some notes.
Box 24 Folder 06
Includes some photographs and negatives.
Box 24 Folder 07
Includes travel material for Harare, Zimbabwe.
Box 24 Folder 01
Notes, drafts, and lecture slides.
Box 11 Folder 21
Box 11 Folder 22 to 23
Presidential Transition Roundtable Series. (2 folder)
Box 12 Folder 01
Includes material from the NYCRebuild Planning Task Force, as well as news clippings on the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
Box 12 Folder 02
Design Committee.
Box 12 Folder 03
Box 12 Folder 04
Box 30 Folder 03
Draft program.
Box 12 Folder 05
Box 12 Folder 06
Executive Summary; also included is material related to Dubai Waterfront development.
Box 12 Folder 07 to 09
Documentation. (3 folders)
Box 12 Folder 10
Responses to the Questions & Answer Session from the Site Visit for the NFATC.
Box 12 Folder 11
Membership correspondence.
Box 12 Folder 12
National Conference in Charlotte, NC.
Box 12 Folder 13
National Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Box 12 Folder 14
Box 12 Folder 15
Statement of Acceptance, and "Potential Sources of Bias and Conflict of Interest" Form.
Box 12 Folder 16
Box 12 Folder 17
Steering Committee Meeting.
Box 06 Folder 15
New York City Department of City Planning.
Box 12 Folder 18
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa; includes a photograph of J. Max Bond, Jr. receiving his honorary diploma.
Box 12 Folder 19
Notes and correspondence.
Box 12 Folder 20 to 23
(4 folders)
Box 12 Folder 24
Board of Directors Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
Box 12 Folder 25
Board of Directors Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
Box 13 Folder 01
Board of Directors Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
Box 13 Folder 02 to 03
(2 folders)
Box 13 Folder 04
"Harlem in Our Eyes: Sustaining Cultural Legacy in a Rapidly Changing Neighborhood."
Box 13 Folder 05
Box 13 Folder 06
Finical disclosure forms.
Box 13 Folder 07
Box 13 Folder 08
Box 13 Folder 09 to 11
(3 folders)
Box 13 Folder 12
Box 26 Folder 11
Sponsored by Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility/New York. J. Max Bond, Jr. was on a panel on "Ethics Vs. Esthetics in the Discourse of Design."
Roll 01
1987 AIA National Convention, "Fact Future + Fantasy;" "Spaces & Places: A photographic exhibit convenying the contributions, aspirations and aesthetic values of Afro0Americans as reflected in architecture;" "African American Architects in Current Practice , 1993."
Box 13 Folder 13
Anniversary Tribute Journal honoring Max Bond.
Box 13 Folder 14
Box 13 Folder 15
Box 14 Folder 01 to 03
(3 folders)
Box 14 Folder 04
Includes notes and presentation slides for lectures on the World Trade Center Memorial and the Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Box 14 Folder 05
Achievement Jury.
Box 14 Folder 06
Box 14 Folder 07
Box 14 Folder 08 to 09
(2 folders)
Box 14 Folder 10
Newark Master Vision Plan Workshop.
Box 14 Folder 11 to 13
(3 folders)
Box 15 Folder 01 to 03
(3 folders)
Box 15 Folder 04
Box 15 Folder 05
Box 15 Folder 06
Box 15 Folder 07
Workshop I: Vision for the U.S. Capitol in 2005.
Box 15 Folder 08
Reviewed by J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 15 Folder 09
Reviewed by J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 15 Folder 10
Article on J. Max Bond's reaction to UDC's RI Housing Commission.
Box 15 Folder 11
New York State Urban Development Corporation.
Box 15 Folder 12
Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Box 15 Folder 13
Bond's Notes.
Box 26 Folder 12
Various event and discussion materials.
Box 15 Folder 14
Box 15 Folder 15
Box 15 Folder 16
Correspondence and Committee Meeting Minutes.
Box 26 Folder 13
13 3.5" Floppy Disks and 1 Zip Disk.
Box 15 Folder 17
Frederick Douglass Circle Artists Selection.
Box 15 Folder 18
News clippings.
Box 15 Folder 19 to 20
Board Meeting Minutes. (2 folders)
Box 16 Folder 01
Box 16 Folder 02
Committee Binder.
Box 16 Folder 03
Planning Workshop #4.
Box 16 Folder 04
Box 16 Folder 05
Box 16 Folder 06
Binder.
Box 16 Folder 07
Box 06 Folder 13
Box 16 Folder 08
Box 16 Folder 09
Box 24 Folder 03
Photographs of a site visit given to Bond from Governor George Pataki.
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covers J. Max Bond, Jr.'s architectural career spanning from his work in Ghana during the 1960s to his work with Davis Brody Bond Aedas in the 2000s. Documentation for each project is very incomplete and rarely include original architectural drawings. When there are original drawings for a project, they tend to be floor plan sketches in ink on yellow trace paper. Overall, project records usually contain some of the following: correspondence, floor and site plans, publicity materials, project proposals, reports, studies, photographs and slides. Projects represented in the collection include, among others, Apollo Performing Arts Center, Bolgatagna Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), East St. Louis Housing, Frederick Douglass Circle, Harvard Club of New York City, Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Langston Hughes Branch Library, Lionel and Gladys Hampton Houses, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, New York University Dormitory, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Box 16 Folder 16
Correspondence, Request for Proposals, and Assessment Report.
Box 16 Folder 17A
Correspondence and Competition contracts.
Box 16 Folder 17B
Concept Plan and Memorandums.
Box 31 Folder 01
Zoning-Mass Diagrams.
Box 31 Folder 02
Site plans and floor plans (some original ink on trace drawings.)
Box 31 Folder 03
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 16 Folder 18
Agreement for Consulting Services.
Box 16 Folder 19
Agreement for Interim Architectural Services between Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. and Davis Brody Bond, LLP.
Box 16 Folder 20
Presentation Proposal.
Box 16 Folder 21
Project Binder [1 of 3].
Box 16 Folder 22
Project Binder [2 of 3].
Box 16 Folder 23
Project Binder [3 of 3].
Box 16 Folder 24
Reports, Master plan, and 1 newspaper clipping.
Box 16 Folder 25
Photographs and Images.
Box 22 Folder 04A
Proposal and note.
Box 22 Folder 04B
2 exterior photographs.
Box 16 Folder 26 to 27
Plans, Correspondence, Photographs, and Clippings (2 folders).
Roll A84.03
Architectural drawings : 8 items
Box 17 Folder 01
Ruth Wakins #1
Box 17 Folder 01
Ruth Wakins #2
Box 17 Folder 01
Rev. John Porter and Dr. John Nixon
Box 17 Folder 01
Recordings of Task Force Meetings
Box 17 Folder 01
Recordings of Task Force Meetings
Box 17 Folder 02
Workbook.
Box 17 Folder 03
Slides.
Box 17 Folder 04
Photographs and Negatives; includes an image of J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 26 Folder 16
Rev. Edward Gardner and Arthur Shores.
Box 26 Folder 16
Mike Robbins and Bob Corley.
Box 26 Folder 17
Interviews.
Box 17 Folder 05
Article written by Max Bond.
Box 17 Folder 06
Architectural Drawings; 18 items.
Box 17 Folder 07
"Bolgatanga Library: Adaptive Modernism in Ghana 40 Years On," by Ola Uduku (School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art).
Box 17 Folder 08
Article written by Max Bond forForum.
Box 17 Folder 09
Photographs.
Box 17 Folder 10
Photographs.
Box 17 Folder 12
Slides.
Box 22 Folder 05
Photographs and contact sheets.
Box 17 Folder 11
Project Binder; includes images for Bolgatanga Library as well as other library designed by Bond such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Box 31 Folder 04
Contact sheets and negatives.
Box 17 Folder 13
Proposal for housing development.
Box 31 Folder 05
Conceptual Plan.
Box 17 Folder 14
Master plan.
Box 31 Folder 06
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 17 Folder 15
Includes Site Plan Studies.
Box 17 Folder 16 to 17
Project Binder. (2 folders)
Box 31 Folder 07
Preschematic Proposal.
Box 17 Folder 18 to 20
Correspondence, Plans, Clippings, and Reference material. (3 folders)
Box 17 Folder 21
Slides.
Box 31 Folder 08
Site plans and Presentation Proposals for International Center for Economic Freedom Building and Powerhouse Theatre.
Box 22 Folder 06
Presentation Portfolio.
Box 17 Folder 22
Competition Guidelines and DBB Presentation on CD-ROM.
Box 17 Folder 23 to 24
Correspondence. (2 folders)
Box 22 Folder 07
Architectural Drawings.
Box 17 Folder 25
Photograph of exterior.
Box 31 Folder 09
Planning Report.
Box 17 Folder 26
Plans and Images of models.
Roll 02
Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevation Studies.
Box 31 Folder 10
Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevation Studies.
Box 17 Folder 27 to 28
Photographs. (2 folders)
Box 17 Folder 29
Design and Feasibility Report.
Box 18 Folder 01
Site plans, Photographs of models, and newspaper clipping.
Box 18 Folder 02
12 Slides of Project Staff; includes many images of J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 22 Folder 08
Construction photographs.
Box 31 Folder 11
Density, Massing and Programming Study/Final Report.
Box 18 Folder 03 to 06
Floor plans, NY Department of Buildings Applications, Amendments and Forms. (4 folders)
Box 22 Folder 09
Urban Design Plan Presentation Slide Print Out.
Box 31 Folder 12
Concept Layouts and Memorandums.
Box 18 Folder 07
Outline of proposed development procedures.
Box 31 Folder 13
Conceptual Elevation Rendering (computer generated image in color.)
Box 18 Folder 08
Preliminary Program Analysis.
Box 31 Folder 14
Preschematic Proposal.
Box 22 Folder 10
North General Hospital Residential Developments Proposal, clippings, and photocopies of sketches.
Box 22 Folder 11
Architectural Drawings and correspondence.
Box 18 Folder 09
Presentation Proposal Report.
Box 32 Folder 01
Presentation, Plans, Conceptual Renderings.
Box 32 Folder 02
Presentation Reports, Correspondence, Meeting notes, and Site plans.
Box 16 Folder 17C
Proposal Binder.
Box 18 Folder 10
Project Binder #1.
Box 18 Folder 16
Project Binder #4, "Wondercabinet Exhibition Layout."
Box 18 Folder 17
Project Binder #5, "Wondercabinet Exhibition Layout."
Box 32 Folder 03
Plans and Elevations.
Box 18 Folder 14
Project Binder #3.
Box 18 Folder 11
Project Binder #2.
Box 18 Folder 15
Project Binder #3.
Box 18 Folder 12
Project Binder #2.
Box 18 Folder 13
Project Binder #2.
Box 32 Folder 04
Plans and Details.
Box 19 Folder 01
Photographs and Images.
Box 19 Folder 02
Floor plans.
Box 19 Folder 03
Slides.
Box 19 Folder 04
Slides.
Box 19 Folder 05
NYC Economic Development Corp. Contract.
Box 32 Folder 05
Presentation Proposal.
Box 32 Folder 06
Site analysis and images of site models.
Box 22 Folder 12
Development Proposal Presentation to Community Board.
Box 19 Folder 06
Photographs of models and 1 newspaper clipping.
Box 32 Folder 07
4 oversize images and Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence Certificate.
Box 19 Folder 07 to 08
Slides. (2 folders)
Box 19 Folder 09
Floor plans, Site plans, and Sections.
Box 19 Folder 10
Photographs and images of models.
Box 19 Folder 11
Photographs of exterior and interior.
Box 19 Folder 12
Photographs of exterior and interior.
Box 19 Folder 13
Negatives.
Box 19 Folder 14
News clippings.
Box 19 Folder 15
Center brochure and souvenirs.
Box 19 Folder 16
Correspondence, reports, other project related papers.
Box 19 Folder 17
Project Binder [1 of 2].
Box 19 Folder 18
Project Binder [2 of 2].
Box 19 Folder 19
Dormitories, proposal plan.
Box 19 Folder 20
Dormitories, floor plans and site plans.
Box 19 Folder 21
Dormitories, photographs.
Box 19 Folder 22
Dormitories, slides.
Box 19 Folder 23
Science Building, plans and elevations.
Box 32 Folder 08
2 images of the model for the Science Building.
Box 26 Folder 18
Presentation Images on Zip Disk and CD-ROM.
Box 19 Folder 24 to 26
Correspondence, Reports, and Conference programs and manuals. (3 folders)
Box 22 Folder 13
Conceptual Master Plan.
Box 22 Folder 14
Project Binder.
Box 22 Folder 15 to 16
Blueline prints; includes plans by Londino Stone Co., INC.
Box 22 Folder 17
Report Appendices.
Box 19 Folder 27
Specifications.
Box 19 Folder 28
HVAC Bid.
Box 19 Folder 29
Specifications.
Box 19 Folder 30
Specifications.
Box 20 Folder 01 to 03
Binder. (3 folders)
Box 20 Folder 04 to 05
Box 22 Folder 18
Correspondence and Feasibility Study (original between Studio museum and Trenton).
Box 20 Folder 06
Photographs and Images.
Box 32 Folder 09
Presentation Proposal.
Box 22 Folder 19
Presentation and Workshop.
Box 20 Folder 07
Landscape Sketch Design.
Box 20 Folder 08 to 09
Correspondence and reports. (2 folders)
Box 20 Folder 10
Slides and prints.
Box 22 Folder 20
Memorandums, sketches, and other papers.
Box 22 Folder 21
Memorandums and other papers.
Box 22 Folder 22
Memorandums and other papers.
Box 32 Folder 10
Schematic Design Plans for Student Services Center.
Box 32 Folder 11
Site Proposal for West 116-117 Street.
Box 20 Folder 11
Box 20 Folder 12
Feasibility Study for the Fillmore East Site.
Box 32 Folder 12
Plans.
Box 26 Folder 19
Site and unit plans.
Box 20 Folder 01 to 05
1 Photograph of exterior building, Project summary, Agreements, Forms, Correspondence, Finances. (4 folders)
Box 21 Folder 1
Box 23 Folder 37 to 43
Box 33 Folder 01
Notes, Preschematic Site and Floor Plans.
Box 21 Folder 02 to 03
Correspondence, Budget estimate, and Plans. (2 folders)
Box 21 Folder 04
"Riverbank and the Community: A Proposal for Community Review," and Phase II Interim Reports. (3 items)
Box 33 Folder 02
Master plan, memorandum, Newspaper clippings.
Box 21 Folder 05
Slides.
Box 21 Folder 06
Photographs, exteriors.
Box 21 Folder 07
Photographs, interiors.
Box 21 Folder 08
News clippings.
Box 21 Folder 09
Brochures and Publicity.
Box 21 Folder 10
Expansion study and Memorandums.
Box 21 Folder 11
NYPL "Program of Requirements and Scope of Operation" for Schomburg Collection.
Box 21 Folder 12
Architectural Drawings.
Box 33 Folder 03
Lobby Renovation Preschematic Proposal, and 2000 Expansion Study.
Box 23 Folder 01 to 36
(32 folders)
Box 21 Folder 13
Slides.
Roll 03
Site plans and floor plans (includes the 1969 site plan for AT/URA in Brooklyn, NY)
Box 21 Folder 14 to 16
Correspondence, Plans, Photographs, and Newspaper clippings. (3 folders)
Box 21 Folder 17 to 18
Correspondence. (2 folders)
Box 21 Folder 19
Floor plans.
Box 21 Folder 20
Publicity material.
Box 21 Folder 21
Photographs.
Box 21 Folder 22
Slides.
Roll 04
Schematic Proposal.
Box 21 Folder 23
Proposal and Plans.
Box 33 Folder 04
Proposal and Site and Floor plans (pencil on paper).
Box 23 Folder 01
Pre-Schematic/Schematic Design Review and Design Development Progress Report.
Box 23 Folder 02
Site Analysis and Pre-Schematic Study and Report.
Box 23 Folder 03
Pre-Schematic Schemes and Dorm Module Tests and Design Development Review Presentation.
Box 21 Folder 24
Background information, Proposals, and Correspondence.
Box 21 Folder 25
Proposal Report.
Box 21 Folder 26
Floor plans and site plans.
Box 21 Folder 27 to 29
Plans, Correspondence, Facility design guidelines, and Notes. (3 folders)
Box 22 Folder 01
Project Binder.
Box 22 Folder 02
Project Binder.
Box 33 Folder 05
Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevation Studies.
Box 22 Folder 03
City of Yonkers' "Affordable Housing Ordinance," Site plans, and Preliminary report on 4 sites: Tibbetts Rumsey Road Site, Grassy Sprain Site, Sprain Brook Parkway, and Untermeyer Site.
Roll 05
Roll 06
Elevation studies, ink on trace.
Box 33 Folder 06
Conceptual sketches; ink on trace paper.
Box 33 Folder 07
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 33 Folder 08
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 33 Folder 09
Site plans and floor plans.
includes clippings, pamphlets, essays, and books collected by Bond on topics such as architecture, urban planning, public housing, Harlem, Africa, and other related themes.
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3 issues.
Box 26 Folder 26
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West African Building Research Institute.
Box 27 Folder 05
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Publicity Material.
Box 27 Folder 06
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3 issues.
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Reprinted fromArchitectural Design.
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Paper prepared for International Conference on (Post) Modernity and Difference in Architecture.
Box 27 Folder 45
Box 28 Folder 01
Sponsored by Battery Park City Authority.
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Box 29 Folder 01
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Policy Report.
Box 29 Folder 02
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Box 28 Folder 08
Keynote Address to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Box 28 Folder 09
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Request for proposals.
Box 28 Folder 17
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Box 29 Folder 04
Box 28 Folder 23
9 issues.
Box 28 Folder 24
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Prepared for delivery at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Box 28 Folder 26
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Box 28 Folder 29
2 essays on African-Americans in Architecture.
Box 28 Folder 30
A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories.
Box 28 Folder 31
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Box 29 Folder 03
Report of the Harlem Task Force.
Box 28 Folder 41
Design Team: Ada Karmi Melamede; Gerrard F. Vasisko; James G. Dicker; Peter Marangoni; Gil S. Snyder.