Consists of academic and professional correspondences, drafts and reference materials. The correspondences pertain to publications, conferences and PhD Dissertations by Colquhoun, organized by correspondent. The drafts and reference materials are for publications, lectures and seminars, the most substantial of which are for Colquhoun's book, Modern Architecture, published by Oxford University Press in 2002.
Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondence, "Academic - Conferences, Etc. - Publications", 2001 to 2009
Contains correspondences with faculty, book reviews, dissertation review requests, financial correspondences, etc., original order retained
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence, Ziva Sternhell, ca. 2009
Contains two essays by Sternhell and two responses by Colquhoun
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence, EAHN Conference, "Neither 'Modernism' nor "Avant-Garde", 2012 Jun 2
Contains schedule and participant papers, DVD, note from Pat Morton, 2 pg. introduction by Pat Morton and call for papers
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence, AA Conference, 2011
Contains opening talk by Francoise Fromonot
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence, Notes, 2010 to 2012
Contains schedule for 2010-12
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence, Christoph Grafe, ca. 2005
Contains correspondences, postcards, notes and abstract for Grafe's PhD dissertation, Peoples Palaces
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence, Dirk van der Heuvel, 2007
Contains two chapters of van den Heuvel's PhD dissertation and cover letter to Colquhoun
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence, Manhaz Shah, undated
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence, Mark Crinson, 2006
Contains copy of Crinson's The Uses of Nostalgia
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence, Stephane de Motmollin, 1978
Contains letter from Moutmollin, attached to text it references, Pour une nouvelle lecture de Camillo Sitte. Also contains Colquhoun's lecture, "Formal Archetypes in Museum Design" and his review of Leon Krier's exhibition, "Rational Architecture." Two Colquhoun texts may be there arbitrarily since there is no mention of them in letter
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence, Colin Rowe, 1973 May 2 to 2009 May 8
Contains three letters from Rowe to Colquhoun 1973, letter from Dan Naegele about the publication "The Letters of Colin Rowe" and letter from Colquhoun to Naegele
Box 1 Folder 10
Memorabilia, Colin Rowe, 1999 Dec 8 to 2000 Feb 6, undated
Contains invitation to "Celebration of (Colin Rowe's)…Life," obituary about Rowe in The Independent and untitled historiography of modern architecture
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence, OUP for Modern Architecture, 2001-7
Contains correspondences with Oxford University Press pertaining to publication of Modern Architecture
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence, Pierre Chabard for /Critcat/ Interview, 2007 Jun 6 to 2008 Mar 13
Contains email exchange between Colquhoun and Chabard and copy of interview
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence, Pub. on John Miller and Associates, ca. 2009
Contains introduction by Deyan Sudic, texts by Kenneth Frampton and Robert Maxwell and chronology of Colquhoun + Miller's built work
Box 1 Folder 14
Correspondence, "BDP" (Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism), ca. 2011
Contains correspondences, notes, finance papers
Box 1 Folder 15
Correspondence, The Rationalist Reader, ca. 2011
Contains correspondences, notes, photocopied and titled-up pages from Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism
Box 1 Folder 16
Correspondence, Patterson, 2008 Apr
Contains Colquhoun's report on Patterson's "PhD by publication"
Box 1 Folder 17
Modern Architecture, Ch. 1: Art Nouveau, ca. 1997
Contains notes, (unidentified) readers' comments and photocopied, annotated reference texts
Box 1 Folder 18
Modern Architecture, Ch. 2: Organicism vs. Classicism: Chicago 1890-1910, ca. 1997
Contains notes, comments by Michael Lewis and photocopied, annotated reference texts
Box 1 Folder 19
Modern Architecture, Ch. 3: Culture and Industry: Germany 1907-14, ca. 1997
Contains notes and reference texts separated into respective folders
Box 1 Folder 20
Modern Architecture, Ch. 4: The Urn and the Chamberpot: Adolf Loos, 1900-30, ca. 1997
Box 1 Folder 21
Modern Architecture, Ch. 5: Expressionism and Futurism (Expressionism), ca. 1997
Contains notes and reference texts separated into respective folders
Box 1 Folder 22
Modern Architecture, Ch. 5: Expressionism and Futurism (Futurism), ca. 1997
Contains notes and reference texts separated into respective folders
Box 1 Folder 23
Modern Architecture, Ch. 6: The Avant Gardes in Holland and Russia (Holland), ca. 1997
Contains notes and reference texts separated into respective folders
Box 1 Folder 24
Modern Architecture, Ch. 6: The Avant Gardes in Holland and Russia (Russia), ca. 1997
Contains notes and reference texts separated into respective folders
Box 1 Folder 25
Modern Architecture, Ch. 7: Return to Order: Le Corbusier and Modern Architecture in France 1920-35, ca. 1997
Contains notes and reference texts
Box 1 Folder 26
Modern Architecture, Ch. 8: Weimar Germany: the Dialectic of the Modern 1920-33, ca. 1997
Box 1 Folder 27
Modern Architecture, Ch. 9-10: Neoclassicism, Organicism, and the Welfare State: Architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65, Notes, ca. 1997
Box 1 Folder 28
Modern Architecture, Ch. 9-10: Neoclassicism, Organicism, and the Welfare State: Architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65, Draft texts, ca. 1997
Box 1 Folder 29
Modern Architecture, Ch. 9-10: Neoclassicism, Organicism, and the Welfare State: Architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65, Photocopied texts, ca. 1997
Contains photocopied texts
Box 1 Folder 30
Modern Architecture, Ch. 11: From Le Corbusier to Megastructures: Urban Visions 1930-65, ca. 1997
Contains photocopied texts
Box 1 Folder 31
Modern Architecture, Texts on German Arch., ca. 1997
Contains photocopied texts
Box 2 Folder 1
"From the 'Machine à habiter' to 'l'homme réel': Le Corbusier's search for a typology of Modern Living", 2006
Contains "latest version" with corrections and 24 accompanying slides
Box 2 Folder 2
"The Problem of the Modern Façade", undated
Contains draft titled "withdrawn"
Box 2 Folder 3
"Ankara" / "Architecture: Social Engagement or Autonomy?", undated
Contains draft for "Architecture: Social Engagement or Autonomy," possibly by someone titled "Ankara" and reviewed by Colquhoun, but could also refer to a talk given by Colquhoun at the University of Ankara
Box 2 Folder 4
"The Seventies: Italian Rationalism", 2000
Contains draft for Colquhoun's lecture on 70's Italian Rationalism
Box 2 Folder 5
[Huyssen Review-AA Files] "Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory", undated
Contains draft for Colquhoun's review of Andreas Huyssen's Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory, published in 2003
Box 2 Folder 6
"Two Post Modern Texts" [Rio de Janeiro], 1993
Contains two drafts of same text with corrections and annotations
Box 2 Folder 7
"Notes on Sert, Saarinen and Eames", 2005
Contains responses to dissertations by Timothy Hyde, Alexandra Lange and John Harwood
Box 2 Folder 8
"A Tribute to William Jordy", undated
Contains draft for tribute to William Jordy with corrections
Box 2 Folder 9
"Transparency Revisted" [Essay on Colin Rowe], 2002
Contains draft for "Essay on Rowe: 2nd version, sent to Emmanuel 12.11.02."
Box 2 Folder 10
"Transparency Revisted" [Essay on Colin Rowe], 2002
Contains draft for "Transparency Revisited"
Box 2 Folder 11
Chimnanbhai Villa [1 of 2], 2007 May
Contains draft for "Le Corbusier's Chimnanbhai and Shodan Villas--In Context" and edited variations
Box 2 Folder 12
Chimnanbhai Villa [2 of 2], after 1992 Sep
Contains "original text," "lecture text," "connected texts," review by Mary McLeod, photocopy of "Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism" by Zeynep Celik and notes
Box 2 Folder 13
"Conflicting Paradigms in Le Corbusier's Furniture", undated
Contains two identical drafts of "Conflicting Paradigms in Le Corbusier's Furniture. 1911-1928."
Box 2 Folder 14
"Twentieth Century Concepts of Urban Space", 2007 May
Contains draft of "Twentieth Century Concepts of Urban Space"
Box 2 Folder 15
"The Work of Celia Scott", 2007 Jan 30
Contains draft of "The Work of Celia Scott"
Box 2 Folder 16
Reckoning with Colin Rowe, 2000 to 2001
Contains draft for Colquhoun's contributions to Reckoning With Rowe and various reference texts and correspondences with Peter Eisenman, O.M. Ungers, Emmanuel Petit and Leon Crier
Box 2 Folder 17
"A House in Chelsea for an Art Collector", 2002 Oct
Contains essay signed by Bob Maxwell
Box 2 Folder 18
Wagner and Architecture, undated
Contains photocopies from Wagner's Prose Works and Wagner Lexikon
Box 2 Folder 19
"Eisenman Essays on Terragni", undated
Contains "Object to Relationship II," draft for talk titled "Florence/Terragni" (author unknown) and reproduced plans of Le Corbusier's Villa Stein
Box 2 Folder 20
"Axonometry notes", 1992
Contains photocopied reference texts and notes for Colquhoun's essay "Axonometry, Ancient and Modern," first published in Alberto Sartoris: Torino, 1992
Box 2 Folder 21 to 23
Miscellaneous texts [3 folders], undated
Contains misc. photocopied texts (includes excerpts from Lovejoy's Essays in the History of Ideas (1948), Tafuri's "The Problem of History" (pub. date unknown), excerpts from Benveniste's Problems in General Linguistics (1966-74), Barthes "L'ancienne rhetorique," 1970.
Box 2 Folder 24
"Georges Canguilhem: La connaissance de la vie", undated
Contains a photocopy of "Le vivant et son milieu"
Box 2 Folder 25
"Bijapur Xeroxes", undated
Contains photocopy of "The Monuments of Bijapur."
Box 2 Folder 26 to 27
Proseminar: Topics in Frankfurt School aesthetic philosophy and cultural criticism [2 folders], 1993 to 1994
Contains syllabus, lecture notes by week and photocopied readings
Box 2 Folder 28
The History of Architectural History, "403", 1982 to 1984
Contains lecture notes by week and photocopied readings
Box 2 Folder 29
German Architectural Theory, "593", 1993
Contains lecture notes by week and photocopied readings
Box 2 Folder 30
Notes, Drafts and Comments, ca. 1974
Contains "General comments about the articles published in journals," "Further Notes on the Limitations of the Linguistic Analogy," "Notes for a Definition of Aesthetic Semiosis" by Tomas Llorens and notes.
Box 3 Folder 1
Press Clippings, ca. 2001 to 2012
Contains press clippings, some annotated, original order retained
Box 3 Folder 2
"German Texts and Critiques", 2002
Contains photocopied texts on German philosophy, art and architecture
Box 3 Folder 3
"Une maison, un palais", 1928 (publication date)
Contains Une maison, un palais by Le Corbusier and "Benton, Le Corbusier and the Loi Loucheur" by Timothy Benton
Box 3 Folder 4
Mikkola: Arch. in Finland, 1981 (publication date)
Contains photocopied text
Box 3 Folder 5
LC, Maniére de penser l'urbanisme, 1942 (publication date)
Contains original paperback
Box 3 Folder 6
Koolhaas and Dalder, The White Slave, 1969 (publication date)
Contains original manuscript
Box 3 Folder 7
Giry: Le Cubisme, 1971 (publication date)
Contains photocopied book
Box 3 Folder 8 to 10
Retour a l'ordre [3 folders], 1975 (publication date)
Contains photocopied text
Box 3 Folder 11
Passanti, The Vernacular Modernism and LC, 1997 (publication date)
Contains photocopied text