Alan Colquhoun papers, 1942-2010

Series I: Academic Papers

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, Mahnaz Shah, undated

Contains paper by Shah

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