Architecture

The Colley Associates Architects and Engineers began in 1938 when architect Richard S. Colley established his architectural office in Corpus Christi, TX. Colley was active on projects including the Corpus Christi City Hall, commercial buildings, residential homes, and buildings for Texas Instruments. The firm was renamed The Colley Associates Architects and Engineers following Colley’s death in 1983 by long time collogues, George Graham and Eugene (Gene) H. Glass. The majority of the collection relates to the firm’s work with Texas Instruments.

Corneil G. Curtis (1890-1963) spent his architectural career in Texas, first in Dallas, then Paris, Houston, and Austin. The collection consists of architectural drawings and specifications that document the work of Corneil Curtis.

Donald S. Nelson (1907-1992) spent the majority of his architectural career working in the Texas firm of Broad and Nelson, specializing in institutional and commercial works and planning. Personal papers, office files, professional association material, job files, specifications, books, visual material, artifacts, and drawings document the activities of the architectural firm of Broad and Nelson, and related firms; Flint and Broad; Thomas D. Broad; Thomas, Jameson and Merrill; and Jack Corgan, Architect.

Duke Squibb is a 1956 graduate of the University of Texas School of Architecture and a Taliesin Fellow. His collection contains primarily material on Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin, including books, bound journals, clippings, correspondence, brochures, postcards, vinyl recordings, photographs and slides. Also included are papers Squibb wrote for a class taught by the British architect and writer Colin Rowe.

The Elgin-Butler Brick Company, with central operations at a 1,000-acre site in Butler, five miles east of Elgin, and sales headquarters in Austin, is a fifth-generation family-owned business that ships bricks nationwide and internationally. The collection contains architectural drawings for projects supplied with brick materials from the Elgin-Butler Brick Company between 1959 and 1980.

Francisco Arumí-Noe (1940-2005) was a faculty member in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin from 1970-2005. In addition to an academic career spanning over three decades at the School of Architecture, he developed the Dynamic Energy Response of Buildings (DEROB) system, computer programs to simulate the passive solar heating and cooling of buildings, as well as other software programs to facilitate the integration of 3D solid graphics modeling with the energy analysis of buildings.

Frank L. Moreland was a pioneer in the professional field of earth-integrated architecture who briefly taught architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington before starting his own firm, Moreland Associates in 1981. The Moreland collection documents Frank Moreland's career as a student, educator, architect, structural investigator, and designer of experimental concrete shells for the next generation of earth-sheltered housing. Records include office files, correspondence, architectural drawings, faculty papers, and photographic as well as digital materials.

Gerlinde Leiding is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA). Professor Leiding taught at UTSOA from 1969 to 2007 where her research focused on vernacular as well as Japanese architecture. The collection consists of student works collected by Leiding in her studio classes. Records include drawings, publications, and architectural models.

Glenn Cook, a landscape architect and educator, began his career at the firm Stewart E. King & Associates in San Antonio, taking ownership of the firm in 1978. Cook maintained a part-time consultation practice from 1978 to 2010 during his 32-year tenure at Mississippi State University. The collection primarily documents Cook’s San Antonio area projects. Record types include project files and drawings.

Goldwin Goldsmith (1871-1962) was a well-known professor of architecture, taught at the University of Texas School of Architecture (1928-1955) and served as chairman of the department. Born in Paterson, N.J., worked as an office assistant at McKim, Mead & White (1888-1890), studied at Columbia University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1897), practiced in the firm Van Vleck & Goldsmith in New York (1897-1913), and established and taught at the University of Kansas School of Architecture (1913-1928) before coming to the University of Texas.