Archive & Notable Collection

Buford Woodrow Duke, Jr. (1938-2000) served as a faculty member in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin from 1981-2000. He was a practicing architect who was known for his environmentally conscious designs and teachings, emphasizing "Gentle Architecture," energy efficiency, passive solar heating, and earth shelter architecture. The collection documents Duke’s professional and faculty work. Record types include architectural drawings, faculty papers, photographic material, and student work.

Drawings, exhibition panels, models, and papers reflect select projects In Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Fort Worth undertaken by Carrozza Investments Inc., a Dallas-based development firm.

Charles Weldon York was an interior designer and faculty member in the Interior Design Division in the Department of Home Economics at The University of Texas at Austin. The collection documents York’s professional career as a designer, author, and educator. Record types include course materials, correspondence, notes, student work, and reference articles.

Chester E. Nagel (1911-) studied architecture at The University of Texas, graduating in 1934, and later studied with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, receiving his Master's degree in 1940 and later returning as an assistant professor. Early in his career he worked for the National Park Service; later he was involved with The Architect's Collaborative and eventually set up his own practice in 1958. The Chester E.

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.