Finding aid for the Franklin D. Israel papers, 1967-1996
Scope and Content of Collection
Series I. Project records, 1972-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Snell House (Amagansett, NY, 1972)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Photography
Shahestan Pahlavi (Tehran, Iran, 1975)
Scope and Content Note
Bamboo Bungalow (Manila, Philippines, 1978)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Photography
Clark House (Hollywood, 1980)
Documentation
Drawings
Model
Bellisle Ranch House (Santa Barbara, 1980)
Gillette Studio (New York, NY, 1980)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Model
Joel Grey House (Brentwood, 1980)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Photography
Chicago Tribune Tower "competition," late entry (Chicago, 1980)
Scope and Content Note
West Hollywood Club (West Hollywood, 1982)
Documentation
Drawings
Caprice Boutique (Palm Desert, 1984)
Arrow House (Lake Arrowhead, 1984)
Scope and Content Note
Honey Springs Country Club, interiors (San Diego, 1984)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Kiefer House (Bel Air, 1984)
Krost remodel (Los Angeles, 1984)
Palette Restaurant (Los Angeles, 1984)
Documentation
Photography
Barry Miller Office (Los Angeles, 1985)
Scope and Content Note
Cassidy Cabin (Frazier Park, 1985)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Cedar Sinai Medical Office Towers (Los Angeles, 1985)
Certified Coatings Products Co. (Los Angeles, 1985)
Comegys House (Bel Air, 1985)
Semel House (Malibu, 1985)
Stein House (Los Angeles, 1985)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
General
Oversize
Drawings
Standard
Small Drawings
Niblo Residence (Beverly Hills, 1926)
Scope and Content Note
Photography
Toho Corporation (1985)
Forman/Hyde House (Los Angeles, 1986)
Documentation
Drawings
Frischer House (Venice, 1986)
Kurfirst Apartment (New York, NY, 1986)
Lerner/Wilder/La Brea (Los Angeles, 1986)
John Rich House (Beverly Hills, 1986)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Oversize
Photography
Schrager/Rubell Hotel (New York, NY, 1986)
Andrea Rich Apartment (Westwood, 1987)
Andrea Rich Beach House (Hermosa Beach, 1987)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Bombyk House (Los Angeles, 1987)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Engineering
Small drawings
Oversize
Model
Photography
Hard Rock Hotel (Las Vegas, NV, 1987)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Proposal set
Small drawings
Oversize drawings
Restaurants
Standard
Oversize
Photography
Harris House (Los Angeles, 1987)
Documentation
Drawings
Simon House (Los Angeles, 1987)
UCLA Installation (Westwood, 1987)
Altman Condominium (Malibu, 1988)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Gem Advertising (Santa Monica, 1988)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Israel House (Hollywood, 1988)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Klein House (Bel Air, 1988)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Photography
Lamy-Newton House (Hancock Park, 1988)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Model
Photography
Le Vasseur House (Laguna Beach, 1988)
Documentation
Drawings
Little House (Studio City, 1988)
Lowell House (New York, NY, 1988)
Documentation
Drawings
Mid-Atlantic Toyota (Glen Burnie, MD, 1988)
Documentation
General
Oversize
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Oversize
Model
Photography
Propaganda Films (Hollywood, 1988)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Model
Photography
Weisman Center (Venice, 1988)
West Hollywood Civic Center competition (West Hollywood, 1988)
Standard drawings
Oversize drawings
Swid-Powell, dinnerware design (1988)
General
Oversize
Arango-Berry House (Beverly Hills, 1989)
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Publicity
Drawings
Standard
First scheme, unbuilt
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Topographic surveys
Small drawings
Model
Photography
Cemetery Gateway at Crystal Cathedral (London, England, 1989)
Documentation
Drawings
Fonda House (Santa Monica, 1989)
Gerber House (Westwood, 1989)
Documentation
Drawings
Graham House (Los Angeles, 1989)
Documentation
Photography
Holliman House (Studio City, 1989)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Hamori House (Los Angeles, 1989)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Roberts House (Hollywood, 1989)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Working sets
Construction details
Engineering and topography
Small drawings
Photography
Rodeo Drive Hair Salon (Beverly Hills, 1989)
Borman House, interiors (Malibu, 1990)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Perspectival and axonometric drawings
Construction details
Working sets
Frank Gehry drawings
Prints of presentation drawings mounted on foamcore
Small drawings
General
Frank Gehry drawings
Oversize Frank Gehry prints
Photography
Jesse Jackson Show (Washington DC, 1990)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Video
Scope and Content Note
Fiskin-Worrel House (Los Angeles, 1990)
Documentation
Drawings
Bright & Associates Office Building (Venice, 1991)
Documentation
General
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Publicity
Oversize
Drawings
Photography
Divine Design Pavilion (Santa Monica, 1991)
Documentation
Drawings
Goldberg-Bean House (Hollywood, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Publicity
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Small drawings
Model
Photography
General
Photo albums
Isenberg House (Montecito, 1991)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Kaplan House (Malibu, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Engineering and topography
Small drawings
Model
Photography
Limelight Productions (Los Angeles, 1991)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Small drawings
Photography
Maslon House, interiors (Venice, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Morton House (1991)
The New England Holocaust Memorial (Boston, MA, 1991)
General
Photographic negatives
Raznick House (Hollywood Hills, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Speedway Cafe (Venice, 1991)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Tesh House (Mar Vista, 1991)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Working sets
Small drawings
Model,
Photography
Tisch-Avnet Office Building (Culver City, 1991)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Model
Photography
UCLA Southern Regional Library (Westwood, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
General
Oversize
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Design development
Small drawings
Oversize
Models
Small
Large
Photography
Virgin Records (Beverly Hills, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Publicity
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Chiat/Day (Venice, CA 1989)
Scope and Content Note
Small drawings
Models
Beverly Hills, built
Venice, unbuilt
Photography
Weisman Pavilion (Beverly Hills, 1991)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
General
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Scope and Content Note
Publicity
Oversize
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Small drawings
Photography
Titch Pleasance collection, jewelry design (1991)
General
Oversize
Baldwin House (Venice, 1992)
Documentation
Drawings
Model
Photography
Brevard Sunset Studio (Venice, 1992)
Documentation
Drawings
Bunka Shutter and the New Industrial City (Tokyo, Japan, 1992)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Oversize
Photographs
Drager House (Berkeley, 1992)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Publicity
General
Oversize
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, sections, and axonometrics
Construction details
Topographic surveys
Small drawings
Models
Small
Large
Photography
General
Construction photo collages mounted on foamcore
Hague House (Den Haag, Netherlands, 1992)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Electroplated metal drawings
Models
Photography
Scope and Content Note
Furniture for Pacific Art & Design (Venice, 1992)
Scope and Content Note
Sighvatsson House (Pacific Palisades, 1992)
Documentation
Drawings
Spartan House (Den Haag, Netherlands, 1992)
Steinberg House (Beverly Hills, 1992)
Documentation
General
Oversize
Drawings
Woo Pavilion (Silverlake, 1992)
Documentation
General
Publicity
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Small drawings
Models
Small
Large
Photography
US Animation (Los Angeles, 1992)
903 Colorado Avenue (Santa Monica, 1993)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Photography
Belldegrun House (Brentwood, 1993)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Photography
Dan House (Malibu, 1993)
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Construction details
Working sets
Engineering and topography
Small drawings
Models
Medium
Large
Photography
Getty Villa competition (Pacific Palisades, 1993)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Oversize
Model
Photography
Gold House (Bel Air, 1993)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Kohler bathroom (1993)
Documentation
General
Oversize
Drawings
Pittard Sullivan Fitzgerald (Venice, 1993)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Working sets
Small drawings
Models
Small
Large
Photography
Stanford Mechanical and Civil Engineering redevelopment (Palo Alto, 1993)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Photography
Standard
Oversize
UCLA Psychiatric Research Facility (Westwood, 1993)
Documentation
Construction
Contracts and billing
Correspondence and notes
Drawings
Standard
Tissue sketches
Plans, elevations, and sections
Working sets
Oversize
Photography
Goodman & Associates tenant improvement (Los Angeles, 1994)
Hochberg-Healy House (Miami Beach, FL, 1994)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Standard
Oversize
Friedland House (Jupiter, FL, 1994)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Drawings
Models
Small
Medium
Large
UC Riverside Fine Arts Building (Riverside, 1994)
Scope and Content Note
Documentation
Photography
Alexander-Henry Fabrics (1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Alfred Sole Office Garage (Los Angeles, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Arkush House (Studio City, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Garfield House (Los Angeles, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Photography
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Office for Andrea Rich (Los Angeles, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Model
Rebel Entertainment (Los Angeles, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Model
Strick House (Los Angeles, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Models
Medium
Large
Photography
WSE Productions tenant improvement (Los Angeles, 1995)
Documentation
Drawings
Enlightened Diner
FDIDA Office remodel (Los Angeles)
Ray's Fitness Forum
Zanzinger House
Forbidden City Restaurant (San Francisco)
Miscellaneous projects
Lankershim Art Center (Los Angeles, 1990)
Scope and Content Note
Mr. and Mrs. John Hevans Residence
Scope and Content Note
The Ravello Tenant Improvement (Santa Monica, 1988)
Scope and Content Note
Freeman House (Hollywood)
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified projects
Drawings
Standard
Small drawings
Oversize
Furniture design, 1983-1989, undated
Documentation
Photography
Photographs, negatives and slides
Models
Duplicate project photographs, undated
Series II. Other professional papers, 1967-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Awards and honors, 1971-1996
AIA School Medal and Certificate of Merit, 1971
Urban Design Awards Program, Certificate of Excellence for Shahestan Pahlavi, 1978
Interiors Magazine, 40 Under 40, 1986
American Academy of Arts and Letters induction, 1993
International Architecture Book Awards, 1993
Record Houses Award for Goldberg-Bean House, 1993
Record Houses Award for Drager Residence, 1995
AIA Merit Award, UC Riverside Fine Arts Building, 1994
Progressive Architecture Awards Program, Honor Awards entry, 1994
Interiors Magazine, Hall of Fame medal, 1995
Los Angeles City Council Tribute, 1996
AIA Honor Award for Interiors, Limelight Productions, 1995
Academiae Americanae Romae Sitae, 1976
Unidentified ceremony, May 1993
Scope and Content Note
Certification and education, 1967-1989, undated
Architectural examinations and registration, 1985-1989
Columbia University, 1968-1973
Correspondence, 1969-1973
Diploma, 1971
Transcripts, 1968-1973
University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1970, undated
Diploma, 1967
Miscellaneous, 1970, undated
Exhibitions, 1980-1996
La Jolla Museum of Art, 1982
General
Oversize
Prompt Exhibit, Princeton University, 1993
Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995-1996
Documentation
General
Publicity
Drawings
General
Oversize
Models
Photography
Walker Art Center, 1988-1989
Documentation
General
Publicity
Drawings
Photography
Frank Israel, Walker Art Center , 1988 October
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous, 1980-1996
General
Oversize
Unidentified UCLA exhibition negatives
Office records, 1982-1996, undated
Administrative records, 1982-1996, undated
Address and phone lists, undated
Blank checks, undated
Business cards, undated
Calendars and planners, 1982-1996
Consultants, undated
Communication records, 1989-1992, undated
Message pads, undated
Fax records, 1989-1992
Employees, undated
Endorsement stamp, undated
Incorporation documents, 1985-1995
Letters of agreement, 1986, undated
Recommendations, 1991-1992, undated
Self-evaluation, 1989
Sealed administrative records, 1991-1992, undated
Scope and Content Note
Client records, 1994, undated
Prospective
Publicity
Financial records, 1983-1996
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
Sealed financial records
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence, 1988-1995, undated
Notes, 1990-1996, undated
Photography, 1996, undated
General
Israel office photographs before disassembly
Presentation portfolios and resumes, undated
Scope and Content Note
General
Oversize
Photography
Articles and writings compiled for portfolio
Travel, 1992
Professional service, 1986-1996, undated
American Academy in Rome, 1990-1995
Board meetings and reports, 1991-1994
Miscellaneous, 1990-1995
Auctions and donations, 1992-1994
Juries and competitions, 1989-1995, undated
General
Oversize
Interviews, lectures and tours, 1986-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
General, 1986-1996, undated
Oversize 1986-1996, undated
Harvard Visitor, Frank Israel on Recent Work , 1989
Scope and Content Note
"Cities Within, University of Il Choo, Fall '93"
Scope and Content Note
"Clients & Their Shadows", undated
Scope and Content Note
Charlie Rose interview, undated
Scope and Content Note
Stonewall conference, undated
Scope and Content Note
Publication materials, 1974-1996, undated
Articles and essays about Israel, 1974-1995
General
Oversize
Books, 1977-1995
Academy Press, 1993-1995, undated
Phaidon Press, 1994-1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
General
Oversize
Rizzoli Press, 1977-1993, undated
General
Production materials,
Drawings and sketches
Line drawings and prints on mylar
Scope and Content Note
General
Oversize
Line negatives
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous
Photography
General
Oversize
Miscellaneous, 1994
Correspondence, 1990-1996
Articles and essays by Israel, 1975-1986, undated
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous, 1991-1996, undated
Teaching materials, 1982-1996
UCLA papers, 1982-1996
Administrative documents, 1982-1996
Financial documents, 1982-1985
Photography, 1982
Teaching materials, 1985-1994
General
Oversize
Sealed teaching records
Scope and Content Note
Other, 1983-1991
UC Berkeley, 1985
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1985-1990
University of Maryland, 1988-1989
SCI-Arc, 1991
Miscellaneous, 1983-1989
Miscellaneous papers, 1979-1992, undated
Film production, 1979-1984, undated
City of Angels film treatment, 1979
Night Games art direction, 1980
Made in Space film treatment, 1981
Hill Street Blues film treatment, 1984
Your Place or Mine film treatment, undated
Star Trek storyboards, undated
Artwork, 1980-1992, undated
"Architect in Exile," mock film poster, 1980
Scope and Content Note
Calendar sketches, 1975-1979
Framed pastel drawing, 1992
Framed mixed media drawing of Bombyk House, 1986
Scope and Content Note
Frank Israel 50th birthday t-shirt design, 1995
Grant Mudford, "Fotofile," Volume 2, Spring/Summer 1976
Scope and Content Note
"L'architecture comme autobiographie, revant de son successeur," mixed media collage, undated
Miscellaneous sketches, 1990, undated
"Out of Context," mixed media collage, undated
Unidentified print on woodblock, undated
Watercolors, undated
Duratrans project prints, undated
Scope and Content Note
Metal light fixtures, undated
Unidentified floppy disks, undated
Research materials, undated
General
Oversize
Photography
Series III. Personal papers, 1973-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Art collecting, 1989-1994, undated
Documentation
Color photographs and slides
Automobile records, 1985-1996, undated
Correspondence, 1973-1995, undated
Financial records, 1981-1996
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1991
1992
1993
1994
1996
Miscellaneous
Medical records, 1981-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Memorials and obituaries, 1996
Articles, 1996
Audio recordings, June 17, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous, 1979-1996, undated
Philanthropy and AIDS research, 1986-1996, undated
Documentation
Photography
Photography, 1977-1992, undated
Scope and Content Note
Real estate, 1985-1996, undated
Banner Drive
Other
Travel, 1986-1996, undated
Wills and estates, 1991-1995
Scope and Content Note