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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Tallie Maule Collection
Creator:
Maule, Tallie
Identifier/Call Number: 2014.-12
Physical Description:
22.5 Linear Feet:
7 doc boxes, 1 flat box, 6 flat file drawers
Date (inclusive): 1941- circa 1977
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research. Many of the Environmental Design Archives collections are stored offsite and advance notice
is required for use.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
[Identification of Item], Tallie Maule Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Born in 1917 in Sand Spring, Oklahoma, Architect Tallie Maule practiced in Tennessee, Okinawa, and San Francisco from the
early 1950s into the mid-1970s. He earned an M.B. degree at Oklahoma State University and served with the United States Navy
as a Line Officer in the U.S. Amphibious Forces during WWII from 1943 until 1946. Maule earned his M.F.A. in architecture
at Princeton University (1948) where he was a Lowell Palmer Fellow. During his studies at Princeton, before completing his
degree, Maule taught architecture for one year at Oklahoma State University (1947- 1948). As a result of his time teaching,
Maule conceptualized an Architectural Laboratory, as place "To develop visual sensibility, to correlate seeing, feeling and
thinking, to provide means to manipulate space, form, light and color through DIRECT EXPERIENCE." This Architectural Laboratory
was realized at Princeton University, three years later, as a space where students could construct their designs.
Tallie earned a diploma as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome as well as the University per Strainieri in Perugia, Italy
where he did research from 1951-1952 on a Fulbright scholarship. Maule worked as an Associate for the firm Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill (SOM) from 1947
through 1955 in New York; Chicago; Oak Ridge, TN; Tokyo, Japan; and San Francisco successively. While at SOM, Maule designed
a number of projects in Oak Ridge, Tennessee including the Community Theater, High School, and a Garden Apartment Unit. During
1950, he served as a member of the Planning Commission of Oak Ridge, Tenn. After leaving SOM he
spent nearly four years in Japan and Okinawa. In Japan, he developed pilot designs for the vast post war building program
which encompassed community planning, transportation, housing, medical facilities, and schools. Two years were spent in Okinawa
working on a 250 million dollar project, where he was in charge of master planning and architectural and engineering design
for housing, schools, governmental, and commercial and community facilities. After SOM, Maule worked for John Carl Warnecke
as a coordinator before opening his own practice.
Maule established his own practice in San Francisco (1957-1974). White running his firm, Maule secured a position as Chief
Architect of design coordination for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Agency from 1966 through 1973 as well as consulting
architect to the Metropolitan
Atlantic Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and the Sao Paolo, Brazil, Metro. Notable projects from this time include: Sunnyvale
Office Center (1963), United California Bank (1966), Palo Alto Office Center (1966), Banco Do Brasil (1973), and the Embarcadero
and West Portal BART stations. Maule died in 1974 in San Francisco.
This Collection is arranged into five series: Personal Papers, Office Records, Project Records, United States Department of
the Army: Okinawa Engineer District, and Bay Area Rapid Transit. Within each series, original order has been maintained when
evident.
The Tallie Maule Collection spans the dates 1937 to circa 1970 and contains material that document his academic and architectural
career. The Collection is organized into five series. The first series, Personal Papers is comprised of biographical information
and Maule's MFA thesis. Office Records, the second series, contains material that documents Maule's career but are not project
specific and include: awards and certificates, brochures from the firms Maule led or worked for, his AIA fellowship nomination,
and scrapbooks and writings chronicling his career. The third series, Project Records consists of correspondence, clippings,
photographs, and drawings documenting 45 projects Maule designed while working for SOM, Maule, Clinton and Associates, and
on his own. United States Department of the Army: Okinawa Engineer District, series four, is composed of materials that document
Maule's time as a designer for SOM when they were in contract with the United States Army in Okinawa Japan. Material in this
series includes: photographs, reports, and project records concerning residential and recreational projects. The final series,
Bay Area Rapid Transit consists of correspondence, public relations documents, drawings, photographs, and clippings documenting
Maule's work as Chief Architect of Design Coordination for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Agency from 1966 through 1973.
For related materials to the items in the collection, please see the following finding aids:
Vernon DeMars Collection, 1933 – 2001, 2005-13
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architecture -- California.
Architecture--California--San Francisco Bay Area--20th century.
Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)
Housing