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Title: Barton Myers papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000161
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1552.5 Linear feet
(627 record storage boxes, 1,630 tubes, 52 boxes of drawings, 65 bagged drawings, 2 flat file drawers, 243 presentation boards,
and 4 models)
Date (inclusive): circa 1968-circa 2004
creator:
Myers, Barton, 1934-
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Barton Myers, 2000, 2008, and 2011.
Barton Myers papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Barton Myers was born in 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia. From 1952-1956 he attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis where he
graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science. In 1961, Myers went back to school to get his Master’s degree in architecture
from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1964. Just out of school, Barton Myers found work as a draftsman for
Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia. Two years later, in 1968, Myers launched his architectural career in Canada by opening up his
own firm in Ontario. In 1975, Myers moved his firm to Los Angeles, where he continues to practice today. Aside from practicing
architecture Myers taught at the University level. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard
University, at the University of Pennsylvania and at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State
University. He currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, a position he has held since 1980. Barton Myers’
more notable projects include: the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the
Tempe Center for the Arts.
The Barton Myers papers span approximately 800 linear feet and date from circa 1968 to circa 2004. The collection contains
architectural drawings and reprographic copies, photographs, contracts, specifications, and correspondence.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Myers, Barton, 1934-
Architectural drawings
Reprographic copies