Finding aid for the Paul Lawrence Soderburg papers
0000333
Finding aid prepared by ADC staff
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered
through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
2013
Title: Paul Lawrence Soderburg papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000333
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
(1/4 document box, 99 drawings in 11 flat file folders)
Date (inclusive): 1962-1988
Location note: 1 box (1/4 document box) / ADC regular 12 FF folders / ADC Misc.
creator:
Soderburg, Paul Lawrence, 1922-2017
Accruals note
ADD 1: received June 23, 2015 9 photographic prints, 1 printed ephemera, 4 newspaper clippings.
Biographical/Historical note
Paul Lawrence Soderburg was born in Los Angeles, February 5 , 1922. He died in Trinidad, California on December 8, 2017. In
1959 Soderburg worked as Associate Architect with John deKoven Hill -- the architect, follower of Frank Lloyd Wright and editorial
director of
House Beautiful magazine -- on the
House Beautiful 1960 Pace Setter House.
Later he worked with architect Dominic Wvladarczk who invited Soderburg to work with him in Santa Barbara in the late 1950s.
Together they designed a number of apartment complexes in the city. When they parted, Soderburg opened his own office in Montecito
in 1960 and began working on his first solo project, the Dellar house. Soderburg received his California architecture license
in 1959. The bulk of his practice in the Santa Barbara area, 1961-2005, was the design of residences.
Paul Soderburg was a psychotherapist as well as an architect and was active on the clinical pyschology faculty of The Fielding
Institute from 1973 to 1986, while continuing his architectural practice. His organic architectural forms reflect the influence
of Wright and Soderburg's interest in the physio-psychological effects of space and enclosure.
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Paul L. Soderburg.
Preferred Citation note
Paul Lawrence Soderburg papers. Architecture and Design Collection, Art Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Scope and Contents note
Collection contains a portion of Paul Soderburg's architectural archive for works he designed while in Santa Barbara, dating
from 1962 to 1988. Primarily comprising original architectural drawings, the collection also includes some photographs and
a few clippings. The bulk of the collection regards houses he designed in the area, including for Katherine Tremaine, for
whom Richard Neutra also designed a house in Santa Barbara. Also included are drawings and photographs for Sunflower Park,
and an article about an unbuilt scheme for the freeway that runs through the city.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architecture -- California
Box 1, Folder 1
Biggam Building (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
circa 1970s
Scope and Contents note
One color photograph of building detail.
Drawer 543, FlatFile 1
Buckingham House (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1974
Drawer 543, FlatFile 2
Cottavoz House (Montecito, Calif.)
1962
Drawer 543, FlatFile 3
Crapo House (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1975-1977
Drawer 543, FlatFile 4
Ferry House (Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1974
Box 1, Folder 2
Kellogg House (Montecito, Calif.)
1973
Scope and Contents note
One b/w photograph of interior.
Drawer 543, FlatFile 5
Klein House (Montecito, Calif.)
1987-1988
Drawer 543, FlatFile 6
Riley House (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1976
Drawer 365, FlatFile Folder 7
Sunflower Park (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1972
Drawer 543, FlatFile 7
Architectural drawings
1972
Drawer 543, FlatFile 8
Tanner House (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1974
Box 1, Folder 4
Three Arches freeway plan (Santa Barbara, Calif.): newspaper article
1967
Drawer 365, FlatFile Folders 9-10
Tremaine, Mrs. Katherine W. House (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1972-1973, 1977
Drawer 543, FlatFile 9-10
Architectural drawings
1972-1977
Scope and Contents note
Drawings for house and additions and alterations.
Box 1, Folder 5
Photographs and printed ephemera
after 1973
Scope and Contents note
Six color photographs of model and interiors. One printed sheet advertises a tour of "3 contemporary mountain house by 3Santa
Barbara architects," including the Tremaine house.
Wheelwright (Joseph Balch and Jane Hollister) House (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
1974, undated
Drawer 543, FlatFile 11
Architectural drawings
1974
Box 1, Folder 6
Santa Barbara News-Press clipping
after 1974
