Collection Contents
Boxes 1, 7, 10
I.
PERSONAL PAPERS
1938-1985
Series Scope and Content Summary
Represents Donald Reay's personal materials including his curriculum vitae, correspondence with colleagues and friends, and
personal photographs.
Arrangement
- A. Biographical information
- B. Correspondence
- C. Photographs
Boxes 1, 6-7, 10
II.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
1938-1999
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents Don Reay's professional activities outside of the firm. Includes correspondence with other architects; writings
and presentations; records related to his affiliation with the AIA; and extensive research and reference files mostly relating
to new towns in the UK and in the United States.
Arrangement
- A. Correspondence
- B. Writings
- C. Presentations
- D. Associations and committees
- E. Awards
- F. Reference files
Box 1
III.
FACULTY PAPERS
1954-1999
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents Donals Reay's duties as Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley. Administrative files are composed of memoranda
between Reay and other faculty members, as well as outside correspondence. Course materials provide evidence of his teaching
activities.
- A. Administrative records
- B. Course materials
Box 1
IV.
OFFICE RECORDS
1937-1999
Series Scope and Content Summary
Documents represent a selected sample of the day-to-day administrative operations of the firm offices, such as legal agreements,
notes, and correspondence.
- A. Administrative records
- B. Correspondence
Boxes 2-11 and 13-15; flat files and tubes.
V.
PROJECT RECORDS
1956-1998
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by project. **See Project Index.
A.
Files
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Correspondence, contracts, telephone notes, preliminary sketches, reports, specifications, financial records, vendor information,
legal documents, and notes for projects undertaken by Donald Reay and the firms with which he worked.
B.
Photographs and slides
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Photographs (and negatives) of project sites, construction, and completed construction taken by the architects, project collaborators,
and architectural photographers of projects undertaken by Donald Reay and the firms with which he worked.
C.
Drawings
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Drawings of the private practice and firm projects for both Donald and Sylvia Reay from 1956-1998. Commercial and institutional
planning, development, and multi-residential commissions, and residential projects are represented.
Box 1
VI.
SYLVIA REAY PAPERS
1940-1982
Series Scope and Content Summary
A case study of women architects in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sylvia Reay's master's thesis.
Arrangement
A. Biographical information
Container List
A. Biographical Information
Box 10, Folder 4
Personal travel slides
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2
Guggenheim fellowship application
1999
Box 1, Folder 3
Milton Keynes review
1985
D. Associations and Committees
Box 1, Folder 5
AIA recognition materials
1979-1980
Box 1, Folder 6
AIA Soviet-American symposium
1968
Box 1, Folder 7
AIA Sidener fellowship recommendation
1993
Box 6, Folder 10
Awards and certificates
1959-1966
Box 10, Folder 12
Slides of U.S. New Towns
nd
Box 10, Folder 13
Slides of New Town plans and images
nd
Box 10, Folder 14
Reference images - slides
nd
Box 1, Folder 1
Firm profiles and project descriptions
vd
Box 1, Folder 3
Reay-Tsuruta portfolio
nd
Box 1, Folder 4
Architect licenses
1937-1999
A. Biographical information
Box 1, Folder 1
Case Study of Women Architects in the Bay Area
1982
Box 1, Folder 2
Master's thesis: "The progressive elementary school..."
1940