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INVENTORY OF THE BERNARD RUDOFSKY PAPERS, ca. 1910-1987

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Series I. Working papers, ca. 1910-1987

Physical Description: 7 boxes, 23 flat file folders, 1 roll

Scope and Content Note

Series contains 56 notebooks dense with writings and pencil drawings, and magazine articles by and about Rudofsky. Designs include his magazine cover designs, and circa 150 drawings, primarily building studies, done in watercolor, pencil and crayon. Plans, sketches and photographs document his building projects in Brazil, Italy and the United States. Other materials include his illustrated lectures, photographs of exhibition installations organized by Rudofsky, examples of fashion design, and a copy of of his doctoral dissertation.

Box 1-4

Working notebooks

Scope and Content Note

56 notebooks, densely written with drawings.

Box 5, Folder 1

Dissertation

Box 5, Folder 2

Lectures - Tokyo, 1931

Scope and Content Note

Eine primitive Betonbauweise auf den südlichen Kykladen, nebst dem versuch einer Datierung derselben.

Box 5, Folder 3

Lectures - Copenhagen, 1975

Box 5, Folder 4

Lectures - Provincetown, Virginia, Tallahassee, Bennington, Toronto

Box 5, Folder 5

Manuscripts of articles for Horizon and Cooper-Hewitt

Box 5, Folder 6

Eight articles by Rudofsky photocopied from Horizon

Box 5, Folder 7

"Golden eye" exhibition announcement

Box 5, Folder 8

Two sketchbooks

Scope and Content Note

total of 52 pencil and 13 watercolor drawings (see also oversize for more drawings).

Box 5, Folder 9

Fabric swatches

Box 6, Folder 1

Casa Oro, Naples, 1936

Scope and Content Note

29 photographs of structure and architectural drawings.

Box 6, Folder 2

Tennis club, Naples, ca. 1930s

Scope and Content Note

9 photographs of models and architectural drawings.

Box 6, Folder 3

Casa a Procida, Italy, ca. 1930s

Scope and Content Note

7 photographs of models.

Box 6, Folder 4

Casa Arnstein, São Paolo, 1940

Scope and Content Note

12 photographs of models and structure.

Box 6, Folder 5

Casa Frontini, São Paolo, 1940

Scope and Content Note

14 photographs of structure. [House for Dr. Virgilio Frontini.]

Box 6, Folder 6

Swiss watch shop, São Paolo, ca. 1938-1941

Scope and Content Note

4 photographs of exterior and interior.

Box 6, Folder 7

U.S. Pavilion, Brussels Universal Exposition, 1957-1958

Scope and Content Note

21 photographs of pavilion and model.

Box 6, Folder 8

Carmel House, Bloomfield Hills, ca. 1962

Scope and Content Note

2 photographs of exterior of house for Jim Carmel.

Box 6, Folder 9

House garden, Long Island, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

4 photographs of exterior garden.

Box 6, Folder 10

Bernardo sandals, ca. 1950s

Scope and Content Note

21 photographs of live models and manikins wearing sandals.

Box 6, Folder 11

Stimulus fabric, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

5 photographs of fabric designed by Rudofsky.

Box 6, Folder 12

"Are clothes modern?" 1944

Scope and Content Note

14 photographs of live models and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) installation.

Box 6, Folder 13

"The Third Rome" in Architectural Review, 1951

Scope and Content Note

37 photographs of Rome.

Box 6, Folder 14

"Textiles U.S.A.," 1956

Scope and Content Note

8 photographs of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) installation.

Box 6, Folder 15

"Japanese vernacular graphics," 1961

Scope and Content Note

11 photographs of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) installation.

Box 6, Folder 16

"Roads," 1961

Scope and Content Note

9 photographs of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) installation.

Box 6, Folder 17

"Architecture without architects," 1964

Scope and Content Note

1 photograph of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) installation.

Box 6, Folder 18

"Now I lay me down to eat," 1980

Scope and Content Note

2 photographs of Cooper-Hewitt installation.

Box 25*, Folder 1-2

Drawings

Scope and Content Note

38 watercolor sketches of Istanbul, 1925 and France, 1926.

Box 25*, Folder 3

Drawings

Scope and Content Note

15 sheets with pencil and crayon drawings on recto and verso, drawn during Rudofsky's pre-school days.

Box 25*, Folder 4

Designs

Scope and Content Note

3 sheets of geometric patterns done in crayon.

Box 25*, Folder 5

Journal articles

Scope and Content Note

"Una casa a Procida: dell'arch. Bernhard Rudofsky" in Casabella September 1937 (2 sets of clippings) and "Der wohltemperierte Wohnhof" in Umriss 1/86.

Box 25*, Folder 6

Journal articles

Scope and Content Note

Photocopies of articles by or about Rudofsky, including "The Third Rome" in Architectural Review, July 1951.

Box 25*, Folder 7

Fashion tearsheets

Scope and Content Note

30 sheets of Rudofsky fashion designs and reviews of "Are clothes modern?"

Flat file folder 1-11**

Architectural drawings

Flat file folder 1**

Tennis Club, Naples, 1935

Scope and Content Note

2 perspectives, pencil and crayon.

Flat file folder 2**

Casa Oro, Naples1935

Scope and Content Note

10 drawings: elevations, plans, axonometric views.

3 pencil drawings on tracing paper.

4 ink drawings on tracing paper.

2 crayon drawings and 1 pencil drawing.

Roll 1**

Casa Oro, Naplesca. 1935

Scope and Content Note

1 ink drawing: elevation.

Flat file folder 3**

Teatrum Nudum, 1936

Scope and Content Note

4 ink drawings on tracing paper: 3 elevations, 1 plan.

Flat file folder 4**

Casa Frontini, São Paolo, 1939-1941

Scope and Content Note

3 drawings on 4 sheets.

1 (ink?) drawing on 2 sheets of tracing paper.

1 pencil drawing on tracing paper: view of courtyard.

1 ink drawing on paper: cross section through courtyard.

Flat file folder 5**

Casa Frontini, São Paolo, 1939-1941

Scope and Content Note

2 blueprints: plans.

Flat file folder 6**

Casa Arnstein, São Paolo, 1939-1941

Scope and Content Note

1 blueprint: plan, plus 3 copies.

Flat file folder 7**

Casa Cuaruja, Feb - Mar 1940

Scope and Content Note

6 drawings on tracing paper:

5 ink drawings numbered D1-D4 and R-8: plans, sections, elevations; and 1 pencil sketch of elevation.

Flat file folder 8**

Carmel house (Bloomfield Hills, MI), garden design, 1962

Scope and Content Note

4 pencil drawings on tracing paper: plans.

Flat file folder 9**

Exhibition design: Architecture without architects, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 1964

Scope and Content Note

4 drawings on tracing paper:

1 pencil drawing: section through elevation; and 3 ink drawings: plans.

Flat file folder 10**

Exhibition design: Architecture without architects, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 1964

Scope and Content Note

1 blackline drawing: plan.

Flat file folder 11**

Rudofsky house (Frigiliana, Spain), 1969-1971

Scope and Content Note

4 ink drawings on tracing paper: plans elevations, sections.

Flat file folder 12-20**

Travel drawings, 1927-1940, undated

Flat file folder 12**

Italy, 1927

Scope and Content Note

10 watercolors (Bologna, Fiesole, Firenze (Florence), Siena, Anacona, and unidentified).

Flat file folder 13**

Greece (Santorini), 1929

Scope and Content Note

2 mounted watercolors.

Flat file folder 14**

Greece (Santorini), 1929

Scope and Content Note

2 mounted watercolors.

Flat file folder 15**

Greece (Santorini), 1929

Scope and Content Note

5 watercolors.

Flat file folder 16**

Italy (Sicily and Venice), 1931

Scope and Content Note

9 watercolors.

Flat file folder 17**

Capri, 1932

Scope and Content Note

9 watercolors.

Flat file folder 18**

Unidentified, 1933

Scope and Content Note

2 watercolors.

Flat file folder 19**

Brazil, ca. 1939-1940

Scope and Content Note

4 watercolors.

Flat file folder 20**

Unidentified, undated

Scope and Content Note

8 watercolors.

Flat file folder 21-23**

Other designs

Flat file folder 21**

Figure drawings, ca. 1943-1944

Scope and Content Note

2 drawings for Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibit, Are clothes modern?

Flat file folder 22**

Magazine covers, 1943, undated

Scope and Content Note

10 (?) cover designs:

New Pencil Points, 6 covers, 1943, undated.

Interiors, 3 covers, 1946-1947.

Empire State Architect, 1 cover, undated.

Flat file folder 23**

Poster for Sparta Sybaris exhibit, MAK, Vienna, 1987

Scope and Content Note

1 poster in 4 parts.

Series II. Travel notebooks and photographs, ca. 1910-1987

Physical Description: 18 boxes

Scope and Content Note

Thirty-three notebooks record Rudofsky's travels and design ideas in words and drawings. Circa 128 black-and-white photographs and ca. 5500 slides also record his travels and interests in other countries.

Box 7-9

Travel notebooks, 1948-1984

Scope and Content Note

33 notebooks, densely written with drawings.

Box 10, Folder 1-13

Travel photographs

Box 10, Folder 1

Italy

Scope and Content Note

20 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 2

France

Scope and Content Note

5 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 3

Spain

Scope and Content Note

31 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 4

Portugal

Scope and Content Note

7 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 5

Malta

Scope and Content Note

9 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 6

Romania

Scope and Content Note

9 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 7

Yugoslavia

Scope and Content Note

3 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 8-9

Greece

Scope and Content Note

22 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 10

Morocco

Scope and Content Note

4 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 11

Turkey

Scope and Content Note

9 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 12

India

Scope and Content Note

7 photographs.

Box 10, Folder 13

Japan

Scope and Content Note

2 photographs.

Box 11-24

Color travel slides

Scope and Content Note

Circa 5500 slides. Only partially identified.

Box 11-12

Italy

Box 13

France

Box 14-15

Spain and Portugal

Box 16

Austria

Box 17

Malta, England, Holland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia

Box 18

Greece and United States

Box 19

Morocco

Box 20-21

Turkey

Box 22-23

India

Box 24

Asia (mostly Japan, Italy and other places

Container list

Working papers, ca. 1910-1987

Travel notebooks and photographs, ca. 1910-1987

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