Ernest Born architectural drawings of medieval aisled timber halls, ca. 1944-ca. 1981

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Summary

Creators:
Born, Ernest, 1898-
Abstract:
Architect and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Architectural drawings document English, French, and Dutch and Belgian vernacular buildings of the 13th and 14th centuries, including churches, tithe barns, manor halls, hospitals, and market halls.
Extent:
800.0 items
Language:
Collection material is in English

Background

Scope and content:

A series of architectural drawings, executed in ink and pencil, of 13th and 14th centuries English, French, Dutch and Belgian vernacular buildings, consisting of ground plans, site plans, structural details, and elevations, some 800 items in all, as well as some photostats, photographs, and maps. Produced in collaboration with Walter Horn as part of an unpublished study of medieval 3-aisled timber halls, they document churches, tithe barns, manor halls, hospitals, and market halls, representing over fifty buildings, 30 English, 20 French, one Dutch, and one Belgian.

Arrangement note

The collection is arranged by countries, in 3 series: Series I: Architectural drawings: French barns, ca. 1944-ca. 1981; Series II. Architectural drawings: Dutch and Belgian barns, ca. 1944-ca. 1981; Series III. Architectural drawings: English barns, ca. 1944-ca. 1981.

Biographical / historical:

Ernest Born (1898-) was an architect, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a frequent collaborator of Walter Horn, whose related papers the repository also holds. One of their best-known collaborations resulted in the exhaustive study, The Plan of St. Gall, 1979. They also wrote on medieval timber hall structures in the 1965 publication, Barns of the Abbey of Beaulieu at its granges of Great Coxwell & Beaulieu-St. Leonards.

Acquisition information:
Acquired in 1992 from the Born estate.
Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts

Access and use

Location of this collection:
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, US
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(310) 440-7390
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