Barton Phelps drawings 0000366
Finding aid prepared by Julia Larson
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
08/13/2018
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
Title: Barton Phelps papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000366
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
11.0 Linear feet
Date: 1986-1991
creator:
Phelps, Barton
Barton Phelps (b. 1946, Brooklyn, NY) is a Los Angeles based architect who grew up in Westfield, NJ and Highland Park, IL.
He received his architecture degree from Yale University, where he was a student of Vincent Scully, Jr. After graduating from
Yale, he worked for Sir Colin St. John Wilson and Partners in London. Phelps moved to Los Angeles and worked for Frank Gehry.
Phelps worked with Charles Moore, Urban Innovations Group, and was a partner with Marc Appleton in Appleton/Phelps Architets.
He taught architecture at Rice University in Houston in the late 1970s; in Los Angeles he taught at UCLA and was Assistant
Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning from 1980-1983. Phelps opened his own firm in Los Angeles in
1984, Barton Phelps & Associates. In 1993, Phelps was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
The Barton Phelps collection is a growing collection. It consists of 7 rolls of drawings for the Clark Library at UCLA, containing
copies of the original Robert Farquhar drawings, unbuilt gatehouse restoration, master plan and site plans, and schemes and
final plans for the North Range of the Library grounds. There are also 11 presentation boards featuring photographs and renderings
of the Clark Library and North Range. Additionally, there is one notebook with slides and photographs of the Library, as well
as a small box with a bound report and magazines.
Gift of Barton Phelps, 2018
Conditions Governing Access note
Unprocessed collection; contact repository for information regarding access.
Open for educational and research use; copyright retained by Barton Phelps.