Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Burton, Pamela, 1948-, Burton, Pamela, 1948-, and Hertz, Richard, 1940-
- Abstract:
- Pamela Burton & Company, an internationally recognized and award-winning landscape architecture firm, has maintained a collection of archives spanning nearly forty-five years of design work. In 1975, Pamela Burton established the company in Santa Monica, California, where the firm has remained ever since. Pamela Burton & Company works in a variety of project typologies and scales, including residential, large-scale residential, commercial, institutional, and municipal. The goal has always been to integrate and harmonize the disciplines of landscape, architecture, and art in a site's cultural and physical environment, while being committed to sustainable design. The archival collection contains both physical and digital material that reveal Pamela Burton & Company's design processes and procedures, project documentation, and firm recognition.
- Extent:
- 1058.2 linear feet (186 boxes, 225 map folders), 7.5 linear feet (7 unprocessed boxes), 855 Gigabytes (11,448 files, 532 folders), and 6 audiovisual carriers (6 unprocessed videocassettes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Pamela Grace Burton papers (Collection 2428). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The physical part of the collection includes project rolls of drawings and construction documents; project booklets of presentations and site imagery; project binders of proposals and contracts; slide films of project photography and Pamela Burton's academic research; publications of books and articles about the firm and Pamela Burton; Pamela Burton's project composition notebooks; three-dimensional scale models; and Pamela Burton's personal journals. This collection of hand-drawn and printed material presents all aspects of the firm's projects, from preliminary concepts, revisions, and sketches, to final completion. The work produced over more than four decades displays Pamela Burton's design philosophy and passion, as well as that of all of the team members collectively. The digital portion of the collection is a digitized copy of some of the physical media mentioned above. The digital material includes scans of sketches, diagrams, drawings, construction documents, surveys, and maps. The significant details of most projects have been scanned into the computer as digital files. The wide assortment of material in this collection demonstrate the evolution of landscape architecture design practice, methodology, and technology throughout the years. In particular, from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the collection exemplifies the crucial shift of design work produced by hand into the display of work through computer-aided design.
- Biographical / historical:
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Pamela Burton & Company, an internationally recognized and award-winning landscape architecture firm, has maintained a collection of archives spanning nearly forty-five years of design work. In 1975, Pamela Burton established the company in Santa Monica, California, where the firm has remained ever since. Pamela Burton & Company works in a variety of project typologies and scales, including residential, large-scale residential, commercial, institutional, and municipal. The goal has always been to integrate and harmonize the disciplines of landscape, architecture, and art in a site's cultural and physical environment, while being committed to sustainable design. Pamela Burton & Company continues to create comprehensive landscape architecture design styles for both private and public spaces around the world.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Pamela Grace Burton and Richard Alan Hertz, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Elizabeth Gost, under the supervision of Jasmine Larkin, 2022. The original arrangement and folder titles created by PB&Co were retained.
Accession LSC-2023-008 processed by Erika Pesca and Elizabeth Gost, under the supervison of Jasmine Larkin, 2023. The original arrangement and folder titles created by PB&Co were retained.
Pamela Grace Burton's digital materials were received on 1 hard drive. All digital file naming, organization, and arrangement created by PB&Co was retained. Digital materials processed by Shira Peltzman and Jasmine Larkin, 2022.
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- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS DIGITAL MATERIALS: This collection contains processed digital materials. All requests to access digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are not currently available for access and will require further processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email AskLSC@library.ucla.edu.
- Physical location:
- Portions of the collection stored off-site. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Physical facet:
- Files transferred from 1 hard drive.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Portions of collection unprocessed. Unprocessed oversize material is unavailable for access. Please see LSC's Access to Unprocessed Collections Policy for more information about levels of discovery and access of special collections materials and registering interest in unprocessed collections.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Pamela Grace Burton papers (Collection 2428). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988