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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Pamela Grace Burton papers
Creator:
Burton, Pamela, 1948-
source:
Burton, Pamela, 1948-
source:
Hertz, Richard, 1940-
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2428
Physical Description:
108 Linear Feet
(99 boxes)
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear Feet
(7 unprocessed boxes)
Physical Description:
855 Gigabytes
(11,448 files, 532 Folders)
Files transferred from 1 hard drive.
Date (inclusive): 1970-2018
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.
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.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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.
[Identification of item], Pamela Grace Burton papers (Collection 2428). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9996904111806533
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Pamela Grace Burton and Richard Alan Hertz, 2022.
Processed by Elizabeth Gost, under the supervision of Jasmine Larkin, 2022. 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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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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women landscape architects
Landscape architecture
Burton, Pamela, 1948-
Hertz, Richard, 1940-