Power (Nancy Goslee) & Associates records, circa 1980-circa 2010

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Summary

Title:
Nancy Goslee Power & Associates records
Dates:
circa 1980-circa 2010
Creators:
Nancy Goslee Power & Associates. and Power, Nancy Goslee
Extent:
100.0 Linear feet (39 boxes, 5 portfolios, 642 tubes and circa 106 loose rolls of drawings)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Nancy Goslee Power & Associates records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The Nancy Goslee Power & Associates records span 100 linear feet and date from circa 1980 to circa 2010. The collection is composed of landscape architecture drawings, photographic prints, slides, and reference material. Architectural drawings which are organized by project include: working and preliminary drawings, sketches, presentation drawings, and finalized plans. Some of the projects documented in the collection include: the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, California), Frank Gehry residence (Santa Monica, California), Ventura Museum of Art (Ventura, California), and the Norton Simon Museum (Los Angeles, California), among many others. Photographic prints and slides are organized by project. The collection is also composed of reference materials which take the form of three-ring binders composed of clippings from magazines, as well as Polaroid photographs and plant lists.

Biographical / historical:

Nancy Goslee Power & Associates is a landscape and garden design firm based in Santa Monica, California. Founded circa 1977, the firm has designed over 150 public and private gardens. Over the course of the firm’s history, Nancy Goslee Power & Associates has collaborated with prominent architects and architectural firms, such as Frank Gehry Partners, Johnson Fain Partners, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Michael Maltzan, and Koning Eizenberg Architects. Completing projects throughout California and the larger United States, Europe, Asia, the firm has won numerous awards and many of their projects have been featured in publications such as Architectural Record, Garden Design, Landscape Architecture, House & Garden, among others. Some of the firms more notable landscape projects include those for the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California), Inner-City Arts (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and Moraga Vineyard (Los Angeles, California).

Custodial history:

Gift of Nancy Goslee Power, August 2012.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-11-26T15:29-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

Nancy Goslee Power & Associates records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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