University of Kentucky College of Design General Records

Abstract

The University of Kentucky College of Design General Records, 1937-2018, 4.35 cubic feet (7 document boxes, 5 flat boxes), .24 megabiytes (16 files), comprises press releases, news clippings, brochures, reports, invitations, announcements, promotional paphlets and booklets, posters, student and faculty projects, symposium and conference proceedings, exhibit and lecture promotional material, and faculty newsletters and memoranda that document operations of the College of Design including its accreditation, faculty and student work, building restoration, exhibitions, symposiums, conferences, internal correspondence/memoranda, course offerings, and the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society.

Descriptive Summary

Title
University of Kentucky College of Design General Records
Date
1937-2018 (inclusive)
1964-2018 (bulk)
Extent
4.35 Cubic Feet
Subjects
Architecture
Architects -- Kentucky
Architectural design
Historic preservation -- Kentucky.
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Architecture -- Study and teaching
Arrangement
Collection is arranged in the order received.
Finding Aid Author
Emily B. Collier, Megan Mummey
Preferred Citation
2017ua034 : [identification of item], University of Kentucky College of Design General Records, 1937-2018, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
Repository
University of Kentucky

Collection Overview

Biography / History
The College of Design's orgins began as an architectural engineering option within the College of Engineering in the 1920s. Professor Charles P. Graves joined the Civil Engineering faculty in 1958, and converted the architectural option to a professional degree program. The curriculum based in mathematics and applied sciences added in arts, humanities, architectural design and history courses.
In 1965, the program became an official School of Architecture with Professor Graves as Dean. That year, the program also received its first accreditation from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The School was recognized as a College by the Board of Trustees in 1970.
The professional degree for interior design was established in 1975, becoming fully accredited in 1981.
The Master of Historic Preservation degree was first offered in 1996.
The School of Architecture would obsorb the School of Interiors and Historic Presrevation Program to become the College of Design in 2002.
Product Design was launched in Fall 2020.
Previously housed within Pence Hall, the College of Design moved into the Gray Design Building, formally the Reynolds Building, a former tobacco warehouse.
Sources:
"College of Design: College History" https://design.uky.edu/about/ Accessed 2024-05-29. [Please note as of 2024-07-30, this site has an incorrect date of 1967 for the change from School to College for the Architecture program. Please see the Board of Trustees meeting mintutes cited below for confirmation of 1970 date.]
0000ua282: Minutes of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, 1970-08-04 (p. 3). Minutes of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, KY. https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt70vt1gj464. Accessed 2024-07-30
Scope and Content
The University of Kentucy College of Design General Records, 1937-2018, 4.35 cubic feet (7 document boxes, 5 flat boxes), .24 megabiytes (16 files), comprises press releases, news clippings, brochures, reports, invitations, announcements, promotional paphlets and booklets, posters, student and faculty projects, symposium and conference proceedings, exhibit and lecture promotional material, and faculty newsletters and memoranda that document operations of the College of Design including its accreditation, faculty and student work, building restoration, exhibitions, symposiums, conferences, internal correspondence/memoranda, course offerings, and the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society. Also included are newspaper clippings/photocopies that document major architectural constructions in Kentucky, with some dating back to 1937.

Restrictions on Access and Use

Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to researchers by appointment
Use Restrictions
Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

Contents of the Collection

Development/history of architecture at UK, 1960-2016

  • Box 1, folder 1
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Newspaper clippings, 1939-2014

  • Box 1, folder 2
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Press releases, 1964-2005

  • Box 1, folder 4
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Pence Hall plans for additions and renovations, 1978

  • Box 1, folder 5
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Hunter M. Adams Architecture Library, 1984-1985

  • Box 1, folder 6
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Historic Preservation Program proposal and support, 1991

  • Box 1, folder 7
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College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky powerpoint, 1998

  • Box 1, folder 8
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Faculty and student organization rules and procedures, undated

  • Box 1, folder 9
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Calendars, 2007-2008

  • Box 2, folder 1
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Course announcements, undated

  • Box 2, folder 2
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College of Architecture information booklet, 1997

  • Box 2, folder 3
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General pamphlets and information, 1969-2001

  • Box 2, folder 4
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Historic Preservation Program informational leaflets, brochures, and course catalogs, undated

  • Box 2, folder 5
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Historic prints of Lexington, undated

  • Box 2, folder 6
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Commencement program and information, 2007

  • Box 2, folder 7
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Field trips, 1990-1992

  • Box 2, folder 8
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Beaux Arts Ball, 1992

  • Box 2, folder 9
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Tau Sigma Delta book adoption for architecture library, 1991-1992

  • Box 2, folder 10
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Tau Signma Delta Honor Society binder, 1970s-1990s

  • Box 2
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Accreditation, 1966

  • Box 3, folder 1
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Accreditation, 1971

  • Box 3, folder 2
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Accreditation, 1976

  • Box 3, folder 3
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Accreditation: 1977 National Architecture Accrediting Board visit and itinerary, 1977

  • Box 3, folder 4
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Accreditation, 1979

  • Box 3, folder 5
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Accreditation, 1981

  • Box 3, folder 6
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Accreditation, 1985

  • Box 3, folder 7
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Accreditation, 1990

  • Box 3, folder 8
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Accreditation, 1991

  • Box 3, folder 9
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Accreditation, 1995

  • Box 3, folder 10
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Accreditation, 1996

  • Box 4, folder 1
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College of Architecture accreditation program report, 2000

  • Box 4, folder 2
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Report of the chariman, curriculum studies, committee to the dean, 1966

  • Box 4, folder 3
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Report on the College of Architecture, 1992

  • Box 4, folder 4
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College of Architecture internal review, 1998-1999

  • Box 4, folder 5
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External program review report, 2004

  • Box 4, folder 6
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Annual report web overview, 2012

  • Box 4, folder 7
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Dean of Architecture search, 1987

  • Box 4, folder 8
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Dean of Architecture search, 1992

  • Box 4, folder 9
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Dean of Architecture search, 1993

  • Box 4, folder 10
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Faculty memoranda, 1987-1992

  • Box 4, folder 11
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Faculty News Views Memoranda newsletter, 1968-1969

  • Box 4, folder 11
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Undergraduate Theses, 1989-1998, undated

  • Box 5, folder 1
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Thesis Committee tapes of meetings, undated

  • Box 5, folder 2
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Undergraduate Thesis Handbook, 1996

  • Box 5, folder 3
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Student awards and programs, 1966-2005

  • Box 5, folder 4
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Cogar Travelling Fellowship, 1988

  • Box 5, folder 5
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Zolondek Travelling Scholarship, 2017

  • Box 5, folder 6
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Binder of photos of projects for studio classes, 1987-1991

  • Box 5
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Exhibits and Lectures, 1964-2013, undated

  • Box 6, folder 1
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Conferences, meetings, seminars and events, 1959-2003, undated

  • Box 6, folder 2
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Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture East Central Region Conference "Forgotten Allies" proceedings, 1998

  • Box 6, folder 3
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Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture East Central Region Meeting "On Change" proceedings, 1988

  • Box 6, folder 4
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"Flashback/Flashward: Architecture and Urbanishm 1960-2000" symposium transcript in 5 volumes, 1999-2000

  • Box 6
Scope and Contents

Speakers and presenters include David Mohney, Sandy Isenstadt, Wallis Miller, Herb Greene, Richard Levine, Deborah Fausch, Raymond Gastil, Grady Clay, Camilo Jose Vergara, Yona Friedman, John Dutton, Stan Allen, Joan Ockman, Patricia Morton, Peter Blake, Alan Colquhoun, Robert Slutzky, Annie Chu, Sheila Kennedy, Charles Graves, Athony Eardley, Jose Oubrerie, Clyde Carpenter, and Jim Gray.

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A City County Government Center for Lexington-Fayette County Kentucky, November 1965

  • Box 7, folder 1
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Student pattern language projects for Clyde Carpenter architecture courses, 1971-1972

  • Box 7, folder 2
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Student work: Plan for the Tiverton Village Small Area, 1976

  • Box 7, folder 3
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Faculty work: Two Principles in the Development of EPS. A Computer Program for the Evaluation of Problem Structure, undated (1960s or 70s)

  • Box 7, folder 4
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Emergency Operating Center projects: Coldsville, Forreston, and Palmway, 1964-1965

  • Box 7, folder 5
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Emergency Operating Center projects: Polvito, Riverton, Tortilla, and Windy City, 1964-1965

  • Box 7, folder 6
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Kentucky Alumni featuring College of Design Kentucky Rivers Project, Spring 2012

  • Box 7, folder 7
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"An Interaction Construct on Housing" Game, 1968

  • Box 7, folder 8
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Student projects, 1971-2006

  • Box 7, folder 9
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Fitchburg Furnace news clippings, 2004

  • Box 7, folder 10
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"Pit and Peak: A Basic Design Study", Spring 1976

  • Box 7, folder 11
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"What is Interior Design"

  • Box 7, folder 12
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Posters, 1985-2018

  • Box 8
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Newspaper clippings and printouts, 1937-2004

  • Box 8
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Cogar Travelling Fellowship project. Plymale, Keith P. "The Edge", undated (1986?)

  • Box 9
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Cogar Travelling Fellowship project. Kane, Patrick., 1987

  • Box 9
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Cogar Travelling Fellowship project. Graham, L., 1988

  • Box 10
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Cogar Travelling Fellowship project. Jaleski, Jennifer Bertossa. "Anasazi Ruins", 1989

  • Box 11
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Zolondek Travelling Scholarship. "What Makes Place?" bound work, undated

  • Box 12
Scope and Contents

Last page includes name Tony Cragg, though true authorship cannot be determined.

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Zolondek Travelling Scholarship. Bowman, Jason. "Trekking Through Time, Space, and Europe" bound work, undated

  • Box 12
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Zolondek Travelling Scholarship Northern Lights Itinerary. Spitler, Daniel., 2001

  • Box 12
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Zolondek Travelling Scholarship Northern Lights Itinerary. Burris, James C., 2002

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Zolondek Travelling Scholarship documentation. Neat, Sam., 2017

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College of Design Annual report, 2013

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Department of Historic Preservation, 2014

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Invitations and announcements, 2011-2012

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Symposium programs, 2011-2012

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The Breckinridge Research Room will be closed starting May 11, 2026, and anticipates re-opening Fall semester 2026 in an alternate location for the duration of the King Library renovation.

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