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This large collection documents in great detail the architectural projects of Abraham Geller and his colleagues throughout the United States and abroad, spanning the 1940s through the 1990s. Types of projects represented include retirement homes, recreational facilities, medical centers, private residences and prototype dwellings for large residential developments, urban renewal projects, and offices.

The papers of Béla Király include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, and materials related to two organizations he was involved with, the Hungarian Freedom Fighters and the Program on Society in Change. The papers are from Király's time in the United States (circa 1957 to 1989).

Projects represented in the collection include Arcadia University Commons (Glenside, PA) ; Arcadia University Landman Library (Glenside, PA) ; Brooklyn College Master Plan (Brooklyn, NY) ; Case Western Reserve University Adelbert Hall (Cleveland, OH) ; College of Wooster Ebert Art Center (Wooster, OH) ; Columbia University Computer Science Building (New York, NY) ; Columbia University Hamilton Hall (New York, NY) ; Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Master Plan (Palisades, NY) ; Dan M. Russell, Jr., U.S. Courthouse (Gulfport, MS) ; Dartmouth College Roth Center for Jewish Life (Hanover, NH) ; Epstein Studio ; Franklin & Marshall College Roschel Performing Arts Center (Lancaster, PA) ; Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Visitor & Education Center (Hyde Park, NY) ; Wender, Murase, and White Law Office (New York, NY) ; Long Island Rail Road Entrance at Penn Station (New York, NY) ; New York City PS 54 (New York, NY) ; New York University Languages & Literature Building (New York, NY) ; Princeton University Computer Science Building (Princeton, NJ) ; residential projects ; Smith College Master Plan (Northampton, MA) ; SUNY at Albany Arts & Science Building (Albany, NY) ; U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Brooklyn, NY) ; University of Kentucky Main Building (Lexington, KY) ; University of Virginia Life Sciences Building (Charlottesville, VA) ; Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock, NY) ; Woodstock Master Plan and Sidewalk District Plan (Woodstock, NY) ; Yale University Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (New Haven, NY) ; Young Women's Christian Association (Kingston, NY).

This collection contains materials related to Chermayeff's personal, professional, and academic lives, the bulk originating during his residency in the United States, beginning in the late 1930s. Project records document the full range of his work, including many records from his British period. The collection also contains extensive correspondence with personal friends, clients, and professional and academic colleagues.