Klaus Herdeg papers, 1963-1992

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Series VII: The Decorated Diagram


Subseries 1: Drafts



Box 12 Folder 01 Manuscript, undated

Bound manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era," labelled "Original Pix"; Xeroxes of "Preface (draft I)"



Box 12 Folder 02 Manuscript [1 of 2], undated

Unbound manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era," labelled "No Pix, No Annotations, No Appendices, as submitted to MIT"



Box 12 Folder 03 Manuscript [2 of 2], undated

Notes for Preface; Xeroxes of "Preface (draft I)," labelled "ca. Sept. 79"; loose Xeroxes of "I. Introduction"; Xeroxes of "Figures"



Box 12 Folder 04 Manuscript, undated

Bound manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era," labelled "Work Copy CR"



Box 12 Folder 05 Manuscript, undated

Bound manuscript of "The Decorated Diagram: A Critique of the Teaching of Architecture at Harvard in the 1940s under Walter Gropius and of Buildings Produced by Graduates of that Era"



Box 12 Folder - Manuscript, undated

Manuscript titled "The Decorated Diagram," in red three-ring binder



Box 12 Folder 06 Invoices, 1982

Invoices : 2 items


Subseries 2: Research



Box 12 Folder 07 "Formal Structure Table Story (Origs.)", 1969, undated

Newspaper clippings; Xeroxes; notes



Box 12 Folder 08 Index cards, undated

Research material for "The Decorated Diagram," organized on index cards and arranged in five categories: "Gen. Ideas," "Scope of Total," Rel. Articles," "Harvard Pers. Research," and "Biographies"



Box 12 Folder 09 "Notes past and current", undated

Handwritten notes



Box 12 Folder 10 "GSD problems as given, Master Class", undated

Handwritten notes; Xeroxes of syllabi from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1946-53



Box 12 Folder 11 Appendices, undated

Xeroxes of syllabi from Harvard Graduate School of Design; notes



Box 12 Folder 12 Diagrams, undated

Xeroxes; diagrams by Herdeg : 2 items



Box 12 Folder 13 1: Marcel Breuer, undated

Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; notes



Box 12 Folder 14 3: Edward L. Barnes '42 [1 of 2], undated

Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; The Asia Society 25th Anniversary Capital Fund Campaign News vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring 1980)



Box 12 Folder 15 3: Edward L. Barnes '42, SUNY Purchase Exhibition Material [2 of 2], undated

Clippings; Xeroxes; leaflets; photographs : 38 items; slides 2 items; negatives : 3 items



Box 12 Folder 16 4: John M. Johansen '42, undated

Xeroxes



Box 12 Folder 17 5: Philip Johnson, undated

Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; notes; The Architectural Forum vol. 183, no. 1 (January/February 1973); Progressive Architecture (February 1984); map of Lincoln Nebraska; negatives of 1001, 5th Avenue : 3 items



Box 12 Folder 18 Johnson vs. Schinkel, undated

Xeroxes; notes; acetate of Altes Museum floor plan : 1 item; syllabus



Box 12 Folder 19 6: Eduardo Catalano '45, undated

Xerox



Box 12 Folder 20 7: I. M. Pei '46, Cobb '49, Cossutta '52, undated

Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; New York Times Magazine (May 20, 1979; January 23, 1983; August 14, 1983); photograph : 1 item; acetates of Johnson Museum : 2 items



Box 12 Folder 21 8: Paul Rudolph '47, undated

Newspaper clipping; Xerox; CV



Box 12 Folder 22 9: Victor Lundy '48, undated

Xeroxes; notes



Box 12 Folder 23 10: Ulrich Franzen '48, undated

Newspaper clippings; Xeroxes



Box 12 Folder 24 11: TAC, undated

Newspaper clipping



Box 12 Folder 25 12: John Carl Warnecke '42, undated

Xeroxes; notes



Box 12 Folder 26 13: William J. Conklin '50, Nicholas Satterlee '43, Ernest Kump '43, Lawrence Halprin '44, undated

Xeroxes



Box 12 Folder 27 Miscellaneous related articles, undated

Newspaper and journal clippings; Xeroxes; notes; letter from Edward L. Barnes announcing selection of Henry N. Cobb as Chairmen of the Architecture Department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design



Box 12 Folder 28 GSD Bulletins, undated

Xeroxes; notes



Box 12 Folder 29 l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui "Walter Gropius et son ecole", 1950 Feb

Xeroxes; notes


Subseries 3: Books



Box 12 Books, 1983-88

Klaus Herdeg, (softcover) "The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy," (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983): 2 copies; Klaus Herdeg, (hardcover) "The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy," (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983): 1 copy; Klaus Herdeg, (hardcover) "Die Geschmuuckte Formal, Harvard: Das Bauhaus-Erbe und sein amerikanischer Verfall," (Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1988): 1 copy