Peter Blake architectural records and papers, 1910-2006, bulk 1980-2002

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1. Writings and Lectures

Materials are arranged in alphabetical order, following the original folder titles as assigned by Blake as closely as possible.



Box 1 Folder 01 Aluminum Association., undated

Typescript

Proposed outline for booklet.



Box 1 Folder 02 An American Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, edited by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Book review., undated

Typescript



Box 1 Folder 03 "The American Road: Fun or Folly?", 1986-1987

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 04 "American Urban Design and the Art of Our Time.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 05 "AMG in Germany.", undated

Bound volume

Article published inPolitics, Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer 1948.



Box 1 Folder 06 "Arcaded Cities.", circa 2000

Photocopied annotated typescript, photocopied letters to the editor

Includes material related to article "Arcaded Cities" published inArchitecture.



Box 1 Folder 07 [Architectural criticism.], 1977 Jun

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript titled "June 1977" given at the Boston Architectural Center.



Box 1 Folder 08 Architectural criticism., 1980 Sep 23

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 09 Architectural criticism., 1984 Nov 08

Annotated typescript

Noted "Boston SPNEA."



Box 1 Folder 10 Architectural criticism., 1986 Apr 14

Annotated typescript

Noted "Kent State."



Box 1 Folder 11 Architectural criticism., 1988 Sep 15

Annotated typescript

Noted "Minneapolis."



Box 1 Folder 12 Architectural criticism., undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 13 Architecture and Politics., 1948-1949

Articles, bound volume

Includes article "Architectural Freedom and Order: An Answer to Robert W. Kennedy" by Peter Blake and Philip Johnson, published inMagazine of Art, October 1948; article "The Soviet Architecture Purge" by Peter Blake, published inArchitectural Record, September 1949;New Times: A Weekly Journal, August 4, 1948.



Box 1 Folder 14 "Architecture: Plain or Fancy?" Design Quarterly. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN., undated

Bound volume.



Box 1 Folder 15 [Architectural education.], undated

Typescript and photocopied typescript



Box 1 Folder 16 Architectural Forum, untitled manuscript., undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 17 ["…Architecture and Symbolism and Imagery…"], 1984 Nov 30

Annotated typescript

Annotated "Baton Rouge Nov 30, 1984."



Box 1 Folder 18 ["Architecture As If People Mattered."], undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 19 The Architecture of Ulrich Franzen: Selected Works. , 1967, 1994, 1989, 1997-2000

Correspondence, printed papers, list, annotated typescripts, bank statement, postcard

Includes materials related to the book; also correspondence with Ulrich Franzen and Ria Stein, editor at Birkhäuser Verlag.



Box 1 Folder 20 The Architecture of Ulrich Franzen: Selected Works. , 1997-1999

Correspondence, list

Includes materials related to the book; also correspondence with Ulrich Franzen and Ria Stein, editor at Birkhäuser Verlag.



Box 1 Folder 21 "Architecture Without Isms.", undated

Photocopied annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 22 "Architects and Clients.", 1997

Correspondence, annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 23 Aspen Design Conference., undated

Photocopied annotated typescript

Annotated "Talk at Aspen Design Conference?"



Box 1 Folder 24 "A Very Significant Chair" by Peter Blake and Jane Thompson., 1973 May

Annotated photocopy

Original folder title: "I.D. Columns." Article from Architecture Plus.



Box 1 Folder 25 "Beaux-Arts Blues.", 1975

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript titled "Cityscape, New York Magazine - unpublished," 1975,Beaux-Arts Bluesby Peter Blake" related to MoMA Beaux-Arts exhibition.



Box 1 Folder 26 [Berlin Colloquy on Theater Building, Nov. 21st to 25th, 1960.], 1961 Feb 20

Correspondence/annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 27 [Berlin Symposium.], 1967

Annotated typescript

Annotated "Berlin Symposium Dec. 9 to 16, 1967"; Includes materials in German.



Box 1 Folder 28 "The Best.", 1999

Annotated typescript ,correpondence

On Saul Steinberg, forArchitecture.



Box 1 Folder 29 [Best Bet: Ed Logue.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript titled "(Cityscape) Best Bet: Ed Logue by Peter Blake" related to architect Edward J. Logue.



Box 1 Folder 30 Birkhauser, ["Philip Johnson."], 1995-1996

Correspondence, articles



Box 1 Folder 31 Birkhauser, ["Philip Johnson."], 1995-1997

Correspondence, business cards, card, administrative paper



Box 1 Folder 32 Birkhauser, ["Philip Johnson."], 1995-1996, 1998-1999

Correspondence, articles

Includes materials related to Philip Johnson; Kevin Roche; and Ulrich Franzen.



Box 1 Folder 33 Birkhauser; Kevin Roche., 1999

Correspondence



Box 1 Folder 34 Brodovitch, Alexey., 1998

Correspondence, annotated typescript, typescript, notes



Box 1 Folder 35 [Boston/Cambridge Urban Design Challenges.], undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 36 "The Camera.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 37 "Chandigarh - Idea and Reality.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 38 "Chandigarh - Idea and Reality.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 1 Folder 39 Chartres by Louis Gredecki. Book review., undated

Typescript



Box 1 Folder 40 "Cityscapes--Modern Antiques.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 01 "The City Versus Nature.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 02 "Communications Gap.", 1974

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript titled "New York Magazine - unpublished, 1974, Communications Gap" by Peter Blake, related to the telephone.



Box 2 Folder 03 The Conduct of Life by Lewis Mumford. Book review., undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 04 "Confessions of a Modern Architect," Nazareth College., 1975 Mar 2

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 05 ["Constructive Criticism: The Social Critic in American Architecture."], undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 06 "Cosmological Volumentality.", undated

Typescript

On architectural criticism.



Box 2 Folder 07 "Craig Ellwood.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 08 "De-Nazification and Re-Education: The Unaccomplished Tasks in Germany.", 1947 Jun 14

Annotated typescripts

Also includes typescript outline related to post-WWII Germany.



Roll A175.05 "…Delighted To Speak At Your School…," lecture poster, Vienna, Austria., [1995] Jan 30

Offset lithograph



Box 2 Folder 09 Delirious New York, review., undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript review ofDelirious New York.



Roll A175.05 "Direct From New York For One Night Only Peter Blake," lecture poster, Melbourne, Australia., [1970] Oct 14

Silkscreen print



Box 2 Folder 10 "Disneytown." For New York., 1975

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 11 English Colloquialisms by Dr. Frank Yee. Review., undated

Annotated typescripts



Box 2 Folder 12 "Environmental Control and Architecture.", undated

Typescript



Box 2 Folder 13 ["…Failure of Architecture Criticism…"], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes materials related to architecture criticism.



Box 2 Folder 14 "The Fair Next Time.", circa 1964

Typescript

Regarding New York World's Fair, 1964-1965.



Box 2 Folder 15 "Functionalism.", undated

Typescript



Box 2 Folder 16 ["…The future isn't what it used to be…"], undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Speeches I."; Includes typescript related to the quote "The future isn't what it used to be"



Box 2 Folder 17 [Germany, article outline.], 1947 Jun 3

Typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript outline titled "Outline of an Article on Germany."



Box 2 Folder 18 God's Own Junkyard, contact sheets., undated

Contact sheets



Box 2 Folder 19 God's Own Junkyard, contact sheets., undated

Contact sheets



Box 2 Folder 20 God's Own Junkyard, contact sheets., undated

Contact sheets

Also includees materials related to New York City.



Box 2 Folder 21 God's Own Junkyard, contact sheets., undated

Contact sheets

Also includes material related to Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.



Box 2 Folder 22 The Great Ages of Architecture by Bodo Cichy. Book review., undated

Typescript

Also includes other book reviews.



Box 2 Folder 23 The Great Ages of World Architecture: Roman, Baroque and Rococo, and Modern Architecture. Book review., undated

Typescript



Box 2 Folder 24 Hamburg Lecture; Peter Krieger., 1994, 1997

Correspondence

Includes materials in German.



Box 2 Folder 25 [John Hancock Tower.], undated

Annotated original and photocopied typescripts

Text related to John Hancock Tower, Boston, MA.



Box 2 Folder 26 [John Hancock Tower.], 1978, 1981, undated

Annotated typescripts, correspondence

"Draft" noted "Sent to R.C. on 1/20/81." Materials related to John Hancock Tower, Boston, MA; and Henry Cobb.



Box 2 Folder 27 [John Hancock Tower.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to the John Hancock Tower, Boston, MA.



Box 2 Folder 28 Holzbauer, Wilhelm., 1993-1994, undated

Photographs, correspondence, annotated typescript, bound volume

Includes materials related to Blake's foreword to publication on Vienna subway stations designed by Holzbauer.



Box 2 Folder 29 Hong Kong and Japan., 1981, 1989

Correspondence, articles

Includes materials related to prospective lecture at School of Architecture, University of Hong Kong; trip to Japan.



Box 2 Folder 30 "A House on a Mountain.", undated

Typescript



Box 2 Folder 31 "How to Design a Perfect Building," proposal for Book. Never Completed., undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 32 "How to Destroy A City.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 33 Indiana University lecture., 1995

Correspondence, printed paper, article



Box 2 Folder 34 Interior Design columns., 1983, 1984, 1986-1991

Articles



Box 2 Folder 35 Interior Design columns, 1984, 1988-1989, undated

Articles



Box 2 Folder 36 ["…The International Style Today…"], undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 37 [Institute of Design.], undated

Annotated typescript



Box 2 Folder 38 International Building Exposition (IBA), Berlin, unidentified lecture.], 1987 May 15

Photocopied annotated typescript, printed papers

Regarding modern architecture.



Box 2 Folder 39 Ivy, Robert., 1997-1998

Correspondence, note, brochure

Includes materials related to Blake's writing inArchitectural Record.



Box 2 Folder 40 Ivy, Robert., 1996-1998

Correspondence

Includes materials related to Blake's writing inArchitectural Record.



Box 3 Folder 01 "John Andrews.", 1996-1998

Photocopied annotated typescript



Box 3 Folder 02 Johnson, Philip., 1988-1989, 1995-1996, undated

Correspondence, articles, annotated typescript

Includes materials related to the bookThe Complete Works of Philip Johnsonby Peter Blake; articlePhilip Johnson Knows Too Muchby Peter Blake; book review ofPhilip Johnson: Life and Work.



Box 3 Folder 03 Johnson, Philip., 1988, 1995-1996

Correspondence, articles

Includes miscellaneous articles about Johnson; correspondence regardingThe Complete Works of Philip Johnson.



Box 3 Folder 04 Johnson, Philip. Lectures., 1997 Mar

Typescript papers

Includes slide list.



Box 3 Folder 05 Kleihues, Josef Paul., 1989, 1992, 1994, undated

Correspondence, articles, typescripts

Includes typescript titled: "Berlin/New York." Articles in German.



Box 3 Folder 06 Kleihues, Josef Paul., 1987-1991, 1994, 1996

Correspondence, list

Includes materials related to Kleihues; "Berlin/New York - Like and Unlike."



Box 3 Folder 07 Kleihues, Josef Paul., 1988-1989, 1992

Correspondence, list

Includes materials related to Kleihues; "Berlin/New York - Like and Unlike."



Box 3 Folder 08 Kleihues, Josef Paul., 1987-1988

Correspondence, list

Includes materials related to Kleihues; "Berlin/New York - Like and Unlike."



Box 3 Folder 09 Knoll (Pratt)., 1994, 1999, 2001

Correspondence, annotated typescript, postcard, list

Includes correspondence with Florence (Shu) Knoll Bassett.



Box 3 Folder 10 Knoll (Pratt)., 1994, 2000-2001 undated

Correspondence, annotated typescript, typescript, printed papers

Includes materials related to Pratt Awards Ceremony.



Box 3 Folder 11 "Knoll: AIA honors a firm with a lengthy history of commitment to design quality.", 1983

Article



Box 3 Folder 12 "Label, Label on the Wall.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 3 Folder 13 "Le Corbusier.", undated

Annotated typescripts and slide list



Box 3 Folder 14 "Lehman Revisited.", 1975

Annotated typescript

Typescript annotatied "(Cityscape, New York Magazine - unpublished) 1975, Lehman Revisited by Peter Blake." Regarding Lehman Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art.



Box 3 Folder 15 "Lever House Revisited.", undated

Photocopied annotated typescript



Box 3 Folder 16 "Preface to 'The Loss of Integrity.", undated

Photocopied annotated typescript

Also includes "Perhaps the book proposal."



Box 3 Folder 17 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe., undated

Annotated, photocopied typescripts

Typescript titles include: "Mies is More"; one noted: "The New National Gallery in West Berlin."



Box 3 Folder 18 [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.], undated

Typescript

Includes typescript titled "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" related to van der Rohe's furniture.



Box 3 Folder 19 [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to van der Rohe.



Box 3 Folder 20 [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to van der Rohe.



Box 3 Folder 21 [Manhattan, New York.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to Manhattan, New York.



Box 3 Folder 22 ["…The mess that is man-made America…"], undated

Annotated typescript



Box 3 Folder 23 "Mini-Summit.", undated

Photocopied typescript

Regarding European architecture.



Box 3 Folder 24 Miscellaneous articles, undated., undated

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 3 Folder 25 Miscellaneous articles, undated., undated

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 3 Folder 26 Miscellaneous articles, 1960s. [1 of 2], 1962-1964, 1966, 1968-1969, undated

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 3 Folder 27 Miscellaneous articles, 1960s. [2 of 2], 1965-1969

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 3 Folder 28 Miscellaneous articles, 1970s. [1 of 3], 1970-1974, 1978, 1979

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 3 Folder 29 Miscellaneous articles, 1970s. [2 of 3], 1970, 1971, 1974, 1978

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 3 Folder 30 Miscellaneous articles, 1970s. [3 of 3], 1973, 1975, 1978, undated

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 4 Folder 01 Miscellaneous articles, 1980s., 1984, 1986-1989

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 4 Folder 02 Miscellaneous articles, 1990s., 1990-1992, 1995

Articles, clipped and photocopied

Includes articles written by Blake.



Box 4 Folder 03 [Miscellaneous correspondence.], 1960-1964, 1985, 1992, 1994, 1996-1998, 2000

Articles, clipped and photocopied, correspondence, negative.

Include smaterials related to Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; Osborn, Robert; "Architecture as If People Mattered" at University of Cincinnati; correspondence related to Boston Design Center trade show.



Box 4 Folder 04 Miscellaneous slide lists., 1998, undated

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies, bound volume

Includes materials on modern painting and modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 05 Miscellaneous slide lists., 2001, undated

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies, typescript papers

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies, typescript papers



Box 4 Folder 06 Miscellaneous slide lists., undated

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies

Includes materials on modern painting and modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 07 Miscellaneous slide lists., undated

Typescript/handwritten lists, color photocopies

Includes materials on modern painting, modern architecture, and modern furniture.



Box 4 Folder 08 Miscellaneous slide lists., undated

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies

Includes materials on modern painting and modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 09 Miscellaneous slide lists., undated

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies

Includes materials on modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 10 Miscellaneous slide lists., undated

Typescript and manuscript lists, color photocopies

Includes materials on modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 11 [Miscellaneous speech.], circa 1964

Annotated typescript

Content relates to United States architecture and urbanism.



Box 4 Folder 12 [Miscellaneous speech.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes materials in German.



Box 4 Folder 13 [Modern architecture.], 1973 Oct 17

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript titled "UCLA Oct 17, 1973" related to modernism.



Box 4 Folder 14 [Modern architecture.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 15 [Modern architecture.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 16 [Modern architecture.], undated

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript related to modern architecture.



Box 4 Folder 17 "Modern Architecture Revisited." Lecture given in Vienna, April 24, 1995., 1995

Annotated typescript



Box 4 Folder 18 [Modern Furniture, lecture.], [1974?] or [1979?] Mar

Photocopied annotated typescript

Annotated "Lincoln, NE, March [illegible]."



Box 4 Folder 19 "Modern Woman - Man's Best Friend.", undated

Annotated typescripts



Box 4 Folder 20 Monacelli Book., 1998, 2000

Correspondence, typescript, bound volume, articles

Includes materials related to introduction toPrivate Architecture; Typescript titled "Form, Function, Fantasy: 40 Houses of the Century"; back-cover review of book on Marcel Breuer.



Box 4 Folder 21 Monacelli Book., 1997, undated

Correspondence, annotated typescripts, photographs, note

Includes materials related to introduction toPrivate Architecture; Typescripts titled "Dream Houses of the Century," "Form, Function, Fantasy: 40 Houses of the Century."



Box 4 Folder 22 Monacelli Book., 1997-1998, 2000

Correspondence, article

Includes materials related to introduction toPrivate Architecture.



Box 5 Folder 01 Never Leave Well Enough Alone by Raymond Loewy. Book review., undated

Annotated typescript, correspondence, article



Box 5 Folder 02 "New Values In American Housing.", undated

Photocopied typescript

Annotated "Zagreb, Yugoslavia."



Box 5 Folder 03 "The New York Four.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 5 Folder 04 "New York Interview." PCJ etc., 1996, undated

Correspondence, annotated transcript, notes, articles

Includes materials related to interview with Philip Johnson, "Magic Johnson," which appeared inNew York Magazineon June 9th, 1996, draft title: "From Mies to Mickey Mouse"; also includes materials related toNew York Magazine; Barbara Neski and Julian Neski.



Box 5 Folder 05 New York magazine., 1977-1979, 1999, undated

Correspondence, annotated typescripts, articles

Includes materials related to Rem Koolhaas, John Berendt, and Philip Johnson.



Box 5 Folder 06 [New York Public Buildings.], undated

Photocopied annotated typescript



Box 5 Folder 07 "Next Time, Let's Not Junk The Fair.", undated

Annotated typescript

Regarding world's fairs.



Box 5 Folder 08 No Place Like Utopia. , 1982, 1984, 1987-1992, undated

Correspondence



Box 5 Folder 09 No Place Like Utopia. , 1985-1993

Correspondence



Box 5 Folder 10 No Place Like Utopia. , 1990-1992

Correspondence

Includes letters related to permissions/publication.



Box 5 Folder 11 No Place Like Utopia. , 1990, 1992-1994, undated

Correspondence, note, article, annotated typescript



Box 5 Folder 12 No Place Like Utopia. , 1990-1993, 1995

Correspondence

Milton Glaser.



Box 5 Folder 13 No Place Like Utopia. , 1991-1993

Correspondence, photocopied papers

Includes materials related toForm Follows Fiasco



Box 5 Folder 14 No Place Like Utopia. , undated

Correspondence, photographs, typescript papers, negatives, contact sheets

Includes material related to Hans Knoll, Hans Namuth, and unidentified people.



Box 5 Folder 15 No Place Like Utopia. , 1992-1993, undated

Correspondence, annotated typescript



Box 5 Folder 16 No Place Like Utopia. , 1992-1993, undated

Correspondence, bound volume



Box 5 Folder 17 No Place Like Utopia. , 1992-1993, undated

Correspondence, article



Box 5 Folder 18 No Place Like Utopia. , 1993, undated

Correspondence, printed papers

IncludesUtopiabook cover designs.



Box 5 Folder 19 No Place Like Utopia. , 1993-1994, undated

Correspondence, photocopied papers, articles

IncludesUtopiabook reviews.



Box 5 Folder 20 No Place Like Utopia. , 1993-1994

Correspondence

Rosalind Constable; Milton Glaser; Patwant Singh; Witold Rybczynski.



Box 5 Folder 21 No Place Like Utopia. , 1993-1994

Correspondence, postcard

Includes materials related toUtopiareader response; Edgar Tafel.



Box 5 Folder 22 No Place Like Utopia., reviews, 1993-1994

Articles, photocopied papers, correspondence



Box 5 Folder 23 No Place Like Utopia., reviews, 1994

Correspondence

Includes letters from various readers.



Box 5 Folder 24 [NYIT lecture.], 1998-1999

Correspondence



Box 5 Folder 25 "Paging Dr. Freud!", 1976

Annotated typescript

Includes typescript titled "Paging Dr. Freud! The Cooper Hewitt is Off to a Flying Start (Smithsonian - to be published) 1976."



Box 5 Folder 26 "Paperback Architecture Books.", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Miscell. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript review by Peter Blake of contemporary paperback architecture books.



Box 5 Folder 27 "Paul Rudolph.", undated

Annotated typescripts

On Paul Rudolph.



Box 5 Folder 28 ["Paul Rudolph."], 1996

Typescript, correspondence

Interview transcript between Blake and Rudolph.



Box 5 Folder 29 Paul Rudolph, 1998-1999

Correspondence

Miscellanous correspondence re: Blake writing about Rudolph; Speech by Ernst Wagner at the Paul Rudolph House to visiting groups, Fall 1999.



Box 5 Folder 30 "Paul Rudolph: A Very Interesting Architect.", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript titled "Paul Rudolph: A Very Interesting Architect."



Box 5 Folder 31 I.M. Pei, undated

Photocopied typescript



Box 6 Folder 01 "A Perfect Place for a Piazza," in Museum & Arts: Washington., 1988 Mar-1988 Apr

Bound volume

Volume includes article by Blake.



Box 6 Folder 02 Philadelphia Trip., 1993-1994

Correspondence

Includes materials related to studio lecture at University of Pennsylvania.



Box 6 Folder 03 Philip Johnson Lecture, Rice University., 1997 Mar

Annotated typescript and slide list



Box 6 Folder 04 "A Plethora of Plazas.", 1977 Sep 10

Annotated typescript, correspondence

Includes typescript titled "A Plethora of Plazas."



Box 6 Folder 05 "Post-Modern.", undated

Photocopied annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches Pre-1970"; Includes typescript titled "PM."



Box 6 Folder 06 "Post-Modernism.", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches 1970-1979"; Includes typescript related to post-modernism.



Box 6 Folder 07 "Probably the Best.", undated

Annotated typescript

On Paul Rudolph.



Box 6 Folder 08 "Problems in Contemporary Architecture.", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript titled "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" related to problems in contemporary architecture.



Box 6 Folder 09 "The Professional Press.", 1966

Photocopied typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches Pre-1970"; Includes typescript titled "The Professional Press - Speech delivered October 14th, 1966, at the AIA-AID Regional Conference (Western Mountain Region) in Santa Fe, New Mexico"



Box 6 Folder 10 "Recycling in the Time of Glasnost.", undated

Photocopied annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Talks, drafts of publications (incl. preface to what became No Place Like Utopia) from 1980s/or early 1990s? *original title: 'The Loss of Integrity'"; Includes typescript titled "Recycling in the Time of Glasnost" and labeled "Maybe published inInterior Design? Late 1980s? Early 1990s?"



Box 6 Folder 11 "Report on Moscow.", 1959 Sep 01

Correspondence/annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript related to American National Exhibition in Moscow.



Box 6 Folder 12 Reviews of monographs on Le Corbusier and others., Circa 1960

Typescript

Includes reviews ofMasters of World Architecture: Le Corbusier, by Francoise Choay;Frank Lloyd Wright, by Vincent Scully;Pier Luigi Nervi, by Ada Louise Huxtable;Antonio Gaudi, by George R. Collins;Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, by Arthur Drexler;Alvar Aalto, by Frederick Gutheim.



Box 6 Folder 13 Reviews of monographs on Louis Kahn and others., Circa 1961-1964

Annotated typescript

Includes reviews ofMakers of Contemporary Architecture: Louis I. Kahn, by Vincent Scully;Philip Johnson, by John M. Jacobus, Jr.;Eero Saarinen, by Allan Temko;R. Buckminster Fuller, by John McHale;Kenzo Tange, by Robin Boyd.



Box 6 Folder 14 Reviews of The Natural House, by Frank Lloyd Wright; Walter Gropius and Work and Team Work, by Siegfried Giedion., undated

Annotated typescript



Box 6 Folder 15 Reviews of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro., Circa 1974

Photocopied annotated typescript



Box 6 Folder 16 "Second Thoughts.", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript titled "Second Thoughts" related to post-WWII Germany.



Box 6 Folder 17 Seldes, Timothy., 1980, 1982-1984, 1987-1989, 1995

Correspondence

Includes materials related toHow to Design a Perfect Building;Form Follows Fiasco.



Box 6 Folder 18 Seldes, Timothy., 1979-1985, 1987, 1993, 1995

Correspondence

Includes materials related toForm Follows Fiasco;The Master Builders.



Box 6 Folder 19 Seldes, Timothy., 1978, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995-1998

Correspondence

Includes materials related toForm Follows Fiasco;The Master Builders;No Place Like Utopia. Materials in French.



Box 6 Folder 20 "Slaughter on Sixth Avenue.", 1969

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Materials, Lecture Notes, Unpublished Articles, Correspondence"; Includes typescript titled "(New York Magazine - published) 1969,Slaughter on Sixth Avenueby Peter Blake" related to contemporary construction on Sixth Avenue.



Box 6 Folder 21 "SoHo: City Planning Without Planners.", 1976

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript titled "STERN Magazine-to be published 1976,SoHoCity Planning without City Planners."



Box 6 Folder 22 "Sources of Inspiration.", 1985 Feb 23

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Speeches I."; Includes typescript labeled "ASILOMAR 2/23/85" related to Blake's sources of inspiration.



Box 6 Folder 23 "The Soviet Architecture Purge.", 1949, undated

Typescript, article

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript titled "The Soviet Architecture Purge" and corresponding article.



Box 6 Folder 24 "Space and Light: Games of Content.", 1978 Jan 18

Annotated typescript, correspondence

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript titled "Space and Light: Games of Content" related to the role of architects in architecture.



Box 6 Folder 25 Story Suggestions, Architecture., 1961 Mar 20

Correspondence/typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript related to story suggestions.



Box 6 Folder 26 "Technology and Education.", undated

Annotated typescript



Box 6 Folder 27 "Theme park America.", circa 1986

Photocopied annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Speeches I."; Includes typescript titled "Theme park America."



Box 6 Folder 28 Tokyo II Lecture., 1989

Typescript lectures

Typescript titled "D-Space Seminar, Tokyo, October 24, 1989."



Box 6 Folder 29 Tucson - May 11., 1980, 1987, 1993-1996

Correspondence, administrative papers, articles, note

Includes materials related to lecture at University of Arizona, Tucson.



Box 6 Folder 30 "Tugendhat.", 1999

Correspondence, annotated typescript

On Tugendhat, forArchitecture.



Box 6 Folder 31 "The Ugly America.", undated

Typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript titled "Second Draft, Blake, The Ugly America."



Box 6 Folder 32 "Unbuilt America.", 1977 Aug 12

Annotated typescript, photocopied papers, correspondence

Includes typescript titled "Unbuilt America, For the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians -- 1977."



Box 6 Folder 33 University of Houston Lecture - 1994 Oct 26-28., 1984, 1987, 1993-1994

Correspondence, articles, note

Includes materials related to lecture at University of Houston.



Box 6 Folder 34 University of Kentucky symposium., 1999

Correspondence, printed papers

Includes materials related to symposium at University of Kentucky, 1999 Sep 17-18.



Box 6 Folder 35 University of Kentucky symposium., 1999

Correspondence, annotated typescript, printed papers, postcard

Includes materials related to symposium at University of Kentucky, 1999 Sep 17-18.



Box 6 Folder 36 "Urban America.", 1966

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches Pre-1970"; Includes typescript titled "Urban America June 12-13, 1966."



Box 6 Folder 37 "Venice, Mass.", undated

Typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript titled "Venice, Mass." related to city planning.



Box 6 Folder 38 "Walled Island.", undated

Photocopied annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Talks, drafts of publications (incl. preface to what becameNo Place Like Utopia) from 1980s/or early 1990s? *original title: 'The Loss of Integrity"; Includes typescript titled "Walled Island" related to Stralsund, Germany.



Box 6 Folder 39 Washington, D.C., 1979 Nov 12

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches 1970-1979"; Includes typescript titled "Dumbarton Oaks, Nov. 12, 1979" related to Washington, D.C. architecture.



Box 6 Folder 40 Washington, D.C., 1978

Annotated typescript, correspondence

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript related to Washington, D.C.'s architecture.



Box 6 Folder 41 "West Berlin's IBA: A City Re-Invents Itself.", 1980

Annotated typescript, correspondence

Article published in Smithsonian Magazine.



Box 7 Folder 01 "What Is A City?", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches Pre-1970"; Includes typescript titled "What Is A City."



Box 7 Folder 02 "What is Modern Architecture?", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Miscell. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript titled "What is Modern Architecture?"



Box 7 Folder 03 "What is Urban Design?", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Speeches I."; Includes typescript titled "Why Urban Design."



Box 7 Folder 04 "What on Earth is Style?", undated

Photocopies annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript titled "Early Copy, What on Earth is Style."



Box 7 Folder 05 "When Less Is More and More Is Less." GSD News., 1996, undated

Correspondence, annotated typescript



Box 7 Folder 06 "When Utopia Was Young." Manuscript I., undated

Annotated typescripts

Includes materials related toNo Place Like Utopia.



Box 7 Folder 07 "Who Really Designs Buildings?", 1988 Jun 24

Typescript, correspondence

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles 1980-1989; Includes typescript related to myriad building designers.



Box 7 Folder 08 "Why Urban Design.", undated

Annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Speeches Pre-1970"; Includes typescript titled "Why Urban Design."



Box 7 Folder 09 "Young Architects in the United States.", undated

Typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Lectures and Articles"; Includes typescript titled "Young Architects in the United States."



Box 7 Folder 10 ["…U.S. architectural journalism…"], undated

Photocopied annotated typescript

Original folder title: "Misc. Speeches I."; Includes typescript titled "Houston" and related to architectural journalism.



Box 7 Folder 11 Vancouver symposium., 1995

Correspondence, article

Includes materials related to Lambda Alpha International, 31st Biennial Congress.



Box 7 Folder 12 Vienna lecture and trip., 1995, undated

Correspondence, printed cards

Includes materials in German; Lecture titled "Peter Blake: Modern Architecture Revisited."



Box 7 Folder 13 Zodiac [1 of 2]., 1996-1997

Correspondence, card

Includes materials related to essay "From Mies to Mickey Mouse" by Peter Blake inZodiac16.



Box 7 Folder 14 Zodiac [2 of 2]., 1996, undated

Correspondence

Includes materials related to essay "From Mies to Mickey Mouse" by Peter Blake inZodiac16.



Box 7 Folder 15 Zographos, Nicos., 1995, 2000

Bound typescript

Book outline.



Box 7 Folder 16 Zurich E.T.H. lectures., 1996-1997, undated

Correspondence

Includes materials related to lectures at the E.T.H. in Zurich, one titled "The future isn't what it used to be…"; Some materials in German.



Box 7 Folder 17 Zurich E.T.H. lectures., 1997, undated

Correspondence, annotated typescript

Includes materials related to lectures at the E.T.H. in Zurich; annotated typescript titled "The future isn't what it used to be…"