This series comprises of his professional work outside of particular projects, including historical research, case studies, reports, guidelines, lecture notes, articles, and papers. The series is arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 16 Folder 36
AIA relations, 1967, 1973
Lecture by Dorsett to Mississippi chapter (Feb. 3, 1967); AIA letter of appointment to Architecture for Criminal Justice Comm. (Dec. 21, 1973)
Box 16 Folder 37
Article, 1970
Dorsett, "Broader Goals for the Architect and Government in Community Planning,"AIA Government Affairs Review70:10, November 1970
Box 16 Folder 38
Article, 1964
Clyde H. Dorsett and James Falick, "Designs link Mental Health Facilities with Community Activities"(Hospitals: Journal of the AHA, 1964)
Box 16 Folder 39
Article, 1964
Dorsett, "New Directions in Mental Health Facilities,"AIA Journal, November 1964 (Includes two unattributed loose photos kept by Dorsett in original file)
Box 16 Folder 40
Article (?), undated
Dorsett,Furniture for the Community Mental Health Center
Box 16 Folder 41
Article, undated
Dorsett, "The Suicidal Patient and their Treatment Environment" (Journal?)
Box 16 Folder 42
Articles on Dorsett, various
Box 16 Folder 43
Binder, 1980
Dorsett, Design for Psychiatric Emergency Facilities (Draft document); includes loose notebook pages on history of mental health services in America
Box 16 Folder 44
Book review by Dorsett, undated
"Handbook/ Changing Places & Settings,"Architecture/Research/Construction
Box 16 Folder 45
Book review by Dorsett, 1976
Dorsett, Review: "Handbook: Changing Places and Settings,"Hospital and Community Psychiatry27 (8): 590-1
Box 16 Folder 46
CMHC Act, Regulations, various
Dorsett's letter on CMHC regulations; published guide to ammended Act; Recognition of Dorsett's contribution to (cash award recommendation)
Box 16 Folder 47
Copied sources, undated, 1892
Brice Hospital (formally Alabama Insane Hospital, 1852-1861). Includes history of the hospital (2 copies) and plan
Box 16 Folder 48
Copied sources, excerpts, 1966, 1980, 1989
Folder entitled: "NIMH: Community Program History;" Excerpts from journals
Box 16 Folder 49
Copied sources, excerpts, 1962, 1964, undated
Folder entitled: "Fort Logan: A Community-Oriented Program" (history of); includes Dorsett's notes on history of Fort Logan
Box 17 Folder 1
Design Report, 1980
Clyde H. Dorsett and Constance M. Callahan, "Design for Psychiatric Emergency Facilities;" includes "Attachment 'C' Environmental Patterns"
Box 17 Folder 2
Document, 1972
Dorsett, "Request for a Sabbatical Position" submitted 28 Sept. 1972. 2 copies
Box 17 Folder 3
Draft Guidelines, 1969
Dorsett, LaRue Jones, Wittman, "Draft Guidelines … for CMHC: Environmental Support (Architecture)," Dec. 1969
Roll A092M.10b
Drawings, undated
Country House Project (unlabeled, by Dorsett)
Box 17 Folder 4
Environ. Design Objectives, undated
Matrix sheet. Dorsett writes: "Jake, this is a list of those environmental design objectives which I used in cosidering the children's well-being"
Box 17 Folder 5
Environ. Design Research, 1977
Environ. Design Research Project, Care and Treatment Facilities for Mentally Ill, University of Washington, Ontario, Canada
Box 17 Folder 6
Environmental Patterns Kit, 1968-70
Annotated and expanded version ofA Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-service Centers, by Christopher Alexander et al.
Box 17 Folder 7
Excerpts, notes, 1980-81
Elements of Mental Health Facilities Design & ephemera
Box 17 Folder 8
Guidelines, undated
Dorsett,Physical Planning Guidelines for Community Mental Health Centers
Box 17 Folder 9
Guidelines, undated
Miscellaneous study of various facility spaces (Inpatient, Outpatient, Community Education, Emergency and Admitting); includes diagram transparencies
Box 17 Folder 10
Guidelines, late 60s/early 70s
Dorsett,A Place for Suicide(Guidelines). Includes Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language components
Box 17 Folder 11
Guidelines, undated
Dorsett,Architectural Directives; (For an unindentified or generic project)
Box 17 Folder 12
Guidelines, 1977
Karalis, Dorsett,Reuse of Buildings for Mental Health Facilities "Workbook,"Rhode Island School of Design Grant No. 1 R12 MH 27596-01 (for New England States)
Box 17 Folder 13
Historical Materials, undated
History of Psychiatric Architecture
Box 17 Folder 14
Itineraries, brochures, 1966
From folder entitled: "Mr. Dorsett's European Trip"; includes unidentified photo contact sheet, various itineraries, brochures, plans
Box 17 Folder 15
Letter, 1977
Community Support Program: Request for Advice (Vanessa M. Dazio, Occupational Therapist, Oct. 7, 1977)
Box 17 Folder 16
Letter to the Editor, ca. 1979
Dorsett-Ozarin,Open Form. Response to Davis Glick Rosow'sThe Architecture Design of a Psychoterapeutic Milieu
Box 17 Folder 17
Letterheads, ca. 1981
Dorsett's letterheads and stationery for his private consultancy practice
Box 17 Folder 18
Letters, 1952-56
Dorsett's letters of employment (application and recommendation) with various architects in North and South Carolina
Box 17 Folder 19
Logo, undated (ca. 1982)
Dorsett: Design of his private consultancy letterhead logo
Box 20
Magnetic Audio Tape, 1961, 1 open reel audiotapes
1 reel : Proceedings of Training Program on Juvenile D.[delinquency], Jan. 17-19, 1961
Box 20
Magnetic Audio Tape, 1967, 6 open reel audiotapes
6 reels : AIA conference Oct. 2, 1967 p.m. Reels 3 & 4; Oct. 3, 1967 a.m. Reels 5 & 6; p.m. Reels 6 & 8 (Reels 1 & 2 missing)
Box 20
Magnetic Audio Tape, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes
1 reel : entitled: "5. A Mental Health Program in Hawaii - Dr. Kendall Wallis"
Box 17 Folder 20
Matrix, undated
Dorsett, Matrix for Planning & Design of Therapeutic Recreation Facilities; includes five slides of parts of the matrix
Box 17 Folder 21
Memo, undated
Buker's paper, revision of current CMHC legislation; includes NIMH organization structure chart. (From folder entitled: "Adv. ADHOC Committee. Environ. for M.H.")
Box 17 Folder 22
Miscellaneous, 1965
Hospital visit reports (various), CMHCs for children (e.g. Fernhook, Delaware), maximum security psychiatric hospitals (Butner, N. Carolina)
Box 17 Folder 23
Miscellaneous, 1996, undated
City map of Norman, Oklahoma, Photo of unidentified hospital, project file card, Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program leaflet
Box 17 Folder 24
Miscellaneous, 1950s
Dorsett's early office projects (1950s)
Box 17 Folder 25
Miscellaneous, various
Miscellaneous from folder entitled "Metropolitan" (lecture notes, journal project notes, photographs)
Box 17 Folder 26
Miscellaneous Photos, 1967, 1970s
From album entitled "Clyde Dorsett 'Superstar'", 2 Buckminster Fuller; 3 of conference c. 1967; 3 copies of Dorsett's portrait; 2 small color photos of Dorsett in 1970s
Box 17 Folder 27
Newsclippings, Articles, 1978
Adamha NewsIV: 4, March 1978. Sent to Dorsett by Steven Sharfstein, MD, Acting Director, DMHSP, NIMH
Box 17 Folder 28
Note, undated
Dorsett,Mental Health and Architecture(handwritten note);The Architecture of Mental Health(typed)
Box 17 Folder 29
Notes, ca. 1986
Historical research on the evolution of the psychiatric hospital; includes index cards on "architectural goals"
Box 17 Folder 30
Notes, undated
Dorsett, environment statement on location and provisions for children/adolescents at MH facilities - to appear in "Fundamental Principles" chapter [book?]
Box 17 Folder 31
Notes, 1970-71
Slide Show for APA Conference, May 12-15, 1970, San Francisco
Box 17 Folder 32
Notes (for speech?), undated
Dorsett,Hospital for the Insane of the Army & Navy and the District of Columbia(Handwritten notes)
Box 17 Folder 33
Notes, copied sources, undated
Folder entitled: "Kirkbride: Hospitals for the Insane" (history of); includes handwritten (lecture?) notes and copy extract (unidentified book), historic souvenir
Box 17 Folder 34
Office Records, ca. 1995
Matrix of Past Projects (Aborted attempt at organizing past project files. First page only filled in)
Box 17 Folder 35
Paper, undated
Dorsett,Architectural Aspects of HALFWAY HOUSES for the mentally ill
Box 17 Folder 36
Paper, undated
Dorsett, "A Responsive Environment: Two Designs in Better Care for the Mentally Impaired." (Originally labeled: Paper - A responsive Environ. NIMH/HSQB Contract)
Box 17 Folder 37
Paper, 1977
Dorsett, "CMHC and Architecture: The CMHC and its Total Environment" (Prepared for the Workshop on Primary Prevention, Nat. Council of CMHCs, Inc., 1977)
Box 17 Folder 38
Papers, undated
Dorsett, Proposals (various)
Box 17 Folder 39
Photo, letter, 1966
Folder entitled: "Eastern State Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee" (history of); Letter enclosing photo of façade
Box 17 Folder 40
Photos, undated
Study Trip to London (and Scotland?); Includes sketch
Box 17 Folder 41
Photos, ca. 1960
Photos of the partners of Dorsett & Smyre (Dorsett's short-lived practice); includes small unidentified photograph of a project - presumably by the practice
Box 17 Folder 42
Photos, undated
Photos entitled "Photos - Centers: Boston & Fla. [Florida?]"
Box 17 Folder 43
PIA Conference, 1978
Dorsett, "Patterns of Abuse and Change in Facilities for Mental Health Services" (PIA Design and Planning of Psychiatric Facilities, 1978)
Box 17 Folder 44
Presentation Boards, undated
History of Asylums, hospitals, institutions - 1855-1965
Oversized 01 Folder 5
Proceedings (Copy Edit of), 1967,68
Copy Edit: Ludwig and LaRue Jones (eds), Proceedings from two AIA/NIMH workshops entitled "Programming the Community Mental Health Center"
Box 17 Folder 45
Regulations, undated
Inpatient Regulations PHS Act - psychiatric inpatient unit
Box 17 Folder 46
Report, 1978
Report of the Task Panel on Role of the Arts in Therapy and Environment, Submitted to President's Commission on Mental Health, Feb. 15, 1978
Box 17 Folder 47
Report, 1977
Preliminary Report to the President from The President's Commission on Mental Health
Box 17 Folder 48
Seminar / Conference, 1973
Dorsett as panel moderator at seminar conference: "Humanizing Ambulatory Care in the Hospital Setting" Massachusetts (June 7-8, 1973)
Box 17 Folder 49
Sketch Book, ca. 1950s
Clyde Dorsett's (student?) sketch book
Box 17 Folder 50
Space Relation Planning, undated
Program and Architectural Relationship to Services ("Ohio" handwritten on top right hand corner of document)
Box 18 Folder 1
Standards, undated
Inpatient Units: Architectural Directives(Dorsett's original bound sketch sheets). Includes space planning notes of AMI Gonzales Psy. Hospital, Louisiana
Box 18 Folder 2
Studies, 1977
PHS Act - Subpart of 42CFR, sect. 1602. Review of proposed regulations 8/5/77
Box 18 Folder 3
Study (dwgs + photos), undated
Dorsett's study of Moravian 18th C. hooded entrace to house, Salem, North Carolina
Box 18 Folder 4
Study by Dorsett, 1964
Saint Mary's Hospital, McAuley Institute, San Francisco 17, California; includes Sister Mary de Paul's introductory notes
Box 18 Folder 5
Symposium Paper, 1991
Dorsett,The Community Mental Health Center Environments for Psychological Rehabilitation(Symposium Paper, 1991)
Box 18 Folder 6
Systems Theory, 1970
Dorsett's methodological theory - State mental health program as a looped "cybernetic information system"
Box 18 Folder 7
Trip Report by Dorsett, 1963
Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, New York; includes Dorsett's diagrammatic studies in report
Box 18 Folder 8
Various, 1970
Alcoholism Grants: Treatment and Rehabilitaion Grants; Comprehensive Community Services for Alcoholics (The Williamsburg Papers); 1963 Acts, etc.