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A. E. Hanson, landscape architect and land developer, was born in Chino, California on December 20, 1893. After two years of high school, Hanson left to assist his family monetarily, and began working for landscape architect Theodore Payne, and then in 1915 for landscape architect Paul Howard in Los Angeles. Despite his lack of formal training, Hanson started his own firm in 1916 and by the end of the 1920’s he was designing and constructing many of the largest private gardens in Southern California. During the 1930s he developed Rolling Hills in Rancho Palos Verdes, as well as Hidden Hills …

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

Albert Frey was a Swiss architect who moved to Palm Springs in the early 1930s and partnered with John Clark in 1935 to form the firm Clark and Frey. In 1952, Robson Chambers became a partner, and the firm was renamed Clark, Frey and Chambers. During his 63 years in Palm Springs, Frey’s most notable projects include: the Raymond Loewy house, the Guthrie house, the Clark & Frey Office building, the Aerial Tramway and Gas Station, Palm Springs City Hall, the Desert Hospital, the North Shore Yacht Club, Villa Hermosa, and Frey Houses I and II. Albert Frey's personal houses …

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

Albert Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on October 18, 1903. Frey received his formal architectural training at the Institute of Technology in Winterthur, Switzerland. During his education at the Institute of Technology, Frey apprenticed for two years under the architect A. J. Arter in Zurich. Graduating in 1924, Frey traveled around Europe and settled by 1925 in Brussels where he worked for Jean-Jules Eggericx and Raphael Verwilghen. Leaving Eggericx and Verwilghen in 1927, Frey moved to France where he worked as a draftsman for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. In 1930, Frey’s visa application was approved and he relocated …

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

Barton Myers was born in 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia. From 1952-1956 he attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science. After serving as a pilot, stationed in the UK, Myers went back to school in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1964. Afer school, Myers found work as a draftsman for his former teacher, Louis I. Kahn, in Philadelphia. Two years later, in 1968, Myers launched his architectural career in Toronto, Canada, in partnership with A. J. Diamond. A. J. Diamond and Barton Myers became known especially for projects …

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

The Oral Histories Collection holds primarily interviews conducted by Special Collections staff, along with supporting documentation. Also included are oral histories done by others and donated to Special Collections. Many of the oral histories augment materials in other areas of Special Collections.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Carleton Monroe Winslow Sr. was born in Maine on December 12, 1876. He studied architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying in the Atelier Pascal and in the Atelier Stelier Chiffot Greres. Just out of school, Winslow secured a job with Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson in New York. He was promoted within the firm in 1911 as the supervising architect of the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, a project on which he worked for four years. Once in San Diego, Winslow decided to stay and opened an office in 1915, when …

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

The Case Study House program was started by Art & Architecture Magazine in 1945 as a way for architects to begin to formulate ideas for post-World War II housing. There are a few Case Study House architects whose collections are housed at the ADC: J.R. Davidson, Whitney Smith (of Smith & Williams), and Edward Killingsworth (of Killingsworth, Brady, and Smith). Additionally, our Ester McCoy collection of papers also contains drawings and materials pertaining to the design of some of the Case Study Houses. The housing designs showed that good architecture and good design could be scaled up to produce low …

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

Slides and other materials relating to the San Diego artists' collective, co-founded in 1970 by Chicano poet Alurista and artist Victor Ochoa. Known as a center of indigenismo (indigenism) during the Aztlán phase of Chicano art in the early 1970s.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

The Katherine Esau collection represents the entire body of plant anatomy research Esau conducted from 1924 when she began research on curly top virus in sugar beets for the Spreckels Sugar Company to 1991 when she published her last article. The collection includes correspondence, research notes, photographs, biographical material, objects, and printed matter.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections