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Contemporary Landscape Design Collection, 2001-2009 - Van Valkenburgh, Michael (MS.GL.002-12)

MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH PRELIMINARY INVENTORY

Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description 1 1 Personal course description for Fall, 2004 course, “GSD 1402: A Park in City,” ; bibliography; list of Books in D.O. Library on 1 2 Books Brattleboro & Art Center, Built Landscapes: Gardens in the Northeast (Brattleboro, VT: Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 1984, 1986), exhibition curated by Michael Van Valkenburgh 1 3 Books Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Design with the Land: Landscape Architecture of Michael Van Valkenburgh (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, Inc., 1994) 1 4 Digital Video 1 DVD (in case): “The Design of Landscapes: Disc Dan Kiley and the Miller Garden,” 1997 1 5 Project Materials 50 Avenue project description, photocopies of project Montaigne, , directory and location site plans 1990-1993 1 6 Project Materials 50 Avenue photocopies of plans and drawings, 1990-1991 Montaigne, Paris, [moved to Oversize Box 7] 1990-1993 1 7 Project Materials 50 Avenue 1 CD: descriptive text, construction and Montaigne, Paris, completed photographs [moved to Box 3] 1990-1993 1 8 Project Materials 50 Avenue 35 mm slides (152, in sleeves) of construction Montaigne, Paris, and completed project 1990-1993 1 9 Project Materials/ Allegheny project description; project submission for Correspondence/ Riverfront Park, EDRA/Places Awards, Place Design 2002; Promotional , PA, photocopies of project directories, 1998-2001; Materials 1994-2001 promotional postcards 1 10 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of plans and drawings [oversize Riverfront Park, materials moved to Oversize Boxes 4 and 6 Pittsburgh, PA, and Map Cases] 1994-2001 1 11 Project Materials Allegheny 3 CDs: (1) diagrams, photographs, timeline; (2) Riverfront Park, plans; (3) rendered section, project description, Pittsburgh, PA, Places Award text, National Design Award 1994-2001 submission, transmittal [moved to Box 3] 1 12 Project Materials Allegheny 35 mm slides (195, in sleeves) Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994-2001 1 13 Book Allegheny Jane Amidon, ed. Michael Van Valkenburgh Riverfront Park, Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park, Source

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description Pittsburgh, PA, Books in Landscape Architecture (New York, 1994-2001 NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005) 1 14 Project Materials Black Granite project description; photocopy of project Garden, Los directory; photocopies and photographs of Angeles, CA 1989 location site plans and sketches; photocopy of project submission for ASLA Design Awards, Private Garden Category, 1990 1 15 Project Materials Black Granite photocopies of drawings and plans, 1988-1989 Garden, Los [moved to Oversize Box 7 and Map Cases] Angeles, CA 1989 1 16 Project Materials Black Granite 3 CDs: (1) model photographs, plans, sections, Garden, Los elevations, project text; (2) sketches; (3) Angeles, CA 1989 photographs [moved to Box 3] 1 17 Project Materials Black Granite 35 mm slides (36, in sleeves) Garden, , CA 1989 1 18 Promotional Bridge public meeting invitation, March-April 2005 Materials Park, Brooklyn, NY 1 19 Project Materials schematic design and final project program, Park, Segment 5, 1988-1989 [moved to Oversize Box 4] New York, NY 1 20 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, photocopies of project plans [moved to Millburn, NJ, Oversize Box 7] 2003 1 21 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, photocopies of plans and drawings [moved to Millburn, NJ, Jan. Oversize Box 4] 2003- July 2003 1 22 Project Materials Regis Gardens, photocopies of plans and drawings [moved to Walker Art Map Cases] Center, , MN, 1986-1988 1 23 Project Materials Regis Gardens, project description; project directory; Walker Art photocopy of articles: “High Tech Topiaries,” Center, Progressive Architecture (March 1989) and Minneapolis, MN, Jean E. Feinberg “The Museum as Garden,” 1986-1988 Landscape Architecture (April 1989): 69-73 1 24 Project Materials Regis Gardens, 1 CD: early sketches, descriptive text, project Walker Art directory, Feinberg article from Landscape Center, Architecture [moved to Box 3] Minneapolis, MN, 1986-1988 1 25 Project Materials Regis Gardens, 35 mm slides (78, in sleeves) , Minneapolis, MN, 1986-1988 1 26 Project Materials Small House and project description, building and garden plans

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description Garden, Martha’s and axonometric drawings Vineyard, MA 1 27 Project Materials Small House and photocopies of plans and drawings [moved to Garden, Martha’s Oversize Box 7] Vineyard, MA 2 28 Project Materials Small House and 35 mm slides (117, in sleeves) of existing Garden, Martha’s conditions and construction Vineyard, MA 2 29 Project Materials Small House and 1 CD: descriptive text, final plans and Garden, Martha’s axonometric drawings [moved to Box 3] Vineyard, MA 2 30 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, project description, project directory, Millburn, NJ, construction schedule, plant list, photocopies 2003 of garden site plans and sections, photocopies of train schedules from New York, NY to Hoboken, NJ 2 31 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, photocopies of drawings and sketches Millburn, NJ, 2003 2 32 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, correspondence about contracts/proposals: Millburn, NJ, Tahari Courtyards, Global MVVA Fees, 2003 February 27, 2003; Tahari Courtyards Design Development Phase, January 13, 2003; bid for irrigation system, March 4, 2003; bid for landscaping, March 17, 2003; acceptance of landscaping bid, December 24, 2002 2 33 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, budget proposals/billing: Tahari Courtyards, Millburn, NJ, itemized bid estimate, March 14, 2003; 2003 Construction Administration Budget, March 24, 2003; Tahari base model & budget, December 18, 2002 2 34 Correspondence Tahari Courtyards, correspondence regarding Tahari Courtyards Millburn, NJ, project bids, budget, revisions, etc., February 2003 2003- October 2003 2 35 Correspondence Tahari Courtyards, transmittals/memos: correspondence regarding Millburn, NJ, Tahari Courtyards project bid, February 7, 2003 2003 and with Nexus Development regarding Tahari Courtyards project delays and problems, May-September 2003 2 36 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, product information: product material Millburn, NJ, information/specifications for design elements 2003 of Tahari Courtyards project 2 37 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, construction administration: notes regarding Millburn, NJ, site preparation, layout, material and products, 2003 grading, soil, planting materials, planting execution, plant acceptance and maintenance, and plant warranties; construction schedule, March 2003; site field report, August 2003 2 38 Correspondence Tahari Courtyards, copies of email correspondence regarding

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description Millburn, NJ, Tahari Courtyards project, December 2002- 2003 April 2003 2 39 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, 5 CDs: (1) diagrams, model photographs, Millburn, NJ, sketches, material research, descriptive text; 2003 (2) site photographs by MVVA staff; (3) photographs by Elizabeth Felicella, January- April 2004; (4) photographs by Elizabeth Felicella, August 2003; (5) updated text and plant lists, June 2005 [moved to Box 3] 2 40 Project Materials/ at project description; project directory; Promotional , Promotional postcards; photocopy of glacial Materials New York, NY, erratics schedule 1999-2004 2 41 Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of design development drawings, Battery Park City, bidding documents, construction documents, New York, NY, stone delivery inventory, etc. [moved to 1999-2004 Oversize Boxes 4 and 5 and Map Cases] 2 42 Correspondence Teardrop Park at correspondence related to stone and glacial Battery Park City, erratics research, with photographs (stones New York, NY, pictured were not used in final project). 1999-2004 2 43 Project Materials Teardrop Park at 20 CDs: (1) diagrams; (2) drawings; (3) model Battery Park City, photographs, 1999; (4) model photographs, New York, NY, 2000; (5) model photographs, 2003; (6) 1999-2004 precedents and research, Upstate NY, July 2000; (7) precedents and research, , 2000; (8) precedents and research, Central Park, 2000; (9) precedents and research, Central Park, 2000; (10) precedents and research, stone research; (11) precedents and research, ice wall mock-up at NY Quarries, 2003; (12) MVV glacial erratic and stone research, Lexington, NY, 2001; (13) stone research, 2002; (14) NY Quarry photographs, 2002; (15) misc. precedents and research, sun diagrams; (16) site photographs and aerial, 2002; (17) construction photographs, March 2003 and April 2003; (18) construction photographs, June 2003, July 2003, and October 2003; (19) construction and completed project photographs, 2004 and 2005; (20) project text, etc. [moved to Box 3] 2 44 Promotional Teardrop Park at color photographs Materials Battery Park City, New York, NY, 1999-2004 2 45 Project Materials Terra Gram / High photocopies of drawings and plans [moved to Line, New York, Oversize Box 4] NY

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description 2 46 Project Materials Garden on Turtle project description; project directory; site visit Creek, , TX, report, April 28, 1999; photocopy of article: 1997-1999 Jane Brown Gilette, “A Dallas Garden,” Land Forum 10 (September 2001): 62-67 2 47 Project Materials Garden on Turtle photocopies of drawings and plans [moved to Creek, Dallas, TX, Oversize Box 7] 1997-1999 2 48 Project Materials Garden on Turtle 1 CD: project directory, descriptive text, Creek, Dallas, TX, overlay diagram, site plan, site context 1997-1999 diagram, grading plan [moved to Box 3] 2 49 Project Materials Garden on Turtle 35 mm slides (57, in sleeves) Creek, Dallas, TX, 1997-1999 2 50 Project Materials photocopy of general plan [moved to Oversize Campus Master Box 6] Plan, Wellesley, MA, 1998-2002 2 51 Project Materials/ Wellesley College unbound portfolio: “Wellesley College, Promotional Campus Master Alumnae Valley Landscape Renewal Materials Plan, Wellesley, Schematic Design, January 2002” MA, 1998-2002 2 52 Project Materials/ Wellesley College project directory; project portfolio [moved to Promotional Campus Master Oversize Box 4] Materials Plan, Wellesley, MA, 1998-2002 3 CDs Regis Gardens, 1 CD (in case): early sketches, descriptive text, Walker Art project directory, Feinberg article from Center, Landscape Architecture Minneapolis, MN, 1986-1988 3 CDs Small House and 1 CD (in case): descriptive text, final plans and Garden, Martha’s axonometric drawings Vineyard, MA 3 CDs Tahari Courtyards, 5 CDs (in cases): (1) diagrams, model Millburn, NJ, photographs, sketches, material research, 2003 descriptive text; (2) site photographs by MVVA staff; (3) photographs by Elizabeth Felicella, January-April 2004; (4) photographs by Elizabeth Felicella, August 2003; (5) updated text and plant lists, June 2005 3 CDs Teardrop Park at 20 CDs (in cases): (1) diagrams; (2) drawings; Battery Park City, (3) model photographs, 1999; (4) model New York, NY, photographs, 2000; (5) model photographs, 1999-2004 2003; (6) precedents and research, trip to Upstate NY, July 2000; (7) precedents and research, Central Park, Fall 2000 (1 of 3); (8) precedents and research, Central Park, Fall 2000 (2 of 3); (9) precedents and research, Central Park, Fall 2000 (3 of 3); (10)

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description precedents and research: stone research – Kingston, NY stone research, August 2001, Clark stone: ice in Upstate NY; (11) precedents and research, ice wall mock-up at NY Quarries, 2003; (12) stone research, MVV glacial erratic research in Lexington, NY, 2001; (13) stone research, 2002; (14) NY Quarry photographs, 2002; (15) misc. precedents and sun research, sun diagrams; (16) site photographs and aerial, 2002; (17) construction photographs, March 2003 and April 2003; (18) construction photographs, June 2003, July 2003, and October 2003; (19) construction and completed project photographs, 2004 and 2005; (20) project texts, etc. 3 CDs 50 Avenue 1 CD (in case): descriptive text, construction Montaigne, Paris, and completed photographs 1990-1993 3 CDs Black Granite 3 CDs (in cases): (1) model photographs, Garden, Los plans, sections, elevations, project description; Angeles, CA 1989 (2) sketches; (3) photographs 3 CDs Allegheny 3 CDs: (1) diagrams, photographs, timeline; (2) Riverfront Park, plans; (3) rendered section, project description, Pittsburgh, PA, Places Award text, National Design Award 1994-2001 submission, transmittal 3 CDs Garden on Turtle 1 CD (in case): project directory, descriptive Creek, Dallas, TX, text, overlay diagram, site plan, site context 1997-1999 diagram, grading plan Oversize Materials 4 1 Project Materials/ Wellesley College unbound portfolio: Portfolio of Campus Work Promotional Campus Master Materials Plan, Wellesley, MA, 1998-2002 4 2 Project Materials Teardrop Park at stone delivery inventory, March 31, 2003; list Battery Park City, of materials in collection; photocopies of New York, NY, photographs, “Clark Companies: Landform 1999-2004 Boulders,” November 25, 2002 4 3 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, photocopies of solar angle research Millburn, NJ, 2003 4 4 Project Materials Allegheny bound portfolio: Allegheny Riverfront Park, Riverfront Park, Extensions East and West, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994-2001 4 5 Project Materials Hudson River unbound portfolios for , Park, Segment 5, Segment 5, The Hudson River Park Trust: New York, NY Schematic Design and Concept Phase – Final Project Program

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description 4 6 Project Materials/ Pennsylvania unbound portfolio: at the Promotional Avenue at the Materials White House, , D.C. 4 7 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, drawings and plans: 100% Design Millburn, NJ, Development, February 24, 2003; 100% 2003 Construction Documents, April 11, 2003 4 8 Project Materials Terra Gram / High unbound portfolio: Terra Gram / , Line, New York, master plan phase NY 4 9 Project Materials/ Wellesley College unbound portfolio: Wellesley College 1998 Promotional Campus Master Campus Master Plan, Executive Summary Materials Plan, Wellesley, MA, 1998-2002 4 10 Project Materials/ Wellesley College unbound portfolio: Wellesley College 1998 Promotional Campus Master Campus Master Plan Materials Plan, Wellesley, MA, 1998-2002 5 1 Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of drawings and plans: 85% Battery Park City, Bidding Documents, July 13, 2001; 100% New York, NY, Construction Documents, May 18, 2001 1999-2004 5 2 Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of drawings and plans: 100% Battery Park City, Construction Documents, April 19, 2002 New York, NY, 1999-2004 5 3 Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of drawings and plans: 100% Battery Park City, Bidding Documents, December 7, 2001 New York, NY, 1999-2004 6 1 Project Materials Wellesley College photocopies of drawings: Wellesley College, Campus Master General Plan Plan, Wellesley, MA, 1998-2002 6 2 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: 100% Riverfront Park, Design Development Documents, November Pittsburgh, PA, 10, 1995; Existing Condition copied at 50% 1994-2001 6 3 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: Lower Riverfront Park, Level Park, 50% Construction Documents, Pittsburgh, PA, January 23, 1996 1994-2001 6 4 Project Materials Tahari Courtyards, bound set of drawings and plans: Compiled Millburn, NJ, Revised Set: December 9, 2002 2003 7 1 Project Materials Garden on Turtle photocopies of: Site Plan, May 21, 1998; Creek, Dallas, TX, Permit Submission, September 3, 1998; and 1997-1999 100% Construction Documents, September 3, 1998

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description 7 2 Project Materials Black Granite photocopies of: site plans, design sketches, and Garden, Los detail sketches, 1988-1989 Angeles, CA 1989 7 3 Project Materials Small House and photocopies of drawings, plans, and sketches Garden, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 7 4 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: Lower Riverfront Park, Level Park, 100% Construction Documents, Pittsburgh, PA, June 11, 1997 1994-2001 7 5 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: Upper Riverfront Park, Level Park, 100% Construction Documents, Pittsburgh, PA, June 9, 2000 1994-2001 7 6 Project Materials 50 Avenue photocopies of drawings and plans, 1990-1991 Montaigne, Paris, 1990-1993 8 Project Materials Mill Race Park, workbook Columbus, IN, 1989-1993 8 Project Materials Mill Race Park, Design album Columbus, IN, 1989-1993 Map 1 Project Materials Regis Gardens, photocopies of drawings and plans: Case Walker Art architectural progress prints, general plan and Center, details, 1987 Minneapolis, MN, 1986-1988 Map 2 Project Materials Regis Gardens, photocopies drawings, plans, and sketches: Case Walker Art various design and detail sketches and Center, architectural drawings reduced by 50%, 1986- Minneapolis, MN, 1987 1986-1988 Map 3 Project Materials Regis Gardens, photocopies drawings, plans, and sketches: Case Walker Art water scrims, various design and detail Center, sketches, 1987 Minneapolis, MN, 1986-1988 Map 4 Project Materials Regis Gardens, photocopies drawings and sketches Case Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1986-1988 Map 5 Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of drawings and plans: 25% Case Battery Park City, Construction Documents, April 6, 2001; 100% New York, NY, Design Development, October 20, 2000; Stone 1999-2004 Quantity Calculations, November 2001; Stone Distribution Plan, December 7, 2001; Grading Plan, March 2003

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Box Folder Series Sub-Series Title/Description Map 6 Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of drawings and plans: O’Brien Case Battery Park City, Stoneworks (NY Quarries) Ice Wall stone New York, NY, schedule 1999-2004 Map 7 Project Materials Black Granite photocopies of drawings and plans: Case Garden, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Map 8 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: planting Case Riverfront Park, study, preliminary design development Pittsburgh, PA, 1994-2001 Map 9 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: Existing Case Riverfront Park, Condition 100% Pittsburgh, PA, 1994-2001 Map 10 Project Materials Allegheny photocopies of drawings and plans: layout Case Riverfront Park, drawings Pittsburgh, PA, 1994-2001 Tube Project Materials Teardrop Park at photocopies of drawings and plans: 100% Bid 1 Battery Park City, Documents; 100% Construction Documents New York, NY, 1999-2004

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