Fall 2012 Hours
All locations CLOSED on
November 22-24, 2012.
Volume 8, Issue 1
November 2012
Architecture Library
Mon.-Thurs. 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.
Friday
7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday
1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday
1-9 p.m.
Visual Resources
Collection (VRC)
Mon.-Fri.
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sat.-Sun.
Closed
Drawings + Documents
Archive
Mon.-Thurs.
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Fri.
By appointment
Sat.-Sun.
Closed
Library Staff
Amy Trendler
Architecture Librarian
AETrendler@bsu.edu
765-285-5858
Helen Ulrich
Architecture Library
Coordinator
HUlrich@bsu.edu
765-285-5857
Cindy Turner
Visual Resources Curator
01LKTurner@bsu.edu
765-285-5865
Archive Staff
Carol Street
Archivist for
Architectural Records
CAStreet@bsu.edu
765-285-8441
Greetings from the Architecture
Library! It has been an eventful fall semester,
featuring the ―Thesis Research in a
Nutshell—CAP Edition‖ workshop, two
more events in our Materials Talks at Lunch
series, numerous class visits to discuss
research, and culminating in the Architecture
Library and the Drawings + Documents
Archive being named the 2012 Walter S.
Blackburn award winners. As the semester
draws to a close, we’ve begun planning for
next semester, so look for
more to come in spring 2013!
The Ball State University Libraries’
Drawings + Documents Archive and
Architecture Library received the 2012
Walter S. Blackburn Award from the
American Institute of Architects (AIA) at its
Kentucky/Indiana Annual Convention,
November 2, 2012. The award is given
annually to a person or organization that has
contributed time and service in support of
the architectural profession.
Carol Street, Archivist for Architectural
Records, and Amy Trendler, Architecture
Librarian, accepted the award on behalf of
the archive and library. Their work to
support student education in the College of
Architecture and Planning through classroom
instruction, research support, public
exhibitions, and access to original
architectural drawings was recognized as
being instrumental in furthering the
architectural profession in the state.
The Archives has been a particularly
busy place this semester thanks to
architects’ visits, film crews, visiting scholars,
exhibits, digitizing collections, and new
discoveries from processing collections. As
busy as we are, there’s always room for
your research and class assignments using
the archives. Just let me know how I can
help you and your students access the
archives’ incredible—and now award
winning!–collection.
Amy Trendler (far right), Architecture Librarian, and Carol
Street (next to Trendler), Archivist for Architectural
Records, at the awards ceremony. Also pictured are (left to
right) Prof. Joshua Coggeshall, Prof. Bruce Race, and Prof.
Emeritus Tony Costello, who was awarded AIA Indiana’s
first Gold Medal at the same awards ceremony.
Street and Trendler were both grateful
to Professor Emeritus Tony Costello for
submitting the nomination to the AIA
Indiana awards committee. Plaques
commemorating the award will be installed
in both the archive and the library.
Banner image credit: Arc de Triomphe, Paris, photo by David R. Hermansen. Architecture Images
Collection in the DMR, http://libx.bsu.edu.
By Amy Trendler, Architecture Librarian
By Carol Street, Archivist for Architectural Records
Each month in the Architecture Library we feature a different
theme in an effort to spotlight the variety of different subjects
that are supported by the books, DVDs, and journals in the
library’s collection. This year we began with ―September is for
Research!‖ and partnered with the Visual Resources Collection
and the Drawings + Documents Archive to highlight research
resources. In October, the
library’s monthly theme
was ―Drawing‖ and items
on display included
drawings handbooks,
exhibition catalogs of
designers’ drawings, and
examples of published
sketchbooks. November
found ―Transportation‖
books and DVDs on display that covered everything from mass
transit to pedestrians. In December we’ll focus on ―Reflections,‖
from tranquil or reflective spaces to designers’ written musings.
Next semester’s calendar of topics is in the works.
Suggestions are welcome! Contact Amy Trendler, Architecture
Librarian, at AETrendler@bsu.edu or 765-285-5858 with ideas.
The Johnson & Miller
Architectural Records
collection is the latest
collection to be digitized and
made available to students and
faculty online in the University
Libraries’ Digital Media
Repository. This online
collection contains 123
projects spanning the long
history of the architectural
firm and its subsequent firms
from the 1910s to the 1980s.
Over the years, Johnson &
Miller and its successor firms
were responsible for designing
numerous schools, university
Ewing Miller II. Photo by Donna
buildings, government offices,
Miller.
religious buildings, recreation
facilities, hospitals, and businesses in Terre Haute, Indianapolis,
and surrounding areas. Ewing Miller II, the last architect in a
family with a long history of architecture in Indiana, just turned
89 and recently visited the college to see his family’s collection.
That’s him in the picture, above. You can now see the
collection for yourself online or in person at the Drawings +
Documents Archive.
By Amy Trendler, Architecture Librarian
The Building Material Samples
Collection in the Visual Resources
Collection (AB 117) is adding new
samples to the collection all the time.
This year we are excited to have a
sample of Litracon’s translucent
concrete, which you may have seen in
Litracon’s translucent
our window in the first floor hallway,
concrete sample. It may
where it is backlit by a battery-operated
not look like much now,
light. Another
but wait until you see it
recent arrival is
backlit!
MOSStile, real moss
for vertical gardens and other applications
that is maintenance free according to
manufacturer Benetti Stone.
If there’s something you would like
to see in the collection, contact Cindy
Turner, Visual Resources Curator, at
MOSStile sample.
01LKTurner@bsu.edu or 765-285-5865.
Real, spongy moss!
Johnson & Miller, Architects, advertisement, 1920s. Johnson &
Miller Architectural Records, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball
State University.