circa 1916–1980

Architectural Commissions

This series contains correspondence, photographs, negatives, transparencies, plans, contracts, drawings, writings and publicity documenting the various architectural projects of Josef Albers's commissioned by others. The earliest commission was a stained glass work, Rosa Mystica Ora pro Nobis, circa 1916–1917 in St. Michael's Church, Bottrop. The piece was destroyed and there is little existing documentation regarding its existence. His last work, Stanford Wall, was commissioned by Stanford University and due to various complications was not until after Albers's death, in 1980. Josef's highest profile commissions were for the Pan American Building (current Met Life Building) in New York, Manhattan, in 1963 (removed in 2001 and subsequently destroyed); and the Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Münster, Two Supraportas, in 1972

Description

Folder

- Circa 1916–1917 St Michael’s Church, Bottrop Rosa Mystica Ora
  pro Nobis
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  57
  Folder
  1
- 1953 Benton County P.U.D. Administration Building Seattle,
  unrealized commission
  Dates
  1953
  Box
  57
  Folder
  5
- 1955 St. John’s Abbey Chapel, Collegeville, MN White Cross
  Window and unrealized commission for large window (includes
  correspondence with Marcel Breuer)
  Dates
  1957–1974
  Box
  57
  Folder
  6–7
- 1955 Rouse House Fireplace, North Haven, CT
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  57
  Folder
  8
- 1957 Cinestage Theater, Chicago, Bretrand Goldberg Associates. JA ornamented illuminated doors
  (includes drawings)
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  57
  Folder
  9
- 1959 DuPont House Fireplace, Woodbridge, CT
  Dates
  1955
  Box
  57
  Folder
  10
- 1959–1960 Corning Glass Building Lobby, New York, Two
  Structural Constellations
  Dates
  1958–1960
  Box
  57
  Folder
  11–12
- 1961 Time and Life Building, New York, Portals
  Dates
  1961–1962
  Box
  57
  Folder
  13–14
- 1961 St. Patrick’s Church, Oklahoma City, OK, altar wall [see also
  Box 59 Folder 9]
  Dates
  1963–1969
  Box
  57
  Folder
  15–16
- 1963 Pan American Building (currently Met Life Building), New York,
  Manhattan
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  57
  Folder
  17–18
- 1963 Yale University Art and Architecture Building Repeat and Reverse
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  58
  Folder
  1
- 1967 Rochester Institute of Technology, Growth and RIT Loggia Wall
  Dates
  1966–1975
  Box
  58
  Folder
  2–4
- 1972 University of the Ruhr, Bochum, Germany, two untitled murals
  Dates
  1971–1973, undated
  Box
  58
  Folder
  5
- 1972 Celanese Building Lobby, New York, Reclining Figure
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  58
  Folder
  6
- 1972 Grand Avenue National Bank Lobby, Kansas City, MO, Gemini
  Dates
  1971–1975, undated
  Box
  58
  Folder
  7
- 1976 Mutual Life Center, Sydney, Australia, Wrestling
  Dates
  1971–1976, undated
  Box
  58
  Folder
  8–9
- 1980 Stanford University, Lomita Mall, Stamford Wall, (includes
  correspondence with AA)
  Dates
  1960–1980, undated
  Box
  58
  Folder
  10–13
- 1980 Stanford University Lomita Mall, Stamford Wall
  Dates
  1960–1980
  Box
  59
  Folder
  1–4
- 1972 Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster,
  Two Supraportas
  Dates
  undated, 1969–1975
  Box
  59
  Folder
  5–8
- Notebook with descriptions and photographs of ten architectural
  commissions
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  59
  Folder
  9
- Notes and lists of architectural commissions
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  59
  Folder
  10
- 1922–1923 Haus Otte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, stained glass window
  (destroyed). Photographs
  Dates
  1923
  Box
  118
  Folder
  10
- 1922 Haus Sommerfield, Berlin-Dahlem, stained glass window
  (destroyed) Photographs
  Dates
  1922
  Box
  118
  Folder
  11
- 1926 Grassi Museum, Leipzig, ten stained glass windows (destroyed).
  Photographs
  Dates
  1926–1927
  Box
  118
  Folder
  12
- 1928 Ullsteinhaus, Berlin-Tempelhof, three stained glass windows
  (destroyed). Photographs
  Dates
  1926–1927
  Box
  118
  Folder
  13
- Reinstallation of Wrestling
  Dates
  2013-2015
  Box
  58
  Folder
  8b