Architecture Archives @ UF tour Saturday, October 10

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida will host a tour of the Architecture Archives on Saturday, October 10, 2009. The tour is part of a “North America Tour Day” organized by DOCOMOMO US, an organization that promotes the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement. October also is American Archives Month, so it is the ideal time to focus on the importance of the historical records preserved in the Architecture Archives at UF.

The Architecture Archives was established in 2004 by the Smathers Libraries in collaboration with the UF School of Architecture to collect and preserve important historical records pertaining to the architecture and architects of Florida. The collections in the Architectural Archives are available to students, faculty, visiting scholars and the general public for research and education.

The tour will highlight the collections, facilities and activities of the Architecture Archives, located in the Special Collections Research Room. The historical materials on display will include models, drawings, blueprints, and photographs from the collections of Alfred Browning Parker, Rufus Nims, Kenneth Treister, William Morgan and others.

Three tours will begin at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 10. Each will last about 30 minutes. The Architecture Archives is located on the 2nd floor of the Smathers Library building (Library East) on the UF campus, Gainesville.

Information about the Architecture Archives is available at http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/architecture/, and information about the Florida chapter of DOCOMOMO is available at http://www.docomomofl.org/. For more information about the tour, please contact archivist John Nemmers in the Architecture Archives at 352-273-2766 or jnemmers@ufl.edu.