Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection
Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2008647466
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Recorded Sound Reference Center, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
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Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
collection
Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection circa 1951-1995, and undated
Peter, John, 1917-1998
Biographical History for: Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection circa 1951-1995, and undated
Biographical Note John Peter (1917-1998) was the modern living editor at Look and Life magazines and a radio and television reporter for CBS and NBC. For many years he was head of his own publications consulting firm in New York City, with clients in the United States and Europe. Tapes and photographs included in the John Peter Collection were used for his book, The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century, published in 1994. Photos were also used in his Masters of Modern Architecture, 1958. Other books by Peter include What Time Is It, 1954; Aluminum in Modern Architecture, 1956; Aluminum in Modern Architecture '58; Aluminum in Modern Architecture '60; and Design with Glass, 1964. His children's books include McCall's Giant Golden Make-it Book, 1953; McCall's Giant Golden Make-it Book, 1961; McCall's Golden Make-it Book, 1968; and My Clock Book, 1954.
Scope and Content Note Consists of interview transcripts and photographs used by John Peter in his books on 20th-century architects. Architects who are particularly well represented in these materials include Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, I.M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Minoru Yamasaki, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In addition to the transcripts and photographs, the larger John Peter Collection contains 164 ten-inch sound tape reels, 279 seven-inch sound tape reels, and 168 sound cassettes, along with 12 personal cassettes and 3 personal seven-inch reels.
series
Series 1. Transcripts, circa 1951-1995, and undated
Transcripts of taped interviews conducted by John Peter for his books on 20th-century architects.
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Aalto, Alvar
Alexander, Robert E.
Barthelme, Donald E.
Becket, Welton
Beckett, William
Belluschi, Pietro
Bill, Max
Bratke, Oswaldo
Breuer, Marcel
Bunshaft, Gordon
Candela, Felix See also O'Gorman, Juan
Catalano, Eduardo
Ciampi, Mario
Contini, Edgardo
Contini transcripts
Dudok, Willem
Eames, Charles
Ellwood, Craig
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Galia, Jose Miguel with Martin Vegas
Goff, Bruce
Goodman, Charles
Gropius, Walter
Gruen, Victor
Hentrich, Helmut
Jacobsen, Arne
Johnson, Philip
Kahn, Louis
Koch, Carl
Kump, Ernest
Le Corbusier
Maekawa, Kunio
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Nervi, Pier Luigi
Neutra, Richard
Niemeyer, Oscar
Noyes, Eliot
O'Gorman, Juan, with brief comments by Felix Candela
Oud, J. J. P. (Jacobus Johannes Peter)
Pei, I. M.
Peressutti, Enrico with Ernesto Rogers
Ponti, Gio
Rado, L. L.
Rapson, Ralph
Raymond, Antonin
Reidy, Affonso Eduardo
Rex, John
Roberto, Marcelo
Roth, Alfred
Rudolph, Paul
Saarinen, Eero
Salvadori, Mario
Sanabria, Tomas Jose
Saugey, Marc-Joseph
Schweikher, Paul
Sert, Jose Luis
Steiner, Rudolph
Soriano, Raphael
Severud, Fred N.
Stone, Edward Durell
Tange, Kenzo
Villanueva, Carlos
Walker, Ralph
Weidlinger, Paul
Will, Philip
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wurster, William
Yamasaki, Minoru
Yoshimura, Junzo
Zetlin, Lev
Series 2. Photographs, undated
Photographic prints and negatives of modern architects and some of the structures designed by them.
subseries
Photographic prints, 8 x 10 inches and smaller
Ciampo, Mario
Peressutti, Enrico
Severud, Fred
Will, Philip, Jr.
USIS exhibit
Photographic prints, 11 x 14 inches and smaller
Breur, Marcel
Burle Marx, Roberto
Candela, Felix
Galia, José Miguel
O'Gorman, Juan
Oud, J. J. P.
Prové, Jean
Reidy, Affonso
Roche, Kevin
Sanabria, Tomas
Saugey, Marc
Stone, Edward Durrell
Vegas, Martin
Miscellaneous - "Tree of Modern Architecture"
Negatives, small format
Alexander, Robert
Barthelme, Donald
Some with John Peter.
Severud, Paul
Miscellaneous
House of Good Taste
John Peter at Hollyhock House and Mallard House
Publicity shots of John Peter in New York City
USIA, Washington
Negatives, 8 x 10 inches and smaller
People
Structures
The Bauhaus by Walter Gropius
Cidade Dos Motores Plan by Jose Luis Sert
Federal Center, Chicago, by Mies van der Rohe
Holyoke Center, Harvard University, by Jose Luis Sert
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments by Mies van der Rohe
Miro Studio by Jose Luis Sert
Niemeyer House, Rio de Janeiro, by Oscar Niemeyer
Presidential Palace Model, Cuba, by Jose Luis Sert
School of Design, Ulm, by Max Bill
Spanish Republican Pavilion, 1937 World's Fair, by Jose Luis Sert
One interior and one exterior view.
Steiner House by Adolf Loos
Tugendhat House by Mies van der Rohe
West Columbia Grade School
Negatives, 11 x 14 inches
Wright, Frank Lloyd with John Peter
Brazilian Pavilion, 1939 World's Fair, by Oscar Niemeyer
Harumi House by Kunio Maekawa
Hotel Diamantina, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer
Pampulha Yacht Club by Oscar Niemeyer
Techbuilt House by Carl Koch