TY - GEN AU - Owings,Nathaniel Alexander AU - Owings,Nathaniel Alexander AU - Owings,Nathaniel Alexander TI - Nathaniel Alexander Owings papers, KW - Adams, Ansel, KW - Bechtel, Stephen Davison, KW - Brown, Jerry, KW - Eckardt, Wolf von, KW - Goldberg, Arthur J. KW - Johnson, Lady Bird, KW - Moses, Robert, KW - Moynihan, Daniel P. KW - Quesada, Elwood R. KW - Rockefeller, David, KW - Roosevelt, Nicholas, KW - Stegner, Wallace, KW - Udall, Stewart L. KW - American Institute of Architects KW - California KW - Advisory Committee on a Master Plan for Scenic Highways KW - Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation KW - President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue (U.S.) KW - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill KW - Architectural firms KW - Architecture KW - United States KW - Awards KW - City planning KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Historic preservation KW - Hopi Indians KW - Kachina dolls KW - Roadside improvement KW - Urban beautification KW - Monterey Peninsula (Calif.) KW - Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) KW - Architects KW - itoamc KW - Engineers N1 - Open to research N2 - Correspondence, memoranda, journals, minutes, speeches, writings, reports, notes, subject file, legal and financial records, biographical material, appointment calendars, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and other papers documenting Owings's career as a founding partner of the architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; chairman of public commissions responsible for the redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.; member of various commissions relating to conservation, preservation, and redevelopment in California; and author of works on the aesthetic and practical applications of architecture in contemporary life, architectural theory, and city planning. Includes material relating to his service on or contribution to the California Advisory Committee on a Master Plan for Scenic Highways, the Monterey coast master plan, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, and the President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue. Includes drafts of Owings's books, The American Aesthetic (1969) and The Spaces In Between: An Architect's Journey (1973); and material pertaining to his gold medal awarded by the American Institute of Architects in 1983 and his collection of kachina dolls made by Hopi Indians; Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Stephen Davison Bechtel, Jerry Brown, Wolf von Eckardt, Arthur J. Goldberg, Lady Bird Johnson, Robert Moses, Daniel P. Moynihan, Elwood R. Quesada, David Rockefeller, Nicholas Roosevelt, Wallace Earle Stegner, and Stewart L. Udall UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011038 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011038.3 ER -