A Guide to the Kathryn Clarke Albright Architectural Papers , Ms.2025.021

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Biographical / Historical

Born in 1960, Kathryn Clarke Albright was educated in Virginia. Albright began studying architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1978, and graduated with her Bachelor of Architecture in 1982. Following some time in professional practice working for several firms, Albright went on to complete her Master of Design Studies at Harvard University in 1994.

Shortly after her graduation in 1982, Albright joined San Francisco-based architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). During the time she spent at the firm she worked on a number of commercial and urban planning projects until 1986, when she was hired as a Senior Designer at another San Francisco firm, Daniel Solomon & Associates (later Solomon, In.c). After three years of working at the firm she rose to the level of principal in 1989, and she would remain at the firm as a Principal Architect until 1993. In early 1993, she applied and was accepted at Harvard Unniversity's Graduate School of Design. Following her M. Arch., she returned to Virginia to work at Virginia Tech.

In 1995, Albright became licensed in the State of Virginia and started working as a Principal Architect alongside her academic and architecture colleague Donna Dunay at Dunay + Albright Architects. The firm focused on commercial,retail, planning, education, and single-family residential projects in southern Virginia. Albright would work with Dunay until 2001 when she started her own practice, Kathryn Albright Design.

Over the past 20 years, Kathryn Clarke Albright has continued to teach at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University School of Architecture, and still serves as a consultant for several Chicago-based firms, including DeStefano + Partners and Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Her research interests include urban design and community planning, communal gathering places, and locally-grown food.

Throughout her career Albright has been a member of the national professional organization American Institute of Architects (AIA) and she is a current member of the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Virginia Society. She has also served as a chair for many professional and public committees including for the Town of Blacksburg, the AIA, Harvard Alumni Council, Norwich University Steering Committee, and many Virginia Tech committees.

She has written two books on farmers markets, including Blacksburg Farmers Market: An Archive (2010), and Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Farmers Markets (2020).

Container List

Student Work

1979-1981English.

box-folder 2 folder: 1
Photographic sampling of undergraduate design work, 1979-1981 [6 black-and-white prints]

Scope and Contents
Photographs of undergraduate design work: Brick competition, plaster cast into sand Chess set, edge detail Chess set Sketches, Pembroked School Bowls, slab-built clay Staggered wall
box-folder 2 folder: 2 box-folder 2 folder: 3
European travel sketches, 1981 [67 original sketches, 2 folders]

Scope and Contents
Two folders containing 67 original pen-and-ink sketches, organized alphabetically by location: A flower analysis Amsterdam, Berlage, Stock Exchange Amsterdam, DeKlerk, Eigen Haard housing Amsterdam, railings Andorra, Spain, Bofill, Sanctuary of Mexitell Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Hertzberger, Centraal Beheer Arc-et-Senans, France, Ledoux, salt works column Arles, France, Arena, passages Assisi, Italy, pathway with steps Assisi, Italy, street Barcelona, Bofill, Walden-7 housing, cement factory-RBTA office Barcelona, Bofill, Walden-7 housing, cement factory Barcelona, Bohigas & MacKay, Garbi school Barcelona, Gaudi, Casa Mila, Casa Barilto Barcelona, Gaudi, Casa Mila, rooftop stairs Barcelona, Gaudi, chapel ceiling Barcelona, Gaudi, Parc Guell, passage Barcelona, Gaudi, Parc Guell, steeple Barcelona, Gaudi, Sagrada Famalia, Parc Guell, Gothic cathedral Barcelona, Sert, Foundacio Juan Miro Bellinzona, Switzerland, Campi, Museo Civico nel Castello di Montebello Bern, Switzerland, arcade Bern, Switzerland, Rathasgrasse Bern, Switzerland, Rathasgrasse Boswill, Switzerland, stone steps Bre, Switzerland, steps Carcasonne, France, inside fort walls Carcasonne, France, turrets Carona, Switzerland, passages Carona, Switzerland, portals, passages Corippo, Switzerland, streets Dole, France, Commune turret Eveux, France, Corbusier, La Tourette Convent, chapel Eveux, France, Corbusier, La Tourette, entrance view of courtyard Eveux, France, Corbusier, La Tourette, exterior Florence, Italy, passages Florence, Italy, street Le Thoronet, France, Cistercian Abbey Les Baux, France, ruins Les Baux, France, stairs Lucciagnano, Italy, church Lugano, Switzerland, Mont Bre Lugano, Switzerland, street with steps Luzern, Switzerland, Jesuit church Milano, Italy, Santa Maria Della Gracie Montebello Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland, Secondary School Narbonne, France, cathedral nave Nimes, France, Arena, portals Nimes, France, paving, railing Nimes. France, Aux Heroes Et Matyrs Orvieto & Assisi, Italy, portals Paul Klee, painting analysis Rome, Italy, Bernini, colonnade Rome, Italy, Bernini, Piazza Narvonna Ronchamp, France, Corbusier, Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut Sarnen, Switzerland, windows Schaffhausen, Germany, arches Schaffhausen, Germany, rooftops Siena, Italy, Piazza Della Campo Siena, Italy, Via Della Galluza St Martin's Kirsche Stein AmRhein, Germany, street Stein AmRhein, Germany, windows Tivoli, Italy, Hadrian's Villa, portals Turin, Italy, arcade Turin, Italy, shopping arcade unknown location Zurich, Switzerland, arcade

Project and Office Records

1988-1998

Daniel Solomon & Associates [later Solomon, Inc.]
- box-folder 1 folder: 1
  Project portfolio, Glen Cove, Matrix Land and Development, Inc., Vallejo, California, undated
- box-folder 1 folder: 2
  Planning notebook, Mission Bay Plan, San Francisco, California, 1988
- box-folder 1 folder: 3
  "Mission Bay Plan," Progressive Architecture , Citation, 1988
- box-folder 1 folder: 4
  Planning notebook, A City of Gardens, Pasadena, California, 1988
- box-folder 1 folder: 5
  "A City of Gardens," Progressive Architecture , Citation, 1989
- box-folder 1 folder: 6
  "A City of Gardens: The Challenges of Implementaiton," Phoebe Wall feat. illustrations from Kathryn Clarke-Albright, Architecture California , p. 45-50, 1989
- box-folder 1 folder: 7
  Project portfolio, Lee's Orchard, Milpitas, California, 1991
- box-folder 1 folder: 8
  "Suburban Harvest," Kevin Powell, Landscape Architecture , p. 52-55, 1991
- box-folder 1 folder: 9
  Yountville General Plan, Yountville, California, 1992
- box-folder 1 folder: 10
  Yountville Zoning Ordinance, Yountville, California, 1992
- box-folder 1 folder: 11
  Yountville Design Document, Yountville, California, 1992
- box-folder 1 folder: 12
  A Specific Plan for Communications Hill, San Jose, California, 1991
- box-folder 2 folder: 9
  Site plans, Communications Hill and Curtner Neighborhood, San Jose, California, c. 1991
- box-folder 1 folder: 13
  Planning notebook, The Curtner Neighborhood, Communications Hill, San Jose, California, 1993
- box-folder 1 folder: 14
  "Communications Hill," Progressive Architecture , Citation, p. 36-39, 1994
- box-folder 1 folder: 15
  Solomon, Inc., firm portfolio, c. 1994
Dunay + Albright Architects
- box-folder 2 folder: 10
  Community planning pamphlets, Blacksburg Schools, Virginia, 1996
Consultation Work
- box-folder 2 folder: 11
  Booklet, New Schools for Chicago, DeStefano + Partners, 1998

Digital Files

box 2 item: 1

Scope and Contents Contents are low-quality reproductions of all works submitted to IAWA. All files are pdfs, organized into the following directory structure, which has not been altered: Dunay + Albright Architects Building & Learning, pamphlet.pdf Community & Learning, pamphlet.pdf Sixteen Squares, aerial illustrative.pdf Consultant Work New Schools for Chicago, booklet.pdf Undergraduate Studies, Virginia Tech 2nd year competition, plaster cast into sand.pdf 5th year thesis, elevation.pdf Bowls, slab-built clay, 4th year.pdf Chess set, 3rd year.pdf Chess set, edge detail, 3rd year.pdf Drawing, staggered wall, 2nd year.pdf Sketches, Pembroke school, 5th year.pdf Tea Pot, porcelain slip cast, 5th year.pdf Travel Sketch, Bernini and Doge's Palace.pdf Professional Work, Solomon Inc, San Francisco Solomon, Inc. portfolio.pdf Milpitas, California, Lee's Orchard Lee's Orchard, aerial illustrative drawing.pdf Lee's Orchard, portfolio pages.pdf Montecito, California Hoyne Residence, Rendered Elevation, Floor Plan.pdf Pasadena, California A City of Gardens by Phoebe Wall, illustrations by Kathryn Clarke (Albright).pdf A City of Gardens, Alternative Courtyard configurations illustrative.pdf A City of Gardens, Citation Award, Progressive Architecture magazine.pdf A City of Gardens, Pasadena Design Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing, 8.5x11 booklet.pdf San Francisco, California Mission Bay Housing Types & Illustrative Blocks, 8.5x11 booklet.pdf Mission Bay, Alternative Multi-family Housing Block Configurations, axonometric drawings.pdf Mission Bay, Citation Award, Progressive Architecture magazine.pdf San Jose, California, Communications Hill Communicastions Hill, Specific Plan, 8.5x11 booklet.pdf Communication Hill, Citation Award, Progressive Architecture magazine.pdf Communications Hill, aerial illustrative drawing.pdf Communications Hill, Kathryn Albright Design, portfolio pages, v1.pdf Communications Hill, Kathryn Albright Design, portfolio pages, v2.pdf Communications Hill, mid-block stair, illustrative drawings.pdf Curtner Neighborhood, illustrative drawing.pdf Vallejo, California Glen Cove, 8.5 x 11 booklet.pdf Yountville, California Yountville Design Document, 8.5x11 booklet.pdf Yountville Design Document, View Corridor illustrative drawings.pdf Yountville Design Guidelines, Building Envelope versus FAR, diagrams.pdf Yountville General Plan, 8.5x11 booklet.pdf Yountville General Plan, Town Map, illustrative drawing.pdf Yountville Zoning Ordinance, 8.5x11 booklet.pdf 1981 Europe travel sketches - 67 total 00 Albright archive Europe Travel Sketches.png a flower analysis.pdf Amsterdam, Berlage, Stock Exchange.pdf Amsterdam, DeKlerk, Eigen Haard housing.pdf Amsterdam, railings.pdf Andorra, Spain, Bofill, Sanctuary of Mexitell.pdf Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Hertzberger, Centraal Beheer.pdf Arc-et-Senans, France, Ledoux, salt works column.pdf Arles, France, Arena, passages.pdf Assisi, Italy, pathway with steps.pdf Assisi, Italy, street.pdf Barcelona, Bofill, Walden-7 housing, cement factory-RBTA office.pdf Barcelona, Bofill, Walden-7 housing, cement factory.pdf Barcelona, Bohigas & MacKay, Garbi school.pdf Barcelona, Gaudi, Casa Mila, Casa Barilto.pdf Barcelona, Gaudi, Casa Mila, rooftop stairs.pdf Barcelona, Gaudi, chapel ceiling.pdf Barcelona, Gaudi, Parc Guell, passage.pdf Barcelona, Gaudi, Parc Guell, steeple.pdf Barcelona, Gaudi, Sagrada Famalia, Parc Guell, Gothic cathedral.pdf Barcelona, Sert, Foundatcio Juan Miro.pdf Bellinzona, Switzerland, Campi, Museo Civico nel Castello di Montebello.pdf Bern, Switzerland, arcade.pdf Bern, Switzerland, Rathasgrasse.pdf Boswill, Switzerland, stone steps.pdf Bre, Switzerland, steps.pdf Carcasonne, France, inside fort walls.pdf Carcasonne, France, turrets.pdf Carona, Switzerland, passages.pdf Carona, Switzerland, portals, passages.pdf Corippo, Switzerland, streets.pdf Dole, France, Commune turret.pdf Eveux, France, Corbusier, La Tourette Convent, chapel.pdf Eveux, France, Corbusier, La Tourette, entrance view of courtyard.pdf Eveux, France, Corbusier, La Tourette, exterior.pdf Florence, Italy, passages.pdf Florence, Italy, street.pdf Le Thoronet, France, Cistercian Abbey.pdf Les Baux, France, ruins.pdf Les Baux, France, stairs.pdf Lucciagnano, Italy, church.pdf Lugano, Switzerland, Mont Bre.pdf Lugano, Switzerland, street with steps.pdf Luzern, Switzerland, Jesuit church.pdf Milano, Italy, Santa Maria Della Gracie.pdf Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland, Secondary School.pdf Narbonne, France, cathedral nave.pdf Nimes, France, Arena, portals.pdf Nimes, France, paving, railing.pdf Nimes. France, Aux Heroes Et Matyrs.pdf Orvieto & Assisi, Italy, portals.pdf Paul Klee, painting analysis.pdf Rome, Italy, Bernini, colonnade.pdf Rome, Italy, Bernini, Piazza Narvonna.pdf Ronchamp, France, Corbusier, Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut.pdf Sarnen, Switzerland, windows.pdf Schaffhausen, Germany, arches.pdf Schaffhausen, Germany, rooftops.pdf Siena, Italy, Piazza Della Campo.pdf Siena, Italy, Via Della Galluza.pdf St Martin's Kirsche.pdf Stein AmRhein, Germany, street.pdf Stein AmRhein, Germany, windows.pdf Tivoli, Italy, Hadrian's Villa, portals.pdf Turin, Italy, arcade.pdf Turin, Italy, shopping arcade.pdf unknown location.pdf Zurich, Switzerland, arcade.pdf