Guide to the Henry Sanoff Papers, 1969 - 2001

Collection Number MC 321

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Collection Information
Abstract:

The Henry Sanoff Papers consists of professional material documenting Sanoff's tenure with the North Carolina State School of Design. Emphasis is on student projects dating from 1969 - 2001.

Contact Information:
Processed by
Michael Watts and Jason Smith
Date Completed
October, 2004
Encoded by
Michael Watts

Descriptive Summary

Creator

Henry Sanoff

Title

Henry Sanoff Papers, 1969 - 2001

Call Number

MC 321

Extent

12 archival boxes, 6 linear feet

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.

Information for Users

Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Acquisitions Information

The Henry Sanoff Papers was received from Henry Sanoff in 2004.
Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Henry Sanoff Papers, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Copyright Notice

North Carolina State University does not own copyright to this collection. Individuals obtaining materials from the NCSU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.

Biographical Note


Distinguished and internationally known Professor of Architecture Henry Sanoff, AIA, tought methodology, programming, social architecture, and community design at the North Carolina State University College of Design for thirty-eight years. Sanoff attended the Pratt Institute in New York, where he received a bachelor's of architecture in 1957, and a master's of architecture in 1962. He joined the faculty of North Carolina State College in 1966 after working as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkley. An innovator in teaching methods, Sanoff is the creator of the Community Development Group, a course of study that is offered to design school graduate students at North Carolina State University. The program combines instruction in research, design procedure, and community service.

Founded in 1969, the Community Development Group (CDG) operates as a unique, graduate architectural design studio, within the North Carolina State University School of Design. One of the primary roles of CDG is to provide architectural training and assistance to public interest organizations throughout the state. The program focuses on community projects that enable students to work directly with members of various North Carolina communities. CDG projects involve all members of a particular community in development planning, using a series of games (called workshops) that engage community members in the design process. The workshops serve as a way to familiarize the community with design planning procedures. The type of work undertaken by CDG varies from community to community. Downtown revitalizations, community art centers, and senior centers are some of the areas that the CDG has focused on developing for towns and cities throughout the state.

Professor Sanoff was elected to the Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and was named as an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor in 1995. He is widely published and well known for his many books, including: Designing with Community Participation; Creative Environments for Young Children and School Design; Participation in Design; Visual Research Methods in Design; Design Games; and Architectural Programming. He has also written on environmental education for middle and high school students in a book entitled, Seeing the Environment.

Other honors awarded to Professor Sanoff include: the Statue of Victory; 1985 World Culture Prize for Letters, Arts and Sciences; awards from the Progressive Architecture Design Awards program in 1974, 1978 and 1983; the Award of Honor, Environmental Design Research Association, 1977; and the Distinguished Fulbright Award to Korea, 1990. Additionally, Sanoff has been a visiting scholar at Oxford-Brooks University, Royal College of Art, Monterey Technical Institute, Western Australia Institute of Technology, Royal Danish Academy of Art, University of Thessaloniki, University of Hamburg, and the Polish Institute of Architects. He is the USA editor of the Journal of Design Studies and he is recognized as one of the founders of the Environmental Design Research Association (ERDA).

Professor Sanoff's research and expertise in the areas of social housing, children's environments, educational facilities, community arts, aging populations, and community development has resulted in his involvement with numerous projects for a variety of federal and state agencies. Those agencies include, the U.S. Office of Education, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Institute of Mental Health, Office of Economic Opportunity, the Department of Energy, National Endowment for the Arts, North Carolina Division of Aging, and the North Carolina Division of Rural Health. Additionally he has served as an architectural consultant for numerous schools and children's centers throughout the world. Professor Sanoff retired from the North Carolina State University School of Design in May, 2004.

Scope and Content Note


The Henry Sanoff Papers consists primarily of project design booklets generated by graduate students enrolled in the Community Design Group at the North Carolina State University School of Design. The booklets illustrate the technical design processes involved in each project. The program focuses on community works that enable students to engage directly with members of various North Carolina communities. CDG projects solicit input from all members of a particular community in development planning, using a series of games (called workshops) that involve community members in the design process. Documentation of community involvement in the planning process, along with project and community historical overviews, are provided with each study.

Organization of the Collection


This collection is organized into three series, Community Development Group Series, Thesis Documents - Final Projects, Books and Artifacts.

Online Catalog Headings

Sanoff, Henry
College of Design -- North Carolina -- Raleigh
College students -- Social conditions -- North Carolina -- Raleigh

Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Community Development Group, 1969 - 1999


    9 archival boxes, 4.5 linear feet

    The Community Development Group (CDG) Series consists of a collection of design project booklets. The CDG program focuses on community projects that enable graduate design students to work directly with members of various North Carolina communities. The collection is organized in chronological order. The projects date from 1969 - 1999

    • Planning for Rural Communities, a Case Study of Zebulon, North Carolina, Spring, 1969 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder1]
    • Child Development Center, Spring, 1970 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder2]
    • Old Main, Spring, 1974 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder3]
    • Old Main, August, 1974 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder4]
    • Boys General High School, Maidan Shan, Afghanistan, May, 1975 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder5]
    • Murfreesboro Plan Alternatives for the National Register, Spring 1976 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder6]
    • Planning with People, Fall 1977 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder7]
    • Community Design Workbood, Cherokee, North Carolina, Spring 1977 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder8]
    • Recycling: Inner City Buildings for the Elderly, Salisbury, North Carolina, Spring 1977 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder9]
    • Planning with People, Fall, 1977 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder10]
    • River Walks, Oconaluftee River, North Carolina, December, 1977 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder11]
    • Programming Design Guide Public Health Facilities, Spring, 1978 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder12]
    • Senior Center Division of Aging, North Carolina Department of Human Resource, August, 1979 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder13]
    • Richmond County Multipurpose Center, August, 1979 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder14]
    • Bladen County Senior Center, Elizabeth Town, North Carolina, December, 1979 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder15]
    • Human Development Center, Lewis Town, North Carolina, December, 1979 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder16]
    • Mary Phillips Magnet School, North Carolina, 1979 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder17]
    • Gibson Design Workbook, Gibson, North Carolina, 1979 [MC 321 Box 1, Folder18]
    • Sylvia Arts Center, Spring, 1980 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder1]
    • Avery County Senior Center, Spring, 1980 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder2]
    • Onslow County Senior Center, Spring, 1980 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder3]
    • Downtown Revitalizations, Henderson, Fall, 1980 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder4]
    • Columbia Terrace, December, 1980 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder5]
    • Edgemont Total Life Center, Durham, North Carolina, Winter, 1980 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder6]
    • Kinston Arts Center, Fall, 1981 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder7]
    • Design Workbook Johnson Memorial Hospital, Fall, 1981 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder8]
    • Rebuilding Washington Drive, Fall, 1981 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder9]
    • Lenoir Community Arts Center, Fall, 1982 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder10]
    • Lenoir Community Arts Center, December, 1982 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder11]
    • Fletcher Community Hospital, Spring, 1983 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder12]
    • Kinston, North Carolina, Spring, 1983 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder13]
    • South Queen Street Revitalization, Kinston, North Carolina, May, 1983 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder14]
    • Vocational School, Raleigh, North Carolina, May, 1983 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder15]
    • Asheboro Community Center, Winter, 1983 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder16]
    • Duplin County Arts Center, Spring, 1984 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder17]
    • Monroe Downtown Revitalization, Spring, 1984 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder18]
    • Spring Hope, 1984 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder19]
    • Scotland County Arts Center, Fall, 1984 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder20]
    • Downtown Garner Development Project, Fall, 1985 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder21]
    • Wadesboro Revitalization, Fall, 1985 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder22]
    • Congregate Housing, Smiths Township, Robeson County, North Carolina, 1985 [MC 321 Box 2, Folder23]
    • Baum St. Clair Land Development, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Spring, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder1]
    • Goldsboro Arts Center, Spring, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder2]
    • Roanoke Rapids Canal Arts Center, Spring, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder3]
    • Downtown Development Project, Garner, North Carolina, May, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder4]
    • Cary Senior Center, Fall, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder5]
    • Revitalization of Zebulon Business District, Fall, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder6]
    • Shiloh Community Development, Shiloh, North Carolina, January, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder7]
    • Martin Street Baptist Church Elderly Housing, Raleigh, North Carolina, Winter, 1986 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder8]
    • The Enfield Town Hall, Enfield, North Carolina, Spring, 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder9]
    • Littleton Downtown Revitalization, Enfield, Spring, 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder10]
    • Adaptive Re-use of Mercy Hospital, Fall, 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder11]
    • Duraleigh Presbyterian, Raleigh, North Carolina Fall, 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder12]
    • Lenny's Retreat, Housing for People with AIDS, Durham, North Carolina, Fall, 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder13]
    • Hattie Daniels Day Care Center, Wilson, North Carolina, (1 of 2) 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder14]
    • Hattie Daniels Day Care Center, Wilson, North Carolina, (2 of 2) 1987 [MC 321 Box 3, Folder15]
    • Clinton, Spring, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder1]
    • Greenville, Spring, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder2]
    • Henderson Community Arts Center, Spring, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder3]
    • Medium Custody Correctional Facility, Buncombe County, North Carolina, May, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder4]
    • University Student Annex, Spring, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder5]
    • An Arts Center for Iredell County, Fall, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder6]
    • Downtown Re-Vitalization, Chadborn, North Carolina, Fall, 1988 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder7]
    • Carthage, Spring, 1989 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder8]
    • Managing and Market Design, Police Department Headquarters, City of Durham, North Carolina, Spring, 1989 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder9]
    • Trenton North Carolina Senior Center and Child Care Facility, Spring, 1989 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder10]
    • Downtown Re-vitalization Project, Robbins, North Carolina, Fall, 1989 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder11]
    • Migrant Worker Farm Housing, Smithfield, North Carolina, Fall, 1989 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder12]
    • Saint Paul Community Center, Spring, 1990 [MC 321 Box 4, Folder13]
    • Star Beautification and Re-vitalization, Spring, 1990 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder1]
    • Town Planning Through Community Design, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Spring, 1990 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder2]
    • Washington County Community Arts Center, Spring, 1991 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder3]
    • Images of Downtown Wilson, Fall, 1991 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder4]
    • INCO, Fall, 1991 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder5]
    • Lees Mac Rae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina, December, 1991 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder6]
    • Rebuilding Washington Drive, High Point, North Carolina, December, 1991 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder7]
    • Artists Housing in Downtown Raleigh, Fall, 1992 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder8]
    • Havelock Town Center Improvement Plan, Fall, 1992 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder9]
    • Learning Services: Acquired Brain Injury Community Based Re-integration Services, Fall, 1992 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder10]
    • Renovation and Expansion Community, United Church of Christ, Raleigh, North Carolina, August, 1992 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder11]
    • Southeast Raleigh Incubator, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1992 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder12]
    • Mt. Vernon Re-direction School, Wake County, North Carolina, Spring 1993 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder13]
    • Burgaw Downtown Revitalization, Wake County, North Carolina, Fall, 1993 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder14]
    • Inter-Moravian Facilities Study, Fall, 1993 [MC 321 Box 5, Folder15]
    • Wall Street Revitalization, Waynesville, North Carolina, Fall, 1993 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder1]
    • YWCA Hargett Street, North Carolina, Fall, 1993 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder2]
    • New School of Academics and Technology, Moore, County, North Carolina, 1993 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder3]
    • Downtown Revitalization, Holly Springs, North Carolina, Spring, 1994 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder4]
    • Erwin Textile Museum, Spring, 1994 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder5]
    • Transitional Housing Facility for Women With Children, Raleigh, North Carolina, May, 1994 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder6]
    • Centennial Campus Middle School, Fall, 1994 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder7]
    • Dillon Supply Redevelopment, Fall, 1994 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder8]
    • Elderly Housing Community, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December, 1994 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder9]
    • Camp Sertoma, Fall, 1995 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder10]
    • Malaby's Crossroads Baptist Church, Old Knights Road, North Carolina, Fall, 1995 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder11]
    • Museum Magnet Middle School, Fall, 1995 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder12]
    • Emerson Waldorf School, Orange County, North Carolina, December, 1995 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder13]
    • Plan for Renewal, Haw River, North Carolina, Spring, 1996 [MC 321 Box 6, Folder14]
    • Saint Mary Parish Master Plan, Wilmington, North Carolina, Spring, 1996 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder1]
    • Design Matters in Small Towns, Spring, 1997 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder2]
    • Farm Worker Housing, Spring, 1997 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder3]
    • Residential Options for Substance Abusers, Spring, 1997 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder4]
    • Moore County Department of Aging, Spring, 1997 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder5]
    • Southport Senior Community, Spring, 1997 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder6]
    • Design Proposals for Future Expansion H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, Fall, 1997 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder7]
    • Downtown Revitalization Proposal for Angier, North Carolina, Spring, 1999 [MC 321 Box 7, Folder8]
    • Art School: Strategies for the Future, (no date) [MC 321 Box 7, Folder9]
    • The Carrige House Senior Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 7, Folder10]
    • Center for the Arts, Onslow County, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 7, Folder11]
    • Center for Creative Expression, Morgantown, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 7, Folder12]
    • Child Development Center, Greensboro, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 7, Folder13]
    • A Collaborative Planning Process, (no date) [MC 321 Box 7, Folder14]
    • Community Arts Center for Elizabeth City, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder1]
    • Crafts Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder2]
    • Durham Arts Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder3]
    • Teaching Unit for Environmental Education, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder4]
    • Jonesboro Child Development Center, Sanford, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder5]
    • Macon County Senior Center, Sanford, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder6]
    • Mary Phillips Alternative High School, Raleigh, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder7]
    • Murphey School Daycare Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder8]
    • Parent Child Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder9]
    • Pembroke Revitalization Program, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder10]
    • Rural Housing Rehabilitation, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder11]
    • Saxapahaw, Community Workshop, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder12]
    • Selma, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder13]
    • Smithfield, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder14]
    • Stanly County Senior Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder15]
    • Stanly County Senior Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder16]
    • Waccamaw Interpretive Center, (no date) [MC 321 Box 8, Folder17]
    • Reidsville, Spring, 1980, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder1]
    • Richlands, (1 of 2), Spring, 1980, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder2]
    • Richlands, (2 of 2), Spring, 1980, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder3]
    • Benson Mainstreet Revitalization, (1 of 2), Fall, 1983, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder4]
    • Benson Mainstreet Revitalization, (2 of 2), Fall, 1983, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder5]
    • Campsite Planning, Fall, 1983, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder6]
    • A Community Development Study for Dunn, Spring, 1985, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder7]
    • A Downtown Development Study for Dunn, Spring, 1985, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder8]
    • Andrews Future, Fall, 1987, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder9]
    • Andrews Original Pasteups, Fall, 1987, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder10]
    • Master Plan for the Redevelopment of Downtown Sanford, (1 of 2), Fall, 1997, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder11]
    • Master Plan for the Redevelopment of Downtown Sanford, (2 of 2), Fall, 1997, (oversized) [MC 321 Box 9, Folder12]

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  • Thesis Documents and Final Projects


    2.5 archival boxes, 1.25 linear feet

    Series contains thesis documents, and final project design booklets generated by some of Professor Sanoff's graduate students at the North Carolina State University School of Design. The material dates from 1983 - 2001.

    • North Point Plaza, Sharon Denise Graeber, Spring, 1983 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder1]
    • A Traveler's Trail for Princeton, Donna Joy Globus, January, 1990 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder2]
    • Under Five Preschool, Katherine Summers, June, 1990 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder3]
    • School Patterns, David Shelton, December, 1992 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder4]
    • Project Enlightenment, R. Christopher Humkey, December, 1992 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder5]
    • Centennial Campus Middle School, Mark Steven Lakavich Spring, 1993 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder6]
    • An Alternative Program for Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers, Jacqueline Lavigne, May, 1993 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder7]
    • Centennial Campus Middle School, Ramona Butler, Fall, 1994 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder8]
    • Childcare Development Center, Farid Dolwlatshaki, May, 1994 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder9]
    • Muesemspark Fur Rudersdorf, Vicki S. McCourt,May, 1994 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder10]
    • Center for Self Enhancement, Ramona Butler, May, 1995 [MC 321 Box 10, Folder11]
    • NCSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Wayfinding Investigation, Holly Grubb and Lisa Wilson, Spring, 1996 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder1]
    • Montessori School, Afsana Mirbaha, December, 1996 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder2]
    • Primary Health Care Facility, Nicholas F. Winter, July, 1997 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder3]
    • Center for Cosmic Studies, Jeffrey W. Krill, Fall, 1998 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder4]
    • Housing for Homeless Mothers and Their Children, Angela Crawford, May, 1998 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder5]
    • Collaborative Institute, Brett C. Bowman, November, 1998 November, 1998 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder6]
    • Married Student Housing, Chunyu Fu, May, 1999 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder7]
    • Continuous Care Retirement Community, Stephan Schles, December, 1999 [MC 321 Box 11, Folder8]
    • Designing the School of the Future, Hatem M. Zaki May, 2000 [MC 321 Box 12, Folder1]

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  • Books, Photographs, and Artifacts


    .50 archival boxes .25 linear feet

    The Books, Photographs, and Artifacts Series consists of a copy of, "Three Decades of Design and Community, History of the Community Development Group", Henry Sanoff, with Graduate Assistant Zaynep Toker, six photographs of an unidentified CDG project, two sets of CDG game booklets for the Conserving Buildings Downtown project, and a copy of NC Arts, Summer, 1986.

    • "Three Decades of Design and Community, History of the Community Development Group", Henry Sanoff with Zaynep Toker [MC 321 Box 12, Folder2]
    • CDG Design Project Photographs, 1998 [MC 321 Box 12, Folder3]
    • CDG Game Booklets, Conserving Buildings Downtown, (no date) [MC 321 Box 12, Folder4]
    • NC Arts Newsletter, 1986 [MC 321 Box 12, Folder5]

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