Brian Shawcroft Papers 1958-2018

Brian Shawcroft, born in England in 1929, is a modernist architect. Shawcroft studied architecture at the South West Essex Technical College and School of Art in London from 1949 to 1953. In 1960, he received a Masters in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following this, he served as an associate professor and lecturer in architecture at the North Carolina State College's School of Design from 1960 to 1968. Shawcroft began practicing architecture professionally in 1954 and worked in various firms throughout his career. He served as a designer at Slater, Uren and Pike Architects in London and at Page & Steele, Architects in Toronto in the 1950s. Shawcroft served as the consulting architect for design to the firm Holloway-Reeves, Architects in 1961, as a partner with the firms MacMillian, MacMillan, Shawcroft & Thames (1968-1970), Environmental Planning Associates (1971 to 1978), and Shawcroft-Taylor 1978-1988). He also worked on commissions independently under Brian Shawcroft, Architect. Many completed projects are located in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill).

Shawcroft is recognized for designing much of the modernist home inventory in the Triangle region from the 1970s to the late 1990s. In 1991 he was awarded the annual Henry Kamphoefner Prize by the American Institute of Architects-North Carolina Chapter for demonstrated excellence in the Modern Movement of architecture. He is recognized for skills in figure drawing and photography. He funds the Shawcroft Prize at the North Carolina State University College of Design, awarded annually to an architecture student for superior hand drawing skills. He died in 2017.

The Brian Shawcroft Papers, 1958-2017, contain drawings and other materials documenting the professional activities of modernist architect Brian Shawcroft and associated architecture firms Holloway-Reeves; MacMillan, MacMillan, Shawcroft & Thames; Environmental Planning Associates; Shawcroft-Taylor; and McKimmon Edwards Shawcroft Associates. The collection is arranged into five series: drawings, professional files, photographic materials, project records, and slides. Drawings include original drawings, reproductions, and CAD printouts of process (or design) drawings and construction documents such as site plans, additions, alterations, and remodeling plans. Professional files include a list of completed projects, reproductions of photographs of projects, and supplemental materials to projects, Shawcroft’s curriculum vitae, and awards. Photographic materials include black-and-white and color prints and photographs of projects. Most photographs were taken by Shawcroft.

This collection is arranged into five series:

• Drawings
• Professional files
• Photographic materials
• Project records
• Slides

Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files will be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.

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[Identification of item], Brian Shawcroft Papers, MC 00370, Special Collections Research Center, NC State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC.

Holloway-Reeves Records, 1933-1996, MC 00172

North Carolina State University Oral Histories, 2014-2016, MC 00449

Gift of Brian Shawcroft, 2010-2017 (Accession nos. 2010.0082, 2010.0140, 2013.0032, 2013.0188, 2014.0014, 2014.0062, 2014.0073, 2014.0135, 2014.0213, 2015.0065, 2015.0245, 2015.0294, 2016.0005, 2016.0022, 2016.0334, 2016.0339, 2017.0017, 2017.0118, 2017.0156).

Processed by Jay Chang; machine-readable finding aid created by Jay Chang, May 2011. Addition to the collection processed by Todd Kosmerick, 2013 February; finding aid updated by Todd Kosmerick, 2013 February; finding aid updated by Gwynn Thayer, 2013 September; finding aid updated by Jacque Dinnes, 2016 May; finding aid updated by Gwynn Thayer, 2016 December and 2017 June; finding aid updated by Hannah Chapman, 2021 February.

This collection was processed with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.