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Skylight Materials

 Record Group — Container: RC02F, Box: 018
Identifier: RC02F.018

Abstract

Includes all materials related to the skylights

Dates

  • 1971

Extent

From the Series: 10 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

General

Files include: 01. Daylighting Study, 1984-1985 02. Lighting/Skylight, 1978-1981 03. RC Lighting Revision, 1978-1979 04. Rothko Chapel Skylight Writings by Artists, Scholars, 1977-1986 05. Diagram with Cone 06. Skylite Zion and Breen and Assoc, 1973 07. Johnson, includes skylight photos, 1967-1972 08. Proposal on lighting, recording, 1975-1979 09. Chapel baffle, 1976 10. Scrim in the Rothko Chapel, includes photos, 1971-1974 11. Chapel Skylite Correspondence: Code Requested for Skylite Diffuser Ceiling, 1976-1982 12. Skylite Drawing of Lite Distribution (Edison Price), 1976 13. Visitor’s comments about mock-up experiment to diffuse lighting, April-May 1976 14. Personal comments on chapel lighting and pool, 1978 15. Photos of baffle in the Chapel, 1978 16. Skylite media coverage Houston Chronicle, April 7 1978 17. Skylite Correspondence: Scotchtint outdoor shatter resistant window film, 1980-1984 18. Skylight Issues, 1978 19. Hygrothermograph charts, 1980 20. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Morris and Aubry: Chapel work/work plan, September 11 1980 21. Chapel Skylite Correspondence: Plaster and Glass, September 16 1980 22. Chapel Skylite Correspondence: Ultra-Violet Absorbing Capabilities, September 23 1980 23. Chapel Skylite Resource Info Sun-x Film, 1981 24. Proposal to replace glass in skylight (but never realized), 1981 25. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Morris and Aubry, Proposal for Revision, February 12 1981 26. Chapel Skylite Correspondence – Recommendations about overseeing chapel work, February 25 1981 27. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Lowry: Proposal for skylight reglazing, August 25 1981 28. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Morris and Aubry, Ultraviolet absorbing plexiglass, February 25 1981 29. Chapel Skylite Correspondence: Revisions to skylight, June 23 1981 30. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Morris and Aubry, replacing wire glass with ultraviolet filtering, June 17 1981 31. Report: Possible Revision to the RC Skylight, July 23 1981 32. Skylight, Morris Aubry Architectural plan ultraviolet filter, March 1982 33. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Morris and Aubry, sketch, March 18 1982 34. Skylite Correspondence with Anthony Frederick, UF-3, 1982-1983 35. Chapel Skylite Glazing with acrylic glaze, November 24 1982 36. Chapel Skylite Correspondence with Anthony Frederick: skylite existing conditions, December 6 1982 37. Skylite Correspondence: Visitor response to lighting, May 20 1984 38. Skylite: Architectural drawing light baffle field measurements, February 13 1985 39. Skylite facts for lighting analysis, February 21 1985 40. Bracket placement, includes photos, 1994 41. Letters from Philip Johnson and Howard Barnstone about chapel design, includes photographs of models, 2000 42. Philip Johnson and Mark Rothko: Johnson plans with Rothko modifications 1964-1965, 2004 43. Skylite: Interview Gene Aubry and Jim McReynolds with photos, November 1 2011 44. Rothko Chapel Skylight Summary by David Baker, edited by Umari, Pruitt, Whitehurst, January 16 2012 45. Skylight plans and chapel models, 1997 – 1998 and undated 46. Chapel Skylight Summary and landscape suggestions, January 16 2012 47. Skylight Drafts: Arup, 2012 48. Skylight notes from Eugene Aubry, undated 49. Memorandum from Anne Head on Chapel Closing, May 26 1978 50. Skylight Conservation February 2002 51. Skylight Correspondence 2015 53. Lighting Issues in Rothko Chapel Discussed, October 31 1973 54. Rothko Chapel Skylight Invoices/Correspondence, 1977 55. Skylight Illumnation Measurements, 1984 56. Turrell - Linbeck - Overland Chapel Proposal, June-Sept 2013 57. References to closing Chapel to install new baffle from June through Aug, 1978

Repository Details

Part of the Rothko Chapel Archives Repository

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