PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::01207::Additional Louis J. Halle, Jr. Papers)//EN" "ViU01207.sgm" A Guide to the Additional Louis J. Halle, Jr. PapersHalle, Louis, Jr. 10603-fProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Courtney BoissonnaultFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::01207::Additional Louis J. Halle, Jr. Papers)//EN" "ViU01207.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Additional Louis J. Halle, Jr. Papers A Collection in the Special Collections Department 10603-f

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Additional Louis J. Halle, Jr. Papers Jul-Aug 1948 10603-f English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Papers of Louis J. Halle, 1948, Accession #10603-f, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

This addition to the Louis J. Halle, Jr.Papers was given to the Library by Kenneth W. Thompson, Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, on July 20, 1987.

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Scope and Content

This seven-item addition to the papers of Louis J. Halle, Jr., July-August 1948, consists of two copies of a memorandum prepared by Halle for Mr. Walter A. Taylor, Director of the Department of Education and Research, The American Institute of Architects, and related correspondence, concerning the effects of the architecture of public buildings on government personnel and the public.

Louis J. Halle, Jr.'s memorandum unfavorably compares the architecture of the then new State Departmentbuilding with the "Old State Department" building across the lane from the White House. According to Halle, the "Old State Department" building embodied the democratic ideal of the closeness of government officials to the people, while the new State Departmentbuilding was designed to isolate top officials from any contact with the rank and file of the Department or the common people.

Based upon Winston Churchill's admonition that "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us," Louis Hallewarns American architects not to indulge in inappropriate architectural pretentiousness just because it is the current fashion.

The correspondence was generated by State Departmentpersonnel in response to Walter Taylor's request to quote Louis J. Halle's memorandum, which they considered inadvisable.