Rupp, Sigrid L.
Architectural Papers, 1976-2001

Ms97-006
157 cu. ft.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp was born January 3, 1943, in Bremerhaven, Germany, and died in San Francisco, California, on May 27, 2004. She was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her Bachelor of Architecture in 1966. Rupp founded SLR/Architects in East Palo Alto, California, in 1976, which specialized in technical facilities, industrial work, and residential structures. She closed the office in 1997.

Rupp served as President of California Women in Environmental Design, and as a design advisor for the East Palo Alto Merchant's Association and East Palo Alto Senior Center. She is a registered architect of California.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Sigrid L. Rupp papers consist of job files, administrative files, architectural drawings, contracts, and photographs of designs created by Ms. Rupp and associates in her architecture firm from 1976 to 1997. The files are organized by numerically by job number imposed by SLR/Architects. Boxes 1-56 contain basic project files. Boxes 57-66 contain financial data. Boxes 67-68 contain files for the Ravenwood school district projects. Boxes 69-70 contain miscellaneous office literature. Boxes 71-77 contain contract files. Boxes 78-85 hold "morgue" files, many of which are duplicates of materials held in the project files, but are files chronologically. Boxes 86-87 and the flatbox hold photographs of the completed projects. Boxes 88-96 and the oversized folder hold architectural drawings of the projects.

PROVENANCE

Sigrid L. Rupp donated her papers to the International Archive of Women in Architecture in June 1997. Upon her death in 2004, her estate deposited 50 cu. ft. of additional materials in the Digital Library and Archives. When this accession is processed, the full guide to the Sigrid Rupp Papers will be available online.

NOTES TO RESEARCHERS

Please note the following restrictions:

1. Project #9607 [9606], Verisign, is restricted until 2006.
2. Clients names are restricted from inclusion in publications. Projects may only be identified by their location. This restriction holds indefinitely.

Processed by Brad Shearer, student assistant, and Laura Katz Smith, Manuscripts Curator, Special Collections Department, April 1998.

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