Barthelme served as an architecture professor at the University of Houston from 1946 to 1958 and from 1963 to 1973. This series contains his lecture notes, studio problems, and other resource materials from this period of his career arranged in subseries by topic, including the following: (1) Barthelme's notecards for talks and class lectures, contained in a small box, with each talk separated by a divider; (2) Gradebooks, school curricula, course descriptions, and other organizational material, arranged in rough chronological order; (3) Articles and other reference materials Barthelme quoted or used in his lectures, arranged chronologically within each of his subject headings, using his titles, and for the most part following his order; and (4) Barthelme's class and lecture notes, arranged chronologically within each of his subject headings, using his titles, and for the most part following his order.