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Avery Drawings & Archives

Avery Drawings & Archives

300 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
avery-drawings@columbia.edu
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives department collects drawings, photographs, and architectural records documenting architecture and design practices. Our collections focus largely on American and New York City architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Start Over Repository Avery Drawings & Archives Names José Luis Sert, 1902-1983

Paul Nelson architectural records and papers, 1924-1976 2 manuscript boxes 2 bound volumes 58 photographs (58 photographs) 241 drawings (241 drawings)

Nelson, Paul, 1895-1979
Paul Nelson was an American architect educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and practicing in France and the United States. This collection contains materials related to Nelson's personal, professional, and academic lives, the bulk originating during his residency in the France, beginning in the 1920s.
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Serge Chermayeff architectural records and papers, 1909-1980 17 linear feet of papers 1508 photographs (1508 photographs) 915 drawings

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-1996

This collection contains materials related to Chermayeff's personal, professional, and academic lives, the bulk originating during his residency in the United States, beginning in the late 1930s. Project records document the full range of his work, including many records from his British period. The collection also contains extensive correspondence with personal friends, clients, and professional and academic colleagues.

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