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Avery Drawings & Archives

Avery Drawings & Archives

300 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
avery@library.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.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives : Taliesin Fellowship talk transcripts and audio recordings, 1948-1956

6 manuscript boxes
"Talk to the Taliesin Fellowship" was a regular lecture series at Taliesin where Wright addressed the fellows and apprentices on a range of philosophical and personal topics. The collection consists of transcripts and audio recordings of those talks as well as additional talks given by Wright to various public audiences.
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Avery Library centennial drawings archive, 1930-1991, bulk 1930-01-01-1991-01-01

350 drawings

More than 120 architects from the United States and abroad contributed original drawings to this collection. Most are hand-drawn; some are printed through traditional etching or lithography techniques; a few others are computer-generated prints. Images are primarily related to the architects' projects, although some drawings are travel sketches of other structures. Drawings in this archive were exhibited at the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the Arthur Ross Gallery at Columbia University, Apr. 3-May 4, 1991. At least one drawing from each contributor was published in the accompanying exhibition catalog, CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1991).

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Alfred Neumann architectural records and papers, 1900-1985, bulk 1950s-1960s

8 document boxes
Alfred Neumann (1900-1968) was a Czech architect with an international career. Most of his major projects were executed in Israel; his earlier work consisted mainly of private residences for Czech clients, as well as commercial and residential architecture undertaken with various firms or government bodies in Paris, Berlin, Algiers, and South Africa. Neumann devoted a substantial portion of his career to teaching and to research into architectural morphology, theories of proportion, polyhedral structures, and architectural space as pattern. He taught at both the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa, and the Université Laval in Quebec. He participated in CIAM (Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne), Groupe Espace, and other architectural groups throughout his career. This collection consists mainly of project drawings and photographs, personal and professional correspondence, Neumann's writings and research, papers related to Neumann's membership in CIAM, and publications related to his projects. The bulk of the material dates from Neumann's later career and concerns projects and research undertaken while Neumann was in Israel.
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Roger C. Ferri architectural drawings and papers

3,729 drawings
Roger Cesare Ferri (1949-1991) was an American architect, painter, and designer, principally active in New York City. This collection includes Ferri's project records, original and reprographic architectural drawings, paintings and sketches, professional papers, and very limited miscellaneous personal documents and items.
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Academic - University of Miami teaching materials, undated Box 5, Folder 9

notes and drawings for "Pedestrian Communities" design studio, "Park West Redevelopment" design studio, and possibly other courses; original drawings including site plans for Pedestrian Communities assignments and typological studies of housing (point tower, three types of slabs, courtyard house, townhouse)

  1. Series II: Professional Papers
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Leopold Arnaud papers and architectural drawings, 1914-1980, bulk 1914-1945

1 print box
Leopold Arnaud was a member of the Columbia University's School of Architecture faculty for 31 years and dean from 1937 to 1960. The collection consist of architectural drawings, correspondence, student photographs, student sketchbooks and papers documenting the 1944-1945 Architectural Competition for Permanent Building Construction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
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Clyde Dorsett papers, 1940-1991, bulk 1952-1982

20 document boxes
Clyde H. Dorsett (1925-2007) was an architectural consultant dedicated to mental healthcare design becoming the nation's leading authority in the design and construction of such facilities. Working as lead architectural consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1965 to 1982, he oversaw the federal government's ambitious program to transform the nation's monolithic state mental hospital structure into a wider variety of local and state facilities to address a spectrum of medical and social needs through more precisely tailored, yet humane and informal design approaches. Underpinning the work was the growing conviction that the built environment played a significant role in the healing process, and that such 'scientifically' derived design could be applied to social problems. Based at the institute's offices in Washington D.C., he both advised on individual projects through drawings submitted by architects nation-wide, as well as developing guidelines and standards for the accreditation, certification and funding of construction projects by the federal government. It is of these documents that the present collection largely comprises. He continued advising in the field long after his early retirement from the institute in 1982.
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Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Posters, publicity, and publications, 1980s-2020

199 items

This collection contains posters and publicity materials created by the communications office of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). The bulk of the collection is in Series I, which contains posters for GSAPP exhibitions and events such as lectures, discussion panels, end of year shows and film screenings. These have been arranged by decade. Series II contains copies of Newsline, a GSAPP newsletter publication from the 1990s. Series III contains publicity materials for the school's various academic programs.

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Eleanor Pepper architectural records and papers, 1891-1997, bulk 1920-1990

33 document boxes
Eleanor Pepper was a pioneer in the field of interior design, running one of the first departments of interior design in an architecture office before opening her own practice in 1950. The collection contains papers related to Eleanor Pepper's professional and academic lives, and includes some personal papers, mostly in the form of resumes and biographical sketches.
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Richard Joseph Neutra papers, 1927-1978

1 document box
Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an important modernist architect who helped introduce the International Style to the US. The Richard Neutra papers document primarily the architect's writings.
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Greene & Greene architectural drawings and records, 1896-1931

4,800 drawings
The American architectural firm Greene & Greene was a partnership between the brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868-1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870-1954). The firm, established in 1894, was officially dissolved in 1922, after which the two practiced independently. They were active in Southern California and were part of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. During the years 1907-1909 the Greenes created some of their most renowned residences, including the Blacker, Gamble, Pratt, and Thorsen houses. They also designed interiors, creating furniture, lighting, carpets, and stained glass for their clients. Greene & Greene architectural drawings and records spans the years circa 1896 to circa 1963. The collection chiefly consists of architectural drawings (approximately 4,800) and also includes photographs, personal papers, and other manuscript material. Access to digital images of all the architectural drawings and to selected photographs are provided in the finding aid.
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