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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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Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979-(bulk 1949-1964).

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Douglas Putnam Haskellan (1899-1979) was an American writer, architecture critic and magazine editor. This collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, lectures, transcripts, clippings, notes, printed matter, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia mainly relating to Douglas Haskell's editorship at Architectural Forum and his professional activities. The collection includes items dating from 1866 to 1979, with the majority of materials dating from the period of 1949 to 1964.
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Aesthetics Box 25, Folder 2

Aesthetics
Aesthetics of 20th Century Architecture, by Russell L. Ackoff, Ph.D. General Lecture delivered June
Aesthetics of 20th Century Architecture, by Edgar I. Williams, F.A.I.A. General Lecture delivered

Economic Opportunities for the Architect, American Institute of Architects Annual Convention. Dallas, Texas. May 9, 1962. By Karl L. Falk. (p. 1); Typescript of lecture. 10 pp.

  1. Series II: Personal Correspondence

1965—University of Wisconsin meeting, October 28-30, 1965 Box 91, Folder 3

Urban Aesthetics.
Smith, Ralph A. University of Illinois. 1965; Proposal. 8 pp. "The Aesthetic Dimension of
Environmental Responsibility: A Proposal for Curriculum Innovation in Aesthetic Education (Grades 7-12.)

This folder contains material relating to a three day conference on "Materials and Methods in Education in the Appreciation of Urban Beauty" at The University of Wisconsin, Madison.

  1. Series X: Chronology

U Box 41, Folder 1

Who Is Responsible For Ugliness? First Conference on Aesthetic Responsibility. April 3, 1962, Hotel

Who Is Responsible For Ugliness? First Conference on Aesthetic Responsibility. April 3, 1962, Hotel Plaza, New York.; Broadside, 53.5 x 42 cm. Includes list of AIA Design Committee members: Richard W. Snibbe, Emanuel N. Turano, Edgar Tafel, William W. Atkin, Marcel Breuer, Walker O. Cain, John M. Johansen, Philip C. Johnson, Rolf Myller, Ladislav L. Rado, George Cooper Rudolph.

  1. Series II: Personal Correspondence
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Alan Burnham papers, 1874-1999, bulk 1940-1982

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Alan Burnham (1913–1984) was an American architect and architectural historian who served as the Executive Director of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission from 1965 to 1973 as well as the Commission's Director of Research. This collection consists mainly of reference materials related to architectural history and New York City architectural history, as well as professional papers and papers relating to Richard Morris Hunt and the history of New York City apartment buildings.
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Peter Marcuse papers, 1947-2017

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Peter Marcuse (b. 1928), son of critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, is an attorney, planner, and professor of planning. He has produced extensive scholarship on planning matters, covering different issues such as professional ethics, housing, city planning, comparative policy, the 'right to the city' movement', urban history, and globalization. This collection consists mainly of teaching and course materials related to Marcuse's tenure as Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University (since 1975) as well as research, writings, and reference materials for professional work inside and outside academia, including projects commissioned by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives : manuscripts, 1894-1959, bulk 1894-1959

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Manuscripts of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright contain his working drafts and final versions of his writings (published and unpublished), lectures, and talks dating from 1894 until his death in 1959. The collection consists of approximately 2,785 drafts amounting to over 31,000 sheets. The manuscripts range from handwritten drafts to heavily corrected typescripts and galley proofs. Included in this comprehensive collection of writings are a large number of unpublished pieces which expand upon Wright's published ideas on architecture, art and aesthetics, and which provide further insights into the architect's views on politics, religion, morality and various other topics.
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Why Idiotic Aesthetics?, 1952 Item 2401.308

Why Idiotic Aesthetics?, 1952
A: Why Idiotic Aesthetics?, [undated]. Holograph manuscript : Ink corrections ; (2pp.)
B: Why Idiotic Aesthetics?, 1952 Jul 06. Typescript : Ink corrections ; pp. (1p.), 2

A: Why Idiotic Aesthetics?, [undated]. Holograph manuscript : Ink corrections ; (2pp.)

  1. Series I: Writings (Chronological)
  2. Subseries 6: 1950s
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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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Articles on Aesthetics, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983-1985 Box 09, Folder 07

Articles on Aesthetics, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983-1985

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,Progressive Architecture,A.I.A. Journal,Technology Review,Metropolis,Harvard Magazine,Interior Designs,Architectural Record, andThink; includes typewritten notes: "The Renaissance of Humanism in Germany" by Dr. Fritz Neugass and "Stefan George" by Dr. F. Neugass

  1. Series IV: Professional Papers
  2. Series 4: Reference Files

Articles on Aesthetics, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1981-1986 Box 09, Folder 06

Articles on Aesthetics, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1981-1986

Interior Design,Architectural Record,Newsweek,Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,A.I.A. Journal,Manchester Guardian,Architectural Record,John Hopkins Magazine,Historic Preservation,Interiors,Progressive Architecture,Office Design, andArchitecture

  1. Series IV: Professional Papers
  2. Series 4: Reference Files
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John M. Johansen architectural drawings and papers, 1939-2007

1,423 drawings
John Maclane Johansen received his architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942 where he studied under Walter Gropius. He worked under Marcel Breuer and at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before opening his own private office in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he became known as one of the Harvard Five. He later formed a partnership with Ashok Bhavnani. Major projects include the Oklahoma (Mummers) Theater in Oklahoma City; the Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; the Charles Center Theater Building (Mechanic Theater) in Baltimore, the United States Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, and the Island House and Rivercross apartments on Roosevelt Island, which he completed with Bhavnani. Johansen also designed numerous private residences in Connecticut and New York, and a series of conceptual projects such as the Leapfrog City project and the "Moon Module" house. The collection largely documents Johansen's professional career, and includes original and reprographic architectural drawings, photographs, negatives, professional papers, publications, reference files, and one scale model.
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Ralph Walker papers, 1920-1972, bulk 1913-2010

6 document boxes
Ralph Walker (1889-1973) was an American architect and president of the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A.) from 1949 to 1951. The majority of the collection consists of personal writings by Walker including essays, poetry, and other manuscripts. There is some correspondence as well as documentation concerning the AIA Censure Walker and his firm received. Beyond this, there is very little relating to Walker's architectural practice.
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Talbot Faulkner Hamlin papers and architectural records, 1880-1959, bulk 1916-1955

9.1 linear feet of papers

This collection contains professional and personal writings, published papers, correspondence, photographs, architectural records, student work, and research materials related to the academic and architectural practice of Talbot Faulkner Hamlin.

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Shadrach Woods architectural records and papers, 1923-2008, bulk 1948-1973

45 manuscript boxes
An American architect and urban planner, Shadrach Woods was a student of Le Corbusier and worked extensively throughout North Africa, France, Germany and New York City on projects ranging from low-cost housing developments to university campuses. Also highly regarded as a critic and theorist, Woods taught at Harvard and Yale and lectured and published widely. The collection represents the span of Woods' life and career through papers, photographs, architectural drawings, writings, and published materials. A small group of materials documents his childhood and education through personal papers and photographs. However, the bulk of the collections relates to his professional work and collaborations.
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Percival Goodman architectural records and papers, 1929-1989

46 document boxes
Percival Goodman (1904-1989) was an Americam architect, teacher, urban planner, artist and writer. In a career that spanned more than sixty years, Goodman achieved renown as one of the most prolific synagogue architects in the United States and was instrumental in the development of a critical discourse around the building of modern religious architecture. The collection consists of project records, drawings, models, photographs, slides, professional correspondence and contracts, articles and unpublished manuscripts, teaching and lecture notes and personal and professional memorabilia, such as architectural licenses and certificates, as well as articles and clippings about his work.
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