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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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Country Life magazine clippings

3 document boxes
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Collection of clipping files from the magazine Country Life. Unknown origin of collector, but possible formed by the Architecture pepartment at Columbia University as a reference collection.

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Marjorie Sewell Cautley landscape drawings, 1928-1931

56 drawings
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This collection contains landscape designs and planting plans for a significant housing development project in Radburn, New Jersey and for the Phipps Garden Apartments project in Sunnyside, Queens.

Roger C. Ferri architectural drawings and papers

3,729 drawings
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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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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP collection of Ezra Stoller photographs

140 albums
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The collection consists of approximately 140 bound albums of photography by Ezra Stoller featuring buildings and interiors designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and a small collection of project records. Projects represented include, among others, Albright Knox Art Gallery, American Republic Insurance Company, Banque Lambert, Beineck Library, Chase Manhattan Bank, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Ford Motor Company, HJ Heinz Research Center, John Hancock Building, Lever House, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and US Airforce Academy.

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Taliesin Associated Architects architectural drawings and records, 1959-1991

400 linear feet
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The collection includes the project files and architectural drawings of the Taliesin Associated Architects, the firm that was established after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959. Projects include commissions that were left on Wright's desk at the time of his death as well as independent commissions and renovation work. Over 1,000 architectural projects are represented either in the paper records, the architectural drawings, or both.

Spanish Children's Drawings of the Civil War

153 drawings
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Avery's collection of Spanish children's drawings of the civil war consist of 153 drawings made by children aged 7 to 14 between the years 1936 and 1938. The drawings were willed to the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University by Martin Vogel, a lawyer, who died on May 20, 1938 at the age of 59. He made several bequests to Columbia University in a will dated March 16, 1938. From the date of this will and of his death, it is likely the drawings he purchased were those exhibited at Lord & Taylor's in February 1938. His name, however, does not appear among the patrons of the exhibition.

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Daniel C. Dunham papers, 1955-2021, bulk 1960s-1990s

8 document boxes
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Daniel C. Dunham (1929-2000) was an architect, consultant, inventor, and educator best known for his architectural works in East Pakistan/Bangladesh and his consultancy work in developing nations throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He was a professor at Columbia University and the City College of New York where he taught courses on solar energy, urban planning and tropical architecture. This collection documents Dunham's long-spanning and multi-faceted career. The collection consists primarily of papers from his consultancy and university work, though his early architectural work is present, mainly in photographic formats.
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Portfolio for Wheelwright Application, 1960-1972 Mar Box 1, Folder 1

Rajshahi University (Rajshahi, Bangladesh). Photographs, 1960-1990 Box 1, Folder 2

Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff papers, 1922-1954

6 manuscript boxes
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Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (d. 1949) was a Greek-Armenian philosopher who lived and taught his "fourth way" in France. He was born sometime between 1866 and 1877 in Alexandropol, Armenia, which was then a governorate of the Russian Empire. After 1912, he began to instruct a group of students on esoteric knowledge (the source of which he never revealed but which he allegedly garnered after extensive travel throughout Asia), turning these into a type of philosophical system that today could be described as "self-help." After relocating to France, he established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, began writing his manuscripts, and engaged students in sacred music and "movements." He gathered a significant following of writers, artists, and other members of the intelligentsia from the 1920s-1940s, including this collection's co-creators, namely P.D. Ouspensky, Alfred R. Orage, and Solita Solano. Gurdjieff wrote three volumes explaining his system, which were published posthumously. Applicable to architectural researchers are Gurdjieff and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright's life-long relationship. Olgivanna lived and studied at the Institute for a number of years before immigrating to the United States. She structured much of the life at Taliesin around Gurdjieff's philosophy, and the group often performed his "movements."
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