This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
The collection documents four projects: Amsterdam Houses additions (New York, N.Y.) Curries Woods Restoration (Jersey City, N.J.); Washington Street Urban Renewal (New York, N.Y.) and Wyckoff Houses (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Source of acquisition--Herbert B. Oppenheimer. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2014. Accession number--2014.007.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Herbert Brand Oppenheimer is a New York-based architect. Born in Yonkers in the 1920s, Oppenheimer began his studies in architecture at Black Mountain College in North Carolina (1942-43). His studies were interrupted in 1943 when he was called into active military service. In 1954, Oppenheimer obtained his B.Arch. from Columbia University.
Oppenheimer worked in the firm of Philp Johnson (1957-59) before leaving to establish his own practice Oppenheimer, Brady, and Lehrecke in 1960. By 1968, the firm was known as Oppenheimer, Brady & Associates. In the 1970s, Oppenheimer served as president of the AIA. In 2014, he closed down his practice.
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