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José Luis Delpini photographs, circa 1958

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID	15633530 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Delpini, José Luis
Title	José Luis Delpini photographs, circa 1958
Physical Description	71 photographic prints
Language(s)	Spanish; Castilian .
Access	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 and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Description

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photographs for twenty buildings and models of five unrealized or partially realized project. Projects include markets, churches, factories, garages, a bus station, a bridge, a stadium, an airplane hangar, and an apartment building. The photographs are black and white and mounted to card stock. Each print includes a typed caption, which identifies and dates the project. The photographs are housed together in a clamshell box engraved with the title "La Arquitectura de Jose L. Depini." It is possible the photographs were use as a presentation album.

Using the Collection

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Conditions Governing Access

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 and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased in 2018 from Graph Books (2018.007).

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form

Heading	"CUL Archives:" "Portal"	"CUL Collections:" "CLIO"	"Nat'l / Int'l Archives:" "ArchivedGRID"
black-and-white photographs	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

Subject

Heading	"CUL Archives:" "Portal"	"CUL Collections:" "CLIO"	"Nat'l / Int'l Archives:" "ArchivedGRID"
Architects -- Argentina	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Architectural models	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Architectural photography -- Latin America	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- Latin America	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

José Luis Delpini (1897-1964) was an Argentinian architect and engineer.

Delpini is best known for designing, in collaboration with architect Viktor Sulčič and surveyor Raul Bes, the Mercado Abasto (1934) and La Bombonera stadium (1940). Their studio was named Delpini-Sulčič-Bes. The partnership dissolved in 1953, after which Delpini independently designed a number of more imaginative projects represented in this collection, including "Proyecto de Estadio Racional" and "Proyecto de Hangar de 200 m. de Luz Libre."

Delpini was a professor of engineering at the University of Buenos Aires, where he also founded the Laboratory of Structural Research. He became the first Chair of Structural Composition just before his death in 1964.