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Avery Drawings & Archives Collections |
Summary InformationAt a Glance
DescriptionScope and ContentsThe 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 CollectionAvery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Conditions Governing AccessThis 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 AcquisitionPurchased in 2018 from Graph Books (2018.007). About the Finding Aid / Processing InformationColumbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Subject HeadingsThe subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives. All links open new windows. Genre/Form
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History / Biographical NoteBiographical / HistoricalJosé 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. |