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 consists of pencil sketches and drawings by Romaldo Giurgola for three Michell/Guirgola Architects architectural projects. The three projects represented in this collection are Mission Park Residential Houses for Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (1971), three schemes for The American Institute of Architects National Headquarters Building Competition in Washington, D.C.(1965-67), and The Sherman Fairchild Center for Life Sciences at Columbia University in New York City (1977).
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.
Donated by Romaldo Giurgola of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in 1980.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Romaldo Giurgola (1920-2016) was an Italian born architect and educator. Giurgola recieved his Masters of Architecture at Columbia University in 1951. In 1958, Giurgola and Ehrman B. Mitchell founded the architectural firm Mitchell/Giurgola in Philadelphia. In 1966, he began teaching at Columbia's School of Architecture. The firm Mitchell/Giurgola moved to New York in the late 1960s. Giurgola died in Canberra, Australia in 2016.
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