Columbia University School of Architecture student drawings, 1879-1956, bulk 1884-1912

Bib ID	3460553 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Columbia University. School of Architecture; Arnaud, Leopold, 1895-1984; Atwood, Norman; Boring, William A (William Alciphron), 1859-1937; Burley, Robert A; Camlet, George L; Camlet, William J; De Ris, Joan; Dimick, D. L; Gifford, R; Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934; Glushak, E; Gordo, J; Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926; Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956; Herz, Henry; Jacobs, Harry Allan, 1872-1932; Kagawa, Shoso; Kempa, E; Khaupt, R; Leefe, James; Levi, Julian, 1874-1971; Lutz, P; MacDonald, D; Madland, Per; Morris, Benjamin W (Benjamin Wistar), 1870-1944; Olgyay, Aladar, 1910-1963; Petchler, W. J; Rapp, W; Rohdenburg, Theodor Karl; Scherer, R. R; Schwarz, R. E; Smith, Perry Coke; Schwartz, R. E; Swan, P. W; Ware, Arthur; Ware, William R (William Robert), 1832-1915; White, E. D., Jr; Wolf, J; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Columbia University. School of Mines
Title	Columbia University School of Architecture student drawings, 1879-1956, bulk 1884-1912
Physical Description	255 items
Language(s)	English .
Additional Description	https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/inside/avery_assets/CU.Architecture.Student.Drawings.pdf
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Included are drawings--from preliminary sketches to finished renderings--done by students in the architecture program at the School of Mines at Columbia and, later, at the School of Architecture at Columbia. The bulk of these were done circa 1884-1912, during the tenures of Deans William Robert Ware (1881-1903) and A.D.F. Hamlin (1903-1912). Included in collection are student drawings by William A. Boring, Harry Allan Jacobs, Benjamin Wistar Morris, Jr., Julian Clarence Levi, Arthur Ware, Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, Leopold F. Arnaud, Perry Coke Smith, Theodor Karl Rohdenburg, and Aladar Olgyay. Also, drawings done by architecture students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, circa 1880s; a photograph, undated, of William Robert Ware; and one drawing, 1879, by architect Cass Gilbert.

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Columbia University School of Architecture student drawings. Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

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The architecture program at the School of Mines at Columbia was begun by William Robert Ware in 1881. In 1897 the department became a separate school of architecture. Ware had begun the first professional school of architecture in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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