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.
The collection is composed primarily of architectural drawings, correspondence, student photographs, and student sketchbooks.
Series I: West Point Competition documents Leopold Arnaud's involvement as the Professional Advisor in the Architectural Competition for Permanent Building Construction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1944-1945. As Advisor, Arnaud's duties included examining the designs by the various competitors (which included firms such as Cram and Ferguson; Delano and Aldrich; Shreve, Lamb and Harmon; Skimore, Ownings and Merrilll and Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith) to ascertain whether they complied with the requirements of the program and to report to the jury any instance of failure to comply with those requirements. The series also contains 11 drawings (dated from 1925 to 1934) of various buildings at United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Series II: Student Work is made up of renderings and drawing exercises done by Arnaud while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts and Columbia School of Architecture.
Series III: Miscellaneous is made up of two subseries: Subseries III.1: Artifacts contains Arnaud's academic hood and decoration (2 pieces; cloth). Subseries III.2: Papers consists of letters and transcripts collected by Arnaud that relate to Columbia University and specifically the School of Architecture. Of particular note is a transcription of a cassette tape sent by Leopold Arnaud to Dean James Stewart Polshek describing the history of Columbia University's School of Architecture for the Centenary celebration. In the transcript, Arnaud tells Dean Polshek, "I thought that I would give a little run-down of the history of the [Columbia University] School [of Architecture] as I know it, because I don't have any modesty, but I am perhaps the only person around still going that knows the School from its beginnings."
1914-1980
This collection is arranged in three series: West Point Competition, Student Work, and Miscellaneous.
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.
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Leopold Arnaud papers and architectural drawings, 1914-1980, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Source of acquisition--Mrs. Fortuny (Leopold Arnaud's daughter). Method of acquisition--Donated;; Accession number--1997.010 and 1998.002.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Processed; Kerri Pfister 2011.
2011-05-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Leopold Arnaud was a member of the Columbia University's School of Architecture faculty for 31 years and dean from 1937 to 1960.
documents Leopold Arnaud's involvement as the Professional Advisor in the Architectural Competition for Permanent Building Construction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1944-1945. As Advisor, Arnaud's duties included examining the designs by the various competitors (which included firms such as Cram and Ferguson; Delano and Aldrich; Shreve, Lamb and Harmon; Skimore, Ownings and Merrilll and Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith) to ascertain whether they complied with the requirements of the program and to report to the jury any instance of failure to comply with those requirements. The series also contains 11 drawings (dated from 1925 to 1934) of various buildings at United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Roll A80.5
Primary Creator: Arnold W. Brunner Associates; Secondary Creator: R.M. Hunt.
West Academic Building, Washington Hall, Cadet Mess Store and Drawing Academy, Riding Hall;
11 drawings : Elevations, Details, Floor Plans.
Box 01 Folder 01
Hand written and typed versions.
Box 01 Folder 02
Box 01 Folder 03
Hand written draft.
Box 01 Folder 04
Box 01 Folder 05
Box 01 Folder 06
Box 01 Folder 07
Box 01 Folder 08
Box 01 Folder 09
Box 01 Folder 10
Box 01 Folder 11
Box 01 Folder 12
Includes four black and white photographs of exhibition and one blue print easel design.
Box 01 Folder 13
is made up of renderings and drawing exercises done by Arnaud while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts and Columbia School of Architecture.
Box 01 Folder 17
Photographs of site plans and elevations.
Box 03
Photographs of site plans and elevations bound in a book with loose photos in the back.
Box 01 Folder 18
Three Quadrille Notebooks of sketches (Shades and Shadows, Book I; Shades and Shadows, Book II; Course in Perspective by Professor Frank D. Sherman, Book III); also includes three sepia photographs.
Drawer 228 Folder 01
1 drawing : Tree with birds and hills.
Drawer 228 Folder 02
1 drawing : Charcoal on Paper, Matted.
Drawer 228 Folder 03
7 drawings : Details, Detail of Truss, Floor Plans, Elevations.
Drawer 228 Folder 04
5 drawings : Details, Elevations, and Floor Plans.
Drawer 228 Folder 05
3 drawings : Details, Floor Plans.
Drawer 228 Folder 06
5 drawings : Details, Elevations, Floor Plans and a Poster.
Drawer 228 Folder 07
5 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 228 Folder 08
8 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 01
7 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 02
6 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 03
35 drawings : Details, Elevations and Figures.
Drawer 235 Folder 04
41 drawings : Details, Elevations and Figures.
Drawer 235 Folder 05
7 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 06
6 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 07
12 drawings : Details, Elevations, Floor Plans and Posters.
Oversizebin OSV04
[Drawing 1]: urn; [Drawing 2]: vase; [Drawing 3]: capital; [Drawing 4]: frieze
2019.010
Box 02
2 items : cloth.
Box 01 Folder 14
Commencement Address by Nicholas Murray Butler for the 179th Commencement of Columbia University.
Box 01 Folder 15
Letters from Columbia University Presidents.
Box 01 Folder 16
19 page transcription of a cassette tape sent by Leopold Arnaud to Dean James Stewart Polshek describing the history of the School of Architecture for the School's Centenary Anniversary.