Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Kliment Halsband Architects
- Extent:
- 3 linear feet and 1,500 drawings
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and Content:
Projects represented in the collection include Arcadia University Commons (Glenside, PA) ; Arcadia University Landman Library (Glenside, PA) ; Brooklyn College Master Plan (Brooklyn, NY) ; Case Western Reserve University Adelbert Hall (Cleveland, OH) ; College of Wooster Ebert Art Center (Wooster, OH) ; Columbia University Computer Science Building (New York, NY) ; Columbia University Hamilton Hall (New York, NY) ; Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Master Plan (Palisades, NY) ; Dan M. Russell, Jr., U.S. Courthouse (Gulfport, MS) ; Dartmouth College Roth Center for Jewish Life (Hanover, NH) ; Epstein Studio ; Franklin & Marshall College Roschel Performing Arts Center (Lancaster, PA) ; Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Visitor & Education Center (Hyde Park, NY) ; Wender, Murase, and White Law Office (New York, NY) ; Long Island Rail Road Entrance at Penn Station (New York, NY) ; New York City PS 54 (New York, NY) ; New York University Languages & Literature Building (New York, NY) ; Princeton University Computer Science Building (Princeton, NJ) ; residential projects ; Smith College Master Plan (Northampton, MA) ; SUNY at Albany Arts & Science Building (Albany, NY) ; U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Brooklyn, NY) ; University of Kentucky Main Building (Lexington, KY) ; University of Virginia Life Sciences Building (Charlottesville, VA) ; Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock, NY) ; Woodstock Master Plan and Sidewalk District Plan (Woodstock, NY) ; Yale University Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (New Haven, NY) ; Young Women's Christian Association (Kingston, NY).
- Biographical / Historical:
New York City architectural firm founded in 1972 by Frances Halsband and Robert Kliment. Their first works were houses, offices, and small public projects in the town of Woodstock, New York. Their first academic commission was in 1974 when they were commissioned for the design of graduate student housing at Columbia University. Since that time, the firm's work expanded to include master planning, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse for educational, cultural, civic, government buildings and sites.
- Acquisition information:
- Source of acquisition--Kliment Halsband Architects. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2016. Accession number--2016.015.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Architecture -- United States
Architectural practice -- United States
Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans
Building sites -- Planning
College buildings
Public architecture -- Mississippi -- Gulfport - Names:
- R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects
Arcadia University
Brooklyn College
College of Wooster
Case Western Reserve University
Columbia University -- : Designs and plans -- : Buildings
Dan M. Russell, Jr. United States Courthouse (Gulfport, Miss.) -- Designs and plans -- Buildings
Dartmouth College -- Designs and plans -- Buildings
Franklin and Marshall College -- Designs and plans -- Buildings
New York University -- Designs and plans -- Buildings
Princeton University. Computer Science Laboratory - Places:
- Woodstock (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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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.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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300 Avery Hall1172 Amsterdam Avenue M.C. 0301New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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212) 854-6199avery@library.columbia.edu