Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning student projects

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 15-5-1416

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Volumes containing honors designs and theses; an interscholastic competition; and merit solutions for landscape design, 1912-1922. Also, student projects and drawings, and photographs of projects, 1903-1967; three banners and one plaque for the Inter College Athletic Championships, 1910-1916; approximately 300 student pen and ink sketches, primarily copied from published works; and student projects for the Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Includes drawings of Cornell University and Ithaca buildings, such as Sage College, Boardman and Cascadilla Halls, Llenroc, the Grant Mansion, Giles House and student apartments, as well as proposed residential halls and academic buildings. Also, drawings of historic European and classical structures, and architectural elements. Among the students and architects whose work is represented are Carráere & Hastings, Richard C. Murdock (Cornell University Class of 1927), John Wellborn Root (Cornell University Class of 1909), and Robert J. Eidlitz (Cornell University Class of 1885).

Includes design problems, 1922-1954.

Includes Baird Prize competition "Place Plate" artwork from Design 112, February 1932. The winning design (not included) was used by the Wedgwood Company for a set of twelve plates depicting Cornell scenes.

Drawing on canvas by Richard Andrews Tissington (written RA Tissington), who graduated from the College of Architecture in 1900. According to a 1901 publication of Cornell Alumni News, the drawing, entitled "Design for a Ceiling," was the First Prize Drawing in the Cornell Traveling Fellowship Competition. It was also featured in a exhibit for the Convention of the Architectural League of America May 23-25, 1901. The drawing itself is approximately 48"x60"and is extremely fragile.

Framed rendering of a design for an "Alumni Hall - East Elevation. Cornell University" created as a student project by Samuel R. DeLong, Class of 1895, Architecture.

A 2000 "Praxis2" booklet compiled as the final report of a collaborative Architecture/Planning Course working with the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services on a site design for a housing development on West Hill in Ithaca, N.Y.

Dates

1898-2006.

Creator

Cornell University. College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (Organization)
Murdock, Richard C. (Person)
Root, John Wellborn, 1887-1963. (Person)
Eidlitz, Robert James, 1864-1935. (Person)
Tissington, Richard Andrews. (Person)
DeLong, Samuel Richmond. (Person)
Carrère & Hastings (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

29 cubic feet. (29 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Volumes containing honors designs and theses; an interscholastic competition; and merit solutions for landscape design, also, student projects and drawings, and photographs of projects.

SERIES LIST

<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s1">Series I. Miscellaneous Projects 1885 - 1997</ref>: Box 1-6, 35-39
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s2">Series II. Theses 1926-1931 (Vol. I-V)</ref>: Box 13
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s3">Series III. Interscholastic Competition (Vol. I of I) </ref>: Box 13
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s4">Series IV. Merit Solutions, Landscape Design 1912-1922 (Vol. 1-10)</ref>: Boxes 14,15
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s5a">Series Va. Honors designs 1898/1899 - 1946/1947</ref>: Boxes 7-11, 16-23, 27-31
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s5b">Series Vb. Honors designs 1947/1948 - 1951/1952 and 1952/1953 - 1956/1957</ref>: Boxes 24-26
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s6">Series VI. Design Problems, 1922/1923 - 1958/1959</ref>: Box 32
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7">Series VII. Thesis Programs Series VIII. Other 1939-1951</ref>: Boxes 33,34
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s8">Series VIII. Other</ref>: Box 40
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s9">Series IX. Oversized Items</ref>: Mapcase

Physical Description

Reports, Research Materials, Scrapbooks

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Laura Linke
Date completed:: May 2006
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, May 2008
Date modified:: RMC Staff, March 2016