New Architecture Rankings

columbia2007
Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:13:25 +0000

What sort of architecture program does Princeton have to allow it to tie Columbia? Columbia’s Avery Library is the virtual nerve center of architectural research; architectural libraries everywhere are based on the Avery Index; this makes it somewhat the equivalent of the Library of Congress for the profession. I had full blown endowed chair professors in Germany begging me, when I was a freshman, to assist them in gaining access there. Beyond which, Columbia has a tremendous architectural resource in New York which is rather lacking in central New Jersey, one which draws distinguished architects as much as it facilitates study.

I don’t want to demean Princeton at all, just understand what makes its architecture program so competitive with Columbia’s resources.