Architecture Research Center. University of Miami

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Architecture Research Center. University of Miami

The Architecture Research Center (ARC) began as a modest, but pedagogically critical teaching collection of books most of which were donated from faculty and alumni. Commonly referred to as “the reading room”, it was renamed the Paul Buisson Reference Library at the Sixth Annual Library Benefit on April 12, 1991, in honor of Professor Paul Buisson who passed away in 1990. During its early development, the reading room’s non-circulating reference-collection was contained within an armoire under lock and key accessible only by faculty who required immediate access to materials for studio teaching. In 1984 the Department of Architecture separated from the School of Engineering and established its own school. The architecture collection that was housed at Engineering was transferred to the Richter Library where much of it still remains. Eleonor Pol, who stewarded those collections, was transferred to the School of Architecture and managed the reading room collections in the following years. Generous support through The Henry A. Colina Endowment Fund for the acquisition of architecture research, teaching and learning materials has enabled continuous enhancement of the architecture library’s collections since 1993.