Albert Mayer papers 1946-1955

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Albert Mayer papers 1946-1955

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Albert Mayer (1897- ) was an American architect, city planner and engineer. He was appointed planning advisor to the government of Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1947 to study rural development in the region. Collection consists of correspondence, reports, programs, and other papers relating to "pilot intensive projects" at Etawah and elsewhere in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, collected by Mayer, originator and principal consultant on the project. Papers were used as source material for Mayer's 1958 book Pilot Project, India.

.5 linear foot (2 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Mayer, Albert

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Albert Mayer (1897-1981), an architect and city planner, co-founded the New York City firm of Mayer and Whittlesey (later Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass) in 1935. Mayer attended Columbia University, but graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in civil engineering in 1919. After spending several years as an engineer, he switched to architecture when he became more interested in the social aspects of design. An advocate of large-scale planned housing projects, he believ...