Heffernan Archival Center of Design

 

The Heffernan Archival Center of Design, situated on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta is an important repository on the life and works of one of the most important post-war American architects - P.M. Heffernan. It was inaugurated under this name in 1999, and has today grown to house a large quantity of Heffernan's papers, drawings, and slides, and well as a substantial body of student alumni work.

 

The process of creating these archives began in November 1995, when the Georgia Institute of Technology acquired the ownership of the home of Paul M. Heffernan, former director of the Georgia Tech School of Architecture. The was a typical single-storied brick bungalow built in 1927, bought by Mr. Heffernan in 1946, and meticulously converted in several stages to a unique 3,828 sq.ft. home surrounded by a brick wall and fence on three sides.

Today the Heffernan Archives occupies a large portion of this house, and has grown enormously in the last seven years, through the active involvement of Dean Galloway  and research archivists at the College of Architecture, Georgia Tech. Several parts of the continually growing collection have been successfully stored, maintained and catalogued in recent years.

New projects due to be completed later this year include a Web-Browser Search Engine with detailed keyword capability to research the entire archives (HCSE), a Comprehensive Database of Scanned Items for the entire archives (CDSI), and an upcoming publication entitled "The Legacy of P.M. Heffernan".

You can download a preview of the upcoming publication here (2.6 Meg Adobe Acrobat file).

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