Casa Italiana of Columbia University, located at 1151-1161 Amsterdam Avenue between West 116th and 118th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, houses Italian Academy for Advanced Studies. It was built in 1926-27 and was designed by William Kendall of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance palazzo style. The building was restored, and the east facade completed, in 1996 by Buttrick, White & Burtis with Italo Rota. (Source: "AIA Guide to NYC" (5th ed.))