Readers who missed the Morgan Library’s recent exhibition Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, which closed on October 2, can get their fix at Avery Library. Avery has hundreds of architects’ notebooks, sketchbooks, account books and other personal documents of the building trade. To […]
Month: October 2011
Happy 80th Birthday GW Bridge!!
The George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York was dedicated 80 years ago yesterday on Oct. 24, 1931 and opened to traffic 80 years ago today on Oct. 25, 1931. Its chief engineer was Othmar Ammann. At the time it opened, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. We have a […]
Guggenheim Museum at Avery
Today marks the public opening in 1959 of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC by Frank Lloyd Wright. Avery Library has original floor plans and sectionals for this important masterpiece in our Drawing and Archives Collection. Flickr photo (c)2003 Sitebits.com […]
Avery Real Estate Brochures in NY Times
Today’s New York Times has an article by Diane Cardwell about Manhattan real estate booms and busts which uses brochures and marketing materials from the Avery Library New York Real Estate Brochure Collection. The collection was donated by Yale Robbins, Henry Robbins, and David Magier in 1986. It consists of over 9,200 advertising brochures, floor […]
Chilean Mining at Avery
A year ago today, 33 miners were rescued from the San José copper and gold mine near Copiapó, Chile, after being trapped underground for 69 days. Avery Classics owns a rare and important document of the history of mining in Chile, a large presentation album of photographs of the establishment of Playa Blanca in Antofagasta. […]
Avery Drawings in Grinnell Exhibition
Friday’s NY Times had an article on Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin by Eve Kahn mentioning the Grinnell College exhibition on view through Dec. 11 to which Avery Library Drawings & Archives has contributed original material. –by Janet Parks, Curator of Drawing & Archives […]
Avery Library photos of Pei’s Terminal 6
Photos of Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport by George Cserna appear in the New York Times today. Avery Library Drawing & Archives Collection holds these beautiful photos of I.M. Pei’s building which will be torn down by the end of this month. –by Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings & Archives […]
Happy Birthday Le Corbusier!!
Happy Birthday to Le Corbusier (Oct. 6, 1887-Aug. 27, 1965). Avery Library Drawings & Archives has approx. 15 drawings executed by Le Corbusier as illustrations for lectures on architecture and city planning delivered at Columbia University in 1935 and 1961. Flickr photo by IISG wereldreis2_122_03 Le Corbusier 1955 Le Corbusier in Chandigarh, India, 1955 […]
Lauretta Vinciarelli: in memoriam
Beloved as a teacher in GSAPP during her days at Columbia, Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943-2011) was renowned in the architecture world for her spectacular watercolors of architectural spaces. Avery is fortunate to have this watercolor, donated to the Drawings and Archives in 1990 for the Avery Centennial exhibition. For an appreciation of her work, see this […]