FELIX CANDELA: A SYMPOSIUM Columbia University 501 Schermerhorn Hall Saturday, February 11, 2012 Free and open to the public In conjunction with the exhibition Felix Candela, the Wallach Art Gallery and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library present a symposium on his life and work. Félix Candela is regarded as one the […]
Month: January 2012
Virtual Reality, VSim, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Is There Hope for the Technically Challenged
Lisa Snyder (Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA) specializes in the use of interactive virtual reality environments to study and teach about historic urban environments. For the Israel Antiquities Authority, she created a three-dimensional interactive digital reconstruction of the Temple Mount complex, and, more recently, she’s developed a computer simulation of the […]
Happy Chinese New Year!!
Avery Library has numerous rare books about architecture in non-Western countries. One of the more famous is in our Classics Collection: Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental from 1759 by Paul Decker. […]
WELCOME BACK SPRING 2012
Please check out our online calendar for our Spring hours. We welcome Cathryn Miller, a student at the Rutgers Library School, who will be handling Saturday reference hours from 1-5 pm. She will begin on Sat. Jan. 28. There will be no "in-person" reference on Jan. 21. On Sundays we are switching to online […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Acquires the Edgar A. Tafel Archive
NEW YORK, January 17, 2012 – The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the donation of the architectural archives and research files of architect and historian Edgar Tafel, as well as a $100,000 gift to support the processing, preservation, and presentation of the collection. The donation was made by the Edgar […]
Avery Library open on MLK
Please note that Avery Library will be open on Monday, January 16th with the following exceptions: Avery Classics, Drawings & Archives, Art Properties, Avery Index and Bibliographic Services will be closed. We will operate with minimal public service staff levels to accommodate researchers for the day. See our hours. […]
Contemporary Chinese Art Books at Avery Library
Here is a brief selection of contemporary Chinese art books recently acquired at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library: Wu Hung with the assistance of Peggy Wang, editors. Contemporary Chinese art : primary documents. New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Durham, N.C. : Distributed by Duke University Press, c2010. Avery Fine Arts […]