Happy Thanksgiving from Avery Library! Avery Library will be closing at 5pm on Wed. Nov. 21st and closed Thur. Nov. 22 and Fri. Nov. 23rd. Check out our Thanksgiving week schedule […]
Month: November 2012
Metropolis-architecture
Richard Anderson's new translation of Ludwig Hilberseimer's Groszstadt-architektur (1927) has recently been published by GSAPP Sourcebooks. Entitled Metropolis-architecture, the translation incorporates three images from an item in Avery Classics, Hilberseimer's article "Vorschlag zur City-Bebauung," published in Die Form (1930). […]
Unbuilt East River Subway
Subways under the East River are much on everyone's mind in these post-Hurricane Sandy days. Avery Classics owns a rare portfolio of plans for an unbuilt subway line that would have run from the southern tip of Manhattan to Brooklyn, published by the Manhattan Underground Railway Company, ca. 1891. The portfolio includes maps of the […]
Happy Belated Birthday to Stanford White
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was one of the most famous American architects of his era. He was a partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. and designed numerous houses, public buildings, institutions, and religious buildings. His design principles embodied the American Classical Revival. Avery Library Drawing & […]
Celebrate: Avery Hall at 100!!!
Saturday November 10, 2012 November 10, 2012 marks the first day of Avery Hall’s second century. Designed by the legendary architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White, Avery Hall is home to the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and the renowned Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Together, the School and the Library […]
Janet Parks Delivers Keynote at Construction History Society Meeting
Janet Parks, Avery's Curator of Drawings and Archives will deliver the keynote address at the 3rd biennial meeting of the Construction History Society of America, November 2-3, 2012. The meeting is being held in Boston concurrent with the “Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces” exhibit curated by John Ochsendorf and on […]