In 1881, William Robert Ware founded the Architecture Program at Columbia University, bringing with him an extensive collection of lantern slides, the foundation of the image archive at the school. These glass plate photographs depict a wide range of locations and represented the most technologically advanced method of image representation at the time. The lantern […]
Month: January 2013
Grand Central Terminal/Warren & Wetmore
In last Sunday's New York Times, an article by Sam Roberts celebrating the centennial of Grand Central Terminal featured images from the Warren & Wetmore collection in Avery Drawings and Archives: Warren & Wetmore designed the terminal jointly with Reed & Stem. In addition to architectural drawings and papers, Avery Library also has the firm's […]
Guimard drawings
Drawings by the renowned French architect Hector Guimard were donated by his widow to Avery Drawings and Archives. Now some of these drawings are essential to the restoration of one of his houses located near Troyes, France. Click here for article. […]
Welcome back students!!
Avery Library welcomes back students! We hope you had a great vacation and are ready for the new semester. Just a couple of quick reminders: When we are not available for reference questions you can click on "Ask a Librarian" to be connected to Virtual Reference. Our hours for the Spring semester are here. Best […]
Ada Louise Huxtable Tribute
Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic, died on January 7. She was most recently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal. As the New York Times reported in its obituary, Ms. Huxtable considered Avery Library her "most treasured academic home." She covered Avery Library exhibitions and events in many pieces for the […]
Erin Leach joins Avery Library
Erin Leach joins Avery Library as the Cataloging/Metadata Librarian for the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection project. Erin earned an M.A. in Information Sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. An active member of ALA and ALCTS, Erin was a member of the 2011 Emerging Leaders cohort. She currently chairs the Continuing […]
Zorn book on Lindbergh kidnapping case
Author Robert Zorn, whose book titled "Cemetery John" is about the Lindbergh Case, is at Avery Library Drawings & Archives studying the drawings of Delano & Aldrich who designed the Lindbergh residence as well as the Morrow residence in Englewood, NJ. There will be a NOVA special airing Jan. 30, 2013 relating to the case. […]
Barbara Sykes-Austin Retires from Avery Library
After twenty-five years of dedicated service, Barbara Sykes-Austin has retired to pursue personal interests. Over the span of her career, Barbara contributed more than 100,000 records to the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals — nearly one-sixth of the total number of records in the Index! These records established a rigorous standard that has become a […]