The Inquiring Eye: European Drawings from the Lola Szladits Collection

The 7th MA in Art History Presents project, in which graduate students curate a small exhibition from the Art Properties, Avery Library collection, under the guidance of Prof. Frederique Baumgartner and Curator of Art Properties Roberto C. Ferrari, is now on view. The title of this year’s show is The Inquiring Eye: European Drawings from […]

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Celebrating the publication of New York Rising

New York Rising : An Illustrated History from the Durst Collection The Monacelli Press, 2018 Published in association with The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the […]

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NYC City Council Proclamation and Avery’s Early Efforts

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Landmarks Law, the granting of regulatory power to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the tireless work of the preservation community, the Speaker of the City Council issued a proclamation at the April 16th City Council Stated Meeting acknowledging this historic anniversary. Avery Library was invited to attend […]

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Avery in PBS series “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station”

Avery Library's photographs of McKim, Mead, and White's former Pennsylvania Station building are featured in the latest installment of the American Experience, a PBS series. This installment, entitled  "The Rise and Fall of Penn Station", includes photographs documenting the construction of the station that are now in the Avery Classics collection. These photographs are now […]

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Avery Honored By Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation

The Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation honored Avery and MoMA for their innovative and transformative co-acquisition and joint stewardship of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. Carole Ann Fabian, Director, Avery Library, Columbia University, and Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator, Architecture & Design, MoMA, accepted the Honor on behalf of their respective organizations. “We are […]

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CLIR Hidden Collections Grant for American View Books

Columbia University Libraries /Information Services is pleased to announce the receipt of a CLIR Hidden Collections grant to support cataloging of the unique and extensive collection of American View Books in the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Avery’s American View Books Collection provides pictorial documentation of cities and towns throughout the United States. The […]

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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 […]

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FL Wright Archives join collections of Avery and MoMA

Columbia University, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have announced that the vast archives of Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) have been jointly acquired by the University and the Museum and will become part of their permanent collections. Wright is considered by many to be one of the 20th century’s […]

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