Depending on whom you ask, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, which began a lengthy 150th anniversary program this year that will culminate in 2014 with an exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, has anywhere between 20 and 100 years left as an active cemetery (that’s the industry term for a place that […]
Category: Avery in the News
Candela exhibition reviewed
The Felix Candela exhibition which closed March 31, 2012 was reviewed by Carlos Brillembourg in the Architect's Newspaper. Check out previous Avery Library Candela blog posts here and here. […]
Durst Organization Archives, Old York Foundation Donates Substantial Collection and Funding to Avery Library
NEW YORK, November 14, 2011 – Columbia University Libraries’ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) announce an unprecedented $4 million gift from the Durst family, one of New York’s most respected commercial and residential real estate families. The Durst Organization has also donated Seymour Durst’s […]
Art Properties on Bwog
Bwog, the 24/7 blog incarnation of The Blue and White, Columbia University’s monthly undergraduate magazine, recently published an article about Art Properties, a department of Avery Library. […]
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 […]
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 […]
New York’s Architectural Holdouts book talk
New York’s Architectural Holdouts is the title of a new revised edition of the book by Andrew Alpern and Seymour Durst. "Holdouts" are building owners who refuse to make way for office buildings and other urban designing projects. In New York’s Architectural Holdouts architect and historian Alpern and developer Durst examine over 50 examples of […]
Thomas W. Lamb in the News
Yesterday’s New York Times brings welcome news regarding the future of the Victoria Theater on 125th Street in Harlem designed by Thomas Lamb, one of the major theater architects of the first half of the 20th century, whose archive is one of the most heavily used collections in the Drawings and Archives. The renovation of […]
Frederick Woodbridge at Antioch
Frederick Woodbridge was the excavation architect for the Antioch excavation in 1924. His drawings of the excavation, part of his archive at the Drawings and Archives, are featured in the new publication: Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC-AD700) published by the Kelsey Museum of the University of Michigan. […]