Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new online resource, the Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) Digital Archive. This resource is the product of an ongoing, three-year initiative at Columbia University Libraries to digitize and make available more than 15,000 residential drawings from the Frank Lloyd Wright archival collections. […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
Avery Library Announces Major Gift of the Michael Sorkin Collection: Internationally Renowned Architecture Critic, Designer, Urbanist, & Professor Devoted to Social Justice
Avery Library is pleased to announce the major gift of Michael Sorkin’s papers, architectural records, and drawings to the Drawings & Archives department. This significant collection comprises approximately 40 linear feet of records related to Sorkin’s architectural projects, articles, films, exhibitions, and other works, over 2,000 drawings (primarily conceptual sketches and site plans), as […]
Avery Library Celebrates the Opening of Frank Lloyd Wright and the World: The Imperial Hotel at 100
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives department is pleased to participate in a landmark touring exhibition about the international influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright and the World: The Imperial Hotel at 100. Opening to the public on October 21, 2023 at Japan’s Toyota Municipal Art Museum, the exhibition is organized by the […]
Avery welcomes Michelle Jackson-Beckett
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Michelle Jackson-Beckett as Curator of Avery Drawings & Archives. Michelle received her Ph.D. from the Bard Graduate Center in May of 2022. Her dissertation entitled “Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling 1918-1938” examines critical challenges to western European paradigms of modern architecture and interiors, focusing especially on […]
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archival collections
Although Avery Library is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our librarians and archivists are still busy at work providing reference services, supporting teaching, and processing collections. Most recently, Archivist Pamela Casey in Avery’s Drawings & Archives department published the finding aid for the Project Photographs collection in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. This […]
Model Projections
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and GSAPP are pleased to announce the opening of a co-presented exhibition, Model Projections, October – December 15, 2018 at the Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University. Gallery Talk: November 29th, 6:00-8:00 pm Reception following REGISTER to ATTEND Co-curated by Jennifer Gray and Irene Sunwoo, Model Projections […]
Avery Library remembers Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1930-2017)
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, architectural historian and Frank Lloyd Wright archivist, passed away December 31, 2017 at the age of 87. A widely recognized expert on Wright, Pfeiffer authored more than 50 publications on Wright’s life and architecture. He was an apprentice to Wright at the Taliesin Fellowship from 1949 to 1956, and then studied architecture […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Remembers Hilary Ballon
Hilary Ballon, former professor at Columbia University’s Department of Art & Archaeology, passed away on June 16, 2017 at age 61. She spent 22 years at Columbia University, where she won the University’s three awards for outstanding teaching and chaired the Department of Art History and Archaeology. After leaving Columbia she was Senior Advisor to […]
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and MoMA are pleased to announce the opening of a co-presented exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, June 12 – October 1, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art. Drawing on the expansive Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archive, jointly acquired by Avery and MoMA in 2012, […]
Avery Drawing & Archives: Conrad archive
Recently opened for research is the archive of American architectural model maker Theodore Conrad (1910-1994). Conrad was a pioneer in the use of plastics and metals for models instead of the more traditional materials of wood, plaster and cardboard. Conrad began his career making cardboard models in the office of Harvey Wiley Corbett while a […]