September 3 – November 1, 2014 The Wallach Art Gallery Schermerhorn Hall, 8th floor Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn coincides with Woodlawn’s 150th anniversary celebration, and celebrates the Cemetery’s 2006 gift of its archive—the most complete set of 19th– and 20th–century cemetery records held in the public trust -– to the Avery […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
Avery New Acquisitions Event May 19
Please join us to view highlights of Avery 2013-2014 acquisitions! Monday May 19, 2014 Display: 3:00 – 8:00 pm Reception: 5:30 – 8:00 pm Sponsored by Avery Friends & the Friends of the Columbia University Libraries To RSVP, please call 212.854.6199 or email: Avery-Friends@libraries.cul.columbia.edu Image Credit: François Lecoy. Méthode simple et facile pour lever les plans, suivie d’un traité dunivellement et d’un abrégé des règles du lavis … (Paris: Duponcet, […]
SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award for Henri Labrouste
This month, the Society of Architectural Historians announced its annual awards for publications in architectural history. The Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award went to Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, edited by Corinne Bélier, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc Le Coeur. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition that opened at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in […]
Palaces for the People at MCNY
March 26-Sept. 7, 2014 Sixteen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Drawings & Archives are on display at the Museum of the City of New York. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal
Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal February 1–June 1, 2014 MoMA Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal celebrates the recent joint acquisition of Frank Lloyd Wright’s extensive archive by MoMA and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Through an initial selection […]
Practice Post-50: Edgar A. Tafel in New York
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Thursday, January 23, 2014 Edgar A. Tafel Hall Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place Well known for his role as Wright apprentice and historian, Edgar Tafel also maintained a long productive architectural practice in New York. This event celebrates the opening of the Edgar Tafel archive at the Avery Architectural […]
Avery in Grolier Club Exhibition
Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Built America's Houses The Grolier Club December 11, 2013-February 8, 2014 Avery Classics and Drawings & Archives have contributed to the Grolier Club's exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea […]
Avery Welcomes Soane’s Museum Foundation
Avery welcomed members of the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation to a display of Selections: Avery Special Collections. The October 30th evening exhibit and reception showcased highlights from Avery Classics (rare books) and Avery Drawings & Archives. The program included remarks by Carole Ann Fabian (Director) and Curators Carolyn Yerkes and Janet Parks. More Avery […]
“Frank Lloyd Wright and His Taliesin Letters” a lecture by Anthony Alofsin
October 8, 2013 6:30 PM Butler Library, rm. 523 (map) This event is free and open to the public. Noted Wright scholar Anthony Alofsin will present "Frank Lloyd Wright and His Taliesin Letters" on October 8, 2013 at 6:30 PM in Butler Library room 523. This is the first in a series of lectures on […]
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 […]