Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was one of the most famous American architects of his era. He was a partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. and designed numerous houses, public buildings, institutions, and religious buildings. His design principles embodied the American Classical Revival. Avery Library Drawing & […]
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Janet Parks Delivers Keynote at Construction History Society Meeting
Janet Parks, Avery's Curator of Drawings and Archives will deliver the keynote address at the 3rd biennial meeting of the Construction History Society of America, November 2-3, 2012. The meeting is being held in Boston concurrent with the “Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces” exhibit curated by John Ochsendorf and on […]
Guastavino exhibition opens at the Boston Public Library
Seventeen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Avery Library Drawings & Archives are on display in a new exhibition at the Boston Public Library. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the direction of Professor […]
Pedro E. Guerrero, photographer of F.L. Wright’s work
Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer who spent years photographing Frank Lloyd Wright's modernist architecture died on Thursday Sept. 13, 2012. New York Times obituary He was Wright's exclusive photographer for the last 20 years of Wright's life. He also photographed works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer. Detail of the 1987 […]
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 […]
MoMA Century of the Child exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art exhibition Century of the Child, has 5 drawings from the Avery Library Drawings and Archives department. 3 drawings from the Spanish Children's Drawings and 2 drawings by Otto Wagner, probably never exhibited before for a Haus des Kindes of 1917. Wagner died in 1918 and the project was never built. […]
Urban Fabric exhibition
GSAPP Professor Andrew Dolkart's exhibition on the Garment District will open at the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park on Tuesday, July 24th, from 6-9 pm. Avery Library Drawings & Archives is lending 5 drawings to the exhibition: 4 drawings by Buchman and Kahn and 1 drawing by Emery Roth of buildings in the garment district […]
A Final Resting Place and Its Afterlife: Woodlawn Cemetery
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 […]
Woodlawn Cemetery preservation grant
Tremendous news! The Woodlawn Cemetery was awarded a preservation grant of $150,000 from American Express/National Trust for Historic Preservation for participating in the Partners in Preservation NYC Initiative. They received 100% of the requested funds to restore the Belmont Mausoleum! A BIG THANKS goes out to EVERYONE around the globe that supported them in this […]
Graduate Archival Interns
Drawings and Archives welcomes our new Graduate Archival Interns for 2012-2013. Emily Rinaldi (GSAPP-HP) will be working on the papers of the architect Alan Burnham (1913-1984), an early preservationist supporting the foundation of the New York City Landmarks Commission . Pamela Casey (MFA-Writing) will be processing the papers of another notable New Yorker, Henry Hope […]