Architect Wallace K. Harrison visited New York's Allied Arts Exhibition in 1931, and purchased the Aluminaire House for $1,000. Built of steel and aluminum, it was designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher. He had it dismantled and transported to a 25-acre site he had purchased in Huntington, Long Island, to serve as his […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
Avery congratulates Streetscapes
Avery Library congratulates NY Times Streetscapes column on its 25th anniversary Mar. 17!! A wonderful column about the history of New York architecture and real estate it provides a valuable tool for readers conducting research or simply interested in preservation and architecture. Christopher Gray, column editor, frequently uses Avery Library material and his researcher, Suzanne […]
Felix Candela: A Symposium
FELIX CANDELA: A SYMPOSIUM Columbia University 501 Schermerhorn Hall Saturday, February 11, 2012 Free and open to the public In conjunction with the exhibition Felix Candela, the Wallach Art Gallery and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library present a symposium on his life and work. Félix Candela is regarded as one the […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Acquires the Edgar A. Tafel Archive
NEW YORK, January 17, 2012 – The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the donation of the architectural archives and research files of architect and historian Edgar Tafel, as well as a $100,000 gift to support the processing, preservation, and presentation of the collection. The donation was made by the Edgar […]
Avery Library open on MLK
Please note that Avery Library will be open on Monday, January 16th with the following exceptions: Avery Classics, Drawings & Archives, Art Properties, Avery Index and Bibliographic Services will be closed. We will operate with minimal public service staff levels to accommodate researchers for the day. See our hours. […]
Avery Photos of Beekman Tower Hotel
Photos from the Avery Library Drawings & Archives Collection of the interior of the Beekman Tower Hotel (Panhellenic House) were used in the Dec. 1, 2011 Christopher Gray "Streetscapes" column in the NY Times. […]
Avery Library Remembers Our Veterans
Today is Veterans Day. Avery Library has a great deal of material related to monuments, memorials and military architecture. Our Drawings & Archives collection has Henry Ogden Avery‘s competition entry for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant [unbuilt] as well as drawings by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for a World War I Veterans Memorial in […]
Guggenheim Museum at Avery
Today marks the public opening in 1959 of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC by Frank Lloyd Wright. Avery Library has original floor plans and sectionals for this important masterpiece in our Drawing and Archives Collection. Flickr photo (c)2003 Sitebits.com […]
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 […]