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 […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
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 […]
Happy Birthday Le Corbusier!!
Happy Birthday to Le Corbusier (Oct. 6, 1887-Aug. 27, 1965). Avery Library Drawings & Archives has approx. 15 drawings executed by Le Corbusier as illustrations for lectures on architecture and city planning delivered at Columbia University in 1935 and 1961. Flickr photo by IISG wereldreis2_122_03 Le Corbusier 1955 Le Corbusier in Chandigarh, India, 1955 […]
Lauretta Vinciarelli: in memoriam
Beloved as a teacher in GSAPP during her days at Columbia, Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943-2011) was renowned in the architecture world for her spectacular watercolors of architectural spaces. Avery is fortunate to have this watercolor, donated to the Drawings and Archives in 1990 for the Avery Centennial exhibition. For an appreciation of her work, see this […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Announces Gift from Rose Associates
NEW YORK, September 13, 2011 – Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library received a gift of archival materials from Rose Associates – a prominent New York real estate development firm. The archival gift is accompanied by funds from the Susan & Elihu Rose Foundation to support processing this fascinating collection of construction photographs, brochures, newspaper clippings, […]
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. […]
Happy Birthday Charles Follen McKim
Charles Follen McKim (Aug. 24, 1847-Sept. 14, 1909) was a member of the partnership McKim, Mead, and White– one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architects of the late 19th century. The firm designed the Boston Public Library, Pennsylvania Station (demolished), Madison Square Garden (demolished), University Club of New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the […]
New York Crystal Palace
Read more about Avery’s unique image of the New York Crystal Palace in the new article by Julie Mellby in the History of Photography —by Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings & Archives […]