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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Preservation Master Plan for Taliesin West

Talk by T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA (Harboe Architects) The Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Lecture Monday, November 16, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Location: MoMA, The Celeste Bartos Theater Co-sponsored by Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and The Museum of Modern Art Taliesin West was established in 1937 as Wright’s winter home, studio and campus for […]

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“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 […]

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Reception & Display of Recent Acquisitions

Please join us to view highlights of Avery's acquisitions this year including a selection of works by Hugh Ferriss, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Russell Pope and others. Monday, May 20, 2013 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 […]

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Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959)

Today begins the receipt of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives into the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. That this event happens to coincide with the date of Wright's death in 1959 is a fitting tribute to his legacy, celebrated by Avery and MoMA's  co-acquisition of the Archives in September 2012 Since […]

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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 […]

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