Avery Library is pleased to announce the major gift of Michael Sorkin’s papers, architectural records, and drawings to the Drawings & Archives department. This significant collection comprises approximately 40 linear feet of records related to Sorkin’s architectural projects, articles, films, exhibitions, and other works, over 2,000 drawings (primarily conceptual sketches and site plans), as […]
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Teri Harris Announced as Director of Avery Library
Vice Provost and University Librarian Ann D. Thornton has announced the appointment of Teresa (Teri) Harris as Director of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Harris will assume the Director role on August 1, overseeing all aspects of Avery’s operations, including collection development, research services, access services, art properties, digitization and exhibition loan programs, facilities management, and the […]
Announcing a new Director for Avery Library
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Hannah Bennett as the new Director of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Bennett, who will join Avery on October 7, comes to Columbia after more than four years at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries where she oversaw three divisions – the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the […]
Celebrating the publication of New York Rising
New York Rising : An Illustrated History from the Durst Collection The Monacelli Press, 2018 Published in association with The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the […]
Avery Classics trade catalogs in BTHL
Avery Classics has partnered with the Association for Preservation Technology to digitize 500 trade catalogs and make them available to the public through the Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) on the Internet Archive. Trade catalogs are an invaluable source of information on building materials, supplies and decoration. Avery Classics has one of the largest collections of architectural […]
Avery Library Remembers Christopher Gray (1950-2016)
Christopher Gray was a major figure in the rising swell of interest in New York City architectural history that began in the aftermath of the demolition of Pennsylvania Station. With a degree in Art History from Columbia in 1975, Chris founded the Office of Metropolitan History that same year to provide research services to historic […]
Pritzker Prize 2017 Awarded
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have been selected as the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates. Known for their highly collaborative practice, the three architects’ work makes use of modern materials including steel and plastic, contextualized to local environments. The 2017 Pritzker Prize Jury Citation states, in part: “we live in a globalized world […]
Avery Library Welcomes Students
Avery Library welcomes new and returning students! We hope you had a great summer and are ready for the new semester. Our hours for the Fall semester are here. Our reference hours are here. When we are not available for reference questions, click on “Ask a Librarian” to be connected to online chat reference. […]
Spring 2016 Core Architecture Studio II visits
On January 27th, Avery Library welcomed students from the Spring 2016 Core Architecture Studio II in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. This semester, the required studio explores the “architectural form and identity of a 21st-century library” as well as trends in architectural representation. Avery Classics presented a selection of books that a […]
Avery in “Saving Place” exhibit at MCNY
Saving Place: Fifty Years of New York City Landmarks Museum of the City of New York, New York April 21-September 13, 2015 Many believe New York’s pioneering Landmarks Law, enacted in April 1965, was the key factor in the rebirth of New York in the final quarter of the 20th century. It ensured that huge […]