We are shifting collections within Avery Library to re-allocate use of the space. New maps will be forthcoming; in the interim, use this Location Guide to call number locations & annotations. Avery Location Guide […]
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Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings in Legos
Here is an interesting New York Times article on Adam Reed Tucker building a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West with Legos: Check out the Frank Lloyd Wright Lego sets we have at Avery Library: […]
Happy Holidays from Avery Library
Avery Library wishes you Happy Holidays and a great New Year!! Avery Library will close at 5pm on Wed. Dec. 24. Click here for our Intersession hours. Click here to become a Friend of Avery Library. […]
Avery Art Properties: Chinese Buddhist Sculptures at the Nassau County Museum of Art
Art Properties has loaned 10 Buddhist stone sculptures and ink rubbings taken from 2 of these works to the exhibition China Then and Now, which runs from November 22, 2014 to March 8, 2015, at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, NY. These Chinese sculptures date from the Northern Wei (386-534) to the […]
Univ. of Arkansas students at Avery
On September 18 and 19, Avery Drawings and Archives hosted a senior studio class from the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture. They are preparing documentation and interpretation materials on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson house, which has been disassembled and is to be reconstructed on the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum of […]
Avery Library Acquires Jane C. Loeffler Embassy Archives
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Jane C. Loeffler Collection of Research Papers on American Embassies, a collection of documents, photos, architectural drawings, interviews and research papers, donated to the library by architectural historian Jane C. Loeffler of Washington, D.C. “It is gratifying to save valuable history […]
Avery Library Remembers David Rosand (1938-2014)
David Rosand was an esteemed scholar, beloved teacher and a true supporter of Avery Library. He was the Meyer Schapiro Professor emeritus of Art History at Columbia University and a graduate of Columbia College. He received his PhD from Columbia in 1965 and was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 1961 and a Guggenheim fellowship in […]
Avery Renovations Summer 2014
Avery Library Graduate Reading Room (222) and adjoining restrooms will be closed for renovations: July 10 – August 29. All library services and collections are available for use throughout this renovation period. Work crews will be active Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm. While we expect more noise throughout this period, readers are still welcome […]
Shigeru Ban awarded Pritzker Prize
On Monday March 24, 2014, the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, For twenty years Ban has traveled to sites of natural and man-made disasters around the world, to work with local citizens, volunteers and students, to design and construct simple, dignified, low-cost, recyclable shelters and community […]
Open Access Week 2013
Open Access Week is a global event now in its 6th year, which promotes open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. Open access (OA) content is online, freely accessible, and has relatively few or no restrictions on reuse. All this week (October 21-25) at Columbia, the folks from the Scholarly Communication Program, […]