Avery Library congratulates the Class of 2013!! Best wishes for your future! […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Virtual Reality, VSim, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Is There Hope for the Technically Challenged
Lisa Snyder (Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA) specializes in the use of interactive virtual reality environments to study and teach about historic urban environments. For the Israel Antiquities Authority, she created a three-dimensional interactive digital reconstruction of the Temple Mount complex, and, more recently, she’s developed a computer simulation of the […]
Avery Library Remembers World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. Avery Library remembers those students, faculty, librarians and administrators we have lost and those who are still living with this disease. […]
Avery Library Remembers 9/11
Avery Library has a large collection of historical resource guides with links to older material on Rebuilding Downtown NYC. […]