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 […]
Avery 100 level closed 6/17-19
The 100-level will be closed Tues. June 17 – Thurs. June 19 for the long-awaited compact storage fix. On Tues. June 17, the serial volumes on the stacks will be moved onto movable carts. These carts (approx. 50) will be stored where the tables are and wherever else there is any available room. On Wed. June 18, the […]
Summer Installation for Art Properties
Come see the latest installation of art works from China and Japan, including these netsuke, from the collections of Art Properties, Avery Library. The two display cases are located in the Wallach Study Center and can be viewed during normal library hours. –photo and text by Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties […]
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a collection of 7 wooden shacks on pilings perched on sand flats in shallow water located on Biscayne Bay one mile off the coast of Miami, Florida. Margaret Smithglass, Built Works Registry Project Librarian, and I had the unique opportunity to see Stiltsville up close and personal on a private boat tour with commentary by local historian […]
Avery Index Current Journal List May, 6, 2014
There is a new Current Journals list for #AveryIndex http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/avery-index/current_periodicals.html […]
Avery New Acquisitions Event May 19
Please join us to view highlights of Avery 2013-2014 acquisitions! Monday May 19, 2014 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 email: Avery-Friends@libraries.cul.columbia.edu Image Credit: François Lecoy. Méthode simple et facile pour lever les plans, suivie d’un traité dunivellement et d’un abrégé des règles du lavis … (Paris: Duponcet, […]
SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award for Henri Labrouste
This month, the Society of Architectural Historians announced its annual awards for publications in architectural history. The Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award went to Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, edited by Corinne Bélier, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc Le Coeur. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition that opened at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in […]
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 […]
Palaces for the People at MCNY
March 26-Sept. 7, 2014 Sixteen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Drawings & Archives are on display at the Museum of the City of New York. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the […]
Cabinets of Curiosities
When Europeans became intrigued by the exotic in the sixteenth century, they began building systematic, even obsessive compulsive collections of natural, unusual, or rare artefacts gathered from all over the world. Known as Wunderkammer or Cabinets of Curiosities, these collections became increasingly popular over the next several centuries, yielding insights into the attitudes of collectors […]