Animalia

June 17 – September 13, 2019 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Now on view in Avery Library is a new summer exhibition called Animalia, which celebrates the essence of animal life as depicted in sculpture, decorative arts, and cultural heritage objects, all […]

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Hoppner, Beechey, Fisher, Lavery: Researching Columbia’s Portraits.

February 11 – May 10, 2019 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Now on view in Avery Library is the exhibition Hoppner, Beechey, Fisher, Lavery: Researching Columbia’s Portraits, curated by Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties, with Mateusz Mayer, Ph.D. student, Department […]

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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 […]

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An Evening with Avery: Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Kurt Forster & Barry Bergdoll in Conversation Reception and book signing following Thursday, December 6th 2018 6:00 – 8:00 PM Stronach Center 8th Floor Schermerhorn Hall Please join us for a very special Evening with Avery celebrating our recent acquisition of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Werke der höheren Baukunst. REGISTRATION REQUIRED Professors Kurt Forster (Professor Emeritus, […]

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Transportation Alternatives

  TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES Curator: Lena Newman, Special Collections Librarian November 9, 2018 – February 8, 2019 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library In April 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will shut down the Canarsie Tunnel, a vital underground link that carries L-train riders between Manhattan and […]

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Model Projections

Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and GSAPP are pleased to announce the opening of a co-presented exhibition, Model Projections, October – December 15, 2018 at the Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University. Gallery Talk: November 29th, 6:00-8:00 pm Reception following REGISTER to ATTEND Co-curated by Jennifer Gray and Irene Sunwoo, Model Projections […]

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Looking East: James Justinian Morier and Nineteenth-Century Persia

Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, “Looking East: James Justinian Morier and Nineteenth-Century Persia,” in the Wallach Study Center.  This exhibition is the second in a new series called “MA in Art History Presents,” in which the MA students, under the guidance of Dr. Frederique […]

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Digital Serlio Symposium

Friday October 19, 2018 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Maison Française, Buell Hall, Columbia University Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Digital Serlio Project at a day-long symposium focused on current research on Sebastiano Serlio’s unpublished masterwork, On Domestic Architecture (Tutte l’opere d’architettura, Libro VI). The Digital Serlio Project provides online access […]

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Avery Classics New Acquisitions 2017-2018 exhibition

New Acquisitions 2017-2018 Curator: Teresa Harris June 4 – September 28, 2018 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library A selection of new acquisitions from the past academic year is currently on display in Avery Classics. Materials range from Soviet photo journals to a hand-drawn copy of […]

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