Be sure to check our hours before coming to the Library! Intersession hours run from May 11 to May 20 and the Library will be operating on a reduced schedule. Please note that Avery Library will be closed for study on Monday May 14 due to the annual Display of Recent Acquisitions event. […]
Candela exhibition reviewed
The Felix Candela exhibition which closed March 31, 2012 was reviewed by Carlos Brillembourg in the Architect's Newspaper. Check out previous Avery Library Candela blog posts here and here. […]
A Growing Time
A Growing Time. It's a growing time It's the springtime of the year It's a growing time The sun is moving near It is yours and mine The days are ours to share Within our peaceful garden And this growing time so fair (Dan Folgelberg) That’s right. It’s springtime so let Avery Library inspire you […]
GSAPP faculty receive awards at the 65th SAH Annual Conference
Avery Library congratulates Columbia University GSAPP professors for winning awards presented on April 19 at the SAH conference!! Professor Andrew Scott Dolkart received the Antoinette Forrester Downing Award for outstanding publication devoted to historical issues in the preservation field for his book: The Row House Reborn, Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929 The […]
Vote for Woodlawn Cemetery!!!!
Today at 11 am the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced the 40 sites competing in the Partners in Preservation program. Woodlawn Cemetery is one of them!!! Their "GET OUT THE VOTE" began today at noon and runs until the end of the voting period – midnight, May 21st. Avery Library, as the owner of […]
Avery Classics Drawing Books
The Avery Classics collection includes several beautiful drawing books among its holdings. Although most of these were made by architects, there are some important exceptions. This image shows a leaf from the sketchbook of the painter Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), which has over one hundred drawings of scenes from the life of Judith. […]
Avery Acquires the John H. Yardley Collection of Architectural Letterheads
NEW YORK, April 13, 2012 – The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the donation of the John H. Yardley Collection of Architectural Letterheads. The donation was made by Bernice Gordon in memory of her husband, Mr. John H. Yardley. Comprised of commercial stationery with illustrations of buildings in lower Manhattan, […]
Tania Franco joins Avery Drawings & Archives
We welcome Tania Franco this week to the Avery Library as the Project Archivist for the Edgar Tafel archive in the Drawings and Archives. Tania joins the Avery staff from Montreal where she earned a Master of Library and Information Studies at McGill University in 2010 as an H.W. Wilson Scholar. Her professional experience includes […]
Avery at ARLIS/NA Annual Conference
Avery staff will attend the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Toronto, Mar. 29- Apr. 2, 2012. Carole Ann Fabian, Avery Director, is the Conference Co-Chair for Programs and will also present an update on the Built Works Registry (BWR) — a collaborative Avery, ARTstor and Getty project. Now in its second year of development, the BWR […]
Avery in Modernism Magazine
Architect Wallace K. Harrison visited New York's Allied Arts Exhibition in 1931, and purchased the Aluminaire House for $1,000. Built of steel and aluminum, it was designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher. He had it dismantled and transported to a 25-acre site he had purchased in Huntington, Long Island, to serve as his […]