Photos from the Avery Library Drawings & Archives Collection of the interior of the Beekman Tower Hotel (Panhellenic House) were used in the Dec. 1, 2011 Christopher Gray "Streetscapes" column in the NY Times. […]
Avery Classics books in The Greatest Grid exhibition
This week marks the opening of "The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011" at the Museum of the City of New York This show features two works from the Avery Classics collection: Simeon DeWitt’s Elements of Perspective (1813) and Le Corbusier’s Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches: voyage au pays des timides (1937). Located […]
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 Thanksgiving Hours
Happy Thanksgiving from Avery Library! We will be closed Thurs. 11/24 & Fri. 11/25. Be sure to check for other schedule changes: Thanksgiving Break hours […]
Durst Organization Archives, Old York Foundation Donates Substantial Collection and Funding to Avery Library
NEW YORK, November 14, 2011 – Columbia University Libraries’ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) announce an unprecedented $4 million gift from the Durst family, one of New York’s most respected commercial and residential real estate families. The Durst Organization has also donated Seymour Durst’s […]
Art Properties on Bwog
Bwog, the 24/7 blog incarnation of The Blue and White, Columbia University’s monthly undergraduate magazine, recently published an article about Art Properties, a department of Avery Library. […]
Avery Library Remembers Our Veterans
Today is Veterans Day. Avery Library has a great deal of material related to monuments, memorials and military architecture. Our Drawings & Archives collection has Henry Ogden Avery‘s competition entry for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant [unbuilt] as well as drawings by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for a World War I Veterans Memorial in […]
Outsider Art books at Avery
In addition to traditional subjects in Art History, Avery Library also collects books on the strange, unsettling world of Outsider Art. Outsider art is a term used to describe art created by untrained artists who create works outside the boundaries of official culture. Here are a few examples of some current titles we have received: […]
Andrew Dolkart Speaks Tonight
Andrew S. Dolkart, Director, Columbia GSAPP Historic Preservation Program, and James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, will be speaking tonight on "The Acropolis of New York: Creating Morningside Heights" at Riverside Church, room 9T from 6:30-8pm. Sponsored by MHHDC (Morningside Heights Historic District Committee) and Riverside Church, he will also be signing books. […]
Account Books in Avery Classics Collection
Readers who missed the Morgan Library’s recent exhibition Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, which closed on October 2, can get their fix at Avery Library. Avery has hundreds of architects’ notebooks, sketchbooks, account books and other personal documents of the building trade. To […]