Friday’s NY Times had an article on Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin by Eve Kahn mentioning the Grinnell College exhibition on view through Dec. 11 to which Avery Library Drawings & Archives has contributed original material. –by Janet Parks, Curator of Drawing & Archives […]
Avery Library photos of Pei’s Terminal 6
Photos of Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport by George Cserna appear in the New York Times today. Avery Library Drawing & Archives Collection holds these beautiful photos of I.M. Pei’s building which will be torn down by the end of this month. –by Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings & Archives […]
Happy Birthday Le Corbusier!!
Happy Birthday to Le Corbusier (Oct. 6, 1887-Aug. 27, 1965). Avery Library Drawings & Archives has approx. 15 drawings executed by Le Corbusier as illustrations for lectures on architecture and city planning delivered at Columbia University in 1935 and 1961. Flickr photo by IISG wereldreis2_122_03 Le Corbusier 1955 Le Corbusier in Chandigarh, India, 1955 […]
Lauretta Vinciarelli: in memoriam
Beloved as a teacher in GSAPP during her days at Columbia, Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943-2011) was renowned in the architecture world for her spectacular watercolors of architectural spaces. Avery is fortunate to have this watercolor, donated to the Drawings and Archives in 1990 for the Avery Centennial exhibition. For an appreciation of her work, see this […]
Happy Birthday H.H. Richardson!
Today is the birthday of H.H. Richardson (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) a prominent American architect of the 19th century.The style he used is named after him: Richardsonian Romanesque. In our Classics Collection we have the book: "Communication from the County Commissioners to the Board of Prison Inspectors of Allegheny County in relation […]
New York’s Architectural Holdouts book talk
New York’s Architectural Holdouts is the title of a new revised edition of the book by Andrew Alpern and Seymour Durst. "Holdouts" are building owners who refuse to make way for office buildings and other urban designing projects. In New York’s Architectural Holdouts architect and historian Alpern and developer Durst examine over 50 examples of […]
Carolyn Yerkes, Curator of Avery Classics, Speaking
On Saturday, October 1, the University of Virginia Art Museum is hosting a symposium entitled Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice in which I will be speaking. This symposium is being held in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name that features several items from Avery’s collections. I will […]
New Caravaggio books at Avery Library
To celebrate the 400th anniversary in 2010 of the death of the great early Baroque Italian painter, several new publications were issued which Avery Library has recently acquired. A select sample is presented. The work of Michaelangelo Mersi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is noted for its blend of realism and naturalism, strengthened with his use of […]
What happened to the Picasso books? Where did photography go?!
In order to protect library materials from a ceiling leak in the Fine Arts stacks, books in the call number ranges N673 M34 – NK have been temporarily re-located to aisles 3-13 on the South side of the 200-level (South Stack B, next to the Avery-LC books). The leak, which occurs during rainy days, is […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Announces Gift from Rose Associates
NEW YORK, September 13, 2011 – Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library received a gift of archival materials from Rose Associates – a prominent New York real estate development firm. The archival gift is accompanied by funds from the Susan & Elihu Rose Foundation to support processing this fascinating collection of construction photographs, brochures, newspaper clippings, […]