Avery's annual exhibition of prints, drawings, and books by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) was held this year on Thursday, September 26, from 4:00pm-5:30pm. It combined favorites like the rare first and second states of the Carceri series with a selection of highlights on this year's special theme: infrastructure. Held in the Wallach Seminar Room and […]
Category: Avery Classics Collection
Reception & Display of Recent Acquisitions
Please join us to view highlights of Avery's acquisitions this year including a selection of works by Hugh Ferriss, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Russell Pope and others. Monday, May 20, 2013 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 […]
Avery in MoMA’s Labrouste show
Avery Library is pleased to have contributed a wide selection of architectural materials to Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, which is opening at the Museum of Modern Art on March 10. Organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; Corinne Bélier, chief curator, Cité […]
CLIR Hidden Collections Grant for American View Books
Columbia University Libraries /Information Services is pleased to announce the receipt of a CLIR Hidden Collections grant to support cataloging of the unique and extensive collection of American View Books in the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Avery’s American View Books Collection provides pictorial documentation of cities and towns throughout the United States. The […]
Grand Central Terminal/Warren & Wetmore
In last Sunday's New York Times, an article by Sam Roberts celebrating the centennial of Grand Central Terminal featured images from the Warren & Wetmore collection in Avery Drawings and Archives: Warren & Wetmore designed the terminal jointly with Reed & Stem. In addition to architectural drawings and papers, Avery Library also has the firm's […]
Ada Louise Huxtable Tribute
Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic, died on January 7. She was most recently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal. As the New York Times reported in its obituary, Ms. Huxtable considered Avery Library her "most treasured academic home." She covered Avery Library exhibitions and events in many pieces for the […]
Metropolis-architecture
Richard Anderson's new translation of Ludwig Hilberseimer's Groszstadt-architektur (1927) has recently been published by GSAPP Sourcebooks. Entitled Metropolis-architecture, the translation incorporates three images from an item in Avery Classics, Hilberseimer's article "Vorschlag zur City-Bebauung," published in Die Form (1930). […]
Unbuilt East River Subway
Subways under the East River are much on everyone's mind in these post-Hurricane Sandy days. Avery Classics owns a rare portfolio of plans for an unbuilt subway line that would have run from the southern tip of Manhattan to Brooklyn, published by the Manhattan Underground Railway Company, ca. 1891. The portfolio includes maps of the […]
American Trade Catalogs
Miss the Olympics? Try exploring the American Trade Catalog collection, which includes items such as this American Athletic Equipment catalog from 1975. Housed in Avery Classics, the Trade Catalog Collection is one of the largest collections of catalogs of the American building trades anywhere, and significant resource of information about the history of the built […]
Covered Bridges of New England
Avery readers heading north to New England this August might enjoy the unique materials on covered bridges that are kept in the Avery Classics Collection. Created by James L. Duncan, Old Covered Bridges, At Home and Abroad is a four-volume set that includes a beautiful group of pen-and-ink drawings like this one of the Bliss […]