FELIX CANDELA: A SYMPOSIUM Columbia University 501 Schermerhorn Hall Saturday, February 11, 2012 Free and open to the public In conjunction with the exhibition Felix Candela, the Wallach Art Gallery and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library present a symposium on his life and work. Félix Candela is regarded as one the […]
Category: Drawings & Archives
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Acquires the Edgar A. Tafel Archive
NEW YORK, January 17, 2012 – The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the donation of the architectural archives and research files of architect and historian Edgar Tafel, as well as a $100,000 gift to support the processing, preservation, and presentation of the collection. The donation was made by the Edgar […]
Avery Library open on MLK
Please note that Avery Library will be open on Monday, January 16th with the following exceptions: Avery Classics, Drawings & Archives, Art Properties, Avery Index and Bibliographic Services will be closed. We will operate with minimal public service staff levels to accommodate researchers for the day. See our hours. […]
Avery Photos of Beekman Tower Hotel
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 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 […]
Guggenheim Museum at Avery
Today marks the public opening in 1959 of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC by Frank Lloyd Wright. Avery Library has original floor plans and sectionals for this important masterpiece in our Drawing and Archives Collection. Flickr photo (c)2003 Sitebits.com […]
Avery Drawings in Grinnell Exhibition
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 […]