Avery welcomed members of the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation to a display of Selections: Avery Special Collections. The October 30th evening exhibit and reception showcased highlights from Avery Classics (rare books) and Avery Drawings & Archives. The program included remarks by Carole Ann Fabian (Director) and Curators Carolyn Yerkes and Janet Parks. More Avery […]
Category: Exhibitions
Piranesi Day 2013
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 […]
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 […]
The Lantern Wall at Avery Library
In 1881, William Robert Ware founded the Architecture Program at Columbia University, bringing with him an extensive collection of lantern slides, the foundation of the image archive at the school. These glass plate photographs depict a wide range of locations and represented the most technologically advanced method of image representation at the time. The lantern […]
Celebrate: Avery Hall at 100!!!
Saturday November 10, 2012 November 10, 2012 marks the first day of Avery Hall’s second century. Designed by the legendary architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White, Avery Hall is home to the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and the renowned Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Together, the School and the Library […]
Guastavino exhibition opens at the Boston Public Library
Seventeen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Avery Library Drawings & Archives are on display in a new exhibition at the Boston Public Library. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the direction of Professor […]
MoMA Century of the Child exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art exhibition Century of the Child, has 5 drawings from the Avery Library Drawings and Archives department. 3 drawings from the Spanish Children's Drawings and 2 drawings by Otto Wagner, probably never exhibited before for a Haus des Kindes of 1917. Wagner died in 1918 and the project was never built. […]
Urban Fabric exhibition
GSAPP Professor Andrew Dolkart's exhibition on the Garment District will open at the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park on Tuesday, July 24th, from 6-9 pm. Avery Library Drawings & Archives is lending 5 drawings to the exhibition: 4 drawings by Buchman and Kahn and 1 drawing by Emery Roth of buildings in the garment district […]
Avery’s Architectural Novelties
Avery Library announces the launch Avery’s Architectural Novelties an online exhibition highlighting a selection of items from the Avery Classics collection that are delightfully eccentric in their treatment of architecture. One of the largest collections of rare architectural books in the world, Avery Classics counts thousands of printed volumes among its holdings, as well as […]
Felix Candela exhibit video
A brief video featuring speakers from the Felix Candela Symposium and a view of the exhibit at the Wallach Art Gallery. Felix Candela video […]