“Online press, blogs, tweets, social media, and other digital forums have drastically increased the speed at which architectural imagery is distributed and consumed today. While an unprecedented amount of work is available to the public, the lifespan of any single design or topic has been reduced in the profession's collective consciousness to a week, an […]
Practice Post-50: Edgar A. Tafel in New York
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Thursday, January 23, 2014 Edgar A. Tafel Hall Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place Well known for his role as Wright apprentice and historian, Edgar Tafel also maintained a long productive architectural practice in New York. This event celebrates the opening of the Edgar Tafel archive at the Avery Architectural […]
Happy Holidays from Avery
Avery Library wishes you Happy Holidays and a great New Year!! Winter Intersession hours Avery store […]
Avery in Grolier Club Exhibition
Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Built America's Houses The Grolier Club December 11, 2013-February 8, 2014 Avery Classics and Drawings & Archives have contributed to the Grolier Club's exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea […]
Avery Classics in Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis
Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis Philadelphia Museum of Art October 14, 2013-January 5, 2014 This fall's special exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis offers a multi-media exploration of the career of French modernist Fernand Léger (1881-1955). Curated by Anna Vallye, a postdoctoral fellow at the museum and an alumna […]
Avery Welcomes Soane’s Museum Foundation
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 […]
Avery’s Durst Project Welcomes New Staff
Avery Library's Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection project welcomes two new staff members to our bibliographic services team. Lena Newman (right) began working on the Durst Project in the Fall of 2012 first as a student assistant and then as Project Bibliographic Assistant. Her work entails hands-on bibliographic research and analysis for inventorying, […]
New Borrow Direct Service
Avery Library is now a pickup location for Borrow Direct! If you request a Borrow Direct item, you can select Avery Library from the pickup location drop-down box. ITEMS MUST BE PICKED UP AT THE AVERY SERVICE DESK. […]
Open Access Week 2013
Open Access Week is a global event now in its 6th year, which promotes open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. Open access (OA) content is online, freely accessible, and has relatively few or no restrictions on reuse. All this week (October 21-25) at Columbia, the folks from the Scholarly Communication Program, […]
“Frank Lloyd Wright and His Taliesin Letters” a lecture by Anthony Alofsin
October 8, 2013 6:30 PM Butler Library, rm. 523 (map) This event is free and open to the public. Noted Wright scholar Anthony Alofsin will present "Frank Lloyd Wright and His Taliesin Letters" on October 8, 2013 at 6:30 PM in Butler Library room 523. This is the first in a series of lectures on […]