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 […]
Pedro E. Guerrero, photographer of F.L. Wright’s work
Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer who spent years photographing Frank Lloyd Wright's modernist architecture died on Thursday Sept. 13, 2012. New York Times obituary He was Wright's exclusive photographer for the last 20 years of Wright's life. He also photographed works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer. Detail of the 1987 […]
Enter to win a Kindle Fire!
Enter our IM/text a Librarian poster contest and win a Kindle Fire! Design a poster about the Libraries’ IM/text a Librarian service! The poster content will also be used as an ad in the Spectator appearing in November! The best one will win a Kindle Fire. Up to ten other contestants will win an awesome, […]
FL Wright Archives join collections of Avery and MoMA
Columbia University, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have announced that the vast archives of Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) have been jointly acquired by the University and the Museum and will become part of their permanent collections. Wright is considered by many to be one of the 20th century’s […]
Avery Library Orientation Tours
Want to know about our collections? Take an Avery Library Tour!! Meet at the Library’s Front Desk (entry-level/300-level) No sign up necessary for Art History, Urban Planning and Historic Preservation tours Wednesday Aug. 29, 2012 1-1:45pm Urban Planning 2-2:45pm Urban Planning 3-3:45pm Urban Planning 4-4:45pm Urban Planning Thursday Aug. 30, 2012 […]
Thinkers for Architects series
Examining some of the most important, and most daunting philosophy of the 20th Century, the series Thinkers for Architects looks at the critical dialog on space, architecture, and experience in the built environment provided by leading lights of contemporary philosophy. Here are the two latest volumes in the series available at Avery Library. Brian Elliott. […]
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 […]
Avery Welcomes Leo Stezano
Leo Stezano joins the Avery Library as the Project Manager for the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection project. An experienced software professional, Leo received his Master of Science in Library and Information Studies from Syracuse University in December of 2011, with a focus on digital libraries. He earned dual BA/BE degrees in engineering […]
Avery Library and the Olympics
Avery Library has a lot of material on the Olympic Games in the modern era. From books to magazine articles– sports and architecture fans will find some interesting items. Das Olympische Dorf : XI. Olympiade Berlin, 1936. Published: Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, [1936?]. Bauten der Olympischen Spiele 1972 München. Buildings for the 1972 Olympic Games […]
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. […]