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 […]
Swimming Pool Library
If the recent heat waves have you thinking of swimming pools, head to Avery for a quick refresher course. Books on the architecture and design of pools include: The springboard in the pond: an intimate history of the swimming pool, by Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen (1998) The new American swimming pool: […]
Happy Birthday Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. Avery Classics Collection has his "Ruins of the Palace of Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia" of 1764. Portrait attributed to George Willison, c.1770-1775 […]
A Final Resting Place and Its Afterlife: Woodlawn Cemetery
Depending on whom you ask, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, which began a lengthy 150th anniversary program this year that will culminate in 2014 with an exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, has anywhere between 20 and 100 years left as an active cemetery (that’s the industry term for a place that […]
It’s summertime in New York and the tourists have arrived. Become one yourself.
Will Jones. How to read New York: a crash course in Big Apple architecture. New York: Universe, 2012 Avery-LC NA735 .N4 J66 2012g Essential reading for both native New Yorkers and tourists alike, How to Read New York unveils the boundless diversity of Gotham’s architectural wonders. Covering every era of New York architecture—from what remains […]
Woodlawn Cemetery preservation grant
Tremendous news! The Woodlawn Cemetery was awarded a preservation grant of $150,000 from American Express/National Trust for Historic Preservation for participating in the Partners in Preservation NYC Initiative. They received 100% of the requested funds to restore the Belmont Mausoleum! A BIG THANKS goes out to EVERYONE around the globe that supported them in this […]
Graduate Archival Interns
Drawings and Archives welcomes our new Graduate Archival Interns for 2012-2013. Emily Rinaldi (GSAPP-HP) will be working on the papers of the architect Alan Burnham (1913-1984), an early preservationist supporting the foundation of the New York City Landmarks Commission . Pamela Casey (MFA-Writing) will be processing the papers of another notable New Yorker, Henry Hope […]
Avery Classics Acquisitions 2011-2012
Check out the list of new acquisitions in the Avery Classics Collection many of which were shown at Avery Library's Display of Recent Acquisitions 2011-2012 held May 14, 2012. […]
Happy Birthday Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779)
Avery Library is home to many books on the decorative arts. Thomas Chippendale's book "The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of … designs of household furniture, in the gothic, Chinese and modern taste…" published in 1754 is in our Classics Collection. […]
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 […]