Avery / GSAPP Architectural Plans & Sections Collection in Artstor

Avery is thrilled to announce the completion of our two-year collaborative project with the GSAPP Visual Resources Collection  (VRC) and Artstor to present the Avery/GSAPP Architectural Plans & Sections Collection in the Artstor Digital Library. Launched to coincide with the beginning of the 2016/17 academic year, Phase 2 adds another 10,000 images to the collection, […]

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A.J. Downing & His Legacy

Last fall, Avery Library’s Classics Reading Room featured an exhibition exploring the legacy of A.J. Downing. Those of you who missed it  can now view the digital version of the exhibition! A.J. Downing & His Legacy Andrew Jackson Downing is known as the “father” of the American architectural pattern book. Downing saw both how books […]

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Viewbooks: Window into America

  Viewbooks: Window into America Curators: Teresa Harris and Lena Newman June 20, 2016-December 23, 2016 Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Avery Library opens its summer exhibition with a delightful display of selections from its American Viewbooks collection. The exhibit celebrates the completion of our CLIR Hidden […]

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City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics exhibition

City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics June 17-September 11, 2016 The Morgan Library, New York Avery Classics materials feature prominently in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum entitled City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics. As the curators of the show point out, “Rome exists not only as an intensely physical […]

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