We are pleased to announce that Lena Newman is the new Curator of Avery Classics. Lena began as a student employee on the Avery Index before becoming the Classics Reading Room assistant and then the Special Collections Librarian at Avery. Her duties as Special Collections Librarian have been subsumed into the Curator’s role. Lena […]
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An Evening with Avery: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Kurt Forster & Barry Bergdoll in Conversation Reception and book signing following Thursday, December 6th 2018 6:00 – 8:00 PM Stronach Center 8th Floor Schermerhorn Hall Please join us for a very special Evening with Avery celebrating our recent acquisition of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Werke der höheren Baukunst. REGISTRATION REQUIRED Professors Kurt Forster (Professor Emeritus, […]
Transportation Alternatives
TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES Curator: Lena Newman, Special Collections Librarian November 9, 2018 – February 8, 2019 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library In April 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will shut down the Canarsie Tunnel, a vital underground link that carries L-train riders between Manhattan and […]
Digital Serlio Symposium
Friday October 19, 2018 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Maison Française, Buell Hall, Columbia University Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Digital Serlio Project at a day-long symposium focused on current research on Sebastiano Serlio’s unpublished masterwork, On Domestic Architecture (Tutte l’opere d’architettura, Libro VI). The Digital Serlio Project provides online access […]
Avery Classics New Acquisitions 2017-2018 exhibition
New Acquisitions 2017-2018 Curator: Teresa Harris June 4 – September 28, 2018 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library A selection of new acquisitions from the past academic year is currently on display in Avery Classics. Materials range from Soviet photo journals to a hand-drawn copy of […]
Avery Classics trade catalogs in BTHL
Avery Classics has partnered with the Association for Preservation Technology to digitize 500 trade catalogs and make them available to the public through the Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) on the Internet Archive. Trade catalogs are an invaluable source of information on building materials, supplies and decoration. Avery Classics has one of the largest collections of architectural […]
Panoramas
PANORAMAS Curator: Teresa Harris December 18, 2017 – April 4, 2018 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Panorama is derived from the Greek words meaning ‘all’ and ‘view.’ For centuries, popular entertainment has utilized panoramic composition to transport viewers to far-away places like Athens or Versailles or […]
Avery Classics Viewbooks exhibit online
Avery Classics is pleased to announce its newest online exhibit, Viewbooks : Window into America. Drawing on last year’s reading room display, Viewbooks : Window into America features a selection of 50 viewbooks from Avery’s extensive holdings — more than 4,000 titles representing hundreds of American cities and towns. This online exhibit approaches the viewbook genre from two directions […]
CLASSIC WRIGHT: Frank Lloyd Wright in Print
CLASSIC WRIGHT: Frank Lloyd Wright in Print Curator: Teresa Harris June 26 – November 3, 2017 Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth on June 8th, 1867, Avery Classics has staged an exhibition focusing on publications […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Remembers Hilary Ballon
Hilary Ballon, former professor at Columbia University’s Department of Art & Archaeology, passed away on June 16, 2017 at age 61. She spent 22 years at Columbia University, where she won the University’s three awards for outstanding teaching and chaired the Department of Art History and Archaeology. After leaving Columbia she was Senior Advisor to […]