Guastavino Company
Della Robbia Room, Vanderbilt Hotel
Warren & Wetmore Architects
1912
New York, NY
Avery on Exhibit
Guastavino Exhibition at Boston Public Library 2012
Guastavino Company
Cathedral of St. John the Divine: Stress Diagram of Main Rib "A" at the Arch of the Choir
1908
Heins and LaFarge, architects
Seventeen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Drawings & Archives are on display in a new exhibition at the Boston Public Library. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the direction of Professor John Ochsendorf of MIT, author of the 2009 monograph, Guastavino Vaulting. The curatorial team included Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings and Archives, Avery Library; Professor Richard Wilson, University of Virginia; Professor Christopher Capozzola, MIT; and Chrysanthe B. Broikos, curator, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C..
Attending the exhibition were ten members of the Guastavino family and Christiane Collins, whose husband Professor George Collins secured the Guastavino archives for Columbia University. The exhibition will remain at the Boston Public Library until February 24th and then travel to the National Building Museum. A New York venue is being planned. The National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored the development and execution of the exhibition, from a Consultation Grant in 2006 to the implementation grant for the exhibition in 2011 as part of the “We the People” program. Additional funding came from the Institut Ramon Llull and the Diputació de Barcelona.
A day featuring talks on various aspects of Guastavino buildings and history will be presented on November 3, 2012, as part of the Construction History Society of America’s conference held at MIT. Janet Parks will deliver the keynote address on the relationship of Guastavino and Cass Gilbert. Nineteen papers will follow presenting research on major buildings by Guastavino and new technical studies based on preservation projects. In addition to American scholars more than ten architects and scholars from Spain will attend and present papers.
MoMA Century of the Child Exhibition
Emiliano Espinosa. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Spanish children's drawings of the Civil War collection
Juanito Duran Gratacos. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Spanish children's drawings of the Civil War collection
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. The Haus des Kindes was not an orphanage- it was intended as a place for children separated from their families by the war where the families could go to try to find the children. The older children were given occupational training should they end up on their own.
The Wagner drawings were a gift to Avery in 2000 in memory of Annie Neubrunn, Emil Neubrunn, Fritz Oberlander, Adolf Placzek, and Harry and Elizabeth Gutman by Cornelia and Peter Oberlander.
Avery's Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/children/
MoMA interactive exhibit:
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/centuryofthechild/
NYT Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/design/review-century-of-the-child-at-moma.html?_r=0