Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
NY Times Arts Dwell ARTstor BlogFrom International Listings:
This compendium of the Top 100 Architecture Blogs lists blogs chosen for frequently and recently updated entries, a focus on architecture, and for their attitudes and/or perspectives – no matter if they’re amateurs or professionals.
From ARTstor:
Through an ongoing collaboration with Art Resource and Scala Archives (Florence, Italy), ARTstor has just released 2,848 additional images of major Italian and other European works, bringing the total number of Scala images now available in ARTstor to more than 13,000. ARTstor will ultimately make available approximately 12,000 high–quality images of European art and architecture from Scala, with a special focus on the archaeology, art, and architecture of Italy and on the collections of the major museums in Italy and other European countries.
For more detailed information about this collection, see the Italian and European Art (Scala Archives) page.
Professional photographer Anthony Maddaloni, who has provided workshops for School of Architecture Photo Union members and SOA students taking courses that have incorporated photography, can be found on the site Expert Village. Expert Village is a how-to video site where you can learn about almost anything.
Introduction to Black and White Film Developing
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Wired Campus, June 16, 2008:
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created software that helps identify where in the world a photo was taken.
The software matches a given photo against six million geo-tagged photos available on Flickr. (Many of the online photo-sharing service’s users elect to identify where in the world their photos were taken.) By finding similarly-composed shots on Flickr—such as those containing narrow streets or tall cathedrals—the software can figure out where an image was likely to have been taken.
Archiportal, by Zac Stein, is a mashup that uses Google Maps and Freebase allowing one to search on featured architects and cities. In addition, like Wikipedia, you can contribute content to the site (one must sign up to do so).
Supported browsers include Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Safari.
From The National Geographic series “Man Made.” Program title: “Tokyo: Living Small In The Big City”
This clip shows how architect Yasuhiro Yamashita used light, height, and sight lines to make 899 square feet of floor space appear expansive (footprint 322 square feet).
ARTstor is collaborating with the School of Architecture’s Visual Resources Collection to distribute more than 600 images of modern European and American architecture via the ARTstor Digital Library. These images will be digitized from slides created by Professors Christopher Long and Wilfried Wang.
From David Eifler, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Environmental Design Library,
University of California, Berkeley:
Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), widely recognized as one of the world’s leading architectural historians, taught his last course in the Spring of 1991 in the Architecture Department of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. The 26 lectures of his course “A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism” covering the period from the Florentine Renaissance to the post-modernism of the late 20th century were video recorded and have recently been digitized and made available for public viewing. Kostof’s lectures were heralded for situating the architectural monument in a framework of vernacular buildings that imbue it with meaning. He was also known for exposing the relationships between architecture and the people and cultures that built it. Kostof was the author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), The City Shaped (1991), and The City Assembled (published posthumously in 1992).
The 26 80-minute streaming lectures can be found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/kostof.html.
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