Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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Photosynth is a new technology from Microsoft that constructs a three dimensional model from a series of flat photographs. By comparing similarites between images, Photosynth can estimate the shape of a subject and point of view a photo was captured from. The user can then navigate through a virtual world. Sample synths include Mesa Verde, the Hagia Sophia, and the Grand Canal in Venice. If you have an enough images of a particular space you can even create your one synth.
Shwegugyi, Myanmar
With the VRC’s current exhibit in mind, “Architecture in Mongolia Through the Ages,” you might like to browse these websites, which provide images of Asian architecture as well as maps for geographic navigation:
Learn about the VRC’s Web Resources page by watching the video posted on YouTube.
You can explore 28,400 photographs taken by missionaries between 1850 and 1950, that represent the interaction of African, Asian and European cultures. Rahul Mehrotra & Sharada Dwivedi have completed a visual interpretation of historic photographs from India and Emmanuel Akyeampong has completed one for West Africa and Asia.
The Chicago Architects Oral History Project (CAOHP) contains over fifty transcripts of interviews with architects involved in the development of Chicago from the 1900s to the present. The CAOHP “was intended not only to fill an existing void in the literature but to go beyond the facts to explore motivations and influences, behind-the-scenes stories, and personal reflections.”
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection of Architecture and Design contains over 500 digital images, including architectural drawings, fragments and furniture. You can view illustrations Louis Sullivan’s “System of Architectural Ornament,” as well as artifacts from the Bertrand Goldberg Archives.
The interactive website, Piero della Francesca: The Legend of the True Cross was created by the department of Art History at Princeton and allows the viewer to move through the chapel’s space and experience Piero Della Francesca’s fresco cycle of medieval legends from many different vantage points. The user can follow the narrative chronologically, view the frescoes in detail, and notice thematic connections teased out by the images’ relationship in space. (Image: Piero’s Triumph of Constantine at the Arezzo Chapel)
Conceptual artist Dylan Stone took these 26,000 color snapshot photographs of Manhattan south of Canal Street in order to document the cityscape block by block. The photographs are available on the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Find out about the Visual Resources Collection’s blog, Deep Focus, and how to subscribe to the RSS feed by watching the video posted on YouTube.
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