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Visual Thesaurus
The UT::SOA Visual Resources Collection licenses the Visual Thesaurus for use by the SOA community. The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary that maps relationships between words and encourages exploration and discovery.
Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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Archive for November, 2008
Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes
Heemsteede, Netherlands
Plans, engravings, paintings, photographs, and interpretative texts from the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes are typologically organized and recreate the spatial experience of European and American landscape design.
Ancient Rome 3D
Ancient Rome 3D is a digital recreation of over 7,000 buildings during the reign of Constantine (circa 320 CE). The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory began developing Rome Reborn in 1997. This November, Google Earth published the largest, most comprehensive version of the project.
Ancient Rome 3D also links to other scholarly sources, including Stanford’s Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project. Carved on the walls of the Templum Pacis between 203-211 CE, the map of Rome includes extremely detailed floor plans of everything from public baths to apartments. It originally measured 60×43 feet but now exists only in fragments. Ten percent of the original artifact has survived.
Share Your Photos Using the UT::SOA Flickr Group
Join the School of Architecture’s Flickr Group and share your images with other students, faculty and staff.
Place Matters
Place Matters conducted a survey of New Yorkers to discover buildings and landmarks rich in tradition, and resonant with memory. Besides providing a historic databank, their research is also instrumental in protecting threatened places. Browse by borough, neighborhood, building use, community and time period to discover new social and architectural facets of a complex city.
Photographs from the US Geological Survey
Opuntia, South of Marfa, No Date
The USGS Photographic Library has images of natural forms, floods, earthquakes, astro-geology, national parks, historical cartography, landslides, and the sea floor – all of which are available online for public use.
Curating the City: Wilshire Boulevard
Curating the City was created by The Los Angeles Conservancy, an agency dedicated to preserving and revitalizing LA. The project focuses on Wilshire Boulevard, a street home to many architectural styles and diverse communities. It crosses through downtown LA, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica. The website encompasses a tour of the Boulevard as well as a Living Memory Book, where users can contribute personal histories to the website.
Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University is home to Andrew Dickson’s collection of over 13,000 photographs of early nineteenth and twentieth century buildings from the United States, Mexico, Greece, the Middle East and Europe, most of which are available online.
Historic Postcard Collection
Sampling of postcards NTL’s collection
The National Trust Library Historic Postcards Collections includes unique images of people and places from the turn of the twentieth century that provide evidence of buildings no longer in existence or which have changed over time.
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