Archive for March, 2009
Case Study house #22, 1960
Pierre Koenig, architect
Julius Schulman, photographer
USC Professor of History and Political Science Philip Ethington has developed two websites confronting the issues that plague urban historical investigations of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge, completed 2000-2001, examines the city through images and essays, both historical and historiographical, to treat the subject comprehensively. Though somewhat technologically outmoded, the content is viable and includes images ranging from photographs, plans, models, maps, photomontages, and “reflexive index sets,” historic images grafted onto a photograph of the here and now to demonstrate the scope of site history.
The second site of interest, Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1954-2000, uses two forms of narrative to discuss the city’s history in terms of cultural, economic and political landscapes. Yet unfinished, the site presently includes three short essays focusing on the history of Hollywood, aeronautics and the oil industry in Los Angeles complemented by a photographic narrative featuring Klansmen and tire workers alongside those of Hollywood fame and photos of the city’s Case Study houses by Julius Schulman.
Tags: architecture, Case Study Houses, images, Julius Schulman, landscape, Los Angeles, maps, Philip Ethington, photographs, urban historiography, urban history, urbanism, visual studies
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 31, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The Photographic Dictionary juxtaposes words with images. Relationships range from the literal to figurative, often generating fresh and unforeseen interpretations of common terms like “airport,” “fog,” or “murmur.”
Tags: photography, visual dictionary
Posted by Joan Winter on March 30, 2009 in images, photography, words | No Comments »
In the neighborhood surrounding Los Angeles’ iconic Watts Towers, artist Edgar Arceneaux is collaborating with students from UCLA, USC, Art Center College of Design, and California Institute of the Arts to establish the Watts House Project (WHP). WHP is fostering a grass roots campaign for community revitalization through the use of conceptual art that integrates Watts Towers into urban fabric without diminishing Simon Rodia’s homage to the collector and the absurd.
For more information read the L.A. Times article Watts House Project: Art meets Architecture near the Towers. Click here to view images of WHP’s launch event.
Tags: Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Edgar Arceneaux, L. A. Times, Los Angeles, public art, redevelopment, Simon Rodia, UCLA, urban renewal, USC, Watts House Project, Watts Towers
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 30, 2009 in architecture, blog, landscape | No Comments »
SUMO Paint, a portable software with social networking features, allows you to paint and edit images within your browser. It has many of the same capabilities as Photoshop, including layers and filters, but doesn’t cost you a single cent.
Tags: freeware, image editing, Photoshop, SUMO Paint
Posted by Joan Winter on March 27, 2009 in images, photography | No Comments »
ARTstor has recently established collection agreements with Ohio University, and University of Iowa Professor Christopher D. Roy. Combined with new images available through Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives, these collections will add 175,000 images of Pre-Columbian, African, Asian (specifically Northern Vietnamese), Native North American, Middle Eastern, and Oceanic art, culture, archaeological objects and ethnographic artifacts.
In an additional collection agreement, ARTstor is partnering with Heritage Preservation, making available 300 images of public murals in American communities.
Tags: African art, archaeology, architecture, ARTstor, Asian art, Christopher D. Roy, Erich Lessing, ethnography, Harvard, Heritage Preservation, images, Middle Eastern art, murals, Native North American art, Non-Western art, Northern Vietnam, Oceanic art, Ohio University, Peabody Museum, photography, Pre-Columbian art, public art
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 27, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Race, space, and politics will be the dominant themes at the University of Pennsylvania’s 2009 Unspoken Borders:The Ecologies of Inequality student design conference. The conference will highlight socio-economic and environmental concerns, focusing on key issues of infrastructure and design process. Registration is currently open for the conference to be held April 3rd and 4th.
Tags: architecture, ecology, economics, fine arts, historic preservation, landscape architecture, Penn, sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Unspoken Borders, urban planning, urbanism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 25, 2009 in architecture, art, landscape | No Comments »
Image #63 from 100×100 by Michael Wolf
Image #80 from 100×100 by Michael Wolf
In the series 100×100, Michael Wolf photographed 100 residents living in 100-square-feet apartments in one of Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estates. Despite the constraint of a small space, the rooms vary widely, ranging from spartan dwellings to cramped cabinets packed with an individual’s personal belongings.
Tags: China, homes, Hong Kong, Michael Wolf, photography, small spaces, tiny house
Posted by Joan Winter on March 24, 2009 in maps, photography | No Comments »
Professor Werner Lang discussed green building on a recent edition of the Earth & Sky Radio Series which broadcast on over 1000 radio stations nationwide. Lang focused on building skins, the energy required to produce them, and the often inefficient nature of their composition. Lang also emphasized the need for a universal lifestyle shift that demands better energy practices and is committed to more effective and responsible stewardship of existing resources.
To read more or listen to the Earth & Sky podcast visit Architect Werner Lang on green building.
Tags: architecture, Earth & Sky, energy, green building, materials, solar energy, sustainability, sustainable design, Werner Lang
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 24, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) at UT Austin’s School of Architecture has won this year’s 2009 Texas Library Association’s Public Relations Branding Iron Awards competition in the Non-Traditional Category. The awards committee was impressed by the series of instructional videos the VRC created. Topics include exhibits, ARTstor help, the VRC’s Flickr group, Visual Thesaurus, the VRC’s Blog and RSS feed, image size in PowerPoint, slide scanning, the VRC’s list of curated web resources and an introduction to online digital image collections.
View the videos on the UT::SOA VRC’s YouTube channel
Tags: branding award, Texas Library Association, UTSOA VRC, YouTube
Posted by Joan Winter on March 23, 2009 in blog | No Comments »
Gladys and David Wright Residence, Phoenix, Arizona, 1951
The Millard House (‘La Miniatura’), Pasadena, California, 1923
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy hosts a listing – Wright on Market – of Wright buildings currently on the market. To ensure quality preservation of each site, Wright on Market promotes conservation awareness and assists in real estate transactions by seeking conscientious buyers. Wright on Market also provides a list of recently sold Wright buildings.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, commercial architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Oak Park, Prairie Style, preservation, residential architecture, Usonian architecture
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images | No Comments »
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