Archive for the ‘architecture’ Category
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux conserves, restores, and manages nearly 100 national monuments, opening up these sites of social, cultural, and architectural history for public consumption. The website uses a geographic search feature to locate pages devoted to the Pantheon, Tours Cathedral, the house of George Sand, and many more. Monument pages include photographs and videos, points of historical interests, details about tours and other activities on site, and a list of literature specific to the building.
Tags: architectural history, Baroque, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, conservation, cultural history, France, French history, gardens, modern, modernism, neoclassicism, preservation, renassiance, social history, tourism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Rhizome is an online community and publication “dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.” The site includes contemporary examples of works investigating the intersection of art, technology and culture, with an archive dating back to the early 1990s.
Tags: Contemporary Art, criticism, digital media, new media, technology
Posted by Joan Winter on November 22, 2009 in architecture, art, blog, images, photography, words | No Comments »
Shangri-la Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Orange, Texas, Photo Courtesy of Hester + Hardaway Photography
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) invites electronic submission of built projects and chose ten that represent the most innovative examples of green building. The website consists of a search-able database with detailed information about each building’s design process, cost, land use, water conservation, energy use, materials, and LEED ratings.
Tags: green, green architecture, LEED, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Joan Winter on November 20, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
The American Society of Civil Engineers Database provides access to over 100,000 bibliographic and abstracted records from 1970 to the present. The associated Research Library can search 73,000 full-text articles from ASCE journals and conference proceedings and will be adding over 4,000 new articles each year. Though a subscription is required, these resources offer unprecedented access to research materials in the various fields of civil engineering.
Tags: abstracts, American Society of Civil Engineers, articles, ASCE, bibliographies, civil engineering, database, development, planning, research library, transportation
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 19, 2009 in architecture, words | No Comments »
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. While Bildindex is a German-language site, it is navigable for the English speaker through interactive features that provide information about the current location and history of the image object. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts a wide range of image types (drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, plans) as well as special collections and continues to grow by sponsoring further digitization projects.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex, drawings, Europe, European architecture, German architecture, Germany, Italian architecture, manuscripts, modernism, painting, photographs, plans, Renaissance, search tool
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Inmagine is the world’s largest royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections. With images organized into galleries and categories, they are easy to search even without using Inmagines innovative search tools including Insight keyword search and Universal Search, a mechanism using geography and language detection to locate images. In addition, Inmagine offers a number of services including image enlargement and retouching.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, clip art, culture, design, illustrations, images, Inmagine, landscape, landscape architecture, photography, stock images, stock photography, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Yesterday, the roof substructure of London’s 2012 Olympic aquatic center was revealed. The framework of Zaha Hadid’s undulating design took over seven months to construct and lift into place. In addition to holding two 50-metre pools, a 25-metre diving pool and 17,500 spectators, this £244m building is expected to function as a gateway to the games inspiring visitors as they enter Olympic Park. Click here to view more photographs of the site.
For more information about the aquatic center read this Gaurdian article.
Tags: acquatic center, architecture, contemporary architecture, London, London Olympics 2012, Olympics 2012, Zaha Hadid
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 13, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
While many use iPhones to navigate cities or find a good restaurant, a new app has attempted to use the same technology to enrich the urban experience and uncover unrealized layers of the landscape. Museum of the Phantom City is a public art project designed by Cheng+Snyder, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York City and Philadelphia. The Phantom City transforms NYC into a living museum and maps 50 unrealized projects onto the current urban grid. The beta version of the app is available for free and you can also view the entire tour on their website.
Read more about the project on BldgBlog
Tags: Apps, futures, iphone, New York, unrealized projects
Posted by Joan Winter on November 12, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, maps | No Comments »
Smallen House, 1957
The Philip Johnson Glass House and the State of Connecticut announced Phase III in their efforts to move modern preservation forward with the launch of the new documentary film Living Modern in Connecticut. Living Modern examines modern architecture in Connecticut including the work of Saarinan and Breuer asking if this architecture is danger of disappearing. The film premiers on CPTV Thursday, November 12th.
In addition, The Philip Johnson Glass House is teaming with the State and number of other local and regional civic and preservation organizations to create a the Multiple Property Documentation Form. The Multiple Property Documentation Form will further the work of the 2008 Modern Homes Survey by facilitating the effort to identify and preserve modern homes in Connecticut in addition to providing registry with the National Register of Historic Places.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, Connecticut, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, CPTV, historic preservation, Living Modern in Connecticut, Modern Homes Survey, Multiple Property Documentation Form, National Register of Historic Places, New Canaan, New Canaan Historical Society, New Canaan Preservation Alliance, Northeast Office of the National Trust, Phase III, Philip Johnson Glass House, preservation
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 11, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Yesterday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the symbolic collapse of European communism. The fall of the Berlin Wall continues to impact the process of historical meaning-making trough the creation of new social identities as the east and west work to reconcile 40 years of difference. This history has been chronicled in a number of scholarly publications, while museums, exhibits and online archives have been dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and artifacts, news material, and personal testimony. Below you will find a few resources that ground this momentous event in the context of the past, present and future.
German Mssions in the United States has created a webpage devoted to Looking Back at the Fall of the Berlin Wall. This site incorporates a timeline, articles, images and videos that examine the tandem histories of the GDR and Federal Republic, Cold War history in the U. S., and comparative pictographic history of the life of the wall before and after the Wende. In addition, the Berlin Wall Image Gallery couples with a number of other links to offer a broad range of resources on the Wall.
A respository for virtual exhibitions examining the period of the Cold War, the Cold War Museum has created an exhibit devoted to the history of the Berlin Wall. The exhibit includes photographs by Official US Army Photographer, Hugh Palmer, and are merely one component in a larger visual history of the Cold War preserved by this virtual museum.
The Newseum celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a gallery exhibit that immerses the visitor in the history of the fall with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. The Berlin Wall exhibit features eight 12-foot-high concrete sections of wall and a guard tower, and focuses on the permeability of the wall highlighting the role of radio and television broadcasts in creating an awareness of western politics and culture in East Germany.
Tags: Berlin Wall, communism, Europe, German history, German Missions in the United States, German reunification, historical memory, images, Interactive Museum, Newseum, online exhibits, photography, The Cold War Museum, Washington D.C., Wende
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, photography | No Comments »
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