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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 »
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten historic periods ranging from the early modern period to the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined.
Tags: 20th-century Germany, architectural history, architecture, art history, documents, early modern Germany, German history, German History in Documents and Images, GHDI, images, maps, modern Germany, photography, translated documents
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 9, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
Travel site Arounder uses Google maps to organize interactive, panoramic exhibits of a number of European cities and a few American sites. For each location listed on Arounder, a number of panoramic views are available including views of church interiors, city streets, public plazas, and natural or manufactured landscapes.
Tags: architectural history, Arounder, cultural history, culture, digital panorama, European architecture, Georgia, Google maps, landscape, panoramas, photography, travel, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 8, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Suggestify is a new application for Flickr that allows you to suggest geotags for photos using a clean and simple map-based interface. The project, while still in beta or what the developer Aaron Land calls the “alpha-beta-disco-disco-danceball-revolution stage,” is an exciting step forward towards developing new ways to describe a photo’s location.
Read more on the blog IndiCommons
Tags: API, beta, Flickr, geotagging, web 2.0
Posted by Joan Winter on November 5, 2009 in GPS, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art, architectural and historical images. Bridgeman’s search tools allow the user to browse the collection thematically (architecture, land and sea, emotions and ideas, etc.) and by image type (black and white photograph, object, illustration, etc.), artist, and participating collections.
Tags: architectural history, art, art history, Bridgeman Art Library, cultural history, culture, database, image collections, images, interior design, landscape architecture, photographs, sculpture, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 4, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Point cloud of Rapu Nui
CyArk digitally preserve cultural heritage sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, and digital modeling. Besides project galleries which document cultural heritage sites via photographs and 3-d media , CyArk has developed the Hazard Map, which helps preservationists visualize sites at risk.
Tags: conservation, heri, hi, historic preservation, prese, preservation, world heritage
Posted by Joan Winter on November 1, 2009 in architectural history, maps | No Comments »
Before Henry Hudson landed on the shores of Manhattan island, the area’s biodiversity rivaled Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park. The Mannahatta Project seeks to understand what New York looked like before it became a city. To recreate Manhattan circa 1600, the project “used GIS software to layer spatial datasets (i.e. maps), to derive maps of topography, streams, and eventually species and ecological community types.” While the project explores the transition from an undeveloped to an urban landscape, it hope to inspire people to consider ways of living that are “compatible with wildlife and wild places and that will sustain people and planet Earth for the next 400 years.”
Tags: ecology, enviornmentalism, landscape, Manhattan, New York, NYC, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on October 29, 2009 in GPS, maps | No Comments »
Spezify is a search tool that presents textual, graphic, and photographic results in a visual format. Blogs, videos, microblogs and images, couple with web-based versions of more traditional print media to give comprehensive search results.
Tags: digital images, search tools, Spezify, visual search tools, web 2.0, Web resources
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 24, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, blog, image presentation, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
The Yale University Art Gallery’s eCatalogue allows internet users to search its collection of over 185,000 objects. Organized into ten curatorial areas, these objects range from African ritual figures and masks to American ceramics, Asian lacquerwar, and modern and contemporary sculpture and painting. Yale’s eCatalogue is an excellent resource for material culture incorporating traditional gallery arts as well as objects of industrial culture.
Tags: architecture, art history, cultural history, cultural objects, database, decorative arts, images, industrial design, interior design, search tools, Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Sponsered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project that explores cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Seventeenth Century. Silk Road Seattle provides historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on the traditional culture of Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
Tags: architecture, art, art history, Central Asia, cultural history, industrial design, maps, photography, resources, silk road, Silk Road Seattle, trade, University of Washington, urban history, virtual exhibit, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Web resources
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
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