Posts Tagged ‘historic preservation’
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 »
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 »
Sponsored by the Italian government, the Carlo Scarpa Archive project endeavors to preserve the architecture of and the process of practicing architecture employed by Scarpa throughout his career. The project website includes the digitized project drawings for the Museo di Castelvecchio, an interactive floorplan contextualizing these working drawings, and a bibliography chronicling the use of these drawings in scholarship and other literature over the past fifty years. As time passes, the archive will digitize drawings and photography for other Scarpa projects.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, archive, Carlo Scarpa, historic preservation, Italian architecture, Museo di Castelvecchio
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 20, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, image presentation, images | No Comments »
Crowd at Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, circa 1950s. Courtesy of PBS.
Ken Burn’s documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea “traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years.” The film’s website includes over 800 historic documents – photographs, film clips, and newspaper articles.
The entire six part documentary will be available online from September 28-October 9. Deleted scenes and untold stores are also available, including a 15 minute film entitled San Antonio Missions: Keeping History Alive.
Tags: community, conservation, documentary, enviornmentalism, green, historic preservation, history, Ken Burns, National Parks, NPS, parks, PBS
Posted by Joan Winter on September 28, 2009 in landscape, photography | No Comments »
Irwin House 1953, Victor Christ-Janer
The Philip Johnson Glass House Historical Trust is creating a narrative survey of the 91 existing modern homes in New Canaan to provide a “criteria of significance” for their future preservation. In an effort to circumvent their demolition, the Trust is documenting the significance of the remaining modern homes in New Canaan, potentially utilizing this survey as a preservation tool and model for other communities whose historic architecture is threatened by surrounding development. The Trust also hopes to expand the online database to other clusters of modern homes.
Tags: Edward Durrell-Stone, Eliot Noyes, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glass House, historic preservation, Marcel Breuer, modernism, New Canaan, Philip Johnson
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
The New York Public Library has integrated a collection of photographs documenting the American landscape with Google Earth. Now you can view and browse Photographic Views of the United States spatially rather than alphabetically. Download the KML file here.
Tags: Google Earth, historic preservation, NYPL
Posted by Joan Winter on June 12, 2009 in architecture, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Fisher Body 21 Plant from Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s The Ruins of Detroit
Detroit, known as the Paris of the West, has a rich architectural legacy. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, its skyscrapers are some of the most endangered buildings in America.
In their series the Ruins of Detroit,Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have photographed “splendid decaying monuments, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt.” Another website, Forgotten Detroit, showcases images of vacant structures while Fabulous Ruins is a photographic tour of neighborhoods and industrial buildings, telling the story of the rise and fall and rise again of a great American city in the late 20th century.
Tags: abandoned buildings, Detroit, historic preservation
Posted by Joan Winter on June 4, 2009 in architectural history, photography | No Comments »
Capitol Records, Hollywood, California. Courtesy of the Recent Past Preservation Network.
Buildings less than fifty years – not yet “historical” – are often threatened by new development and changes in taste. The Recent Past Preservation Network is a research cum advocacy group that works to counteract that tendency and “encourage a contextual understanding of our modern built environment.” Highlights of the website include a “Historical Bibliography of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Since World War II,” compiled by the network’s founder, Richard Longstret; a Resource List organized by construction technique, building function, and professional association; and the National Windshield Survey a growing database of user-submitted photographs, often taken on the fly, documenting mid century architecture.
Tags: historic preservation, modernism
Posted by Joan Winter on April 6, 2009 in architecture | 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 »
The Library of Congress’ Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 includes moving images of traffic, parades, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, paperboys, shopping, construction of skyscrapers, street cleaners and subways.
Tags: film, historic preservation, Library of Congress, New York
Posted by Joan Winter on December 15, 2008 in architectural history, photography | No Comments »
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