Posts Tagged ‘urban design’
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 »
The Exhibit, Toward the Sentient City, curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York, has an admirable online presence. The exhibit investigates how ubiquitous computing and ambient technology have come to influence architecture and urban design. Shepard writes:
“We are now on the cusp of a similarly fundamental reconfiguration of physical space, one in which a vast and mostly invisible layer of technology is being embedded into the world around us. Using a wide range of complex technologies and devices — from microprocessors and electronic identification tags to sensors and networked information systems — buildings and cities are being transformed, imbued with the capacity to sense, record, process, transmit, and respond to information and activity taking place within and around them.” Read more here.
Tags: Architectural League of New York, cities, exhibit, technology, urban design, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on November 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | 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 »
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 »
TED’s A Greener Future? page includes 53 videos of lectures delivered by leading scholars, designers and activists engaged in the debate over the environment and climate change. Al Gore, Cameron Sinclair, Norman Foster, and others discuss a wide range of topics including global mass extinctions, sustainable food culture and urban design.
Tags: climate change, food culture, green building, sustainability, sustainable design, TED, urban, urban design, urban planning, urban renewal, urbanism, video
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 3, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, behold, copyright, digital images, fair use, Flickr, landscape, photographs, photography, sustainability, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, copyright, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
TED conferences and its subsidiary the TEDTalks video website “has a love affair with buildings.” Featuring over 21 conference videos on its Architectural Inspiration page, TED has assembled thematic discussions from Moshe Safdie, Nathaniel Kahn, Daniel Libeskind and more focusing on sustainability, historicism, food culture, and uniqueness as it relates to the built environment and design inspiration.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, criticism, food culture, historicism, modern architecture, modernism, planning, romanticism, streaming video, sustainability, TED, urban design, urbanism, videos
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 22, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
Death by Architecture assembles current information about a broad spectrum of architectural competitions in addition to hosting an extensive resource list linking to blogs and other sites featuring information about design, materials, and construction.
Tags: architecture, competitions, design resources, lanscape architecture, professional resources, sustainability, sustainable design, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 7, 2009 in architecture, blog, landscape | No Comments »
Places is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and its impact on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. On October 5th, Places will assume a fully web-based, open-access format. Places online will publish peer-reviewed scholarship as well as topical commentary, observations, reviews, and visual portfolios that focus on “public spaces in the service of shared and egalitarian ideals of society” and explore “the highest standards of public responsibility and design.”
Tags: academic journal, architectural history, architecture, design history, Design Observer Group, landscape architecture, Places, sustainability, urban design, urban planning, urbanism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 5, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, landscape | No Comments »
The California State University IMAGE Project has assembled almost 75,000 images for into its WorldImages database (formerly known as WorldArt). Organized into portfolios, the database includes a wide range of content from around the globe including images of cities and building technology, religious and cultural art and artifacts, architecture, material culture, and more. In addition WorldImages hosts a few special collections including faculty contributions, special exhibits and the Sourisseau Academy Clark B. Waterhouse Collection.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, California State University, cultural history, culture, image collection, images, sociology, technology, urban design, urbanism, visual culture, visual resource collections, WorldImages
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 3, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
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