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Civic society initiative
http://www.civicsocietyinitiative.org.uk/
This is the website of the Civic Society Initiative an umbrella organisation uniting local civic societies around the UK. These societies are typically concerned with the architectural environment and built heritage of individual towns and take an active campaigning role. The Civic Society Initiative steps into the void left when the national Civic Trust folded and aims to support local groups and give a national voice to the movement. The site showcase the broad range of activities across the country from erecting blue plaques on buildings to individual campaigns to preserve threatened building. The website is aimed at linking up local groups and includes a forum. There is also a directory of local civic societies, and the website also includes much information relevant to the activities of local groups including information on events and newsletter.
Added: 2009-11-12More details
Byzantine monuments of Attica
http://www.eie.gr/byzantineattica/view.asp?lg=en
This excellent website, the Byzantine Monuments of Attica, provides a wealth of information on the history of Athens during the Byzantine rule of the city. Looking at the ways in which the Byzantine Empire sought to Christianise the city, its buildings and its inhabitants, and the ways in which the Empire looked to destroy the Classical traditions, practices and learnings, this website provides information on the buildings and ruins of Athens and the various objects (mostly artworks including sculptures and paintings) and their role in the history of the city. The website is easily navigated, being split into three main sections: a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the history of Athens during this period; lists of monuments (listed alphabetically, by type, or geographically on a map); and objects (listed under two broad headings of sculpture-mosaic and wall paintings). There is, furthermore, a list of terms relating to the information presented. It is somewhat unfortunate that no keyword searching is available on the site, but this barely detracts from what is an exceptionally valuable academic and visual resource.
Added: 2009-11-09More details
Julia Morgan : an online exhibition
http://lib.calpoly.edu/specialcollections/architecture/juliamorgan/
This online exhibition highlights the work of American architect Julia Morgan, who in 1904 became the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California. Taken from the archive papers at the Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), the website provides scope notes for the collection and related collections. The online exhibition covers Morgan's biography; education; early work; Morgan's design of William Randolph Hearst's estate in San Simeon, California and other Morgan-designed buildings on California's Central Coast; and Morgan's legacy.
Added: 2009-11-06More details
North Carolina architects and builders : a biographical dictionary
http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/
The North Carolina State University Libraries have provided this online biographical dictionary of about 170 architects and builders who have produced North Carolina's architecture from 1750 to the present day. Launched in Spring 2009 each entry offers brief information on birthplace, residences, trades, work locations, building types, styles and forms as well as a fuller biography, building list and bibliography. A keyword search, as well as a browse facility are provided, together with a building index. Entries are still being added and it is anticipated that eventually 500 to 600 individuals will be represented within this resource. It is also proposed to provide images to illustrate the work of each individual in this resource. Users are invited to submit corrections and updated information to improve this site.
Added: 2009-09-29More details
Affordable and better housing : early influences
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/stories/hemingway_housing.html
The Art and Architecture Stories section of the Courtauld Institute of Art website has provided the first part of an interview with the fashion designer and co-founder of Red or Dead, Wayne Hemingway, on his early interest in architecture and urban planning, which led him to undertake the groundbreaking social housing project, Staiths South Bank project. In this resource Hemingway discusses his new interest in affordable and social housing. He talks about his upbringing and the buildings that made an impression on him. He also explores style and fashion in housing. The sections are illustrated with photographs from the Courtauld's collections. Click on the images for information on the location and architect of each design. A brief reading list and biography are also provided.
Added: 2009-09-28More details
Affordable, innovative, thoughful, profitable
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/stories/hemingway_staiths.html?ixsid=APd8RD
The Art and Architecture Stories section of the Courtauld Institute of Art website has provided this resource on the Staiths South Bank project, which was set-up to provide mass market housing by the river Tyne at Gateshead. This site is the second part of an interview by Richard Wilding with the fashion designer and co-founder of Red or Dead, Wayne Hemingway, about undertaking a groundbreaking social housing project, in collaboration with Wimpey Homes, to create 700 properties. This resource is in six parts with accompanying images of social housing developments of the 1950s to 1980s, including designs by the LCC architects department, the Camden architects department and the architect, Denys Lasdun. A biography for Wayne Hemingway is also provided.
Added: 2009-09-28More details
Irish architecture foundation
http://www.architecturefoundation.ie/
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) website, launched in 2009, provides a focal point for... "the many people and organisations who wish to champion the power of architecture and urban design" in Ireland. The IAF is supported by a variety of organisations including the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DOEHLG) and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI), among others. This well-designed and easy to use website offers information about the IAF and its activities, and also podcasts, blogs, and a discussion forum. Free media include: 'New Ways of Using Space', by Peanutz Architekten from Berlin; interviews, walking and boat tours of Dublin, and videos of panel discussions. There is also a useful and up-to-date Diary of architecture events in Ireland. The website has its own search-engine. This will be a useful point of contact for those interested in Irish architecture and urban design.
Added: 2009-09-13More details
Wells Coates : architect and designer
http://www.wellscoates.org/
The Wells Coates website is largely based on a biography of the architect and designer, which was written by his daughter Laura Cohn, and published by Scholar Press in 1999 with the title 'The Door to a Secret Room: A Portrait of Wells Coates'. The site is in eight sections covering his early life in Japan, life with his wife Marion and daughter Laura, his friendships, and his ideals, which led to the formation of the MARS Group in 1933. Other sections include 'Success', which features Coates's most successful industrial design, the AD 65 radio for E.K.Cole, and the 'Lawn Road Flats' also known as the Isokon Flats, as well as some of his designs. Hyperlinks in the text provide further information, as well as a bibliography and list of exhibitions featuring Coates's work.
Added: 2009-08-25More details
Other Europes : re-visioning architecture and design 1840-1940
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/admn/php/othereuropes/
This website (which requires free subscription to access) provides access to images and essays in the field of architecture and design in Central Europe and Scandinavia, 1840-1940. Images are diverse and reflect the research interests of the four contributors. The images themselves include many taken during the period, and include detailed contextual descriptions. Images can be saved in a photo album for future reference, to which can also be added an essay. Once approved by moderators essays can be viewed by others logging on to the site - this may be a useful teaching tool.
Added: 2009-08-13More details
Centro internazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladio
http://www.cisapalladio.org/
This is the website of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA) [Andrea Palladio International Centre of Architectural Studies]. Founded in 1958 and located in Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, Vicenza, Italy, the Centre is a research institute dedicated to the work of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) and history of architecture generally from antiquity to the 20th century. The website offers a detailed biography of the Padua-born architect and description of his development and the emergence of his personal architectural style. The design and building of countryside villas and city palaces (three major ones located in Vicenza, including the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto) are discussed. A list of relevant publications, additionally numbering facsimiles editions and scholarly journals, is available for perusal. The section "Palladio and the Veneto" offers valuable resources to researchers and students. Users can access a sizeable selection of images, including plans and architectural drawings, of palaces and villas designed by Andrea Palladio and located in the Veneto region. For each building several images are provided together with a description, an outline of their history and bibliographical references. Images are indexed alphabetically and by subject. A helpful interactive map permits users to retrieve images by locations too. An "Exhibition archive" section makes available images and texts from past exhibitions held at the Centre. Virtual tours of the exhibitions, featuring 360 degree viewing of exhibits thereby enabling users to experience the exhibitions themselves. The "Annali di architettura", the official journal published by the Centre, can be downloaded as PDF files. The Centre houses a photo library and a library. Its collection, comprising over 32.000 volumes, focuses on the history of art and architecture and includes 2.000 rare or precious editions. The library's catalogue is available online. The Centre organises seminars and conferences, details of which are presented on the site.
Added: 2009-07-10More details
Liverpool Architectural Society
http://www.liverpoolarchitecture.com/
The Liverpool Architectural Society (LAS) website also offers two online tours of the city produced by the University of Liverpool, as well as contact information for Liverpool architectural practices. The first tour looks at the east side of the business district and the second tour covers the west side and includes buildings at the Pierhead, as well as Water Street and Castle Street. These tours require the Flash 5 plug-in. Information is also provided on specific buildings in the city accessed via a drop-down menu, and on the LAS Design awards. The LAS is the Merseyside branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Added: 2009-07-09More details
Eames Foundation
http://www.eamesfoundation.org/
This is the website of the Eames Foundation, the mission of which is to preserve and protect the Eames House as well as, through educational experiences, celebrate the creative legacy of designers Charles and Ray Eames. It was founded by Lucia Eames and the Eames family in 2004. Charles Eames (1907-1978) and his wife, Ray (1912-1988) designed some of the most important examples of 20th century furniture as well as toys, graphics, exhibitions, films and architecture. The Eames House, Case Study House #8, was one of 25 homes built as part of the Case Study House Program from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s. It was proposed by Charles and Ray that the home would be for a married couple who were apartment dwellers and worked in design and the graphic arts. John Entenza, the case study founder, felt that the Eames House "represented an attempt to state an idea rather than a fixed architectural pattern." The website gives information about the house, which is in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles and details of how to visit. There is an Eames House photo gallery featuring interiors, exteriors and present day shots. The website also has information on the foundation and how to become a member.
Added: 2009-07-08More details
Antonio Citterio and Partners
http://www.antoniocitterioandpartners.it/
This is the website of Antonio Citterio and Partners, the multidisciplinary practice for architectural design, industrial design and graphics, based in Milan. It was founded in 1999 by Citterio and Patricia Viel. Industrial designer and furniture maker Antonio Citterio was born in Meda in 1950 and graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic. He has won many prizes, including the prestigious Compasso d’Oro in 1987 and 1995. His products are part of the MoMA permanent collection and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Patricia Viel was born in Milan in 1962. She graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1987 and she started her collaboration with Antonio Citterio in 1986. The website covers their work in three categories, design, architecture and interiors.
Added: 2009-07-08More details
Architecture religieuse en occident
http://architecture.relig.free.fr/
This amateur site provides an introduction, in French, to religious architecture in Western Europe. The site can be searched by type of building (cathedral, church or chapel, abbey or monastery), or by region (departments of France, or other European countries). Records for individual buildings contain images, potted histories of the site, and in certain instances, floor plans and elevations. The site also provides useful guides to architectural history, the history of monastic orders, and pilgrimage, as well as a glossary of architectural terms (which includes a French-English translation).
Added: 2009-07-07More details
Chartres : sanctuaire du monde
http://www.chartres-csm.org/
This website provides detailed information about Chartres Cathedral, one of the most notable examples of French Gothic architecture. The website is run by a charitable organisation, Chartres, sanctuaire de Monde, which aims to raise money to support the Cathedral. Sections of the site are devoted to the construction of the cathedral, the major programme of rebuilding undertaken in the 12th century and subsequent alterations to the fabric. Other areas of interest include sections on the iconographic significance of the important collection of stained glass and sculptures, and an account of the development of Chartres as a centre for pilgrimage in the medieval period. Although there is an English language version of the website, much of the more useful content is only available in French.
Added: 2009-07-07More details
L'encyclopédie du patrimoine architectural français
http://www.richesheures.net/
This site provides a gazeteer of important buildings which illustrate the development of French architecture between the Roman period and the eighteenth century. Buildings can be searched by location, period of construction, and types of building, such as castles, religious buildings and urban infrastructure. The entries for individual buildings contain brief descriptions of the construction and purpose of the building, accompanied by images, contact details and links to further information on each entry, and in certain instances, virtual tours of the building in question. Access to the main site is free of charge, although payment of a subscription fee permits access to restricted areas of the site, such as online editions of important architectural texts, and other resources.
Added: 2009-07-07More details
Forms of inquiry
http://www.formsofinquiry.com/
This is the website for Forms of Enquiry, an exhibition, curated by Zak Kyes, that was first shown at the Architectural Association in London from 8 October to 31 October 2007, and has since travelled to the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Switzerland, expanding and changing with each show. Forms of Inquiry "presents a group of contemporary, international graphic designers who base their work in critical investigation", and looks at the relationship between graphic design and architecture. The website content is all on the front page, beginning with exhibition venues and dates, underneath each venue there is a list of accompanying events and talks. Next are the works included in the exhibition. Each thumbnail opens a new page with a large image of the work and a descriptive and critical text. Below the works are the publications and reading room sections, with a list of specially selected publications, fanzines and and printed matter "that investigate the connections between design and architecture." Lastly there is a list of contributors, each with a short biography and links to external websites where available.
Added: 2009-07-06More details
[Mudam]
http://www.mudam.lu/
This is the online version of The Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg. The museum was built by architect Leoh Ming Pei to commemorate the 25-year reign of the Grand Duke. The website is available in both English and French, and images are available. The website is organised by various sections such as collection, publications, building and there is a wealth of information about the building, the architect and the general background of the museum. An online catalogue is still being developed, but the i-gallery provides a 3D modelled environment that can be explored and where works from the collection can be viewed (films require Flash plug-in) along with a description of each work. Other content on the website includes: press information with images of work in the collection available to download in zip files; information about their education programme, the cafe and boutique; practical information for visitors and way to support MUDAM. Lastly, there is an online magazine about contemporary art, also available in both French and English, which scrolls up the screen continuously when opened, but can also be navigated by the options at the side.
Added: 2009-07-06More details
Manchester architecture and design festival
http://www.madf.co.uk/
The Manchester Architecture and Design Festival's website, (which requires Flash plug-in), acts as a hub for all the festival activities, and provides annotated links to the websites of the organisations and individuals involved. The festival is a collaboration between Manchester Society of Architects, Centre for the Urban Built Environment (CUBE), Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Student Society of Architecture and RIBA North West. The website is in the form of an online calender on which interactive dates give details of events taking place, with external links to the relevant venue, event or organisation. The full list of events for the festival, as well as the poster and flyer can be downloaded as PDF files.
Added: 2009-07-03More details
bristol-aber-cardiff : living in a material world : performativities of emptiness
http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/materialworld/
The bristol-aber-cardiff website is hosted by Stanford University's Humanities Lab, which collects and disseminates activities from this AHRC-funded Landscape and Environment Network (2006-2008), and brings together University of Bristol, University of Wales Aberystwyth and University of West of England. There are brief introductions to the key themes of the research in the short texts on Performativity and on Emptiness. The website is intended as a "working project space rather than a dissemination tool for finished work" and includes outlines of conferences, seminars and workshops, as well projects from smaller working groups and final reports on the programme (reports are downloadable as PDF files). The website also has research outputs from the project and these are in a wide range of forms including text, images, audio and video. A separate 'Vancouver Research' section follows the work of Angela Piccini, one of the key researchers in the project, as she is resident at the University of British Columbia during 2009. There are also links to relevant websites, a bibliography and other recommended source material and a profile or external link for each of the people involved in the project.
Added: 2009-07-03More details
Books on architecture and garden design - digitized
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digilit/archi
This is the English introduction page to an online library of around 100 rare books from the late 15th through the early 19th century. These books have been scanned from the Special Subject Collection in Art History the University Library of Heidelberg in Germany, and from selected other libraries, and are all about either architecture or garden design. It is not immediately clear how to access the complete titles list from the page - a visitor must click on the link "From our own collection", and the list is then rather unhelpfully given A-Z by author only (and usually with no dates indicated). The books to be found in this manner are either French or German, and many can also be downloaded as a PDF file. There are also search functions built into the Web page for each book. For those who can only read English, there are also English books to be found via the alternative 'Other libraries offers' link - here users will find a small number of digital version of rare books from London publishers including: William Halfpenny's 'Useful Architecture' (1760); William Pain's 'Pain's British Palladio' (1788); John Plaw's 'Sketches for country houses, villas, and rural dwellings' (1800); Humprey Repton's 'Sketches and hints on landscape gardening' (1794); and Robert Adams' 'Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia' (1764). Books accessed from 'Other libraries' seem to be provided as image scans only - text cannot be copied and the books cannot be downloaded as a PDF.
Added: 2009-07-02More details
IPPAR - Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico
http://www.ippar.pt/pls/dippar/ippar_home/
The website of IPPAR offers introduction to the work of the organisation, supported by the Ministry of Culture of Portugal. Its two main areas of work are: heritage recovery and improvement; and the protection of built heritage. Its area extends to the whole of mainland Portugal, but makes no reference to architectural heritage on other locations. The site's search functions allow searches for these buidings according to classification; the nature of the monument; category; and location. Its separate section lists monuments and areas of Portugal included in World Heritage, including areas in Madeira and the Azores as well. The site also introduces printed publications that describe and show the built cultural heritage of the country. This site is particularly useful for students of Portuguese and European cultural history, architectural history and art history, as well as students of museum and tourism studies.
Added: 2009-07-02More details
Jardins et sites historiques
http://www.international.icomos.org/publications/jscientifique1.htm
'Jardins et Sites Historiques' (Gardens at Historic Sites) is a full-text ebook edited by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), selecting from papers presented at their conferences from 1971 to 1989. The 370-page illustrated volume is freely available online as a 25Mb PDF file. Not all papers in the book are in English, but many are. Among the English articles are: 'Special problems connected with the conservation of gardens of historical interest in Japan'; 'Ornamental plants in 16th and 17th century gardens'; 'The Aleksandrovsky garden in Moscow, a masterpiece of the 19th century'; 'Eclecticism in American gardens, 1870-1930'; 'Economics of the eighteenth-century landscape park'; and 'The influence of freemasonry on the layout and design of gardens in the eighteenth century', among others. The PDF is a "hard scan" of a printed book and contains no OCR text to copy and paste. This will be a worthwhile ebook for those interested in garden history.
Added: 2009-07-01More details
Place and location
http://www.eki.ee/km/place/
'Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics' is a full-text ejournal and associated conference, published annually from Estonia. The journal is published in English, jointly by the The Research Group of Cultural and Literary Theory, Estonian Literary Museum Institute of Art History, and the Estonian Semiotics Association (Estonian Academy of Arts). At June 2009 there are nine issues online, with eight of these freely offering full-text articles as PDF files. Among the articles are: 'Cultural Natural Signs: Conviviality, Conquest or Conception?'; 'Real Places and Countries in the Fairy Tale World'; 'Visual Post-Folklore in Post-Soviet Space-Time'; 'How Spatial is a Whale? Places and Processes in Zoomusicology', and 'Accidental Tours and Illegal Tour Guides: Taking the Textbook out of the Tour', among many others. Those interested in space/place - and its representations in literature, film and music - will find much of interest in this journal.
Added: 2009-06-29More details
Arcade : architecture and design in the northwest
http://www.arcadejournal.com/
Arcade: Architecture and Design in the Northwest is a full-text online version of a print journal, published independently from Seattle in the U.S.A. At June 2009 there are 32 issues online, with articles in HTML format The journal critically covers a variety of issues in design and the built environment, and issues are themed. Example issue themes have included: 'Now and Next: Furniture and Product Horizons'; 'Drawing Imaginary Worlds'; 'Designing Cinema'; 'Flaneur: City Wanderer'; 'Seattle, Boomtown Politics and New Public Architecture'; and 'The Idea of Regionalism', among others. Articles are usually illustrated. The font size used is fashionably tiny, and some visitors may need to copy and paste articles into a Word document to enlarge the font for reading. This will be an interesting and stimulating magazine for those interested in seeing built design in a set of wider contexts.
Added: 2009-06-29More details
Narodnyi katalog pravoslavnoi arkhitektury
http://sobory.ru/
Narodnyi katalog pravoslavnoi arkhitektury is a user-generated content project aiming to collate and catalogue photographs of all the Orthodox churches, monasteries, chapels, belltowers and cathedrals in Russia. The site holds over 60,000 images, searchable by: keyword; geographical location (including Belarus); building type; construction date; architect; or a combination thereof. The catalogue can be browsed by: geographical location (oblast; region; town); diocese; participant (contributing photographers). There is also a links page and a forum. Many photos are accompanied by entries about the history of the building with citation references; others simply have an address, and sometimes details of how to get there or a link to the parish website. This site will be of most use to researchers and teachers of Russian religious architecture, culture and history.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Bird to the north : mostly sensible thoughts on public space
http://northbird.blogspot.com/
The Bird to the North website is a blog about current public space projects, events and competitions in New York City. The site is regularly updated, and archives of all posts since October 2004 can be accessed from the menu at the right hand side of the page. There is also an extensive list of links to other architectural websites. There are plenty of images which are of a high quality and resolution.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Architecture.mnp
http://architecture.myninjaplease.com/
The Architecture: myninjaplease website is one of a group of websites by the Myninjaplease network, and is a blog about contemporary architectural projects written in a style that aims to be more accessible to people than the arguably contrived narrative style used by many architectural reporters. Archives of blog posts and a list of links to other architectural websites can be accessed from the menu at the right hand side of the page. At the immediate right of the scroll down blog are posts about current architectural news, and recent discoveries from the MNP team such as free software downloads or upcoming events. Blog posts are thorough with links to relevent companies and resources.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Life without buildings
http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/
The Life Without Buildings website is a blog by American designer and writer Jimmy Stamp, providing information about "the built environment, with a penchant towards pop culture". The blog is regularly updated with a broad range of articles, current projects and news. The site takes the typical blog format of a scroll down column of articles, or the user can click on the headings of recent articles at the right hand side of the page, as well as being able to subscribe to email updates as the blog changes.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Famous architects : architect.architecture.sk
http://architect.architecture.sk/
The Famous Architects website, part of the Modern Architecture and Design News website, is a large collection of biographies of famous architects. Arranged by name alphabetically, the site is very easy to navigate and browse through. Each architect can be clicked on for a more detailed biographical article. Each one of these articles contains a list of books about the architect for further reading, and a list of their major works, as well as their photograph. There are no links to other websites about the architects, there are no photographs of their buildings, and it is not made very clear who wrote the articles, so the facts should always be checked against another source. However, bibliographies are provided, and because of the simple nature of the searchable list of names, this is a useful resource to get overviews of the careers of a large number of well known architects.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Emergent Design Group
http://web.mit.edu/arch/edg/
This is the website of the Emergent Design Group, part of the Department of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. EDG comprises of researchers from a number of fields including architecture, media arts and sciences, artificial intelligence, computer science and engineering. Their design research focuses on advanced materials and fabrication technology. By clicking on "studio" at the top of the main page, and then selecting different units from the scroll down menu at the bottom of the screen, images of student projects can be viewed with explanatory descriptions. In the same way, research projects can be accessed by clicking "research". Several windows pop up whilst navigating through the site: there are separate windows for the project images and the text describing them, which is something to be aware of. However, the presentation of the site is of a high standard.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Tomorrows thoughts today : exploring the consequences of fantastic, perverse and underrated urbanisms
http://www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com/
The Tomorrow's Thoughts Today website is a growing collection of research into urban themes and projects that have an unconventional or fantastical element to them. This research is carried out by Darryl Chen and Liam Young, architects who work as independent designers, critics and tutors. The homepage is divided into three categories: fast thoughts; medium thoughts and slow thoughts. The fast thoughts column contains information about events, past and upcoming, while the slow thoughts column talks about ongoing design projects, amongst other things. These three columns can be instantly searched and narrowed down to a chosen topic by clicking on the categories highlighted yellow at the top of the page, which include "cities", "tourism" and "sustainability". This is one of the more unusual architecture blogs available on the web, and the articles are full of references to a broad range of interesting architectural projects and themes, current and historical, which makes the site highly informative.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
LaN : live architecture network
http://www.livearchitecture.net/
The Live Architecture Network website provides information about this organisation, which sets up interdisciplinary collaborations enabled by digital design and fabrication, in order to explore architectural development. From the homepage, a visitor to the site can look at LAN's projects, workshops, teaching and research, which is largely concerned with parametric design. The projects page contains a mixture of collaborative projects that LAN have been involved in with professional or academic partners, and a site visitor can click on these to go to a page explaining each one in more detail. The workshops page contains upcoming and past events arranged by the LAN team, and these take place all over the world. Student projects from the LAN parametric design studios at various architecture schools can be found on the "teaching" page. At the bottom of the homepage is a link to "LaN Connections / Links", which students might find particularly useful, with a large range of external links to architecture and parametric design resources.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
Designalyze: the analysis of design
http://www.designalyze.com/
The Designalyze website is a blog by Zach and Jennifer Downey, a digital design specialist, and an architectural designer respectively, focusing particularly on digital design methods and programmes. At the right hand of the scroll down blog is a list of categories, including 3d modelling, tutorials and various design software programmes. There is also a forum for users to discuss various design software packages. The site is regularly updated and easy to use.
Added: 2009-06-28More details
LEAF review
http://www.designbuild-network.com/publication18/issue-archive/
LEAF Review is a full-text online magazine of building design and designers, published by the Design Build Network. At June 2009 there are five issues freely available online. The articles and illustrations are of a high quality, and are oriented to those in the profession. The magazine will be useful for academics in architecture departments, and will also appeal to students. Articles can be re-formatted for print or for sending by email. Example features from recent issues include: 'The Great British Architecture Debate'; 'Talking Shop' (design of retail spaces); 'Jurgen Bey - The Doctor Moreau of Design'; and 'Ron Arad - In His Own Words', among many others. Although emulating print and thus not taking full advantage of the web format, this is a stylish and engaging online magazine.
Added: 2009-06-19More details
Architect and builder‘s miscellany or pocket library
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=46360
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery website has provided this online copy of ‘The architect and builder‘s miscellany or pocket book’ by Charles Middleton (1756-c.1818). The 60 coloured plates feature designs and ground plans for various buildings ranging from primitive huts to fine houses with billiard halls. The ground plans identify the location of the individual rooms. Also featured are designs for halls, a Gothic chapel, a Chinese temple and a Turkish Temple, as well as a mausoleum. A hyperlink is provided to other resources in the collection guide for ‘Empire and Regency: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon’.
Added: 2009-06-15More details
Thomas Ustick Walter : historic architecture for a modern world
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/tuw/
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia has provided this online version of their exhibition on ‘Thomas Ustick Walter: Historic Architecture for a Modern World’, which was originally held from 3 April to 30 September 2004. Walker was the fourth architect of the Capitol, responsible for adding the Senate and House wings and the central dome to the U.S. Capital building. Examples from 500 of Walter's drawings are arranged to illustrate the influences of different periods of architectural history, from ancient, Roman, Greek, Gothic, domestic and modern times, as well as aspects of his design for Philadelphia City Hall. A number of portraits relating to Walter and his family also illustrate this exhibition.
Added: 2009-06-15More details
Modelling, interpretation and alternate representations : visualization technology, heritage buildings & coastal threats
http://heritage.cs.bangor.ac.uk/
This is the website for an AHRC-funded research cluster aiming to apply visualization techniques to heritage sites under threat from coastal erosion and buildings in Wales and Ireland. It brings together computer scientists, archaeologists and heritage managers and organisations including the National Museums of Wales and Ireland, the National Trust and English Heritage. In doing so, through as series of workshops (details available), it will allow the application of computer modelling technologies and allow custodians of these sites to model the “different stages of their site's past and present different versions of that past”. The workshops, which include a strong practical element, will be followed by an “agenda setting” report.
Added: 2009-06-12More details
Castles
http://www.castles.me.uk/
This website provides a wealth of information on British (that is, English, Scottish and Welsh) castles from the very earliest ages to modern conceptions and uses of the fortifications. There are vast amounts of information on famous castles (such as the Tower of London), on the development of the castle (from Anglo-Saxon 'burhs' through to medieval fortresses), and on the significance of castles in history. There is, moreover, information on medieval warfare (including medieval weaponry and armour, knights, and castle defence systems), Arthurian legend, and the make-up and architecture of castles in general. Although the webpage is a little difficult to navigate - there are a lot of 'clicks' necessary in order to travel about the site and find the relevant information - the breadth of the materials covered makes this a valuable introductory source.
Added: 2009-06-02More details
Fleischmann and Strauss
http://fleischmann-strauss.de/
This is the website of artists and architects Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss.
The work of Fleischmann and Strauss has been internationally exhibited and received a number of awards including the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for interactive art (1992, for their work 'Home of the Brain'); and the 2005 IF Communication Design Award for 'Energie-Passagen'. Their work creates links between art, science, technology and what they decribe as "an emerging media-culture". They are active also as educators and researchers and have initiated several research projects that have won substantial third party funding. The website has documentation of the the artists' work. There are sections devoted to publications, teaching, and exhibitions. There is also a section with links to video works.
Added: 2009-05-26More details
Jugend magazine
http://www.jugendmagazine.net/
This is a website devoted to the notable late 19th century German print magazine 'Jugend'. The magazine is mentioned in most standard art and design histories, and is commonly said to have given its name to the "Jugendstil" art and design movement. The website appears to have been created by a collector. This is a useful and concise source for learning about the magazine and its influences, with illustrated sections on the situation before Jugendstil, on founder Georg Hirth, the Jugend artists, and the legacy. There are also five themed galleries, a glossary, and an invitation to sell or swop issues of the magazine. The website is also available in German.
Added: 2009-05-20More details
Irish Georgian Society
http://www.igs.ie/
The website for the Irish Georgian Society provides information on this organisation founded in 1958 to encourage an interest in, and promotion of, conservation of distinguished examples of architecture in Ireland. Resources offered on this website include a searchable catalogue of Irish theses and dissertations relating to architecture and the allied arts and a register of practitioners of traditional building and conservation skills. Advice is provided on researching, restoring and sources of funding for period buildings, as well as a membership and event information.
Added: 2009-05-20More details
Culturepoles : city spaces, urban politics & metropolitan theory
http://www.culturalstudies.ca/proceedings04/proceedings.html
'Culturepoles: City Spaces, Urban Politics & Metropolitan Theory' contains the full-text conference proceedings of the Canadian Association of Culture Studies Second Annual Conference (2004). Around 33 full papers are freely available online, in PDF form, almost all relevant to the conference topic. Example titles include: 'Urban Space and the Spectacle of Progress: Kracauer, Benjamin and marginality in Weimar visual culture'; 'Queer Eye for the Urban Guy: Dominant Cinematic and Televisual Representations of Homosexuality'; 'Metropolitan Theory, City as Concept, and Issues in Latin American Cultural Studies'; and 'City Still Dreaming: Cultural Gridlock in the Post-Urban Age', among others. This will be a useful resource for those seeking to understand cities and/or urban spaces from a Cultural Studies perspective.
Added: 2009-05-16More details
Multi : journal of plurality and diversity in design
http://library.rit.edu/oajournals/index.php/multi/index
Multi: Journal of Plurality and Diversity in Design is a multidisciplinary full-text ejournal. Multi is published from the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Design, in the USA. The journal aims to publish on... "forward-looking, practical matters pertinent to design". At May 2009 there are three issues online, with articles freely available in PDF format. Example articles include: 'Yellowtown: the aesthetics of poverty, the graphic design of urgency'; 'The Architectural Public Sphere'; and 'The West-German modernist bungalow of the 1960s as a psycho-political re-creation of home', among others. The website has full details of the Editorial Team, and the submissions process.
Added: 2009-05-15More details
Elsewhere journal : a journal for the literature of place
http://elsewherejournal.org/issues.html
'Elsewhere Journal: a journal for the literature of place' is a full-text ejournal. At May 2009 there are three issues online, freely offered in PDF format. The journal publishes... "a broad range of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction". The first two issues contain mostly poetry and fiction, with two or three non-fiction articles per issue. The third and most recent issue was themed as "Teaching Place", and contains a substantial range of essays, such as: 'Pastoral Science Fiction: The Landscape of Ray Bradbury’s Midwestern Stories'; 'The Rhetorics of Place / Teaching Place as Text'; 'Creation by Disruption: Regionalist Approaches to Contemporary Canadian and American Literature'; 'Academic Treatise or Personal Essay? : Reflecting on Rival (?) Discursive Modes for Place and Nature', among others. This journal with be of interest to those considering how texts can interact with place.
Added: 2009-05-02More details
South Coast Design Forum
http://www.scdf.org.uk/
This is the website of South Coast Design Forum (SCDF), a non-profit organisation run for and by designers and creatives from all disciplines. It aims to be a networking and awareness space for designers, architects and creatives who live near the South Coast of England. There is a members login and a membership directory, with members categorised as follows: 3D Design, Architects, Artists, Built Environment, Design Education, Designers, Fashion, Film & Video, Identity Design, Illustrators, Interior Design, Landsacpe & Garden Design, Marketing, Photographic, and Web Design. Patrons are Robin and Lucienne Day. There is a news and events section, a blog, and a discussion forum. The monthly newsletter is available on the site in html format and there are links to related websites.
Added: 2009-05-01More details
Street life and street culture : between early modern Europe and the present
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/streetlifeandstreetculture/index.php?i=17&p=%20
This website briefly outlines AHRC-funded work to create an international community of scholars considering “how streets shaped and informed the daily lives of urban communities in the past” and the contemporary resonance of this. The network will bring together researchers from many disciplines, including “art historians, architectural historians and theoreticians, planners, artists and critics, film-makers and an actor” to explore urban experience at the beginning of the modern era through the consideration of such things as gossip, street sounds, processions and protest.
Added: 2009-05-01More details
Viewing texts : word as image and ornament in medieval inscriptions
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/wordasimage/
This website outlines a series of three AHRC-funded research workshops which will bring together medieval studies scholars from a wide range of perspectives to discuss the inscriptions painted on Islamic and Christian medieval monuments in the Mediterranean world. Although the texts are, on occasion, well known and studied, this has been as reading matter, not as art - whereas the location, size and scripts use point to a variety of other non-literary uses. The first workshop ‘The Limits of Text - Ornament, Aesthetics, Legibility’ will approach texts as a decorative ornaments; the second ‘Memory and Performativity’ will consider their impact on the space and uses of the buildings; the third workshop will deal with multi-lingual and informal inscriptions.
Added: 2009-04-30More details
Baroque 1620-1800 : style in the age of magnificance
http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/baroque/
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 4 April to 19 July 2009, the 'Baroque 1620-1800 : Style in the Age of Magnificance' website provides information and images from the exhibition. The Baroque style, which started in Rome, Italy in the 17th century, and spread throughout Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, was illustrated by elaborate detail and a sense of grandeur in the arts, typically architecture, sculpture, painting, dance and music. The exhibition explored these areas, and, after an introduction, the website covers them under the headings of 'Sacred spaces' ('The Church, Ritual and Rome', and 'Public and Private Worship') and 'Secular spaces' ('Theatre and Square', 'Palace and Garden', and 'Inside the Palace'). Illustrated by Flash images of some of the exhibits, it is possible to view sculptures by Gianlorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Algardi; tableware; tapestries; cabinets; and chairs. The music that could be heard in the exhibition was "sourced or newly recorded by professors and students at the Royal College of Music, as part of a Knowledge Transfer Grant from the AHRC"; some of the tracks can be downloaded from the website. There are also a number of short videos from the Victoria and Albert Museum, which can be viewed on Vimeo.
Added: 2009-04-22More details
RIBA constructive changes : a strategic industry study into the future of the architects' profession
http://www.architecture.com/Files/RIBAProfessionalServices/Practice/Construction
The Royal Institute for British Architects has made available online a PDF copy of their full report ‘RIBA Constructive Change: a strategic industry study into the future of the Architects‘ Profession ’ which was published in 2005. This report was commissioned by the RIBA Practice Committee to consider the opportunities and challenges the future presents for the architectural profession as the industry changes, taking into account sustainability, and the need to create social and economic value for the built environment. Based on current views of the profession, this 49-page report lays out a number of recommendations for future architectural opportunities, following a survey of nearly 50 industry experts. A bibliography and a list of participants taking part in workshops are provided in the appendix.
Added: 2009-04-22More details
