This has been a good month for architecture in our collections! First the Archivision material that is now in MDID, and now a payload from UC Berkeley. The Visual Resources Center at UCB’s College of Environmental Design has made an enormous contribution to our UC Shared Images collection available in ARTstor. More than 20,000 images…
We’re very happy to report that the 6,080 beautiful Archivision images (the VRA conference raffle grand prize, if you remember) are now available in the VRC image database (MDID). Select “Archivision Module 4” as the collection you want to search, or click on “Browse” on the menu and select the collection and browse criterion. You…
MAK Center (The Schindler House) has posted the itinerary (pdf) for its upcoming annual Architecture Tour. Set for October 4, the tour focuses on seven houses in the Los Feliz and Silver Lake areas. The highlight will be Schindler’s How House in Silver Lake, but other featured architects include Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Harris…
Check out this 4 1/2-minute YouTube video of Roman Signer’s 3-d projection that transforms a facade of O. M. Ungers’ Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, in Hamburg. The original projection is part of the exhibition “Roman Signer. Projektionen: Super-8-Filme und Videos 1975-2008“.
If you’re feeling a bit gothic, check out this website with images of gargoyles and other medieval-inspired architectural sculpture at the University of Chicago. [Note: Other great images found on Flickr]
Julius Shulman, whose images helped shape appreciation for and scholarship of mid-20th-century Modernist architects and their buildings, died at his Los Angeles home Wednesday night. He was 98. obituary via Los Angeles Times