DIRECTORIES - A Representative Listing with Periodic Corrections and Additions.
Updated for March 2008 - In process of review for September 2008
NOTE: ** Indicates a year 2008 addition to the list
Selections will be featured for brief periods.
"The wind, the color of the sky, the trees around --the building is not done only to be the most beautiful," he said. "It's done to give advantage to the surroundings. It's a dialogue." (Jean Nouvel - "French Architect Wins Pritzker Prize" - NYTimes 3/31/08)
Worldview . . . . . . .
Álvaro Siza . . . . . . .
Sustainable Design - "(also referred to as "green design", "eco-design", or "design for environment") is the art of designing physical objects to comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability. It ranges from the microcosm of designing small objects for everyday use, through to the macrocosm of designing buildings, cities, and the earth's physical surface. It is a growing trend within the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, graphic design, industrial design, interior design and fashion design" . . . . . . .
International Garden Festival . . . . . . .
ArchitectureRadio . . . . . . .
Prairie Avenue Bookshop . . . . . . .
The Lighthouse . . . . . . .
SmartWrap . . . . . . .
A Weekly Dose of Architecture . . . . . . .
The Danville Project . . . . . . .
Houses of the Future . . . . . . .
GSAPP - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation - Columbia University . . . . . . .
archiseek - (Directory) . . . . . . .
Smart Growth Online - Projects around the US . . . . . . .
Fusion of Form and Function . . . . . . .
architectureAsia.com . . . . . . .
FlatPak House . . . . . . .
Office of Mobile Design . . . . . . .
Architects Newspaper . . . . . . .
architecture.com . . . . . . .
National Trust for Historic Preservation . . . . . . .
The Un-Private House . . . . . . .
fabprefab . . . . . . .
Historic Places in America [National Park Service] . . . .
Architecture - Information from Architectural Record . . . . . . .
Pritzker Architecture Prize . . . . . . .
Open Architecture Network"How do you improve the living standards of five billion people? With 100 million solutions.
Your solutions." . . . . . . .
Architecture Museums Worldwide
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Interior Design Society - Specialists in Residential Interiors . . . . . . .
Events Calendar [ Interior Design Collective - (Dezignaré) - . . . . . . .
Multiple Choice Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. (Washington. DC) . . . . . . .
Limited Edition Landscape Wallpaper . . . . . . .
Interior Design Centers - (State Listings, USA). . . . . . .
ASID Referral Service . . . . . . .
Period Interiors - "An itinerant mural painter, traveling from home to home in the same manner as such early nineteenth-century artists as Rufus Porter, Moses Eaton, and John Avery" . . . . . . .
Plasma Screens - Plasma tv, DLP TV, LCD Tv screens and Video Projectors . . . . . . .
Primer to Home Entertainment Systems . . . . . . .
Interior Design - New Products, Library, Newswire, JobZone, Events Calendar . . . . . . .
apartment therapy - Daily Blog . . . . . . .
The Lost Art of Frescoes . . . . . . .
Glossary of Faux Technique & Terms . . . . . . .
Interior Internet - The largest one stop source for Interiors and Architecture on the Internet with over 30,000 products and services to browse - Architects, Decorative Antiques, Fabrics & Textiles, Decorative Lighting, Outdoor Living, Rugs, Tiles, Furniture, etc. . . . . . . .
Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior - (Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK). . . . . . .
Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg . . . . . . .
DESIGN NEWS - In English, too
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Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance - (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - The Smithsonian) . . . . . . .
MocoLoco - Modern Contemporary Design Blog . . . . . . .
Ethnic and International Crafts (NYC) . . . . . . .
land+living - Modern lifestyle and design. . . . . . .
Inhabitat - Blog. . . . . . .
Textile Dictionary . . . . . . .
Design*Sponge - Design Blog . . . .
Staffordshire Porcelain - (Auctions at Ebay) . . . . . . .
. . . . a canal flanked by a string of 19 pavilions that could be used to present art and architecture biennials . . . . the development authority began a series of conversations with Yale University about creating an arts institute - encompassing art, architecture, music and drama - directly across the performing arts center. Next on the agenda is a competition to design a national museum.
Mr. Nouvel conceived of his classical museum as a watery warren of buildings, plazas, alleyways and canals evoking a small city floating on the sea. A shallow lacelike steel dome nearly 600 feet in diameter hovers over the complex, shielding it from the heat and allowing a delicate pattern of light to filter down to the open-air courts. The dome recalls traditional mosques and perhaps the enormous geodesic dome that Buckminster Fuller once proposed erecting over Lower Manhattan, a delicate container meant for the rich cultural mix throbbing underneath. It's as if Mr. Nouvel has fashioned a contemporary Venice, a remarkable expression of the creative magic that can arise when East and West collide. - (View 'News' and more at
Atelier Jean Nouvel)Mr. Nouvel and Mr. Gehry have ingeniously harnessed local architectural traditions without stooping to superficial interpretations of historical styles. Intrinsically their designs acknowledge that the flow of culture between East and West has not always been one-sided. If they convey nostalgia, it is for a belief in the future.
It is heartening to see Western architects engaged in seeking a balance between the brute force of global culture --its ruthless effacement of differences, its Darwinian indifference to the have-nots --and the fragility of local traditions . . . . Today most serious practitioners are willing to acknowledge that cultures are forever evolving, and subject to new interpretation . . . . the ultimate challenge lies in taking a hard look at the global role of the arts." - ('A Vision in the Desert' by Nicolai Ouroussoff - NYTimes 2/1/2007)
New Urbanism - "After studying architecture at Yale in the 1970's, (Andrés Duany) and his wife (Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk) helped to found Arquitectonica, a Miami firm that became known for its modern and hip sensibility . . . . they had decided that the best way to affect a landscape was not through designing discrete buildings, he said, but by writing new building codes governing zoning, parking, retailing, transportation and urban design . . . . Groups began gathering to learn from one another, and "then, it grew," (Andrés Duany) said. . . . New Urbanism has come to monopolize urban planning. The congress, he said, is "the only truly organized voice in planning in the United States and has become the most important force in architecture, with the exception of Frank Gehry, in the last 30 years. . . . Clearly, New Urbanism is out of sync with the phenomenon of the star architect, Mr. Duany added pointedly. "We're a group," he said, "and these days, anybody who's an architect who isn't an 'individual' is very suspicious: 'What do you mean, you all have a system of beliefs? You believe in something other than artistic expression?'" - ('An Architect With Plans for a New Gulf Coast' By Robin Pogrebin. Published: May 24, 2006 - NYTimes)
Antenna - Technological CARE package for the 21st century . . . . Self-Service Check-in Kiosk . . . . . Power Flower . . . . Web Portal in the form of a Self-Standing Revolving Door . . . ."Antenna's mission is to make the experience of technologically enhanced objects and environments more meaningful and exciting. The projects Antenna engages in range from public to commercial, from realized to explorational. Antenna's user-centered design approach, incorporating rapid prototyping and use involvement, helps understand human behavior, which is particularly important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology."
Comedia - "Original thinking - transforming Cities . . . . The overall ideas seek to answer: How we create the pre-conditions for decision makers at all levels to think, plan and act with imagination and in an integrated way; How we develop a common language across professional disciplines concerned with city making; How we combine an understanding of hard - physical - as well as soft - cultural, social and economic infrastructure; How we encourage people to think differently, so they do things differently and do different things; How do we identify, harness, promote and sustain the creative, cultural resources that are present in every human settlement if we look deeply enough."
Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, UK - including - 2006 Art Show - Rotating Fish Bowl, Wearable Canoe, Vegetable Tableware . . . .
Herzog & de Meuron: In Process - "To Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, architecture is an opportunity to illuminate the fullness of the spaces in which we live and work, to create an experience� that appeals to all the senses."
Berbard Khoury Beirut's Rebel Architect - "I'm not moralistic," Khoury said to me. "My designs are about joy. I'm very touched when I leave at 7 in the morning and see life coming out of that hole. My problem is that no one is building anything that relates to us today. Instead, we live under tile roofs, the way we represent ourselves in postcards. I think if you define the issues clearly --what is really going on --you have already done a lot." - (Nicolai Ouroussoff, chief architecture critic for The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2006 NYTimes)
Grazing in Brooklyn - "New York-based landscape designer Julie Farris has transformed the Art Lot, a typical chain-link fenced vacant lot on the corner of Columbia and Sackett in the heart of Brooklyn's Columbia waterfront district, into a three-dimensional pastoral landscape. "Temporary Landscape: a Pasture for an Urban Space" evokes a 19th-century agrarian Brooklyn with sculpted rolling hills and grassy planes. At sunset (approx. 8:45pm) on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays now through Labor Day weekend, the lot's adjacent back wall serves as the backdrop for a film montage, by cinematographer Shane Sigler, of pastoral scenes with grazing cows, trees, and open sky - a Brooklyn of long-ago. "Temporary Landscape" marks the launch of Farris' design studio, XS space, and she is currently in discussions with the NYC Parks Department to create temporary "landscapes" throughout the city." (eOcculus)
Architecture Through The Ages
Union Internationale des Architectes
The Great Buildings Collection - "This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the leading architecture magazine online."
Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home - "Home to the Huang family for eight generations . . . . Originally located in the small village of Huang Cun near the mountain of Huangshan . . . . . The 16 bedrooms of this elegant home were occupied by direct male descendents, their wives who came from other villages, their children, and at times, non-family members. . . . While many cultures use genealogies for tracing family history or connecting living family members to their ancestors, the link to one's ancestors in Huizhou, as in the rest of China, is part of a vital life cycle of the family. Presenting offerings and gratitude to the ancestors can result in wealth and fertility for the living and guarantee that their own spirits will eventually be cared for by their descendants . . . . The Hunag Family genealogy extends back 35 generations . . . . "
Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses (December 8-March 26, 2006) - "Employing a wide range of materials, processes, and scales, these dwellings run the gamut from a glimmering sculptural metallic guesthouse by Steven Holl located on the windswept mesas of New Mexico (and thus aptly named Turbulence House) (2005) to Black Barn (2005), a pitched-roof, modern adaptation of a Viking longhouse designed and produced by Pinc House of Sweden to one-room cabins such as the diminutive weeHouse (2003) by St. Paul-based Alchemy Architects to expansive modular configurations such as the custom homes of Resolution: 4 Architecture of New York. Adapting to a variety of lifestyles and contexts, these works challenge our preconceptions of prefab. Breezehouse (2005) by Michelle Kaufmann of San Francisco takes a particularly ecological orientation with its extensive use of small gardens, cross-ventilation, energy-efficient appliances and mechanical systems, and renewable and nontoxic materials. Projects such as FlatPak House (2004) by Lazor Office of Minneapolis eschew the homogeneity associated with older prefab structures by offering owners a wide range of material choices and a hand in the layout of their spaces, while Rocio Romero's LV and LVL Houses (2003/2004) exist as kit homes and have been used for a number of purposes, from affordable primary residences to a remotely sited bed and breakfast. . . . " (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Groundswell - Constructing the Contemporary Landscape - [Macromedia Flash Player] - "Navigate from a map at this MoMA Web site to explore 23 urban landscape projects located all around the world. There are gardens, parks, and museum campuses, intended for public use, often reclaiming abandoned or degraded industrial land. Basic information is provided for all 23 sites. For example, the entries for the Shanghai Carpet, a plaza above underground parking, with stone, brick, and timber construction, or Lurie Garden in Millennium Park in Chicago, Ill., consist of a drawing or model, the project description and credits, and photographs. Six of the entries give additional information: a lengthier project section, with descriptions and credits; a site section with schematic plans; and an animated experience section, allowing visitors to see the site from different angles and in different conditions. For example, see the Schouwburgplein, (Theater Square) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from an aerial view, night view in the rain, or as if seated on a bench outside. [DS] " (Scout Report)
American Institute of Architects & American Architectural Foundation
The Association of Siamese Architects (ASA) in Bangkok, Thailand
The Indian Institute of Architects
Architectural Institute of Japan
Òrgans Centrals in Barcelona
Centre for Architecture in Milan
Architecture - Magazine. Buzz, Design & Trends, Product Gallery, Poll, etc.
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
American Landscape and Architectural Design [American Memory, Library of Congress]
Architecture Internet Resources
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Architecture / Expo - (Click on the featured images) - "The MIT Department of Architecture is a rich and varied educational environment for the study and practice of architecture and art. It has strong traditions of concern for human values, and for finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. . . . The Department's range of activity extends from addressing significant social, ecological, and environmental issues to building in today's market economy; from recent and future technological advances, especially in the areas of computation and energy, to advances in design practice and research. The Department seeks to relate these issues to architectural theory and practice in this and other countries, bringing them into relationship with the skills, thinking, and heritage of architecture."
Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Osaka, Japan -- Punta Nave (Genoa), Italy -- New Caledonia, Nouméa -- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris -- Work in progress updates -- "Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop jointly created in 2001 the 'Workshop Foundation', an educational initiative to create programs and activities advancing architectural practice, with a special emphasis on directly engaging students in the physical processes of designing, making and building that takes place within professional architectural firms."
ArchitectureRadio - Public Lectures, Professional Seminars. "Architecture Radio is a design education and learning technology leadership organization. We provide support to non-profit, educational, professional and grass-roots organizations through services that assist them in producing and delivering public and professional education programs via the Internet. Designers, students and laymen benefit by gaining direct access to a wide range of effective learning materials on subjects that are relevant to issues affecting the built environment today."
Herzog & de Meuron: In Process - "To Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, architecture is an opportunity to illuminate the fullness of the spaces in which we live and work, to create an 'experience' that appeals to all the senses. The exhibition 'Herzog & de Meuron: In Process' examines the Swiss architectural firm's creative process and sources of inspiration --everyday materials, popular culture, high fashion, natural landscapes, and contemporary art --and presents architecture as an encounter that actively engages its audience." (Walker Art Center)
Santiago Calatrav - "Santiago Calatrava is renowned for his elegant and audacious bridge design . . . . his passion for bridge building in general, and in grand alpine settings in particular. From his native Spain he was drawn to Switzerland to study structural engineering, developing a powerful synthesis of technical expertise and innovation, artistic imagination and sensitivity to natural forms.".
Charles Correa Associates - "The work of Charles Correa Associates seeks new and eloquent ways to express the cultures in which we live. . . . "
Office for Metropolitan Architecture - "A leading international partnership practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis. It is engaged in a large number of projects in Europe, Asia and North America. . . . . View Work, Visit Projects, Publications, Work (OMA is continuously in search for talented trainees and professionals) . . . . . . . "
2x4 - "With cutting-edge projects in virtually all graphic media-print, web, motion graphics, and environmental design, 2x4's trademark approach heavily emphasizes critical thinking and research. Known for intellectual content and explorations of rhetorical meaning, many of 2x4's projects question the nature of design and are as much about the thinking process behind each work as the finished product. This ideology, based on an almost algorithmic approach, is the foundation for 2x4's pioneering model for design, one that makes process the product." (source SFMoMA)
The Pompeii Forum Project - "A collaborative research venture that is archaeologicaly based, heavily dependent upon advanced technology, and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design. Evidence gathered to date challenges commonly held and widely published notions about the evolution of the forum, especially during the final years of the city's life. The goals are to provide the first systematic documentation of the architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence as it pertains to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the history of urbanism and contemporary problems of urban design." [The Pompeii Forum Project is an interdisciplinary collaborative research venture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, and private contributors.] [See Archival Photographs]
ArchitectureWeek - The New Magazine of Design and Building
SmartWrap - "The Building Envelope of the Future. A Mass Customizable Print Facade" . . . . "Furthermore, because of SmartWrap's chameleon-like appearance, structures built with it do not require conventional windows to let light in or allow views out. Instead, by altering the spacing of the patterns printed on SmartWrap's surface, one can not only create windows, remove them, and alter their locations, but also change which visuals and patterns one wishes to see . . . . Because the Wrap also incorporates a number of emerging heating, lighting, information display, and energy collection and storage technologies, it also removes the need to add these separate, bulky systems. All of these functions are computer-controlled and can be adjusted on- or off-site." (Metropolis Magazine)
Allied Works Architecture - "Building in the landscape is an exercise in capturing infinity. In a tenuous balance between the experience of protection and connection, the architecture aspires to manifest a moment of reflection. . . . The potential for evocative experience can be found in any situation . . . In making space for contemporary art, the architecture must first serve the artist. Not by attempting to render a "background" for the art, but by providing a specific spatial presence, an intentional vacancy that achieves meaning through the art itself."
Asian Historical Architecture: A Photographic Survey - Edited by a number of professors and graduate students from Columbia, Yale, and the University of Virginia, this site offers thousands of photographic images of Asia's diverse architectural heritage. In total, the site contains over 6450 photos of 457 sites across seventeen countries. The geographical parameters of the site are limited to areas heavily influenced by Buddhism, Confucianism, or Hinduism. From the site's homepage, visitors can click on any one of the seventeen countries covered here, and look for various items of interest. One rather novel feature is that there are numerous clickable maps of large urban areas, which visitors can use to locate specific landscapes or other aspects of the built environment. Several highlights of the site's photographic images include those locales in Afghanistan, such as the Citadel of Heart (built on the foundations of a fort built by Alexander the Great) and the Minaret of Jam, which stands in the remote Hari Rud river valley. [KMG] <#team> [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu]
Land Views - "A network for artists, architects, designers and ecologists working in and for the landscape . . . . Including 'Ecoartists: Engaging Communities in a New Metaphor' . . . . to envision a more sustainable world?"
National Institute of Standards and Technology - "The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration. Established in 1901,* NIST strengthens the U.S. economy and improves the quality of life by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards."
Digital Archive of American Architecture - [Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC]
archiseek - Architecture Directory
Virtual Architecture's Web Home - Network-Based Educational Activity Structures
fabprefab - Architecture Blog
arcspace.com - "An architecture and design magazine that features today's most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past. We work closely with major architects around the world and keep our readers informed with weekly updates."
The Lighthouse - "The Lighthouse provides an unrivalled opportunity to experience Architecture and Design through a changing programme of exhibitions, education and life long learning, networking, events and initiatives." - (Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City)
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
International Interior Design Association
Period Interiors - "An itinerant mural painter, traveling from home to home in the same manner as such early nineteenth-century artists as Rufus Porter, Moses Eaton, and John Avery . . . "
Decorative Arts & Antiques
American Decorative Arts
Feeding Desire - Design and the Tools of the Table 1500-2005 - "A journey through the evolution of Western dining from the Renaissance to the present, Feeding Desire features objects from Cooper-Hewitt's world-class collections. The exhibition will address the development of utensil forms, innovations in production and materials, etiquette, and flatware as social commentary." - (Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum)
American Society of Interior Designers - [ASID]
Interior Design Educators Council
CITIZEN:Citizen - ""CITIZEN:Citizen makes a connection between the concepts of art and the discipline of design. Our associations, as well as the work itself, are not just the structure but the foundation of our business. We are an agent, a distributor, a manufacturer, a showroom, a gallery, and a space. It is a collection with a clear intention and commitment to pursue honest and integral work."
Interior Design Research Guide to Publications - [New York City Public Library]
Zeroland - Architectural sites and listings by geographic location.
Prairie Avenue Bookshop - Books on Architecture [Chicago, IL] - "The best architectural bookshop in the world."
ACADIA [The Association for computer-aided design in Architecture] - "ACADIA was formed in the early 1980's for the purpose of facilitating communication and critical thinking regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. A particular focus is education and the software, hardware and pedagogy involved in education."
A Weekly dose of Architecture - "Looks at contemporary architectural works with architectural and / or cultural significance. The broad focus of the articles is the ideas embedded within these works."
pdf - Textile Terms -
(The Textile Museum - Washington, DC)
Houses of the Future - Mobile, affordable, self-cleaning --- View Clay Houses, Glass Houses ("With molecular control of matter we can make smart materials that change their properties in response to some stimulus from their surroundings - including instructions from people"), Timber houses ("Timber-framed structures can be easily insulated, and will have a fast response to heat or cooling because you don't need to heat or cool the entire material for it to perform thermally"), Cardboard Houses, Steel Houses ("Although steel uses considerable energy in its initial manufacture, it can be formed into precisely engineered sections to ensure that no material is wasted"), and Concrete Houses ("By using readily available and transportable components this house is affordable, quick to construct, and doesn't rely on highly specialised skilled labour. Concrete is a robust and durable material requiring very little maintenance") --- "The six houses form part of a new generation of prefabricated dwellings emerging around the globe. The houses are a response to growing consumer demand for homes that are modern, environmentally sensitive and of high quality. The objective of the exhibition is to promote new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable, prefabricated housing in Australia that are also futuristic and innovative in their design . . . . "
Suspended Abstract Space - "The spiraling, infinite, self-repeating imagery of fractal coastlines, islands, foliage, and branches locate the viewer in a suspended, abstract space. My work uses the visual language of drawing and painting to expand on the semiotic similarities between maps and fractals." (The work of Shona Macdonald)
Smart Growth Online - "There has been a good deal of talk about the notion of smart growth among those in the planning community, and recent works have suggested that mainstream America is becoming more intrigued by this form of managed growth and development. Some of the tenets of this movement include creating walkable neighborhoods, fostering distinctive communities, and creating a range of housing opportunities and choices. This well-developed site will allow even the casual visitor easy access to a host of materials about the smart growth movement and various projects being developed around the country that adhere to these various tenets and principles. Visitors can sign up to receive a free weekly e-newsletter, browse through full-length publications in their resources archive, and sign up to become a member of the smart growth network. Finally, there is also an online audio archive of talks and lectures sponsored by the smart growth network that dates back to 2000. Some of the speakers featured in the archive include the well-known author and social critic Joel Garreau and Robert Lang, director of urban and metropolitan research at the Fannie Mae Foundation." [KMG] <#team> Scout Report
Foundation for Interior Design Education Research (FIDER) with Links to Programs & Associations
National Council for Interior Design Qualification - "The National Council for Interior Design Qualification serves to identify to the public those interior designers who have met the minimum standards for professional practice by passing the NCIDQ examination."
The Apartment - "Founded in 1999 as an experimental retail venture, the apartment became internationally known and synonymous with modernity and fun, as much for its taste, design work and witty delivery as for its consistent support of forward-thinking designers and brands. the apartment continues to expand its reach through its conceptual events, editorial, online shop and branded entertainment efforts.
Dezignaré - Interior Design Collective
Martha Stewart, the Catalog for Living
Decorative Arts and Material Culture. [Univ. of Wisconsin / Madison - Documents, Images, Resources]
HomePortfolio - "HomePortfolio is the leading Internet destination for premium home design products. We present a rich, easy-to-navigate editorial selection of top-of-the-line and hard-to-find products and direct you to your nearest retailers. It's the fastest, easiest way to find the products you want for your home. HomePortfolio lets you choose your favorite products and organize them in your own Personal Portfolio."
Cyburbia - "Internet resources for the built environment . . . . Cyburbia is a non-commercial Web site containing a comprehensive directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism and other topics related to the built environment. "
Marimekko . . . . . . .
Interactive Collector [Includes Online Auctions, Catalogues, Dealer Directory, Associations, Publications,etc.]
The Directory of Design and Decoration - "View over 1, 000 images from the most prestigious antique dealers, interior designers, design and home furnishing resources, Hotels of Grand Design, art and auction Newsletters, fairs, show houses and associations. Clients display the most precious antiques, collectibles, custom-made home furnishings for collectors, as well as residential and commercial clients . . . . The DD&D is the only Internet site that displays the top designers, antique dealers, design and travel resources linking them together and to the general public. Featured among our subscribers are: Stark Carpet Corp, Fortunoff, Juan Montoya, Michael deSantis, The Carlyle, Ralph M. Chait, Kentshire Galleries, Edward Fields, Doris Leslie Blau, Nesle, The Chinese Porcelain Co., Old World Weavers, Naga Antiques, Ltd., Stark Fine Furniture, The National Antique & Art Dealers Association of America, Inc., The Art and Antique Dealers League of America, The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, The Kips Bay Show House and PBC International, Inc."
Way of Design - "Interior Design with an Oriental Perspective"
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible. The Museum celebrates the nature of design and explores its impact on the quality of our lives."
The Quilt Index - "An online research and reference tool designed to provide unprecedented access to contextual information and images of quilts held in private and public collections. This pilot Index presents quilts inventoried over the past 20 years by quilt documentation projects in Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan and Illinois. The Quilt Index was conceived and developed by The Alliance for American Quilts in partnership with Michigan State University's MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts and Letters Online and the Michigan State University Museum. The Index was supported in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities."
Textile Museum - "The Museum's collections represent the textiletraditions of non-Western cultures. Numbering over16,000 objects, the collections span 5,000 years, datingfrom 3,000 B.C.E. to the present." [Washington, DC]
Trompe L'Oeil Murals - [Ron Francis]
Art On Walls - Steve Bogdanoff's work is influenced by ancient Greek art; wall murals from the Greek Bronze Age and Greek pottery, c.3100-323 BC.
http://www.artonwalls.com
Interiors - American Society of Interior Designers . . . . . . .
Bricsnet - "The e-marketplace for the global building industry. Bricsnet.com is an integrated work-centric environment, where building professionals access industry information, buy and sell materials, obtain mission-critical software applications, and share project information. The software and Internet services at Bricsnet.com help users to achieve project cost savings, process efficiencies, and stronger relationships with customers, business partners, and suppliers. Bricsnet.com is used by architects, engineers, building developers and owners, contractors, and building product manufacturers."
Architecture for Humanity
American Society of Furniture Artists
Antique Networking [Database updated every 2 hours] " . . . . the world's foremost website for high-end antiques. Our mission is to unite buyers and sellers through an ever-expanding database that includes antique dealers, collectors, interior designers, architects, auctioneers, appraisers, repair and restoration shops, trade show organizers, matching services and much more."
Antiques & Collectibles
The Arts & Crafts Society
ArchNet - "An online community for architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world." [University of Connecticut]
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass
Beauport - "Some 40 rooms filled with collections of American and European objects, arranged by Sleeper into compositions ofcolor, light, and evocative meaning. "
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America - [Gottscho-Schleisner Collection of Photographs, Library of Congress]
Textile Society of America - "Founded in 1987, TSA serves the interests of textile specialists and has about 500 members worldwide." [Symposia, Workshops, Publications, Job Postings, Links]
Handweavers Guild of America - "The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., is dedicated to encouraging excellence, inspiring creativity, and preserving fiber traditions through education."
Bonham's
Christie's
ebay
Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg
Sotheby's
L'Institut Français Textile-Habillement - French Technical Center for the Clothing Industry
Fabric Stock Exchange [Textile Brokerage, numerous links to related sites]
First View [Fashion]
Fashiondex Online - "The Complete Source For Everything Textiles! Your One Stop Sourcing Site!"
Musée des Tissus [Lyon, France]
La Mode Francaise [Official Site of Clothing Industry, France ]
Mode á Paris - Couturiers and Fashion Designers
Textile Museum of Canada
Chinese Art and Antiquities [Some References]
Classical Architecture of Mediterranean Basin - searchable index
Dwell Magazine
Weaving Art Museum - "During the last two decades appreciation for all types of flat-woven textiles has grown immensely and no longer are these documents of warp and weft placed on the back shelf of art history. For the past decade this focus of energy has spotlighted the kelims of Anatolia (modern day Turkey). Along with this elevation of status has come increased interest to determine the historic and artistic roots of this weaving tradition."
Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance - "An ambitious exhibition that explores the extraordinary innovations occurring in technical textiles, showing how they are revolutionizing the fields of architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, and the environment. The exhibition focuses on fully realized products or projects, highlighting the successful collaboration between design, industry, and science." (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - The Smithsonian)
Designs in Tile - "Specialists in Custom Historic Tiles & Murals."
Design Issues [Journal / Massachusetts Institute of Technology] - "The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book reviews, illustrations, and a section for reader response. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as artificial intelligence, product seminars, design in Asia, and design education. Scholars, students, and professionals in all the design fields are readers of each issue.
Art Center College of Design
Arteriors - "Using artistic talent, dedication to excellence, and good old Yankee ingenuity, Arteriors has provided the best in mural painting and faux finishes for over 20 years. As you browse through our web site you'll see examples of traditional faux finishes, such as stone, marble and wood graining, as well as decorative paint finishes. Check out our "brocade" stenciled wall patterns and many other subtly applied, subtractive sponge, glazed and rag finishes. Our murals are masterfully rendered and range from vintage travel poster style depicting New York City, to panoramic landscape murals painted in the Hudson River School style. Our work is commissioned for both residential and commercial settings and is thoughtfully designed for each individual space."
Design Museum
Digital Murals, Wall Graphics, etc. - "Modern technologies are now allowing the creation of large scale computer generated murals like this one for the lobby of the United Airlines San Francisco maintenance facility . . . . Since 1975, ME PRODUCTIONS has been known as one of the leading innovators in the art of wall graphics and murals for commercial and corporate environments. ME PRODUCTIONS specializes in consultation, design and production of wall graphics and murals for virtually every aspect of the corporate environment. Problems common in many of todays modern offices such as endless hallways, partitioned office mazes, sterile environments and ever changing colors and styles can be inexpensively and dramatically solved with this unique art. We work closely with our clients to custom design their environments within the limits of their specific needs, budget, architectural, and image requirements. We have a professional design and production staff who are proficient in every aspect of painted wall art and are expert in the latest technologies of large scale digital art. We can create both abstract and fine art murals, corporate wall graphics, custom signage, and specialty faux finishes. Let your imagination be your guide." [ME Productions]
Faux like a Pro - "The Internet's Premiere Faux Finish Web Site . . . . faux finish and decorative painting for home improvement do-it-yourselfer, interior designer and painting contractor. Learn how to decorate your house and home with beautiful paint techniques . . . . "
GVU [Graphics, Visualization & Usability / Georgia Tech]
Index of Traditional arts and crafts by Country [Yahoo]
International Directory of Design - "Published by Penrose Press, he International Directory of Design is the only multidisciplinary, multinational, multilingual directory dedicated to the diversity of design: its educational programs, professional organizations, and periodical publications. The search engine has a multilingual index which is cross-referenced in six anguages on the web -- English, French, German, Italian, Potuguese, and Spanish, and is searchable by geographic location and design subject." Colleges & Universities, Journals, Events, etc.
Interior Internet - The largest one stop source for Interiors and Architecture on the Internet with over 30,000 products and services to browse - Architects, Decorative Antiques, Fabrics & Textiles, Decorative Lighting, Outdoor Living, Rugs, Tiles, Furniture, etc.
International Fabric Collection - "Offers 100% cotton fabrics from
many countries. Please select the country of origin to view currently
available swatches. Our minimum purchase is 1/4 yard. All fabrics are
subject to prior sale."
Metropolis Magazine - "Metropolis examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation. Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use. In looking for why design happens in a certain way, Metropolis explores the economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological context. With its innovative graphic presentation and its provocative voice, Metropolis shows how richly designed our world can be."
Made In Italy - "Italian Fashion and Design by an American journalist who has covered Italy for over 20 years"
The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center
Mural Routes, inc. - "Follow the Heritage Trail of murals, view our artists' database, view Mural News . . . . "Mural Routes was incorporated in 1994 in order to expand the public art mural project initiated by the Scarborough Arts Council in 1990. It's purpose is to promote and facilitate the creation of public art murals for the benefit of the communities in which they are located. Mural Routes offers communication, guidance and expertise to communities, municipalities and other groups who wish to locate murals in neighbourhoods. Mural Routes is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to the promotion of wall art as a public art form . . . . " [Mural Links]
Nat Park Serv Links with the Past - "The people and cultures, historic and prehistoric places, structures and objects that make up the vast American landscape. Historic Places, Structures, Landscapes, Collections." [Site Repairs underway]
19th and 20th Century Architecture and Design - The Aesthetic Movement
On-Line Arts & Crafts Movement Resource Directory of Products Specific to Turn of the Century
Restoration Hardware
The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd
Remodeling Online [How to, Find a Pro, Design, Products, Resouces, Talk]
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
SERRV - "A non-profit alternative trade organization that promotes the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by purchasing and marketing their crafts using fair trade practices."
S*P*I*R*O [Architecture Slide Library]
Scandinaviandesign - "Companies, News & Events, Product News, Personalities, The Shop, Books & Magazines, Museums & Schools, Information, Search"
Historic New England - "Oldest, largest, and most comprehensive regional preservation organization in the country" - Historic Properties, Collections, Archives and Publications, Education, and Preservation Services (Formerly: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities - SPENEA)
Society of Architectural Historians - "Founded in 1940, the Society encourages scholarly research in the field and promotes the preservation of significant architectural
monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage."
Turn-of-the-Century America / Architecture Exhibition - Library of Congress with Detroit Publishing Company Collection - Includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States.
Use-What-You-Have-Interiors
Limited Edition Landscape Wallpaper- "All our wallpapers are custom-printed in any size to fit your space floor to ceiling, left to right . . . . Mixing popular culture and commercial icons into their wild imaginary worlds, eBoy the "Godfathers of pixel" build three-dimensional illustrations . . . . Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, as well as a long list of commercial clients."
Historic New England Wallpaper Database
Wallpaper Guide
Worldview - "Worldview is a web-based project of the Architectural League of New York that invites architects from around the world to present reports on what is new and interesting in architecture and urbanism in their cities, with a particular focus on cities and regions that are not adequately reported on by the mainstream architectural press. The city reports, which are posted here at www.worldviewcities.org contain information on the architectural and urban historical context of each city, brief essays on contemporary issues of importance, and a look at current work and practitioners. Importantly, the reports reflect the architect-reporters' particular voices and perspectives on the issues they choose to raise. Through this project, the League hopes to increase knowledge of architectural developments and issues in cities around the world, and to provide a forum for discussion." (The Worldview project has been made possible by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts)
Winterthur Museum, Garden, Library
Gallery Guide - International listing of Museum and Gallery exhibitions.
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http://www.wallpaperguide.com
http://www.worldviewcities.org
http://www.winterthur.org
http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide
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