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This History of Architecture
Web site is designed to support undergraduate education,
from introductory art and architectural history surveys
to advanced courses on specific art historical periods
and themes. The project has
been funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, Division of Education Programs, with additional
support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel
H. Kress Foundation and the Office of the Provost, Columbia
University.
The project began in 2000
at an inflection point in the transition from analog
to digital visual resources in the art history classroom. With guidance
from a distinguished Advisory Committee as well as a circle
of interested faculty and students at a variety of colleges
and universities, we learned through experience about
the pedagogical issues facing educators dealing with complex
built structures and environments in the classroom. Of
the technologies realistically within reach of academic
institutions, we focused on Quick Time Virtual Reality
interactive panoramas as a feasible method of expanding
the options for classroom presentations of architectural
subjects. By acquiring interactive panoramas, or
nodes, for important buildings ranging from the Parthenon
in Athens to Le Corbusier's Church of Notre-Dame du Haut
in Ronchamp, we have attempted to collect and organize
new media resources for the teaching of architectural
history as we understand it to be practiced in American
schools. We have been especially influenced by
the pedagogical principles of Masterpieces of Western
Art, the undergraduate core curriculum course at Columbia
that focuses in depth on a limited number of important
monuments to teach the fundamentals of visual literacy.
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We have been aware
of the impact of digital visual resources on faculty who
are faced with both practical and philosophical issues
raised by the transition to digital teaching. In response to this, we have designed a
site that operates on several levels, from basic points
of access for more than 500 panoramas to advanced programs
that assemble suites of nodes in programs designed to underscore
basic principles architectural history. In this way,
we hope to have fulfilled the most important goal of the
original proposal, to provide educators with a series of
models and ideas for future development within the growing
environment of freely accessible online teaching materials. 
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The National Endowment for the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The Office of the Provost,
Columbia University
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Barry Bergdoll, Professor, Columbia University
Caroline
Bruzelius, Professor, Duke University
Lynn Courtenay, Professor
Emeritus, The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Michael
Davis, Professor, Mount Holyoke College
Jerrilynn Dodds,
Professor, City College of the City University of New
York
Dale Kinney, Professor, Bryn Mawr College
Holger Klein,
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Stephen Murray,
Professor and Executive Director, Media Center for Art
History, Columbia University
Linda Neagley, Professor,
Rice University
Robert G. Ousterhout, Professor, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roger Stalley, Professor,
Trinity College
Joseph Connors, Director, Villa I Tatti,
Florence
Pamela Jerome, Associate Adjunct Professor, Historic
Preservation Program, Columbia University
Lynn Meskell,
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Clemente Marconi,
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Stephen Murray,
Professor, Columbia University
David Rosand, Professor,
Columbia University
Nan Rothschild, Professor, Barnard
College
John Stubbs, Vice President and Program Director,
World Monuments Fund and Adjunct Associate Professor,
Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University
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Barry Bergdoll, Professor, Department of
Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, Faculty
Advisor for Le Corbusier
Holger Klein, Assistant Professor, Department of Art
History and Archaeology, Columbia University and Curator
of Medieval Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Clemente Marconi, Associate Professor, Department of Art
History and Archaeology, Columbia University, Faculty
Advisor for the Parthenon
Robert G. Ousterhout, Professor, School of Architecture,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof.
Ousterhout generously granted allowed us to adapt several
of his written texts for this Web site.
We would also like to thank Ms. Barbara
Ashbrook of the
National Endowment for the Humanities for her support
and good will as the Senior Project Officer administering
our NEH funding for The History of Architecture Digital
Teaching Project .
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Robert Carlucci, Director, Visual Media Center, Columbia
University
James Conlon, Research Staff Associate for Archaeology
and Historic Preservation
Alexander Haubold, Graduate Student Associate
(Programming)
Jeremy Stynes, Educational Technologist (Site
design)
Andrew Tallon, Graduate Student Assistant (photographer)
Stefaan Van Liefferinge, Graduate Student
Assistant (Programming and modeling)
Juliet Yung-Yi Chou, Educational Technologist
Pilar Peters, Educational Technologist
Andris Dikmanis, Imaging Specialist
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This Project would have been unthinkable without the
kind and generous assistance Special Thanks and Acknowledgements
FRANCE
Arc-et-Senans: Françoise Carp
Blois: Thierry Crépin-Leblond
Chambord: Philippe Martel
Eveux-sur-Arbresle, La Tourette: Matthieu Bonin
Fontenay: François Ainard
Paris, Biblioteque Sainte Genevieve: Nathalie Jullian
Paris, Invalides: Lucas Chevalier (Responsible du Service de la Communications
Musee de l'Armee,) Céline Gautier
Paris, Panthéon: Pascal Monnet
Paris, Saint-Denis: Jacqueline Maille
Paris, Sainte-Chapelle: Sylvie Clavel
Paris, Saint-Martin-des-Champs: Xavier de Montfort, Céline Rorato
Poissy, Villa Savoye: Jacqueline Robin
Ronchamp, Notre-Dame du Haut: Jean-Francois Matté
Vaux le Vicomte: Patrice de Vogüé |
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GREECE
Ministry of Culture, Government of Greece
The American School of Classical Studies in Athens
Stephen V. Tracy, Director
Maria Pilali, Administrator
TURKEY
Aya Sofia Museum, Istanbul
Deutsche Archäologische Institut (The German Archaeological Institute),
Istanbul
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Wesley Paine, Director, The Parthenon, Centennial Park, Metropolitan Government
of Nashville and Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee |
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