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>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> VNR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NEWSLETTER
>> Issue #9
>> February 14, 1997
>>
>> Copyright 1997
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> ********************************
>> Contents:
>> 1. "Construction" Net Updates
>> 2. New Sites including:
>> - Electronic data communication and how it will effect the
>> arch/construction industry.
>> - Links to CAD sites
>> 3. If you only have time for one site, visit the amazing Art Nouveau
>> archive (see below for URL)
>> 4. Contest
>> *********************************
>>
>>
>>
>> ** Construction Net Update **
>>
>> One of the features of the book is its straightforward introduction to
>> the "Internet Tools". ListServ is an e-mail based information
>> distribution system and section 3.5.2 of "The Construction Net"
>> describes some of the basic commands for using this service. The
>> usefulness of ListServ has been greatly enhanced by the recent
>> introduction of a SEARCH feature in version 1.8c of the LISTSERV
>> software. This feature allows on-line searching of all previous
>> mailings of a list. The command is of the form:
>> SEARCH <keywords> IN <listname>
>> and should be mailed to the LISTSERV site that hosts that list.
>> At the moment not all LISTSERV sites will accept the SEARCH command,
>> but over the course of time most will update to enable it.
>>
>> The International Alliance for Interoperabilty (IAI)
>> The hot topics amongst AEC software developers are Object-Oriented
>> technology and, of course, the Internet. Both of these areas come
>> together in the IAI, which was incorporated in the USA in September
>> 1995, and has now grown to become a worldwide organization. If you are
>> involved with the construction industry in any way, this will change
>> your life.
>> http://www.interoperability.com/
>> The online resource about EDI, the electronic data interchange is at:
>> http://www.iedi.com/
>>
>> A related site is CITE (Construction Industry Trading Electronically).
>> This is a UK initiative to provide a pragmatic approach to the
>> electronic transfer of tender information in the form of "Electronic
>> Bills of Quantity" (EBQ's) between the Client, Cost Consultant and
>> Contractor's Estimator. At CITE you can, download a trial 'zip' file
>> to see what its all about, find out how to join, lookup members
>> activity and links to their own websites, and download the CITE BoQ
>> freeware.
>> http://www.cite.org.uk/
>>
>>
>> Investing in Design Technology
>> An Executive Guide to the benefits of using CAD, written by Alan
>> Griffith of IIC Consulting for the CAD/CAM Forum of the Computing
>> Suppliers Federation.
>> http://www2.csf.org.uk/csf/campaigns/investing/index.htm
>>
>>
>> ** SITES **
>>
>> The VNR Architecture/Design Resource Center
>> http://www.vnr.com/arch.html
>> Yes, we're biased but VNR has redesigned this comprehensive A/D
>> internet springboard. Here you will find the archives for this
>> newsletter, new books published by VNR and EF&N Spon, architecture
>> school listing, job resources, and hyperlinks to all the sites ever
>> mentioned in this newsletter.
>> C - 10
>> D - 10
>> V - 10 ;)
>>
>> National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland
>> http://building50.dcrt.nih.gov/building50
>> Frank Kutlak is the project officer at the National Institutes of
>> Health in Bethesda Maryland, responsible for the design and
>> construction of a new 250,000 gross sq ft research laboratory building
>> which is currently in design development. He has assembled an
>> extensive website that contains information about the architecture,
>> lab planning, scientific programming, engineering, scheduling, project
>> management and construction of this technically complex project. Lab
>> Design Guidelines can be found at:
>> http://athena.od.nih.gov
>> Frank welcomes feedback at: kutlakf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> C - 8 (There is a lot of information here)
>> D - 5 (There are also a lot of tables to click through)
>> V - 5 (Descriptions of the design)
>>
>> The new Alcoa World Headquarters (Rusli Associates)
>> http://www.pitt.edu/~rmrst25/
>> This is now under construction in Pittsburgh, superseding the Harrison
>> Abramovitz's 1953 classic aluminum clad skyscraper. With large
>> uninterrupted floor plates, high floor-to-ceiling, perimeter core,
>> raised floor systems, first large-scale application of "colorless"
>> (white) ultra clear glass in North America (with internal and external
>> sunshades) and a clearly expressed uncompromising building strategy,
>> this building is an innovative departure in current thinking of
>> corporate workplaces. Design drawings, models, descriptions, and
>> in-progress constructions photos of the new Alcoa Headquarters can be
>> viewed at the Architects website, along with other current projects.
>> C - 6 (Interesting range of projects)
>> D - 7 (Neat design, but long page contains many graphics)
>> V - 7 (Photos of models and some CAD visualisations)
>>
>>
>> LORA (Library of Recommended Architecture)
>> http://www.archimedia.de/loraagent/lorae.html
>> LORA is a library for exemplary 20th-century architecture. It is alive
>> because it is being added to constantly by the LORA community. LORA
>> polls architects, students and journalists for their favorite projects
>> which they consider to be exemplary architectonic solutions.
>> C - 7 (Interesting, if eclectic, range with links to images,
>> descriptions, etc.)
>> D - 7 (Cool graphics style)
>> V - 6 (Depends on the links selected)
>>
>> French Architecture Sites
>> http://aleph.afuu.fr/AN/en/index.htm
>> This is the English language homepage of "Aleph", which provides a
>> comprehensive index of French architecture sites plus selected
>> European and worldwide sites.There is also an E-mail search engine for
>> finding web documents. Not all of the links are in English. The main
>> (French) homepage is at: http://aleph.afuu.fr/
>> C - 7 (Good to get more organised access to French sites)
>> D - 7 (Neat)
>> V - 4 (Few on the actual site, but some links are excellent)
>>
>> De architectuursite van Nederland (The Architecture Site of The
>> Netherlands)
>> http://www.archined.nl/endex.html (English) http://www.archined.nl/
>> (Dutch)
>> This site is maintained by the architectural publishers 010 in
>> collaboration with the Netherlands Architects Association
>> (http://www.bna.nl/) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute
>> (http://www.nai.nl/). It contains more than 100 links to architects,
>> schools of architecture, and other institutions in the Netherlands
>> (and also a selection of about 120 external links). There is a news
>> section on architectural topics, outlines of current architectural
>> magazines, Dutch architectural publishers, and on-line exhibitions.
>> Not all pages are translated into English.
>> C - 7 (A good resource, with interesting links)
>> D - 7 (Frame-based, well organised)
>> V - 6 (Depends on links selected)
>>
>> Would you believe it?
>> http://www.tampatrib.com/news/maryindx.htm
>> More than 400,000 people have visited an insurance building in
>> Clearwater, Fla., to see a stain on the building that many say looks
>> like Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The Tampa Tribune has created a
>> web page with photos of the image and stories written by Tampa Tribune
>> reporters and columnists.
>> C - ? (Is it design or architecture? Does it matter?)
>> D - 8 (Elegant single page, with picture, gives access to other
>> stories)
>> V - 6 (Photos of building)
>>
>> Real Audio interview with Robert Venturi
>> http://www.cornishproductions.com/
>> Dan Cornish's "Design Architecture - The Electronic Journal of
>> Architecture and Design" is always worth keeping an eye on. He has
>> just posted a Real Audio interview with Robert Venturi in which
>> Venturi shares his thoughts about the future of architecture as well
>> as his past, the suburbs and education (the Real Audio plug-in can be
>> found at http://www.realaudio.com/). Dan has also installed a new chat
>> server and, in the next few weeks and months, he proposes conducting
>> live chat sessions with leading architects, suppliers and educators.
>> Dan will be online in the chat area most nights around 9pm eastern
>> time to answer questions, listen to comments and to entertain new
>> story ideas. You will need the ichat plug-in which can be obtained at
>> http://www.ichat.com or use the chat java client.
>> C - 10 (Masses of stuff to explore)
>> D - 7 (Lively, but with several graphics which can be slow to load)
>> V - 6 (Largely depends on links selected, but you can play a Quicktime
>> clip of Mies van der Rohe from the homepage).
>>
>> How good is your French?
>> http://www.bouygues.fr/
>> One of the links on the Aleph French Architecture site is to the
>> homepage of the large building contracting company Bouygues. Having
>> downloaded the RealAudio plug-in (see above) you can find out here how
>> the companies name should be pronounced.
>>
>> B@se Arts (not a typo!)
>> http://averse.com/base-arts/
>> Most of this months links are architectural, so here is a more general
>> one. B@se Arts are an Arts, Architecture and Design Gallery comprising
>> an international grouping of artists, working in a variety of media.
>> This is a heavy graphics site and may take some time to load.
>> C - 7
>> D - 9 (very designerly)
>> V - 9 (artists galleries)
>>
>> Art Nouveau Server
>> http://aleph.afuu.fr/AN/en/index.htm
>> This is the English language version of the Art Nouveau server at
>> Aleph. This is a beautiful site to get lost in for an hour or so, with
>> high quality images and some Java animations.
>> C - 9 (Excellent resource for tracking Art Nouveau world-wide)
>> D - 9 (Well organised and attractively designed)
>> V - 10 (High quality images of some amazing buildings)
>>
>> CAD Cartoons
>> http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/penwill/cadpad.html
>> Finally, graphics of a quite different kind. Roger Penwill is an
>> architect who has, for a number of years, cast a cynical eye on the
>> use of computers in architecture. This URL goes straight to the CAD
>> cartoons, but many other more general computing cartoons are at the
>> same site. The cartoons are scanned in low-resolution so that they
>> load quickly.
>> C - 9 (Probably the best cartoons on this specialist subject)
>> D - 10 (The sense of humour goes through all the design of the site)
>> V - 10 (Almost entirely graphical, but quick to load).
>>
>>
>> ** Contest **
>>
>> This month is a very special edition of 'Guess the Building Win a
>> Book.' As I mentioned above, VNR has redesigned their resource center.
>> This month's building is the floorplan of the resource center at:
>>
>> http://www.vnr.com/arch.html
>>
>> Good Luck and Congratulations to last months winners!
>>
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Alan Bridges (a.h.bridges@xxxxxxxxxxxx) University of Strathclyde
>> Dept of Architecture and Building Science 131, Rottenrow Glasgow, G4
>> ONG, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3013. Fax: +44 (0)141 552 3996
>>
>>
>> If you would like to receive this FREE newsletter in your email box,
>> send an email message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with the following
>> message (subject line ignored):
>>
>> subscribe vnr-ad-news
>>
>> If you would like to unsubscribe, send an email message to
>> majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with the following message (subject line
>> ignored):
>>
>> unsubscribe vnr-ad-news
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> The editors, Alan Bridges and Roberto de Alba welcome all comments and
>> encourage the sharing of newly discovered online resources for
>> architecture, design, landscape architecture, and graphic design by
>> sending the URLs to a.h.bridges@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
Howard Ray Lawrence
Telephones: Voice: 814 865 9535
College of Arts and ARCHITECTURE
FAX: 814 865 3289
The Pennsylvania State University
E-Mail: hrl@xxxxxxx
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 url:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/hrl/
United States of North America
>>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:20:16 -0500 (EST)
>>X-PH: V4.1@r02n06
>>X-Authentication-Warning: zelda.thomson.com: majord set sender to
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>>subject: VNR Architecture/Design Newsletter #9
>>Sender: owner-vnr-ad-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> VNR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NEWSLETTER
>> Issue #9
>> February 14, 1997
>>
>> Copyright 1997
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> ********************************
>> Contents:
>> 1. "Construction" Net Updates
>> 2. New Sites including:
>> - Electronic data communication and how it will effect the
>> arch/construction industry.
>> - Links to CAD sites
>> 3. If you only have time for one site, visit the amazing Art Nouveau
>> archive (see below for URL)
>> 4. Contest
>> *********************************
>>
>>
>>
>> ** Construction Net Update **
>>
>> One of the features of the book is its straightforward introduction to
>> the "Internet Tools". ListServ is an e-mail based information
>> distribution system and section 3.5.2 of "The Construction Net"
>> describes some of the basic commands for using this service. The
>> usefulness of ListServ has been greatly enhanced by the recent
>> introduction of a SEARCH feature in version 1.8c of the LISTSERV
>> software. This feature allows on-line searching of all previous
>> mailings of a list. The command is of the form:
>> SEARCH <keywords> IN <listname>
>> and should be mailed to the LISTSERV site that hosts that list.
>> At the moment not all LISTSERV sites will accept the SEARCH command,
>> but over the course of time most will update to enable it.
>>
>> The International Alliance for Interoperabilty (IAI)
>> The hot topics amongst AEC software developers are Object-Oriented
>> technology and, of course, the Internet. Both of these areas come
>> together in the IAI, which was incorporated in the USA in September
>> 1995, and has now grown to become a worldwide organization. If you are
>> involved with the construction industry in any way, this will change
>> your life.
>> http://www.interoperability.com/
>> The online resource about EDI, the electronic data interchange is at:
>> http://www.iedi.com/
>>
>> A related site is CITE (Construction Industry Trading Electronically).
>> This is a UK initiative to provide a pragmatic approach to the
>> electronic transfer of tender information in the form of "Electronic
>> Bills of Quantity" (EBQ's) between the Client, Cost Consultant and
>> Contractor's Estimator. At CITE you can, download a trial 'zip' file
>> to see what its all about, find out how to join, lookup members
>> activity and links to their own websites, and download the CITE BoQ
>> freeware.
>> http://www.cite.org.uk/
>>
>>
>> Investing in Design Technology
>> An Executive Guide to the benefits of using CAD, written by Alan
>> Griffith of IIC Consulting for the CAD/CAM Forum of the Computing
>> Suppliers Federation.
>> http://www2.csf.org.uk/csf/campaigns/investing/index.htm
>>
>>
>> ** SITES **
>>
>> The VNR Architecture/Design Resource Center
>> http://www.vnr.com/arch.html
>> Yes, we're biased but VNR has redesigned this comprehensive A/D
>> internet springboard. Here you will find the archives for this
>> newsletter, new books published by VNR and EF&N Spon, architecture
>> school listing, job resources, and hyperlinks to all the sites ever
>> mentioned in this newsletter.
>> C - 10
>> D - 10
>> V - 10 ;)
>>
>> National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland
>> http://building50.dcrt.nih.gov/building50
>> Frank Kutlak is the project officer at the National Institutes of
>> Health in Bethesda Maryland, responsible for the design and
>> construction of a new 250,000 gross sq ft research laboratory building
>> which is currently in design development. He has assembled an
>> extensive website that contains information about the architecture,
>> lab planning, scientific programming, engineering, scheduling, project
>> management and construction of this technically complex project. Lab
>> Design Guidelines can be found at:
>> http://athena.od.nih.gov
>> Frank welcomes feedback at: kutlakf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> C - 8 (There is a lot of information here)
>> D - 5 (There are also a lot of tables to click through)
>> V - 5 (Descriptions of the design)
>>
>> The new Alcoa World Headquarters (Rusli Associates)
>> http://www.pitt.edu/~rmrst25/
>> This is now under construction in Pittsburgh, superseding the Harrison
>> Abramovitz's 1953 classic aluminum clad skyscraper. With large
>> uninterrupted floor plates, high floor-to-ceiling, perimeter core,
>> raised floor systems, first large-scale application of "colorless"
>> (white) ultra clear glass in North America (with internal and external
>> sunshades) and a clearly expressed uncompromising building strategy,
>> this building is an innovative departure in current thinking of
>> corporate workplaces. Design drawings, models, descriptions, and
>> in-progress constructions photos of the new Alcoa Headquarters can be
>> viewed at the Architects website, along with other current projects.
>> C - 6 (Interesting range of projects)
>> D - 7 (Neat design, but long page contains many graphics)
>> V - 7 (Photos of models and some CAD visualisations)
>>
>>
>> LORA (Library of Recommended Architecture)
>> http://www.archimedia.de/loraagent/lorae.html
>> LORA is a library for exemplary 20th-century architecture. It is alive
>> because it is being added to constantly by the LORA community. LORA
>> polls architects, students and journalists for their favorite projects
>> which they consider to be exemplary architectonic solutions.
>> C - 7 (Interesting, if eclectic, range with links to images,
>> descriptions, etc.)
>> D - 7 (Cool graphics style)
>> V - 6 (Depends on the links selected)
>>
>> French Architecture Sites
>> http://aleph.afuu.fr/AN/en/index.htm
>> This is the English language homepage of "Aleph", which provides a
>> comprehensive index of French architecture sites plus selected
>> European and worldwide sites.There is also an E-mail search engine for
>> finding web documents. Not all of the links are in English. The main
>> (French) homepage is at: http://aleph.afuu.fr/
>> C - 7 (Good to get more organised access to French sites)
>> D - 7 (Neat)
>> V - 4 (Few on the actual site, but some links are excellent)
>>
>> De architectuursite van Nederland (The Architecture Site of The
>> Netherlands)
>> http://www.archined.nl/endex.html (English) http://www.archined.nl/
>> (Dutch)
>> This site is maintained by the architectural publishers 010 in
>> collaboration with the Netherlands Architects Association
>> (http://www.bna.nl/) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute
>> (http://www.nai.nl/). It contains more than 100 links to architects,
>> schools of architecture, and other institutions in the Netherlands
>> (and also a selection of about 120 external links). There is a news
>> section on architectural topics, outlines of current architectural
>> magazines, Dutch architectural publishers, and on-line exhibitions.
>> Not all pages are translated into English.
>> C - 7 (A good resource, with interesting links)
>> D - 7 (Frame-based, well organised)
>> V - 6 (Depends on links selected)
>>
>> Would you believe it?
>> http://www.tampatrib.com/news/maryindx.htm
>> More than 400,000 people have visited an insurance building in
>> Clearwater, Fla., to see a stain on the building that many say looks
>> like Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The Tampa Tribune has created a
>> web page with photos of the image and stories written by Tampa Tribune
>> reporters and columnists.
>> C - ? (Is it design or architecture? Does it matter?)
>> D - 8 (Elegant single page, with picture, gives access to other
>> stories)
>> V - 6 (Photos of building)
>>
>> Real Audio interview with Robert Venturi
>> http://www.cornishproductions.com/
>> Dan Cornish's "Design Architecture - The Electronic Journal of
>> Architecture and Design" is always worth keeping an eye on. He has
>> just posted a Real Audio interview with Robert Venturi in which
>> Venturi shares his thoughts about the future of architecture as well
>> as his past, the suburbs and education (the Real Audio plug-in can be
>> found at http://www.realaudio.com/). Dan has also installed a new chat
>> server and, in the next few weeks and months, he proposes conducting
>> live chat sessions with leading architects, suppliers and educators.
>> Dan will be online in the chat area most nights around 9pm eastern
>> time to answer questions, listen to comments and to entertain new
>> story ideas. You will need the ichat plug-in which can be obtained at
>> http://www.ichat.com or use the chat java client.
>> C - 10 (Masses of stuff to explore)
>> D - 7 (Lively, but with several graphics which can be slow to load)
>> V - 6 (Largely depends on links selected, but you can play a Quicktime
>> clip of Mies van der Rohe from the homepage).
>>
>> How good is your French?
>> http://www.bouygues.fr/
>> One of the links on the Aleph French Architecture site is to the
>> homepage of the large building contracting company Bouygues. Having
>> downloaded the RealAudio plug-in (see above) you can find out here how
>> the companies name should be pronounced.
>>
>> B@se Arts (not a typo!)
>> http://averse.com/base-arts/
>> Most of this months links are architectural, so here is a more general
>> one. B@se Arts are an Arts, Architecture and Design Gallery comprising
>> an international grouping of artists, working in a variety of media.
>> This is a heavy graphics site and may take some time to load.
>> C - 7
>> D - 9 (very designerly)
>> V - 9 (artists galleries)
>>
>> Art Nouveau Server
>> http://aleph.afuu.fr/AN/en/index.htm
>> This is the English language version of the Art Nouveau server at
>> Aleph. This is a beautiful site to get lost in for an hour or so, with
>> high quality images and some Java animations.
>> C - 9 (Excellent resource for tracking Art Nouveau world-wide)
>> D - 9 (Well organised and attractively designed)
>> V - 10 (High quality images of some amazing buildings)
>>
>> CAD Cartoons
>> http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/penwill/cadpad.html
>> Finally, graphics of a quite different kind. Roger Penwill is an
>> architect who has, for a number of years, cast a cynical eye on the
>> use of computers in architecture. This URL goes straight to the CAD
>> cartoons, but many other more general computing cartoons are at the
>> same site. The cartoons are scanned in low-resolution so that they
>> load quickly.
>> C - 9 (Probably the best cartoons on this specialist subject)
>> D - 10 (The sense of humour goes through all the design of the site)
>> V - 10 (Almost entirely graphical, but quick to load).
>>
>>
>> ** Contest **
>>
>> This month is a very special edition of 'Guess the Building Win a
>> Book.' As I mentioned above, VNR has redesigned their resource center.
>> This month's building is the floorplan of the resource center at:
>>
>> http://www.vnr.com/arch.html
>>
>> Good Luck and Congratulations to last months winners!
>>
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Alan Bridges (a.h.bridges@xxxxxxxxxxxx) University of Strathclyde
>> Dept of Architecture and Building Science 131, Rottenrow Glasgow, G4
>> ONG, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3013. Fax: +44 (0)141 552 3996
>>
>>
>> If you would like to receive this FREE newsletter in your email box,
>> send an email message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with the following
>> message (subject line ignored):
>>
>> subscribe vnr-ad-news
>>
>> If you would like to unsubscribe, send an email message to
>> majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with the following message (subject line
>> ignored):
>>
>> unsubscribe vnr-ad-news
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> The editors, Alan Bridges and Roberto de Alba welcome all comments and
>> encourage the sharing of newly discovered online resources for
>> architecture, design, landscape architecture, and graphic design by
>> sending the URLs to a.h.bridges@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>
Howard Ray Lawrence
Telephones: Voice: 814 865 9535
College of Arts and ARCHITECTURE
FAX: 814 865 3289
The Pennsylvania State University
E-Mail: hrl@xxxxxxx
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 url:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/hrl/
United States of North America