The Museum Library at UPenn might be a good place to start.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/museum/museum.html
In addition, Elizabeth Walters [Faculty, Art History at Penn State
University] would likely be a good person to contact.
Museum Library
33rd & Spruce Stree
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324
(215) 898-7840
The Museum Library supports research, study, and
teaching in the fields of
anthropology and archaeology. It also houses
materials in other related
disciplines such as folklore, linguistics,
museology, museum conservation, and
non-European art. The collection includes 113,00
volumes, 5,000 catalogues
phamplets, and 745 serials. For holdings, check
both Franklin, the Penn
Library online catalog, and the Museum card
catalog.
Special strengths are in Egyptology, Mayan studies
and Meso-American
archaeology, classical archaeology, and ancient
Near East. The Brinton
Collection is a special collection of pre-1890
materials relating in large part to
Meso-American and other native American languages.
The library has a full set
of Human Relations Area Files on microfiche.
For information on collections in other Penn
libraries that may be of related
interest, please see Complementary Collections to
the Museum Library.
Thomas Lenar
GSFA
tlenar@xxxxxxxxx
thomas.lenar@xxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basic and applied design (Art and Architecture)
> [mailto:DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Tawa
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 10:06 PM
> To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: mapping alexandria
>
>
> My background is architecture, and I teach and research architectural
> design theory and practice. I wonder if anyone on the list could help
> me locate sources for maps of the site and/or city of Alexandria, Egypt
> - and/or texts which deal with the analysis of such maps (I'm thinking
> in terms of Harley's History of Cartography project & publications)?
> Ancient and modern maps; other kinds of orthographic and perspectival
> representations - topographical, geographical, urban, maritime, etc. -
> ie. of Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Colonial and recent registers of the
> place? Its for a project called Mapping: Design, in which I will try to
> explore an approach to design which uses mapping and cartographic
> practices to record various registers of place (metaphorical, symbolic,
> political, urban, cultural, personal, etc.), so as to develop
> implications for design. The project is speculative, and possibly
> peripheral to the obvious focus of the discussion group - but if anyone
> is interested to read further, let me know, and I can forward a couple
> of texts which outline the project in more specific terms.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Tawa
>
> Dr Michael Tawa
> Senior Lecture
> Faculty of the Built Environment
> University of NSW
> Sydney 2052
> Australia
>
> Telephone: 61 2 9385 4832
> Facsimile: 61 2 9385 4507
>
http://www.library.upenn.edu/museum/museum.html
In addition, Elizabeth Walters [Faculty, Art History at Penn State
University] would likely be a good person to contact.
Museum Library
33rd & Spruce Stree
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324
(215) 898-7840
The Museum Library supports research, study, and
teaching in the fields of
anthropology and archaeology. It also houses
materials in other related
disciplines such as folklore, linguistics,
museology, museum conservation, and
non-European art. The collection includes 113,00
volumes, 5,000 catalogues
phamplets, and 745 serials. For holdings, check
both Franklin, the Penn
Library online catalog, and the Museum card
catalog.
Special strengths are in Egyptology, Mayan studies
and Meso-American
archaeology, classical archaeology, and ancient
Near East. The Brinton
Collection is a special collection of pre-1890
materials relating in large part to
Meso-American and other native American languages.
The library has a full set
of Human Relations Area Files on microfiche.
For information on collections in other Penn
libraries that may be of related
interest, please see Complementary Collections to
the Museum Library.
Thomas Lenar
GSFA
tlenar@xxxxxxxxx
thomas.lenar@xxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basic and applied design (Art and Architecture)
> [mailto:DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Tawa
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 10:06 PM
> To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: mapping alexandria
>
>
> My background is architecture, and I teach and research architectural
> design theory and practice. I wonder if anyone on the list could help
> me locate sources for maps of the site and/or city of Alexandria, Egypt
> - and/or texts which deal with the analysis of such maps (I'm thinking
> in terms of Harley's History of Cartography project & publications)?
> Ancient and modern maps; other kinds of orthographic and perspectival
> representations - topographical, geographical, urban, maritime, etc. -
> ie. of Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Colonial and recent registers of the
> place? Its for a project called Mapping: Design, in which I will try to
> explore an approach to design which uses mapping and cartographic
> practices to record various registers of place (metaphorical, symbolic,
> political, urban, cultural, personal, etc.), so as to develop
> implications for design. The project is speculative, and possibly
> peripheral to the obvious focus of the discussion group - but if anyone
> is interested to read further, let me know, and I can forward a couple
> of texts which outline the project in more specific terms.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Tawa
>
> Dr Michael Tawa
> Senior Lecture
> Faculty of the Built Environment
> University of NSW
> Sydney 2052
> Australia
>
> Telephone: 61 2 9385 4832
> Facsimile: 61 2 9385 4507
>