Many thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Lenar [mailto:tlenar@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 9 April 1999 15:05
To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mapping alexandria
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
>
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Lenar [mailto:tlenar@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 9 April 1999 15:05
To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mapping alexandria
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
>