Coordinating Architectural Discourse through Online Cross Cultural Exchange
This web project examines the potential for web-based collaborative technologies and social media to foster dialogue between students, teachers, and critics within institutions worldwide. It will offer an online space for publishing, discussion, and commenting on student work from the participating institutions. A beta version will be launched during the summer of 2009.
LA Forum online presence
In my capacity as board member of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design I am working on the redesign and rethinking of the current Forum web site. Among the new roles for the site will be a research database of all publications and documents produced by the Forum since its inception.
Hypercities 2.0
I have working as an information and data architecture consultant to the UCLA Hypercities project, a map-based information publishing framework. My interest in the project lies in its approach to the spatial organization of digital media and in particular how a single system might be designed to offer a broad range of approaches to documenting the history of specific built environments, from synchronic comparison to diachronic narrative.
The current version of Hypercities that predates my involvement is here. The new version will be launched later in 2009.
ELO Directory of Electronic Literature
In the capacity of Technical Director of the Electronic Literature Organization, I am coordinating a major rebuild of the ELO Directory of e-Literature (to be launched later in 2008). During the past year we have also been working as a partner in the Library of Congress digital preservation initiative, where we have been working on the problem of preserving web-based, born-digital works of e-lit.
Digital Karnak
Digital library of reconstruction models and teaching resources about the temple complex at Karnak. Launched September 2008. Primarily aimed at college instructors and students, it documents in detail the ancient temple complex of Karnak in Egypt. The project makes use of various recent technologies such as Ajax and Google Maps programming to organize the database in spatial terms.
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation DNArchive
The Dynamic National Archive is a project of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, whose mission is to advance the status of women in the architectural profession, particularly in the history of Modernism. The DNArchive is a collaborative, public Wiki that collects information on 20th century women practitioners. Visit the project here.
Electronic Book Review
Since 2001 I have been the site architect and technical editor of the Electronic Book Review, one of the longest standing journals of online critical writing. Its purpose is to foster invention and experimentation in critical and academic writing on the web.
Digital Roman Forum
Launched in 2006 by the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, this site publishes detailed reconstructions of the ancient Roman Forum and supporting information. This project was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for inclusion in The Best of Humanities on the Web.
CLUI Land Use Database
I was a database consultant for the Center of Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, and implemented the first version of the CLUI Land Use Database.
Syndigen/Rightspring
I was the co-founder of this company that developed a software application framework for online digital content. Rightspring, Inc. used this system as its core infrastructure for cataloging, auditioning and acquiring of licenses for digital audio assets.
Art and Text subscriber database
I built an online database for managing the subscriptions for this Los Angeles-based contemporary art periodical (now renamed ArtUS).
Villa and territory
This catalog of the built and unbuilt villas of Andrea Palladio was carried out at MIT, Harvard University, and at the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, Italy. In this multimedia database maps, photographs, texts and models combine to form a heterogeneous information model representing the interdependence of geopolitics and architectural theory in the Veneto of the late 16th century. [More...]