modernarchitecture.net Project archive

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.

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. (Launch later in 2008.)

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.

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.

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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.

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...]