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.
The Informational Built Environment
I taught this upper-division architectural history and theory seminar at UCLA in 2008. Focusing on case studies between the early 19th century and the postwar period, it examined ideas, models, and metaphors shared by the architectural culture of modernity and the information society. [More...]
The mediated spaces of the archaeological park
This paper considered the history of the archaeological park (the passeggiata archeologica) in Rome as a result not only of changes to the practices of curatorship, archaeology, and preservation, but also of the emergence of a modern information society.
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.
Centre d’interprétation du Bourg de Pabos
This project proposed an archaeological park in the far eastern shore of Québec organized around paradigmatic themes that link the landscape and the fragments of an 18th century French settlement.
Some friends of mine won this competition with a nice project, which you can see here. [More...]