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Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection)
Overview
In 2006, ART on FILE and ARTstor announced a partnership whereby ART on FILE's archive of images related to contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art would be digitized and made available through the Digital Library. In addition, ARTstor agreed to sponsor photographic campaigns to add new content to both resources. Selections from the ART on FILE archive of slides and transparencies, all produced by photographers Colleen Chartier and Rob Wilkinson, are already available in ARTstor. Additional content is forthcoming, as are the fruits of the photographic campaigns sponsored by ARTstor. For an initial campaign, Chartier and Wilkinson travelled throughout the Western and Mid-Western United States, documenting works by architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Herzog and de Meuron, Richard Meier, Thomas Mayne and Morphosis, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Michael Graves. On a subsequent campaign, Chartier and Wilkinson continued to photograph sites in the United States, particularly Portland, OR, where they captured specific works, as well as examples of urban design and transportation. They also travelled to locations in Europe, namely Berlin and London, to produce new photography for works by gmp von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Ulrich Wolff and Helge Pitz, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Foster + Partners, Alsop Architects, Richard Rogers Partnership, and Wilkinson Eyre, among others. A forthcoming campaign will highlight contemporary architecture in Spain.
ART on FILE was founded in 1983 by Colleen Chartier and Rob Wilkinson to document contemporary developments in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art. ART on FILE images have appeared in design magazines, text books, and newspaper journals worldwide. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chartier and Wilkinson have expanded ART on FILE to better serve the educational community by sharing examples of public sector design with students and faculty. In so doing, ART on FILE has become a primary supplier of images to libraries and visual resources collections that support teaching programs in contemporary architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and public art.
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 9,100 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 96% |
| Search terms | "art on file" |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: May 8, 2008
Image Credits
Frank O. Gehry; Walt Disney Concert Hall:southeast corner entrance (2003); 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA