ARTstor Digital Library
Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection)
Overview
ARTstor has collaborated with ART on FILE to share more than 13,000 images of contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art in the Digital Library. In 2006, ART on FILE's archive, produced by photographers Colleen Chartier and Rob Wilkinson, began to be made available through the Digital Library. Chartier and Wilkinson have photographed 20th and 21st century architecture and landscape architecture projects around the world, in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Examples of contemporary public art, historic public sculpture, urban design, and historic preservation from a wide range of sites are also included. As part of this collaboration, ARTstor agreed to sponsor photographic campaigns to add new direct-digital content to both resources.
UNITED STATES
For the initial 2006 campaign, Chartier and Wilkinson travelled throughout the Western and Midwestern United States, photographing sites in Arizona, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. They documented works by architects such as Shigeru Ban, Santiago Calatrava, Arthur Erickson, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Meier, Rafael Moneo, Morphosis, and Cesar Pelli. In Portland, OR, Chartier and Wilkinson photographed examples of the city's urban design and its comprehensive public transportation system, including streetcar, light rail, commuter rail, and urban tram systems.
UNITED STATES, GERMANY AND ENGLAND
On a subsequent campaign, Chartier and Wilkinson continued to photograph sites in the United States, focusing on the architecture Los Angeles, CA and Chicago, IL. They also travelled to Berlin, Germany and London, United Kingdom, producing 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.
SPAIN
In 2008, Chartier and Wilkinson documented contemporary architecture in Spain, focusing on new buildings and recent expansions in Barcelona and Madrid. These included buildings designed by Jean Nouvel Architects, Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT, Herzog & de Meuron, Josep Lluis Mateo, MAP Architects, Albert Viaplana and Helio Pinon, Richard Meier, Richard Rogers Partnership, Rafael Moneo, and more.
THE NETHERLANDS AND SCANDINAVIA
In their 2009 campaign, ART on FILE travelled to the Netherlands and Scandinavia, photographing sites in a number of cities, including Amsterdam, Netherlands, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden. Chartier and Wilkinson documented projects by MvRdV, Henning Larsen, Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, 3XN, de Architekten Cie., Foster & Partners, Steven Holl, Wilkinson Eyre, Toyo Ito, Neutelings Riediijk, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Jorn Utzon, Rafael Vinoly, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Grimshaw Architects, Zaha Hadid, and numerous others.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
In their campaign in the United Arab Emirates, Chartier and Wilkinson focused on the cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Dubai is the site of many recent large-scale construction projects, including the Burj Khalifa (Skidmore, Owings and Merrell), which was completed in January 2010 and is the world's tallest building at 2,717 ft. They also photographed the Meydan Racecourse (TAK architects), the longest building in the world; the Burj Al Arab (Tom Wright of W. S. Atkins PLC), a hotel constructed on an artificial island; the Dubai Marina (Emaar Properties), a man-made marina district; and the Rose Tower (Khatib & Alami Group), the world's tallest building used exclusively as a hotel. In Abu Dhabi, Chartier and Wilkinson photographed projects such as the Sheikh Zayed Mosque (Yousef Abdelki, architect, Halcrow Group, engineers); The Yas Hotel (Asymptote Architects); the Capital Gate (RMJM Architects); and Ferrari World (Benoy Architects).
SHANGHAI
In their most recent campaign, ART on FILE documented architectural highlights from the city of Shanghai and the grounds of the Expo 2010 Shanghai China. Highlights include the Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Grand Theater, the People's Square, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, the Jin Mao Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pudong Riverside Promenade, the Lujiazui Central Green Belt, the Sports Arena, the Shanghai South Railway Station, the Shanghai Quzhong Tennis Center, the Yuyuan Garden, the Development Tower, the City Cod Temple Old City, and the Maglev Stations. The Expo pavilions documented include China (architect He Jingtang), UK (Heatherwick Studio), Germany (KAP Forum), France (Jacques Ferrier), Spain (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT), Switzerland (Andreas Bruendler), Italy (Giampaolo Imbrighi), Finland (Teemu Kurtela), USA (Clive Grout), Singapore (Kay Ngee Tan Architects), Poland (Natalia Paszkowska, Marcin Mostafa, and Wojciech Kakowski (WWA)), Luxemburg (Francois Valentiny), Denmark (BIG, 2+2, and ARUP), Chile (Sabbagh Arquitectos), and the UAE (Foster and Partners).
ART on FILE was founded in 1983 by photographers Colleen Chartier and Rob Wilkinson. 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. ART on FILE images have appeared in design magazines, text books, and newspaper journals worldwide.
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 13,033 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 100% |
| Search terms | "art on file" |
| Collection URL | http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/artonfile |
* 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: July 8, 2011
Image Credits
a) Santiago Calatrava; Milwaukee Museum of Art Quadracci Pavilion; detail of side view with wings extended (2001), 700 N. Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI b) Nicholas Lacey and Partners; Container City, overview 2002, Trinity Pier, Orchard Place, E14, London, England. c) Herzog & de Meuron; Edifici Forum (Forum Building); southeast corner, 2004, Diagonal Mar, Barcelona. d) Arons & Gelauff; Animal Shelter; curving wall leads to courtyard and entry or receiving area, 2007, Ookmeerweg 270, Amsterdam, Netherlands. e) Yas Hotel & Marina; main hotel section with fountain, night lighting, Asymptote Architecture. 2009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; f) Seagull Place; close overview, Asymptote Architecture. 2010, Shanghai, China.
