A Sampling of Interesting Images from Rotch Visual Collections
Jolene de Verges, Andrea Schuler, Yahya Melhem, Chris Donnelly
Wed Jan 20, 02-03:00pm, 7-238 (Rotch Conf)
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join the staff of Rotch Visual Collections for an hour devoted to exploring recent acquisitions - all of which are located in Dome, MIT’s digital repository. Images to be shown and discussed include recent additions to the Aga Khan Visual Archive; images of modernist architecture in India by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn (donated to the Society of Architectural Historians SAHARA project); photographs from retired architecture professor Maurice Smith’s teaching collection; images of Boston, Chicago, and the Southwest seen from the air, taken by noted photographer Alex MacLean of Landslides Aerial Photography; Augustus Pugin’s etchings from his influential 1836 book of architectural criticism, "Contrasts, or a parallel between the noble edifices of the 14th and 15th edifices and similar buildings of the present day," and historical maps.
Web: http://libguides.mit.edu/findingimages
Contact: Jolene de Verges, 7-238, x8-5593, jdeverge@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
Latest update: 04-Dec-2009
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