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Humanities go digital with archive of historic Rome

2017-07-26T19:42:00-04:00

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from University of Oregon, Stanford and Dartmouth have co-developed a new digital archive. The collection contains nearly 4,000 drawings, prints, paintings and photographs of historic Rome from the 16th to 20th centuries that are now available online to the public. The Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive brings together pieces collected by Lanciani, a renowned Roman archaeologist, and reflect Rome’s transformation over the centuries. The physical collection is housed in the Palazzo Venezia.

UO architecture Professor James Tice, principal investigator for the Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive, notes the project makes accessible “a precious archival collection and demonstrates how similar materials can be made available to scholars, students and the general public through the digital humanities.”

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Erik Steiner, co-director of the Center for Textual and Spatial Studies (CESTA) at Stanford, observes, “this is part of our long-term amb...

Stanford now offers free tuition for families making less than $125,000 per year

2015-04-02T15:29:00-04:00

If a student's parents make less than $125,000 per year, and if they have assets of less than $300,000, excluding retirement accounts, the parents won't be expected to pay anything toward their children's Stanford tuition. Families with incomes lower than $65,000 won't have to contribute to room and board, either. [...] there's something that every college could emulate about Stanford's policy: it's incredibly simple and straightforward.

Related (among a gazillion other references here on Archinect): The State of Debt and the Price of Architecture, Part 1 & 2.

Making it possible for the human spirit to soar

2014-12-10T01:45:00-05:00

Critics have argued that big arts-building investments are vanity projects, or that private donors should finance community arts organizations or scholarships instead.

James S. Russell digs into the building boom on college campuses, where museums and arts centers are opening and expanding. Mostly an elite phenomenon (Stanford University is constructing a $235 million arts district), few state/public schools are able to afford the costs.

Stanford students join weekend architectural challenge

2012-10-26T20:13:00-04:00

Nine student/architect teams will assemble at a private residence in Portola Valley, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 26, for dinner to launch a weekend of intense design and serious competition. The assignment is to design an artist's cottage to be built on Sonia Dhillon-Marty's property, Champ de Portola, by 2014. Nine architects from four countries will be paired with the students. Teams will be given site plans, a project description and a philosophical statement, but little else.

A live review of the projects will be streamed online here.

Stanford picks architect for art collection's $30.5-million home

2011-12-14T21:00:00-05:00

Having been given a prized collection of contemporary American art earlier this year, Stanford University on Wednesday announced plans for a new $30.5-million museum to house it. New York-based Ennead Architects will design a 30,000-square-foot building devoted to the Anderson Collection –- 121 works by 86 artists collected by a Bay Area family...

Stanford and Cornell Offer Novel Environmental Plans for N.Y.C. Campus

2011-10-24T19:05:00-04:00

If Cornell University were to win the city’s competition to build a new science graduate school, it would install on Roosevelt Island almost four acres of solar panels, 500 geothermal wells, and buildings with the rare distinction of generating as much power as they use.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro land Stanford art building deal

2011-04-14T01:35:00-04:00

Robgin Pogrebin of the New York Times reports that Diller Scofidio + Renfro have been tapped to design the 90,000 square-foot Burton and Deedee McMurtry Building. The building was named after the alumni who graciously donated $30,000,000 to its construction.

Construction is expected to begin in 2012 and will be an interdisciplinary arts hub bringing together many of Stanford's disjointed programs.

Via the New York Times