VizCult: Harpur College Dean’s Speaker Series in Visual Culture
February 11, 2013Tweet
The convergence of spatial history with digital methods for mapping and managing information is changing architectural research. What new questions can we ask and answer about time by framing analysis through space? Massey reviews the tools, methods and products of geospatial architectural history through three projects-in-progress: an archive, an article and an atlas. The Marcel Breuer Digital Archive will support geospatial analysis of more than 30,000 archival objects relating to the leading Bauhaus and Brutalist architect. The article “Occupying Wall Street: Places and Spaces of Political Action” maps the changing nature of public and polities at the intersection of urban places and online spaces. Students, staff and faculty at and beyond Syracuse University are initiating research for Upstate Modern, an online atlas of Upstate New York urban history. These three initiatives demonstrate some of the possibilities for researching and teaching architecture via geospatial history.