Following are a variety of links of varying relevence. I have included books on New York, software I use in this project, and links to architecture and building research websites.
Terminology & Resources
Books
- 722 Miles • 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
- Essential New York • Essential New York: A Guide to the History and Architecture of Manhattan’s Important Buildings, Parks, and Bridges
- Guide to NYC Landmarks • In this thoroughly updated and revised edition, you will find every designated landmark and historic district in all five boroughs.
- The Great Bridge • The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- The Power Broker • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Image tools
- Autostitch • a new dimension in automatic image stitching
- The GIMP • GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Wordpress • Express yourself. Start a blog.
Reference
- A Guide to Researching • A GUIDE TO RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF A NEW YORK CITY BUILDING
- Architecture and Development of NY • Architecture and Development of New York City with Andrew S. Dolkart
- Glossary of Architectural Terms • A collection of architectural and building terms explained.
- Glossary of Architecture • From wikipedia (does the hand know what the foot is doing over there?)
- Landmarks Preservation Commission • The Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency that is responsible for identifying and designating the City’s landmarks and the buildings in the City’s historic districts.
- Neighborhood Preservation Center • Dedicated to facilitiating and encouraging citizen participation in the improvement and protection of New York City’s diverse neighborhoods
- New York Architecture • tom fletcher’s new york architecture images and notes
- Wikipedia: Architectural Elements • Limited list of architectural features
Styles
- Art Deco • Both Deco and Moderne use setbacks to reduce building mass and to emphasize verticality. Unlike “Wedding Cake” buildings, their shapes recede from the street gracefully, not in tiers but in gentler and more carefully positioned steps.
- Beaux Arts • Some features: projecting façades or pavilions; colossal columns often grouped in pairs; pronounced cornices; enriched moldings; free-standing statuary projecting above the cornice; tall parapets, balustrades, or attic stories windows.
- Gothic Revival • In its purest form Gothic Revival refers to the literary and aesthetic movement of the 1830s and 1840s, coincidental with than in England
- Historicist • Historicism refers to artistic styles that draw their inspiration from copying historic styles or artisans.
- Historicist • Examples of Historicist skyscrapers.
- Neo-Gothic • Building shapes and details have a strong vertical emphasis, with sharply pointed arches and finials.
- Renaissance • Most buildings in this style have brick facades. Common features include towers or turrets, pyramidal roofs, castellations, large indented cornices, and rows of arched windows.
Terminology
- Balustrade • A baluster is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, in stone or wood and sometimes in metal, standing on a unifying footing and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase. Multiplied in this way, they form a balustrade.
- Corbel • A corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight.
- Cornice • The uppermost section of moldings along the top of a wall; any molded projection of similar form.
- Cupola • In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like structure, on top of a building.
- Frieze • In architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain or decorated with bas-reliefs.
- Hood molding • a projecting molding on the wall above an arch.
- Keystone • A keystone is the architectural piece at the crown of a vault or arch which marks its apex, locking the other pieces into position.
- Lunette • In architecture, a lunette (French lunette, “little moon” and also “glasses”) is a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void.
- Mansard • A Mansard or Mansard roof in architecture refers to a style of hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its four sides with the lower slope being much steeper, almost a vertical wall, while the upper slope, usually not visible from the ground, is p
- Mullion • A mullion is a structural element which divides adjacent window units.
- Oriel • An oriel window projects from the wall and does not extend to the ground.
- Parapet • A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof or structure. It may serve to prevent unwanted falls over the edge or it may be a defensive, constructional or stylistic feature.
- Pilaster • A pilaster is a rectangular support which resembles a flat column.
- Quoin • Quoins are the corner stones of brick or stone walls.
- Rustication • Rusticated masonry is squared-off and left with a more or less rough surface, with a deep “V” or square joint or with finished flanking corners that emphasize the edges of each block.
- Spandrel • A spandrel (less often spandril or splaundrel) is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.
