Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:06:34 -0500
From: ArchNet <[log in to unmask]>
We would like to introduce ArchNet <http://archnet.org> , a new
web-based resource that will be of great benefit to researchers
and students of architecture around the world.
ArchNet is designed as an online community for architects, planners,
urban designers, landscape architects, architectural historians and
scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
Developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in close
cooperation with, and with the support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture
<http://www.akdn.org/agency/aktc.html>, ArchNet takes the wealth of
scholarly knowledge and resources generated by the Aga Khan Program for
Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology <http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/AKPsite/> and disseminates it
to a worldwide audience.
The goal of ArchNet is to create a community of architects, planners,
educators, and students who can use this as a means of sharing expertise,
local experiences, resources, and dialogue.
ArchNet provides an extensive, high-quality, globally accessible,
intellectual resource focused on architecture and planning issues
and includes restoration, conservation, housing, landscape, and
related concerns. This is achieved by providing on an accessible server,
an online library of images and texts, bibliographical reference
databases, online lectures, curricular materials, papers, essays,
and reviews, discussion forums and statistical information.
ArchNet's online library currently includes over 15,000 images and
more than 1,500 publications, including many hard-to-find or out-of-print
publications. The publications (in pdf format) include full runs of
the journals MIMAR: Architecture in Development, and Muqarnas: An Annual
on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. New collections and rare
archives are being added on an ongoing basis.
ArchNet is envisaged as a borderless network of institutions, all
of them contributing to and learning from each other, and aims to
influence the way that architects and planners are educated and practice
their profession.
Membership in ArchNet is free and your personal information will be kept
confidential. Registration only takes a few moments and is necessary for
those who would like the ability to be able to contribute to ArchNet
and take full advantage of its resources.
We hope that you will visit ArchNet and see for yourself the potential
that it has for being a useful tool for researchers and students of
architecture at your respective institutions.
If you agree that this is the case, ArchNet would in turn appreciate
your support in the form of a link to ArchnNet <http://archnet.org>
from your library's website.
If you have any questions or comments regarding ArchNet, please contact us
at <[log in to unmask]> .
Thank you!
The ArchNet team
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