Design Library

Elevated Alligators: Clyde Jones’ Critters in the Design Library

Graduate students from Georgia Bizios’ and Paul Tesar’s Advanced Architectural Design (ARC503) classes traveled to Bynum, NC to visit Clyde Jones, the nationally known folk/outsider artist. Jones has been making his critters since 1982, and has had his work exhibited at many galleries both locally and nationally, including the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Jones gave the students two alligator critters he made with their help. The critters took up residence in the wood shop on their arrival at the College of Design,

but students approached the Design Library to request that the critters be able to have a permanent home there; expressing a desire for them to have “more intellectual surroundings.” The Design Library staff was delighted to have them.

Since space is limited in the library, the critters were placed on top of the stacks where they cast a benevolent eye on the students and faculty researching below.

New books received in August and September

E99.N3 W387 2006 Weaving is Life : Navajo weavings

G1046.G45 G7 2008 The Genealogy of Cities

GV1469.25.G45 H39 2009 Gears of War : creature design (dvd)

GV1469.3.V574 2009 The Video Game Theory Reader 2

H62.C6963 2009 Research Design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches (3rd edition)

H62.H2455 2005 The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research 3rd edition

HD7287.9.D87 2009 The Senior Cohousing Handbook

HT170.R435 2004 Recycling the City : the use and reuse of urban land

HT371.S67 2001 The Sprawling of America : part 1: Inner City Blues : part 2 : Fat of the Land (dvd)

ML3918.G68 S74 2008 Gothic : dark glamour

N385.G73 2008 Graduate Programs in Art History (reference)

N6494.F6 S43 2008 Second Lives : remixing the ordinary

NA123.S45 2008 Building Systems

NA680.A854 2007 Atlas : global architecture circa 2000

NA680.J623 2997 Architecture Now! Vol. 2

NA687.T55 2005 Time-based Architecture

NA1123.E95 A4 2008 Aldo van Eyck : writings

NA1123.P47 R45 2003 Renzo Piano : piece by piece (dvd)

NA1153.N5 A4 2007 Life Logo : NL Architects

NA1547.B45 G74 2008 Beijing : the new city

NA1559.A5 A4 2008 Tadao Ando

NA1559.K77 A4 2007 Kengo Kuma

NA1605.M87 T6 2006 Touch the Earth Lightly : the architecture of Glenn Murcutt (dvd)

NA1605.P67 J646 2006 Alex Popov Architects : selected works 1999-2007

NA2335.P73 2007 Pritzker Prize-winning Architects (dvd)

NA2500.L383 2004 Constructing Ideas : understanding architecture

NA2790.K5913 2007 Architectural Models : construction techniques (2nd edition)

NA7346.H37 2007 Happy Architecture in a Real World : Périphériques architects

NC997.A1 A34 2009 AIGA/Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2009 (in reference)

NC999.4.B87 R47 2009 Will Burtin : the display of visual knowledge

NK520.A8 C363 2005 Transformations : the language of craft

NK1454.Z9 D76 2006B A Human Touch

NK1510.H68 2009 The Independent Design Guide

NK2054.A1 M64 2008 Models of Concern

NK8883.W75 2009 Writing with Thread : traditional textiles of southwest Chinese minorities

NK8987.L46 2006 Accidentally on Purpose : the aesthetic management of irregularities in African textiles and African-American quilts

NK8998.C66 A4 2009 Faces and Mazes : Lia Cook

PN147.L315 1995 Bird by Bird : some instructions on writing and life

PN1995.9.F36 W3554 2008 Wall-E (dvd)

PN6057.A319 C672 2009 Coraline (dvd)

QA76.76.C672 A42143 2008 3D Game Environments

QA76.76.C672 B8685 2010 v. 1 Mastering Unreal Technology : volume 1 : introduction to level design with Unreal Engine 3

SB451.T87 2005 Garden History : philosophy and design 2000 BC- 2000 AD

T385.B942 2009 AutoCAD 2010 for Dummies

T385.D68332 2009 Dosch 3D : medical – bacterias

T385.D68334 2009 Dosch 3D : medical – human cells

T385.D68337 2009 Dosch 3D : medical – viruses

T385.F54459 2009 AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010 Bible

T385.O482752 2009 Mastering AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD LT 2010

TA403.S87 2009 Sustainability of Construction Materials

TH880.I58 2009 The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building

TH880.R53 2009 Understanding Green Building Guidelines for Students and Young Professionals

TL410.H35 2009 The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles

TR647.G64 2009 Fictions

TR897.7.D34 2009 Poly-Modeling with 3ds Max : thinking outside the box

TR897.7.N59 2003 Robot Design : concept, model & paint (dvd)

TS171.O366 2009 Sketch Book : conceptual drawings from the world’s most influential designers

TS1765.A44 2003 pt. 1 Introducing Textiles (dvd)

TT502.B54 2008 Superheroes : fashion and fantasy

TT502.W35 2006 Balenciaga and His Legacy

TT505.R89 S84 2007 Ralph Rucci : the art of weightlessness

NC Libraries Receive Grant to Make Architectural Drawings Available Online

Contact: David Hiscoe, NCSU Libraries, (919) 513-3425

The North Carolina State University Libraries, in conjunction with the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the North Carolina State Archives, has received a substantial grant to digitize 3,831 architectural drawings and 923 photographs documenting approximately 730 buildings constructed from 1900 to 1940.

Titled Beaux Arts to Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina, the project will digitize drawings of Richard C. Biberstein, Martin E. Boyer, Eric G. Flannagan, Northup & O’Brien, and Herbert Woodley Simpson—five architects/architectural firms who designed important and representative buildings of the time period. This project will create an online resource available to scholars, educators, students, and the general public.

The period covered by this project was an important one in North Carolina history. A large number of buildings were constructed as the state saw significant urban growth and industrial expansion. Many of the buildings from this period still stand today and are of interest to architects, historians, preservationists, and the general public. The early twentieth century also saw the professionalization of architecture with the establishment of an academic architecture program at NC State University, the creation of professional organizations, and the licensing of the profession by the state.

The New South economy demanded new and specialized building types reflecting complex functions: factories, skyscrapers, mill villages, suburban houses, apartment buildings, auditoriums, hospitals, and other structures. Also during this era such buildings as city halls, post offices, courthouses, train stations, hotels, and churches were treated more prominently than in previous times. Civic boosters wanted “showpieces,” and the architects obliged with buildings in styles then popular in the United States—first various historically based styles (Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman, Moravian Revival, etc.) and later Art Deco and Modernist styles.

Richard C. Biberstein and his firm (which became Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed) were important designers of mills and other industrial buildings. Their work includes Nantucket Mills (Eden) and the Nebel Knitting Mill (Charlotte).

Martin E. Boyer was a designer of prestigious residences in Charlotte’s Myers Park and other early suburbs. He also planned the reconstruction of the Mint Museum in the 1930s.

Eric G. Flannagan designed Henderson High School, Lee County Hospital, and a variety of other buildings, especially schools, colleges, and hospitals in small towns in the Piedmont and eastern regions of the state.

Northup & O'Brien were the architects of numerous buildings in the state’s major cities, including Graylyn in Winston-Salem, Durham’s Snow Building, and the Department of Justice Building in Raleigh. Northup developed the “Moravian Revival” style based on historic North Carolina precedents.

Herbert Woodley Simpson designed stately homes, churches, and commercial buildings in Greenville, New Bern, and other eastern North Carolina communities.

Beaux Arts to Modernism will create a single web resource that will facilitate research that compares the work of different architects or different buildings of a single city or across regions. Researchers will be spared the time and distance of traveling to Charlotte and Raleigh, as well as the cost of making photocopies. Through this digitization project, patrons will also be able to access materials that they might not otherwise be able to view at the libraries and archives because of their fragility and size. The project will result in less handling of the original drawings and photographs, thus ensuring their preservation.

In addition to the online drawings and photographs, Beaux Arts to Modernism will also feature virtual 3D models of 30–35 buildings. Created with Google Sketchup™ software, the virtual models will provide researchers a unique way to study these historic buildings without actually visiting the sites. The web site will also feature maps to indicate locations of buildings, timelines of architects and buildings, and K-12 educational resources.

“We are proud to join our colleagues and capitalize on the strengths of the NCSU Libraries’ Special Collections in architecture and design,” says Susan Nutter, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at NC State University. “We will build something that will be invaluable to those—both scholars and the general public—who love the transformative work that North Carolina architects did in the last century.”

Beaux Arts to Modernism will draw upon the success of other architectural history resources developed by the NCSU Libraries. The Built Heritage of North Carolina: Historic Architecture in the Old North State project digitized 5,401 slides and photographs and 2,710 drawings documenting buildings primarily constructed in the 1700s and 1800s. The NCSU Libraries has also created North Carolina Architects and Builders, an online biographical dictionary that highlights hundreds of the architects and builders responsible for North Carolina's architectural culture for more than 300 years.

Beaux Arts to Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina is made possible, by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. For more information, please contact Todd Kosmerick, University Archivist, at todd_kosmerick@ncsu.edu or (919)513-3673.

New books received this summer

GV1469.35.L445 L456 2006 Lego Star Wars II : the original trilogy (game)

HT352.U6 D86 2009 Retrofitting Suburbia : urban design solutions for redesigning communities

N6494.A66 A67 2009 Appropriation

N6885.B47 2003 Berlin Flair : portraits of Berlin’s creatives (dvd)

N8835.A236 2007 Vito Acconci : in conversation at Acconci Studio, New York (dvd)

NA737.M49 A4 2009 The Miller|Hull Partnership : public works

NA1148.A85 2008 2006-2007 Yearbook : Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam

NC1002.S54 G53 2009 The Wayfinding Handbook : information design for public places

NE1096.G73 2007 Graphic Witness : four wordless graphic novels

NK1110.P85 2009 Design Meets Disability

NK1510.D477 2009 Design Studies : a reader

NK1570.H54 2009 The Grid Book

NK8989.L34 2008 The Essential Art of African Textiles : design without end

NX650.L35 K68 2007 Words to be Looked At : language in 1960s art

PN145.P96 2009 Voice & Vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction

QH105.N7 S26 2009 Mannahatta : a natural history of New York City

SB472.45.L36 2008 Landscape Architecture @ Asia Pacific

SB472.45.T47 2007 Territories : contemporary European landscape design

TS1475.B695 2009 Digital Textile Design

TT819.U6 S77 2007 Knitting America : a glorious heritage from warm socks to high art

Z253.53.S56 2007 The Designer’s Desktop Manual

Changing the Blueprint for North Carolina Architects and Builders

Contact: David Hiscoe, NCSU Libraries, (919) 513-3425

(Raleigh, NC)—The North Carolina State University Libraries and architectural historian Catherine Bishir have collaborated to publish North Carolina Architects and Builders, the authoritative resource on the men and women who shaped the architectural culture and heritage of the state. Delivered as a state-of-the-art online tool instead of a traditional book, the site is a marquee example of what can be accomplished when original, innovative scholarship is powered up by the digital expertise of today’s new generation of professional librarians.

The standard scholarly work on North Carolina architects and builders has long been Architects and Builders in North Carolina: a History of the Practice of Building (University of North Carolina Press, 1990), by Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood III. The authors originally intended to complement it with an authoritative biographical dictionary on the architects, builders, and artisans of the state.

When Bishir turned renewed attention to the project in the last decade, she explains that “the project underwent a serendipitous paradigm shift,” as she began to imagine the transformational way that scholarly, collaborative publishing could be done on the Internet.

“When Catherine came to us with her idea,” says Susan Nutter, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at NC State University, “I knew we had the staff on board with the expertise and enthusiasm to embrace the work. And I was delighted to have a signature project that could highlight the great work of our faculty and capitalize on the strengths of the NCSU Libraries’ Special Collections in architecture and design. We have built something that will be invaluable to those—both scholars and the general public—who love the architecture and the culture of North Carolina.”

Combining the expertise of over forty authors with the NCSU Libraries’ leadership in digital publishing and with collections from numerous state and national cultural institutions, the web site provides extensive biographical accounts, building lists, and bibliographical information about architects, builders, and other artisans who planned and built North Carolina's architecture.

Unlike traditionally published scholarly works of the past, the web site will continue to grow on a regular basis as scholars extend and expand their work. At launch, the site covers approximately 170 North Carolina professionals and 1500 buildings. But because it is an online resource, it can continuously be updated as the array of scholars working on it continue to add new entries—future-proofing the resource and demonstrating one of the powerful advantages of online publishing of reference and research materials.

As an online tool, North Carolina Architects and Builders also provides powerful abilities to sort, search, and browse its content in ways not available with traditional printed materials. Researchers, for instance, can explore the site’s material by architect, by building name or type, by location, by the years that an architect practiced, or by the place of a builder’s office or birth—sorting the results in ways to fit the individual needs of the researcher’s project.

“The website is wonderful,” according to Howard Davis, Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon and author of The Culture of Building. "What an appealing, easy-to-use, clear product. A model for the other 49 states. . . that I hope we will pursue here in Oregon."