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Architectural Review, The, May, 2005 by Sutherland Lyall

Five years ago we took a look at the interactive architectural enclyclopaedia, Archpedia, at www.archpedia.com. Then we were reduced to tears of eye-strain due to the lack of contrast between the buff, slate blue and grey layout. The buff colour seems to have vanished, there is some welcome contrasting black text, although there is rather too much difficult-to-read green grey.

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But obviously there has been a sufficient groundswell of similar opinion for the designers to take heed. This is a big site. There is, for example a directory of architectural firms and contact details. Just the As include Alsop, Ando, Arquitectonica and Arup Associates. Nicely catholic. There is an AutoCAD shareware clearing house, and resources for Microstation, Arris, FormZ and lots of downloads. There is a dictionary, a section on featured architects, news, a small section on theory which seems to consist mainly of Plato, Aristotle, Vitruvius, Venturi, Lou Kahn, Bernard Tschumi and Graves. No Alberti, or Nietzsche but Libeskind, Stirling, Jencks, Rem, and a cousin of that bloke who wrote the Ten Books, Vitruvious. There are architectural crosswords but no, as far as I could discover, architectural encyclopaedia. That little disappointment aside, this is a rewarding site.

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