DSDN 171 | project one

Research Theme: Giovanni Piranesi

four sources and two images:

 

books

 

1. Lawrence, S., Ely, J. & Piranesi, G. (2007). Piranesi as designer. New York, NY: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
2. Piranesi, G. & Ficacci, L. (2000). Giovanni Battista Piranesi : the complete etchings = Gesamtkatalog der Kupferstiche = catalogue raisonné des eaux-fortes. Köln New York: Taschen.

journal article

 

Woodworth, W. J. (1902). Piranesi, the Rembrandt of Architecture. Brush and Pencil, 10(5), 276–284.

website

 

Thompson, Wendy. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) ". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm (October 2003)

images:

Piranesi, Giovanni. c.1744-45 Interior of a Prison
 Lawrence, S., Ely, J. & Piranesi, G. (2007). Piranesi as designer. New York, NY: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. P160.

Piranesi, Giovanni. N.D. Tomb of Theodoris at Ravenna
Lawrence, S., Ely, J. & Piranesi, G. (2007). Piranesi as designer. New York, NY: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. 141.

294 words (plus bibliography) explaining the relevance of a library in a design school:

It is easy to dismiss the relevance of bricks and mortar libraries like the one at the School of Design and Architecture in this, the digital age. Our current obsession with convenience and efficiency coupled with the ubiquity of broadband access would suggest that design school libraries, in comparison with the internet, are set to decline in use. However, there are several reasons that argue otherwise.

First, our own conveniently located Architecture and Design Library’s collection is as large as it is diverse. The library houses around 25,000 books alone (Victoria University Wellington, 2013) as well as various other useful media.  In addition to the collection, the internet is available for users unable to gain access elsewhere. It is thus the most egalitarian source of research and teaching media available to the faculty’s students.

Even though it is commonly thought that regular users of the internet, including students, know how to use the internet to research, there are many who ‘tend to overuse Google and misuse scholarly databases’ (Duke & Asher, 2012). Conversely, the resources at the A & D library are of trustworthy integrity and are chosen specifically to support the students and teachers at the school.

In this regard, the librarians themselves are an excellent resource since their training allows them to conduct fast and expedient searches both within the library and beyond, enabling us to avoid wasting valuable time in our research.

Finally, the library can be inspiring, with its richly illustrated books and abundance of ideas and knowledge. A shelf filled with books relating to your chosen subject can be the key to your work’s success and to ignore this and the many other rewards of library use puts the user at a distinct disadvantage while studying at design school.

Bibliography

Duke, L. M., & Asher, A. D. (2012). College libraries and student culture : what we now know. Chicago: American Library Association.

Victoria University Wellington. (2013, March 18). Architecture and Design Library | The Library | Victoria University of Wellington. http://library.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved March 18, 2013, from http://library.victoria.ac.nz/library/collections/a-d.html