Glen Yuan: Media Assignment 2: The Virtual Library

Day 1
During the weeks we are engaged in manipulation of digital information and generation of a virtual architectural library and supporting website.
As a team, we are going to make a vitual library space where we will explore waht and how information will be delivered to myself and our team. We will be expected to work in a community minded way, display an ability to manage my own production and recognise the needs of colleagues as i build. The finished projet will show all 9 journals (three of each).
As a team member, i am going to make and document the construction of a virtural architecture library with 2 students from my tutorial group. I will show the images of the group activities on my blog. Also, i will show the interesting and useful informations of the three journals that i have read.

Day 2
i have read through the Crit journal (2003 ) of the three journals and i have find out some useful ideas and informations which help to build our library.

"It will be imposible to rebuild our society without simultaneousely rebuilding our own perspectives, practices and values. These actions are sides of same coin. In this timee of political, economic and cultural turbulence, we can rebuild only by redifining ourselves as architects."
" WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE UNDER COMPENSATION AND UNDERESTIMATION WE SO EMPHATICALLY COMPLAIN ABOUT?"

Deidre Weiss
a menber of TauSigma Delta Honer Society, is entering her fifth year at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she is pursuing a Masters of Architecture degree. She served as the project coordinator for ArchiPETure in 2003. This project was awarded the first annual AIAS community Service Award.

Richard Taylor
is the president of the Auburn University chapter, where he is in his third year of a five year BArch program. When he is not in school, Richard works for a small firm in Arlanta, Georgia.

Cynthia Connolly has completed her year at Outreach. An artist and photographer, her work can be accessed through www.cynthiaconnolly.com. Connolly's stand has been displayed at a Rural Studio exhibit in Barcelona, and her book Rural Studio Bonus Album will be featured in an upcoming issue of Dwell magazine.

Day 3
I have read the secound journal called " Journal of Urban History"(2005), also, i have foud some interesting part of the journal.

Difinitions of Epicenters at Cuexcomate, a Small Town, and Teopanzolco, a Major Capital, Based on maps in Michael E. Smith, The Aztecs, 2nd ed.(Oxford, 2003), 75, 40. The architecture shown here for Teopanzolco is all that remains of this Early Aztec major capital; the rest of the site is buried under the modern city of Cuernavaca.

NANJING AS THE NEW CAPITAL OF THE PEPUBLIC

Map of Nanjing /based on Ni Xiyang, Zhonghua shuju (bookstore), Shanghai, August 1936.

WHERE CITY MAKES AMERICANS OF FOLK OF ALL NITIONS

Dorothy Enderis in the Milwaukee Journal(March 28, 1937) Frome a scrapbook of the Milwaukee Department of Recreational Community Education Archives, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Used with permission from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Day 4
The last Journal that i read is called "Architese" , it was my favourite Journal. I have found some interesting architectures in the book, however, the whole Journal is not in the English language and i could not read the context at all.