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Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright

Imperial War Museum North by Daniel Libeskind

Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament Building by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral by Sir Frederick Gibberd

Harold C. Bradley House, by Louis Sullivan, Madison, Wisconsin

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in…" Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, 1923


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Hello! Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

An important note for everyone to remember: This project develops ideas about how we might organise data in articles about architecture. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the guidelines below may be helpful. Mainly, we simply invite you to write articles!

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WikiProject Architecture Bulletin   v • d • e 
Announcements - please add your Project announcements   v • d • e 
  1. One Bayfront Plaza promoted to GA on 3 October 2007. Rai-me 23:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
  2. List of tallest buildings in San Francisco promoted to FL on 11 October 2007. Rai-me 19:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  3. Buildings and architecture of Bristol promoted to FA on 23 October 2007. — Rod talk 09:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
  4. List of tallest buildings in Dallas promoted to FL on 8 November 2007. Rai-me 03:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
  5. List of tallest buildings in Detroit promoted to FL on 8 December 2007. Rai-me 07:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  6. List of tallest buildings in Dubai promoted to FL on 21 December 2007. Cheers. Trance addict 19:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  7. List of tallest buildings in Cleveland promoted to FL on 7 January 2007. Rai-me 00:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
  8. List of tallest buildings in Tulsa promoted to FL on 7 January 2007. Rai-me 04:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
  9. 5th Avenue Theatre promoted to GA on 20 January 2008.--Skotywa (talk) 05:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
  10. List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester promoted to FL on 19 February 2008. Cheers. Trance addict 02:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
New article announcements - add new architecture article to list



Archives

This month's collaboration is Johannes Itten.

Johannes Itten, this month's collaboration
Featured article and Featured list candidates
Feature picture candidates
Articles at Peer Review
Pettit Memorial Chapel - Dean Castle - Smederevo fortress - Somerset Towers - Bath Stone - Leo J. Ryan Federal Building - Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938 - Cannons (house)
New participants (add me)
Mattisse, Nonza, Merbabu
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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to

  1. Thoroughly explore Architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
  2. Improve Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
  3. Provide a place to discuss common issues on Architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
  4. Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Architecture
  5. Ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
  6. Develop standards and templates for Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
  7. Manage editing of the Architecture WikiPortal

[edit] Daughter projects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Forums

[edit] Sidebar projects

    1. WikiProject Construction
    2. WikiProject Landscape architecture
    3. WikiProject Architectural heritage
    4. WikiProject Interior architecture and design
    5. WikiProject Interior decorating
    6. Wikiproject Palaces - For palaces, stately homes, schloss, chateaux etc.



[edit] How to contribute

How you can help depends on your time, resources and interest:

[edit] Expand articles

[edit] Improve articles

[edit] Communicate


[edit] Help for authors

[edit] Create new articles

[edit] Using starter templates

The starter templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings and infoboxes in your article. To use them follow this procedure:

  1. Create a blank article having first considered the the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
  2. Copy the following text and paste it into the blank article:
    1. {{subst:Architect}} for articles about architects
    2. {{subst:Modern building}} for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
    3. {{subst:Historic building}} for articles about buildings begun before 1900
  3. Save the article
  4. Edit the article again, and add the text for your article under the headings that are created.

[edit] Infoboxes

The starter templates above are embedded with the following infoboxes than can be inserted separately into an article - this is not compulsory - often architecture articles are better first illustrated by other means:

[edit] Templates to organise a series of articles

Use these series box templates for articles about:

  • {{Archhistory}} Architectural history
  • {{Template:Modernarch}} Modern architecture use
  • {{Template:Postmodernism}} Postmodern architecture
  • {{Template:Regional-arch}} Regional architecture
  • For writing an article about architects and important topics in architecture, notable buildings and structures or anything else related to this WikiProject. For more information, see Article assessment below. Put this Template at the top of the article's talk page {{Architecture}} which will display the following:
Architecture Portal
This article covers subjects of relevance to Architecture. To participate, visit the WikiProject Architecture for more information. The current monthly improvement drive is Johannes Itten.
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 Points of interest related to Architecture on Wikipedia 
Portal - Category - WikiProject - Stubs - Deletions - Cleanup

[edit] Expand stub articles

If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

[edit] Selecting the right category

Main topics are listed in Category:Architecture. Please place your article in the appropriate sub-category, not in the main architecture category, to reduce clutter

[edit] Useful resources

[edit] Pictures, drawings and media files

Please use pictures and drawings in the article! Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded to the Commons, not to any national Wiki. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the image files, see: Commons:CommonsProject Architecture#Naming_of_Files.

Flag of the United States Free image sources for the United States
Source License Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States) Various N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}
National Park Service ([2] and [3]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([4]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress ([5]) P.D. {{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([6]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([7]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([8][9]) C.C. {{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([10]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-USDA}}

[edit] Information databases

[edit] Terminology

  • aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms
Writing guides
Writing better articles Layout Article development The perfect article Manual of Style

A collection of advice

How to structure articles

Suggested stages of an article

A checklist of components

Comprehensive style guide


[edit] WikiProject Tasks

[edit] Collaboration of the month

December 2007/January 2008

[edit] Johannes Itten

  • Nominate and support Representing the earlier 'mystical' expressionist phase of the Bauhaus, Ittens' contribution to colour theory was seminal - and a very interesting nut job to boot. --Mcginnly | Natter 14:06, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Improvement drive nominations

Collaboration

Current nominations


[edit] Architecture Peer Review

WikiProject Architecture has its own peer review process for articles:

[edit] Featured Article and Featured List Candidates

Submit or comment on articles and lists under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates and Wikipedia:Featured list candidates.
Current Featured article and Featured list nominations :


Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) @ Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

[edit] Featured Image Candidates

Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured image candidates.
Current Featured Image nominations :

[edit] Monitor articles for deletion

It is important to monitor and add your feedback to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Architecture. This is a special page for incomplete articles about Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space articles that may be removed, which needs to be maintained, updated.

[edit] Pages needing attention

Refer to: Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Architecture Categories and articles for cleanup, expansion needed, expert attention, Wikification, neutrality in question and articles to be merged or split (updated by bot)

[edit] Article assessment

WikiProject: Assessment Department - Instructions and FAQ

Architecture
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 8 21 26 7 5 67
A 17 1 3 21
Good article GA 6 15 32 16 25 94
B 175 174 165 32 53 599
Start 189 475 905 268 926 2763
Stub 33 99 316 536 3109 4093
List 3 6 7 21 175 212
Assessed 431 791 1454 880 4293 7849
Unassessed 7 3 1 1759 1770
Total 431 798 1457 881 6052 9619

See also: {{Template:Architecture}}, above.

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to add new architecture related articles to the list (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles, or articles with more than 1000 characters of editing, that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page.



Archives




[edit] Participants

New participants, simply add your name at the bottom of this list using the template:

--Blue Olive (talk) 20:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC) 24 November 2007 - 89 participants

[edit] WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use:

Code Result Usage
{{User WP Architecture}}
This user is a member of
WikiProject Architecture
WikiProject Architecture userbox
{{User:Evan C/Userboxes/User Architecture}}
This user works in and/or appreciates Architecture
Userbox for those interested in architecture
{{User:Feureau/Userboxes/User Loves Architecture}}
This user does not work in but appreciates Architecture.
For those who does not work in the field of architecture but loves those stuff.
{{User architect}}
This user is an Architect.
Userbox for architects
{{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/History}}
I study architectural history
Userbox for architectural historians



[edit] Featured content

Current Featured articles:

Angkor Wat, Baden-Powell House, Belton House, Borobudur, Matthew Brettingham, William Bruce (architect), Buckingham Palace, Buildings and architecture of Bristol, Building of the World Trade Center, Cathedral of Magdeburg, Chicago Board of Trade Building, City status in the United Kingdom, Deconstructivism, Eifel Aqueduct, Heian Palace, Holkham Hall, IG Farben Building, Robert Lawson (architect), El Lissitzky, House with Chimaeras, Hoysala architecture, City of Manchester Stadium, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Moorgate, Mosque, Michigan State Capitol, Benjamin Mountfort, New Orleans Mint, Oriel College, Oxford, Palace of Westminster, Palazzo Pitti, Palladian architecture, Parthenon, Francis Petre, Point Park Civic Center, Sanssouci, Scottish Parliament building, Shotgun house, Sicilian Baroque, Templon, John Vanbrugh, Vkhutemas, West Wycombe Park, Xanadu House
Featured lists
List of tallest buildings in Boston, List of Chicago Landmarks, List of tallest buildings in Cleveland, List of tallest buildings in Dallas, List of tallest buildings in Detroit, List of tallest buildings in Dubai, List of tallest buildings and structures in London, List of tallest buildings in Miami, List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia, List of tallest buildings in Providence, List of tallest buildings in San Francisco, List of tallest buildings in Tulsa

[edit] Good articles

108 North State Street, 5th Avenue Theatre, Akhtala monastery, Algonquin Hotel, Andriyivskyy Descent, Architecture of the California missions, Architecture of Houston, Architecture of the Song Dynasty, Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England, AT&T Corporate Center, Ballard Carnegie Library, Baths of Zeuxippus, Bayon, Beaumont House, Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground, Blackstone Library, Buildings and architecture of Bristol, The Casbah Coffee Club, Chana School, Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago Spire, Chicago Theatre, Chrysler Building, Church of St. Peter (Straubing), Churche's Mansion, City and Town Hall, Cityscape of Ashland, Kentucky, Crown Fountain, David Heymann, Dolphinarium, Dunstaffnage Castle, Édifice Price, Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, Egyptian pyramids, Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois), Elgin Cathedral, Ellwood House, The Exchange, Bristol, Forbidden City, Fort Greble, Fort Pasir Panjang, Giacomo Quarenghi, Golubac fortress, Great Pyramid of Giza, Gunston Hall, Haapsalu Castle, Halton Castle, Hamm (Westfalen) railway station, Harold Washington Cultural Center, Heller House, Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Hull House, Imbrex and tegula, Iranian architecture, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Joffrey Tower, Joseph F. Glidden House, Kaunas Fortress, Leonardo da Vinci, Lubbock High School, Machu Picchu, Manila Hotel, Mark Twain House, Marquette Building (Chicago), Mezhyhirskyi Monastery, Mission San Juan Capistrano, National Gallery, London, National Police Memorial, Old Louisville, Old St Paul's Cathedral, One Bayfront Plaza, Onion dome, Oregon Public Library, Palais Strousberg, Pavillon de Flore, Presidio of Santa Barbara, Queen's Pier, Rancho Camulos, Robot Building, Rock N Roll McDonald's, Roman Baths (Bath), Rookery Building, Roslin Castle, San Francisco International Airport, Shamrock Hotel, Singapore Changi Airport, Smederevo Fortress, Sycamore Historic District, St Mary's Church, Acton, St. La Salle Hall, St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford, Sunol Water Temple, Taipei 101, Taj Mahal, TCF Bank Stadium, Thomas Jefferson, Union Station (San Diego), Union Station (Washington, D.C.), University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas), University of Illinois Observatory, University of Virginia, Valley of the Kings, Via della Conciliazione, Vilnius Castle Complex, Waller Hall, Walls of Constantinople, Wigwam (Chicago)

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

Featured pictures
Academia Ancient Castles Civic Civil engineering
Theatres & Concert halls Industrial Monuments Museums Palaces
Retail Skyscrapers Townscapes Travel Religious buildings