AWESOME database for Architecture, Pidgeon Digital…

QUT Library subscribes to the excellent and unique database Pidgeon Digital – an online archive of illustrated talks by architects and related designers.

This means you get access to this great resource!

The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) so as to be able to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas.

Please please please log in and check it out at http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/fullrecord.jsp?id=5388

Masters of Architecture – short term trial

MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE is an ongoing series of colour images from PIDGEON AUDIOVISUAL and WORLD MICROFILMS.

It has been digitised from the original collection of 58 slide sets which were published between the mid ‘80s and 2003.

On trial until 18 April 2008.

The series was started when Tadeusz Barucki offered PAV publication rights to some of his collection of slides. This Polish architect was in the habit of spending half of every year travelling the Western World photographing the work of architects he admired, starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn.

Other people’s collections have followed and will continue to be added to in the future. Principal among these has been Monica Pidgeon herself – in particular her photographic series of the annual Pavilions on the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London.

Access via: https://secure.library.qut.edu.au/databases/trials/index.php

Pidgeon Digital now available!

Pidgeon Digital is the online version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes which will become of priceless value to future generations.

The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) so as to be able to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas. Talks (in Macromedia Flash format) and their accompanying digital images may be browsed or searched by keyword, and an index of speakers is also provided.

Access via EZproxy is available on campus. Off-campus access to Pidgeon Digital is available via the “Alternative access” links at:
https://secure.library.qut.edu.au/databases/passwords.php#pidgeon

Off campus access via EZproxy is also being investigated with the provider.

More information and access via URL http://www.library.qut.edu.au/db/5388f

Pidgeon Digital subscription commencing January 2008

QUT’s subscription to Pidgeon Digital will commence from 1st January 2008. 

The Pidgeon Digital collection comprises of illustrated talks by architects and related designers.  Founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) the collection offers a unique alternative to traditional, records-based databases by allowing you to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas.

Check it out!

Pidgeon Digital will be available to all QUT students and staff.  Contact me for more info.

New database trial – MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE. Expires 30 Nov ’07

From those who brought you Pidgeon Digital comes the MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE, a digital collection of architectural slides  reproduced from an original collection of  slide sets published between the mid ’80s and 2003.  The full collection contains close to 7000 architectural images.

 Choose to search by set, architect or image.  Access a short term trial at http://62.78.32.63/MOA/ .  This trial will end on 30th November 2007.

Please log on and take a look.  You feedback  is extremely valuable.  You can email me at ja.thomas@qut.edu.au, or via the feedback form.