Using the search box:
• At the search box, type in your keywords. I.e. "Frank Lloyd Wright" or "Fallingwater house."
• Click on thumbnails to retrieve full-screen images. Make sure all pop-up blockers have been disabled on the computer.
• These images can now be saved and/or printed.

Searching by collections:
• Under the "Collections Heading" at the top menu, choose "ARTstor Collections" and then the "Architecture and Design Collection (Museum of Modern Art)."
• Click on the "+" sign to search for "Architectural Drawings" or "Architectural Models.".
• These can be searched be decade if you click again on "+".

Once you have registered, there is another layer of options available to you such as:

• Create and save groups of images
• Add personal notes to images
• Access and save to folders created by your instructor
• Download the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer presentation software for class presentations

- ARTstor Basics Assignment

1. Search the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals for drawings and plans.
In the search box use the following search terms:
photos., drawings, maps, site plans, plans, elevations and sections.

I.e. "fallingwater house" and sections and plans

2. Search the Architecture.com site produced by RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architecture. When there visit RIBApix, the world's most extensive visual archive devoted to architecture.

3. Search Cartography Associate's freely accessible Visual Collections a image database of over 300,000 images.

4. Search the Winnipeg Building Index for images and information on Winnipeg buildings.

5. Search the following links for maps of Winnipeg and Manitoba:

• The general site http://www.flickr.com/photos/manitobamaps/
• Winnipeg maps at http://www.flickr.com/photos/manitobamaps/collections/72157603367125513/
• An 1874 map of Winnipeg at http://www.flickr.com/photos/manitobamaps/2130576499/in/set-72157603459135495/

Interested in adding your photographs to the Virtual Learning Commons? You can through flickr, the website that allows you to upload and share your photographs.

How do you add your photographs? Go to flickr.com and create a free Yahoo account (if you don’t already have one). You can then upload your photographs to your personal flickr space.

I have created a group for the first year Environmental Design students that focuses on Winnipeg design:

• Join the Environmental Design flickr group by going to http://www.flickr.com/groups/ed1 or by clicking on the groups link at the top of your flickr page.
• Once you are in the Environmental Design flickr group you can add any photos related to Winnipeg architecture and design to the group.
• Make sure these are photos that you have taken yourself, or have copyright rights to.

That’s it. Have fun!

More detailed information on using Flickr is available on their website.

Download Google Earth now

There is an excellent Google Earth User Guide at the site.

I thought it would be interesting to search for world architecture and civic/public squares and to mark and tag it in Google Earth. Here are some topic suggestions:

• St.Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), Rome
• St. Mark's Cathedral (Piazza San Marco), Venice
• Colosseum, Rome
• Chartres Cathedral, Chartres
• Parthenon, Athens
• The Palm Islands, Dubai, UAE
• Empire State Building, New York City
• Sear's Tower, Chicago
• CN Tower, Toronto

In the Google Earth User Guide see section "Marking Places" for:

• Creating a New Placemark
• Saving a Point of Interest
• Sharing a Placemark
• Saving Search Results
• Saving Images
• Printing

You can now search for various landmarks in interesting cities, find images of high resolution and present these on a powerpoint slideshow for a class presentation. Have fun!