Season 13, Episode 6 of the series Abandoned EngineeringStreamed June 2024 in Britain, July 2024 in America  For British audiences, view the full series here on SkyTV.For U.S. audiences, view the full series here on AppleTV.The series is also being syndicated and translated into 20+ languages for international audiences. A...

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I made a map of each place where I lived an extended period of time: Newark, New York City, Oxford University, Columbia University, and now the University of Michigan. This map depicts almost every major landmark on the University’s central campus and took about 300 hours to create over the...

This time-lapse construction sequence in film and historical essay analyzes how architect Christopher Wren synthesized engineering and art to create this cathedral. The essay analyzes St. Paul's Cathedral, highlighting its architectural significance through the lens of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework. St. Paul's is a blend of advanced engineering and artistic expression reflective of Enlightenment thought, showcasing innovation in design and construction while mirroring cultural shifts in London at the time.

A project by Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin, Myles Zhang In collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy and the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History Email project authors   Envisioning Seneca Village depicts what this significant nineteenth-century village might have looked like in the spring of 1855, about...

The scan above is suitable for viewing but not for large-format printing. Please request access to the full-size scan at ~400dpi View full size Opens in new window This ink on paper drawing represents 800 hours of work over several months. The dimensions are 45 inches high by 79 inches...

Created at the University of Cambridge: Department of ArchitectureAs part of my Master’s thesis in Architecture and Urban Studies, as featured by: – Special Collections department at University College London– Open Culture– Tomorrow City– Aeon: a world of ideas 1. Animation This project translates Jeremy Bentham’s architecture for the digital...

Featured in: – The Columbia Daily Spectator in September 2016 – The Columbia student newspaper in October 2016 – The 2018-19 edition of the Asia Pacific Affairs Council journal – And the Columbia College Today alumni magazine in winter 2019-20 (last page) and summer 2022 (pages 18-22) A map of...

Sound effects from Freesound / Water and cloud effects from YouTube This two minute time-lapse reconstructs the 400 year evolution of Lower Manhattan’s skyline. Watch as the city evolves from a small village into a glistening metropolis. This is also a film about the history of technology. Changing methods of...

Developed in collaboration with Newark Landmarksand the master’s program in historic preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Since 1971, the old Essex County Jail has sat abandoned and decaying in Newark’s University Heights neighborhood. Expanded in stages since 1837, this jail is among the oldest...

Featured in this March 2019 interview from RatrockAnd in this July 2016 article from The Edublogger Strolling in New York City is a world tour. The street fairs of Spanish Harlem mesh into college town Columbia. Columbia gives way to the shabby chic of Harlem. A few blocks farther and...

Based on court transcripts, eye witness testimonies, primary sources, and historical maps, this animation reconstructs the workplace conditions and abuses that caused the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. This fire on 25 March 1911, killed 146 garment workers and represents a turning-point moment in the history of organized labor in America. This project is the first - and only - accurate-to-the-inch virtual reality model of the entire factory floor.

As featured by the blog Kottke.org Chinese music: Feng Yang (The Flower Drum) This time-lapse of Manhattan Chinatown took sixty hours to complete and measures 26 by 40 inches. Chinatown’s tenements are in the foreground, while the skyscraper canyons of Lower Manhattan rise on top. This shows the area of...

Master's thesis in architecture at the University of Cambridge: This research explores the contradictions of solitary confinement at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The prison initially experimented with prolonged solitary confinement in the 1830s to inspire the moral redemption of inmates. By analyzing Jeremy Bentham's panopticon plan for the ideal prison, architect John Haviland's design for this specific prison, and visitor accounts of the prison's daily operations, the thesis examines the builders' philosophical assumptions about utopia, architecture, and human nature.

Of all the stories of the greatest Gothic cathedrals, the tale of Beauvais is the most exciting. Construction of the Gothic cathedral began in 1225 at a time of bitter turmoil when France was establishing itself as a nation within its familiar modern geographical bounds. Beauvais, the tallest cathedral in...

This project in two parts is a brief history of city planning in Jersey Cityand a building-level interactive map of the entire city in 1873, 1919, and today. Read / download book as PDF Download opens in new window  Jersey City: Urban Planning in Historical Perspective A booklet about...

Based on extensive archival documents, this historically-accurate film showcases the assembly of the 1915 Model T Runabout at Ford's Highland Park factory. This projects represents the first complete visual and cartographic documentation of this manufacturing process from 1908 to 1927. It highlights Ford's innovative yet evolving assembly line techniques, which revolutionized car production, contrasting with previous methods.

Georeferenced historical maps and time sliders between past vs. present reveal the transformation of the region around Auschwitz from 1945 to today Launch Map Link opens in new window Briefly describe the problem you are solving with GIS: Describe your solution to this problem and its potential impact How is...

Created with architectural historian Stephen MurrayAs featured on Columbia University’s Art Humanities website Section of choir from north Section of southern facade Section of choir from south Along with the Parthenon, Amiens Cathedral is introduced each semester to students in Art Humanities. This seminar has been taught since 1947 and...

阅读简体中文版 Created with architect and urbanist Stephen Fan for City as Living LabFunded by the University of Michigan’s Rackham Program in Public Scholarship View full size image. Chinatown’s Public Realm Along Mott Street, boxes of fruits and vegetables from the US, Latin America, and China flow from the private open...

 Music: “The Language of Cities” by Maserati 1. The Animation Here Grows New York visually animates the development of this city’s street grid and environment from 1609 to the present day, using geo-referenced road network data, historic maps, and geological surveys. The resulting short film presents a series of...

Launch interactive mapping experience > Newark Changing is a first-of-its-kind visual encyclopedia of 2,400 photo comparisons of almost every street corner​​​, home, and building ​​demolished by urban renewal and the social forces behind urban decay.​ Through an interactive and text-searchable historic map, any visitor can travel in time to explore...

Created with architectural historian Stephen Murray . 1. Construction time-lapse Music: Pérotin, Viderunt Omnes  /  View animation with music only. This construction time-lapse illustrates the history of Notre-Dame from c.1060 to the present day, following ten centuries of construction and reconstruction. Model is based on actual measurements of the cathedral and...

This film project utilizes historical cartography and GIS to create a time-lapse animation of Istanbul’s urban development over millennia. It illustrates three significant periods: Byzantine rule (330AD-1453), Ottoman rule (1453-1923), and modern metropolitan growth (1923-present). The animation visualizes changing coastlines and showcases the evolution of 200 archaeological sites, churches, aqueduct routes, and early Roman roads. Viewers can explore the film with the accompanying soundtrack or pause the map and zoom into a high-resolution map of individual places.