nextroom
nextroom | |
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Architecture in the network | |
Architecture documentation | |
languages | German , English |
operator | nextroom - Association for the promotion of cultural engagement with architecture (media owner and publisher) |
editorial staff | Juerg Meister, nextroom - architecture in the net (realization) |
On-line | 1996 |
http://www.nextroom.at |
nextroom is an online database that deals with contemporary architecture . The portal offers extensive access to profiles of architects and buildings in Austria and the surrounding countries such as Slovakia , Slovenia and Hungary .
History and organization
nextroom was founded in 1996 by the Swiss architect Juerg Meister. In the meantime, nextroom, based on an extensive database of buildings, images and text, has grown into an extensive archive of contemporary building. The focus is on Austria, but other areas are also included.
Today nextroom is looked after by the association for the promotion of cultural debate and receives funds from the architecture funding of the Austrian Federal Chancellery .
Content
The contents include
- Presentation of current architecture projects
- daily press review of the most important German-language newspapers and specialist magazines
- Online library with a comprehensive directory of architectural titles
- nextmobile (for PDAs )
- nextGIS (maps and city plans)
- archbau (manufacturing tool for architectural websites)
- nextland (collection for landscape architecture) - curated by the Austrian Society for Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning (ÖGLA) with the Institute for Landscape Architecture (ILA) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna .
Partners are, for example, the Architekturzentrum Wien (which works on architecture in Austria before 1945 on its website) and aut.architektur und tirol (ex Architekturforum Tirol ), two of the four so far four “Houses of Architecture” in Austria, and several other architecture organizations in Austria and Europe, with which content is exchanged ( e.g. Het Nieuwe Instituut , ex NAI, in Rotterdam). Another focus is the recording of sustainable building , in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Sustainable Building .
Web links
- nextroom.at homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ the website nextland.at , which was set up in 2005, is now implemented in nextroom and is no longer in operation as a database
- ↑ Vienna cultural Structures NEXT ROOM , Vienna, wien.gv.at (official website of the cultural protection of the city)
- ↑ nextroom will be sustainable! oegnb.net