[RE] Connecting with Colonial Architecture
Creating a repository for sources on European colonial architecture and planning (1850-1970)
Since September 2011 the Chair of History of Architecture & Urban Planning and TU Delft Library creates a repository for digitised resources about European architecture and town plans realised in European colonies from 1850 until 1970.
Mission
The repository seeks to facilitate the emerging transnational research on European colonial architecture and urbanism between 1850 and 1970 and thus stimulate and enrich the debate about colonial built heritage.
Means
By bringing together and unlocking thematically related but physically often separated sources in one digital environment, the repository overcomes important geographic, economic, language and institutional barriers.
Repository
The repository offers its users digital and free access to a variety of sources: text documents (books, journals), photographs, films, maps, and archives.
The repository is developed in collaboration with national and international partners.
The repository can be visited via colonialarchitecture.eu.
Relevant literature
Overview
- Documentation
- Links
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- Department:
Architecture - Chair:
History of Architecture & Urban Planning - Repository:
colonialarchitecture.eu
- Department:
- Partners in the Netherlands
- Related projects
- Funding
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- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (repository)
- DutchCulture centre for international cooperation (design website)