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Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright	Barcelona Pavilion, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	City of the Arts and the Sciences, Valencia, by Santiago Calatrava	Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, UK, by Daniel Libeskind
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer	Roman Baths in Bath, England	The Taj Mahal in Agra, India	Sydney Opera House, Australia, by Jørn Utzon

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in…" Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, 1923

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Hello! Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

An important note for everyone to remember: This project develops ideas about how we might organise data in articles about architecture. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the guidelines below may be helpful. Mainly, we simply invite you to write articles!

Contents 1 Scope 2 How to contribute 2.1 Create new articles 2.2 Expand articles 2.3 Improve articles 2.4 Communicate 3 Help for authors 3.1 Create new articles 3.2 Using starter templates 3.3 Infoboxes 3.4 Templates to organise a series of articles 3.5 Expand stub articles 3.6 Selecting the right category 3.7 Useful resources 4 WikiProject Tasks 4.1 Architecture Peer Review 4.2 Featured Article and Featured List Candidates 4.3 Featured Image Candidates 4.4 Monitor articles for deletion 4.5 Pages needing attention 4.6 Article assessment 5 New articles 6 Participants 6.1 WikiProject User Boxes 7 Forums 8 Featured content 8.1 Good articles 8.2 Did you know (DYK)s 8.3 Featured pictures 9 Similar WikiProjects 9.1 Parent project 9.2 Sister projects 9.3 Daughter projects 9.4 Proposed projects

WikiProject Architecture Bulletin   v • d • e  Announcements - please add your Project announcements   v • d • e  Buildings and architecture of Bath promoted as Good article on 11 November 2009. Buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford promoted to Featured article on 3 November 2009. Pennsylvania State Capitol promoted to Featured article on 3 November 2009. Admiralty Extension image by Diliff promoted to Featured picture on 18 October 2009. New article announcements - add new architecture article to list Les Bains Des Docks, created November 2009 Buildings and architecture of Bath, created September 2009 Boris Podrecca, Architect, created September 2009 Architecture of Mumbai, created August 2009 Archives Current archives 2007 Winter 2006 This month's collaboration is comming soon... Featured article and Featured list candidates No current nominees: Nominate articles here. Feature picture candidates Château de Chenonceau, France Winterthur City Hall, Switzerland Dunrobin Castle, Scotland Nominate pictures here Articles at Peer Review Architecture of Bangladesh New participants (add me) ArchiKat, Dfwcre8tive, Elekhh, Cygnusloop99, Finereach, Speedoguy This template will be updated monthly. If you would rather not receive this bulletin, just delete it from your talk page.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

1. Thoroughly explore Architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
2. Improve Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
3. Provide a place to discuss common issues on Architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
4. Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Architecture
5. Ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
6. Develop standards and templates for Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
7. Manage editing of the Architecture WikiPortal

[edit] How to contribute

How you can help depends on your time, resources and interest:

• Create new articles about architects, architecture, buildings and construction.
• Expand architecture stub articles and architect stubs into full articles.
• Improve the quality of existing articles, see How to structure the content.
• Communicate with others interested in these topics, see: "Things you can do" on the architecture portal, and the WikiProject Task list.

[edit] Create new articles

• See Help for Authors for guidelines.
• Check requests for new articles about Architecture, buildings, city planning and public space.
• Post new articles to the Architecture Bulletin.

[edit] Expand articles

• Check and add references and cite sources for architecture, buildings, construction articles.
• Expand architecture stub articles and architect stubs into full articles.
• Nominate and vote for the Selected Article and Selected Picture on the Architecture Portal.
• Upload images to the WikiMedia:Commons and add images to architecture pages.

[edit] Improve articles

• Improve Start-class, C-class, B-class, A-class or GA-class articles.
• Improve articles which are listed as needing attention (page currently inactive)
• Check for spelling and factual errors and correct wikilinks.
• Help organise and Check categorisation of existing articles.
• Revert Vandalism on the portal and on articles.

[edit] Communicate

• Create a request for a new article about Architecture, buildings, city planning and public space.
• Discuss articles with members who have displayed interest in these subjects on the talk pages of the user or the article.
• Nominate and vote for the Selected Article and Selected Picture on the Architecture Portal. (page currently inactive)
• Submit quality articles for Wikipedia:Peer review or Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
• List any questions or requests on the WikiProject talk page.

[edit] Help for authors

[edit] Create new articles

• Relevance: Is the article you want to create relevant or important for the Wikipedia? - see Wikipedia:Importance
• Naming: Generally: use the common name! - See Architecture Manual of Style/Naming conventions

[edit] Using starter templates

The starter templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings and infoboxes in your article. To use them follow this procedure:

1. Create a blank article having first considered the the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
2. Copy the following text and paste it into the blank article:
   1. {{subst:Architect}} for articles about architects
   2. {{subst:Modern building}} for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
   3. {{subst:Historic building}} for articles about buildings begun before 1900
3. Save the article
4. Edit the article again, and add the text for your article under the headings that are created.

[edit] Infoboxes

The starter templates above are embedded with the following infoboxes than can be inserted separately into an article - this is not compulsory - often architecture articles are better first illustrated by other means:

• Please use the Template:Infobox Architect for writing an article about an architect.
• Use the Template:Infobox Modern building or Template:Infobox Historic building for an article about a specific building.
• Please use Template:Infobox Bridge for a bridge structure.
• See Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/infobox for a full list of architecture Infoboxes, including instructions on usage and examples.

[edit] Templates to organise a series of articles

Use these series box templates for articles about:

• {{Archhistory}} Architectural history
• {{Template:Modernarch}} Modern architecture use
• {{Template:Postmodernism}} Postmodern architecture
• For writing an article about architects and important topics in architecture, notable buildings and structures or anything else related to this WikiProject. For more information, see Article assessment below. Put this Template at the top of the article's talk page {{Architecture}} which will display the following:

WikiProject Architecture		ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles
Architecture portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Points of interest related to Architecture on Wikipedia Portal – Category – WikiProject – Stubs – Deletions – Cleanup

[edit] Expand stub articles

If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

• {{architecture-stub}} for stub articles about architecture.
  • {{arch-style-stub}} for stub articles about architectural style.
  • {{room-stub}}for stub articles about rooms in a building.
• {{architect-stub}} for architect stubs.
  • {{US-architect-stub}} for American architects
  • {{UK-architect-stub}} for British architects
• Use {{engineering-stub}} for Civil or Structural engineering stubs.
• Please refer to Category:Building and structure stubs to use specific templates for the location of the building.
• Other stubs can be found here - WikiProject Architecture/stub categories

[edit] Selecting the right category

Main topics are listed in Category:Architecture. Please place your article in the appropriate sub-category, not in the main architecture category, to reduce clutter

• Go to 'WikiProject Architecture/Categories to get an overview, and to help place your article in the same sub-category as similar articles

[edit] Useful resources

External picture, drawing and media resources can be found here: here.

Writing guides Writing better articles Layout Article development The perfect article Manual of Style A collection of advice How to structure articles Suggested stages of an article A checklist of components Comprehensive style guide

[edit] WikiProject Tasks

[edit] Architecture Peer Review

WikiProject Architecture has its own peer review process for articles:

• Please submit articles to WikiProject Architecture/Peer review for comments from the WikiProject community.
• Current article(s):

Architecture of Bangladesh

[edit] Featured Article and Featured List Candidates

Submit or comment on articles and lists under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates and Wikipedia:Featured list candidates.
Current Featured article and Featured list nominations :

No current nominees: Nominate articles here.

[edit] Featured Image Candidates

Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured image candidates.
Current Featured Image nominations :

• Château de Chenonceau, France
• Winterthur City Hall, Switzerland
• Dunrobin Castle, Scotland

Nominate pictures here

[edit] Monitor articles for deletion

It is important to monitor and add your feedback to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Architecture. This is a special page for incomplete articles about Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space articles that may be removed, which needs to be maintained, updated.

[edit] Pages needing attention

Refer to: Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Architecture Categories and articles for cleanup, expansion needed, expert attention, Wikification, neutrality in question and articles to be merged or split (updated by bot)

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of architecture.
• Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Architecture.
• Napoleon III style→Second Empire. Proposed merge. Discussion here.
• French architecture is in sad shape.
• Rain gutter and Leader Head disputed naming and poor coverage of the subject, Box gutter written as separate article instead of expanding the subject to cover that and other types of gutter.
• Architectural drawing still needs a coherent summary of CAD and the way computers have transformed architectural practice.
• Georgian architecture is flagged for improvement. It needs considerable expansion to provide reasonable coverage of the subject.
• Victorian architecture is flagged for improvement. The article is inaccurate and hopelessly incomplete: it fails to provide even a competent guide to coverage of the subject elsewhere in Wikipedia.

[edit] Article assessment

WikiProject: Assessment Department - Instructions and FAQ

Architecture articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	9	14	25	2	8	58
	FL		16	9	17	11	53
	A	5	1	1			7
	GA	8	19	35	42	50	154
	B	171	163	208	56	140	738
	C	37	37	66	52	276	468
	Start	215	525	1000	493	1059	3292
	Stub	36	121	365	773	3746	5041
	List	3	10	17	40	222	292
	Assessed	484	906	1726	1475	5512	10103
	Unassessed	1	7	8	9	2616	2641
	Total	485	913	1734	1484	8128	12744

See also: {{Template:Architecture}}, above.

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to add new architecture related articles to the list (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles, or articles with more than 1000 characters of editing, that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page.

[edit] Participants

We welcome new participants for WikiProject Architecture. Please put your name on the list here.

[edit] WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use:

Code	Result	Usage
{{User WP Architecture}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Architecture	WikiProject Architecture userbox
{{User:Evan C/Userboxes/User Architecture}}	This user works in and/or appreciates Architecture	Userbox for those interested in architecture
{{User:Feureau/Userboxes/User Loves Architecture}}	This user does not work in but appreciates Architecture.	Userbox for those who do not work in the field of architecture but have a love for the subject.
{{User architect}}	This user is an Architect.	Userbox for architects
{{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/History}}	I enjoy architectural history	Userbox for architectural historians
{{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/Photog}}	I am an architectural photographer	Userbox for architectural photographers

[edit] Forums

• Architecture forum
• Construction forum
• Engineering forum
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture/Categories for categorisation ideas.

[edit] Featured content

Current Featured articles:

7 World Trade Center, Angkor Wat, Baden-Powell House, Belton House, Borobudur, BP Pedestrian Bridge, Bramall Hall, Matthew Brettingham, William Bruce, Buckingham Palace, Buildings and architecture of Bristol, Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford, Buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford, Building of the World Trade Center, Cathedral of Magdeburg, Catherine de' Medici's building projects, Chicago Board of Trade Building, Deconstructivism, John Douglas, Heian Palace, Holkham Hall, IG Farben Building, El Lissitzky, House with Chimaeras, Hoysala architecture, City of Manchester Stadium, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Mosque, Michigan State Capitol, Benjamin Mountfort, New Orleans Mint, Oregon State Capitol, Oriel College, Oxford, Palazzo Pitti, Palladian architecture, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Francis Petre, Point Park Civic Center, Sanssouci, Scottish Parliament building, Shotgun house, Sicilian Baroque, Templon, John Vanbrugh, Vkhutemas, Rudolf Wolters, West Wycombe Park, Xanadu House
Featured lists
Chicago Landmarks, Pritzker Prize, Grade I listed buildings in: Bath and North East Somerset, Mendip, North Somerset, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, West Somerset, List of tallest buildings in: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Dubai, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, Philadelphia, Providence, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Tulsa, Vancouver

[edit] Good articles

108 North State Street, 5th Avenue Theatre, Akhtala monastery, Akshardham Temple, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Algonquin Hotel, Andriyivskyy Descent, Architecture of the California missions, Architecture of Houston, Architecture of the Song Dynasty, Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England, AT&T Corporate Center, Ballard Carnegie Library, Baths of Zeuxippus, Bayon, Beaumont House, Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground, Blackstone Library, Buildings and architecture of Bath, Buildings and architecture of Bristol, Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford, The Casbah Coffee Club, Central Troy Historic District, Chana School, Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago Spire, Chicago Theatre, Chrysler Building, Churche's Mansion, City and Town Hall, Cityscape of Ashland, Kentucky, Crown Fountain, Dolphinarium, Dunstaffnage Castle, Édifice Price, Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, Egyptian pyramids, Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois), Elgin Cathedral, Ellwood House, The Exchange, Bristol, Forbidden City, Fort Greble, Fort Pasir Panjang, Giacomo Quarenghi, Golubac fortress, Grade I listed buildings in Somerset, Great Mosque of Gaza, Great Pyramid of Giza, Haapsalu Castle, Halton Castle, Harold Washington Cultural Center, Heller House, Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Hull House, Imbrex and tegula, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, Joffrey Tower, Joseph F. Glidden House, Kaunas Fortress, Leonardo da Vinci, Machu Picchu, Manila Hotel, Mark Twain House, Marquette Building (Chicago), Mezhyhirskyi Monastery, Mission San Juan Capistrano, National Gallery, London, National Police Memorial, New Bedford Historic District, Old Louisville, Old St Paul's Cathedral, One Bayfront Plaza, Onion dome, Oregon Public Library, Palais Strousberg, Pavillon de Flore, Presidio of Santa Barbara, Queen's Pier, Rancho Camulos, Robot Building, Rock N Roll McDonald's, Roman Baths (Bath), Rookery Building, Roslin Castle, San Francisco International Airport, Senate House (University of London), Shamrock Hotel, Singapore Changi Airport, Smederevo Fortress, Sycamore Historic District, St Mary's Church, Acton, St. La Salle Hall, St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford, Sunol Water Temple, Taipei 101, Taj Mahal, TCF Bank Stadium, Thomas Jefferson, University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas), University of Illinois Observatory, University of Virginia, Valley of the Kings, Via della Conciliazione, Vilnius Castle Complex, Waller Hall, Walls of Constantinople, Millennium Stadium, Wales Millennium Centre.

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

• Bankfield Museum - 21 July 2009
• Gregory Henriquez - 1 March 2009

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Parent project

• The parent of this wikiproject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts

[edit] Sister projects

• Commons Project Architecture You are welcome to help organise media files for the project, started March 2006.
• WikiProject Architecture/Categories lists the general framework of the architecture categories See also: Portal:Architecture/Categories, Portal talk:Architecture/Categories
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Woodworking
• WikiProjekt plan and build, from the German Wikipedia, since 27 July 2004. For coordination please look at the Discussion Page.

[edit] Daughter projects

• WikiProject Airports
• WikiProject Bridges
• WikiProject Civil engineering
• WikiProject Lighthouses
• WikiProject Military History: Fortifications task force
• WikiProject Mills covering windmills, watermills, animal powered engines, cotton mills and related subjects.
• WikiProject Music venues
• WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - started October 2006
• WikiProject Piers
• WikiProject Skyscrapers
• WikiProject Sports facilities
• WikiProject Stations
• WikiProject Urban studies and planning newly created - lots of work needed.
• WikiProject U.S. Congress - deals with, in part, the buildings and facilities supporting the United States Congress.

[edit] Proposed projects

• Suggestion - Develop an Architecture Manual of Style
• Suggestion - Move eligible (world-wide public domain) architecture images to Wikimedia Commons
• The proposed wikiprojects listed below are currently covered under the umbrella of the architecture wikiproject but by non-specialist. It is expected that wikiprojects for these subjects will eventually be created - you can do it today!

1. WikiProject Architectural heritage
2. WikiProject Construction
3. WikiProject Interior architecture and design
4. WikiProject Interior decorating
5. WikiProject Landscape architecture
6. Wikiproject Palaces - For palaces, stately homes, schloss, chateaux etc.

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