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Architectural Salad ® can be glimpsed in the window above, five at a time, a few of the thousands of slide images suited for study or lecture. Architectural Salad the program with a light-hearted name, distills the celebration of man’s built environment into a manageable Power Point (or 35mm slides) presentation. Suddenly thousands of years of images are available as a valuable, organized, chronologiacal teaching tool. Each slide is a worthy companion to multi-media courses teaching architectural history, interior design history, general history, art history, social studies and a myriad of other scholastic uses.
Architectural Salad ® is divided into two master parts with two sub-sections called "white papers": the Prehistoric World to the Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century and Industrialization to the beginning of the Twenty-first Century. Within each master part, subsections describe and compare the evolution of man’s mark upon the earth.
Single slides may contain plans, line drawings, aerials, or multiple illustrations and all carry an identifying information block. The presentation illustrations are a small part of a forty-year in the making private teaching collection, each photo having been successfully presented in humanities courses. At last, they are digitally cleaned and re-formatted into a unique, iconic approach aiding the student to grasp and retain new information.
Five Workbook catalogs (projected for the end of 2010) and companion quiz slides complete the study program for professor and student alike. These all-inclusive catalogs will become available as Architectural Salad makes next season's debut. Most photographic sources, bibliographical, and additional study materials are listed in Slide Catalog 5.
On the Ides of March 2005 we began to load the site with the first of nearly 100,000 images. We think they are amazing. Once complete, our commitment is for approximately 800 new slides or 2000 images, anticipated to add annually, as history and historical buildings continue to be created, as archaeologists re-create the past, destroyed cities, like Warsaw or stolen treasures as St. Petersburg's Amber Room, are painstakingly recreated and historic structures are conserved. All images are protected by your computer registration and credit card membership. The images are to be used as educational tools and your registration, e-mail and PayPal account will assist us to track all visitors. Our slides are printable but harvesting individual images is not permitted.
Historical Profiles, a down-loadable, monthly article series will inaugurate on the eve of the 2009 Winter Solstice in a .pdf format. Please enjoy our two-page commentary and photography. We shall keep an annual set, once complete in 2010, within the membership site itself.
Once inside you are welcome to enjoy history unfold. Take nothing away but new knowledge, excitement, and wonder.
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