Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture
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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.
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. First and foremost, we simply invite you to write articles.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims to:
- Thoroughly explore Architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
- Improve Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
- Provide a place to discuss common issues on Architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
- Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Architecture
- Ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
- Develop standards and templates for Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
- Manage editing of the Architecture WikiPortal
[edit] How to contribute
[edit] Improve the bird's eye view
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of architecture. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.
Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.
While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
- What's missing?
- Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
- Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?
The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.
The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.
It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise architecture-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.
It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.
Please help improve it.
It's our bird's eye view.
Thank you.
[edit] Improve articles
- Improve articles which are listed as needing attention
- Improve most viewed pages.
- Improve Start-class, C-class, B-class, A-class or GA-class articles.
- Check and add references and cite sources for architecture, buildings, construction articles.
- Help organise and Check categorisation of existing articles.
[edit] Expand articles
- Expand architecture stub articles and architect stubs into full articles.
- Upload images to the WikiMedia:Commons and add images to architecture pages.
[edit] Create new articles
- Check requests and missing articles about architecture, buildings, city planning and public space in the following lists:
- See Help for Authors for guidelines.
- Post new articles to the Architecture Bulletin.
[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)
- See: "Things you can do" on the architecture portal, and the WikiProject Task list.
- 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 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (architecture)
[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:
- Create a blank article having first considered the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
- Copy the following text and paste it into the blank article:
- {{Architect}} for articles about architects
- {{Modern building}} for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
- {{Historic building}} for articles about buildings begun before 1900
- Save the article
- 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 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
- {{Modernarch}} Modern architecture use
- {{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 {{WikiProject Architecture}} which will display the following:
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| Points of interest related to Architecture on Wikipedia: Portal – Category – WikiProject – Alerts – Deletions – Cleanup – Stubs – Assessment |
[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.
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[edit] WikiProject Tasks
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[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):
[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 :
[edit] Featured Image Candidates
Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured image candidates.
Current Featured Image nominations :Current Featured image candidates:
- No current nominees.
[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
- American architecture lacks references, although otherwise and reasonably well-written and coherent.
Top-level articles that fail to provide an adequate overview of the subject. Most of these are hopelessly incomplete and / or unbalanced, and fail to provide even a competent guide to coverage of the subject elsewhere in Wikipedia. Wide-ranging expert knowledge and some research would be needed to get these to a decent standard.
Structural elements articles, relatively easy to put right and very much in need of attention:
- Arch
- Atrium
- Beam
- Buttress
- Cantilever
- Column
- Dome
- Facade
- Pier (architecture)
- Post and lintel
- Rain gutter and Leader Head disputed naming as well as poor coverage of the subject.
- Span
- Truss
- Vault
- Wall
[edit] Article assessment
WikiProject: Assessment Department - Instructions and FAQ
| Architecture articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| 10 | 18 | 35 | 12 | 75 | |||
| 17 | 24 | 34 | 2 | 77 | |||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 9 | 31 | 73 | 135 | 26 | 274 | ||
| B | 129 | 154 | 277 | 175 | 136 | 871 | |
| C | 76 | 132 | 237 | 391 | 434 | 1,270 | |
| Start | 197 | 692 | 1,563 | 2,714 | 1,724 | 6,890 | |
| Stub | 8 | 131 | 648 | 2,144 | 1 | 3,914 | 6,846 |
| List | 4 | 19 | 55 | 197 | 19 | 255 | 549 |
| Category | 2 | 43 | 1,973 | 2,018 | |||
| Disambig | 1 | 27 | 28 | ||||
| File | 3 | 51 | 54 | ||||
| Portal | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||
| Project | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Template | 1 | 2 | 91 | 94 | |||
| NA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 47 | ||
| Assessed | 433 | 1,196 | 2,918 | 5,853 | 2,217 | 6,491 | 19,108 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 5 | 46 | 3,044 | 3,096 | ||
| Total | 434 | 1,196 | 2,923 | 5,899 | 2,217 | 9,535 | 22,204 |
See also: {{Template:Architecture}}, above.
[edit] New articles
This tool finds redlinks in the pages of a category, or of a single page, and sorts them according to number of occurrences: Missing topics
Most reqested architecture articles as of 03-12-2009 (nr. of links): Architecture of Kazakhstan (25), Architecture of Abkhazia (25), Architecture of Adjara (24), Architecture of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (24), Architecture of South Ossetia (22), Architecture of Northern Cyprus (22), Architecture of the United Arab Emirates (17), Architecture of Afghanistan (17), Architecture of Laos (17), Architecture of East Timor (17), Architecture of Iraq (17)...
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 1,500 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.
New article announcements:
- Wang Shu, created February 2012
- St Mary's Church, Crewe, created February 2012
- Jinpūkaku, created February 2012
- St Thomas' Church, Parkgate, created February 2012
- Skien Church, created February 2012
- Itō Chūta, created February 2012
- Helen Fessas-Emmanouil, created February 2012
- Lone Wiggers, created February 2012
- Anna Maria Indrio, created February 2012
- Altius Architects, created February 2012
- Osvald Almqvist, created February 2012
- St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney, created February 2012
- Antonio Miró Montilla, created February 2012
- Burton Court, created February 2012
- St Andrew's Church, Chester, created February 2012
- St Olave's Church, Chester, created February 2012
- Blagaj Fort, created February 2012
- Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, created February 2012
- Christ Church, Crowton, created February 2012
- St Mark's Church, Antrobus, created February 2012
- Nelle Peters, created February 2012
- Beatriz del Cueto Lopez, created February 2012
- Selfridges Building, Birmingham, created February 2012
- Maria José Marques da Silva, created February 2012
- Teresa Sapey, created February 2012
- Josip Vancaš, created February 2012
- Högna Sigurðardóttir, created February 2012
- Zeckendorf Towers, created February 2012
- Valve Pormeister, created February 2012
- Holy Ascension Church, Upton by Chester, created February 2012
- Karel Pařík, created February 2012
- Maarja Nummert, created February 2012
- Christ Church, Ellesmere Port, created February 2012
- Palace of Justice, Rome, created February 2012
- Barbara Schock-Werner, created February 2012
- Annibale Rigotti, created February 2012
- Mario Tamagno, created February 2012
- Redstone Inn, created February 2012
- Kate Otten, created February 2012
- Sarah Calburn, created February 2012
- Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach, created February 2012
- Zaļenieki Manor, created February 2012
- Emilie Winkelmann, created February 2012
- Margaret Staal-Kropholler, created February 2012
- Dörte Gatermann, created February 2012
- Frances Henley, created February 2012
- Rose Greely, created February 2012
- Tatiana Fabeck, created February 2012
- Arlette Schneiders, created February 2012
- Esther Hill, created February 2012
- Ruth Reed, created February 2012
- Ragna Grubb, created February 2012
- Hanne Kjærholm, created February 2012
- Rose Greely, created February 2012
- Josephine Chapman, created February 2012
- Ruth Maxon Adams, created February 2012
- Helen French, created February 2012
- Lily Inglis, created February 2012
- Angela Brady, created February 2012
- Brinda Somaya, created February 2012
- Ranjini Kalappa, created February 2012
- Alison Brooks, created February 2012
- Karen Clemmensen, created February 2012
- Anthony Keck, created February 2012
- Kathryn Findlay, created February 2012
- Eva Koppel, created February 2012
- List of female architects, created February 2012
[edit] Members
We welcome new members for WikiProject Architecture. Please put your name on the list here.
[edit] WikiProject User Boxes
Here are some templates for your use:
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| {{User WP Architecture}} | WikiProject Architecture userbox | |||
| {{User:Evan C/Userboxes/User Architecture}} |
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Userbox for those interested in architecture | ||
| {{User:Feureau/Userboxes/User Loves Architecture}} |
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Userbox for those who do not work in the field of architecture but have a love for the subject. | ||
| {{User architect}} |
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Userbox for architects | ||
| {{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/History}} |
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Userbox for architectural historians | ||
| {{User:Jeff dean/Userboxes/Photog}} |
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Userbox for architectural photographers |
[edit] Featured content
Current Featured articles:
Architects: Matthew Brettingham, William Bruce, John Douglas, Charles Holden, El Lissitzky, Benjamin Mountfort, I. M. Pei, Francis Petre, Albert Speer, Rudolf Wolters. Buildings: 7 World Trade Center, Angkor Wat, Baden-Powell House, Belton House, Borobudur, BP Pedestrian Bridge, Bramall Hall, Buckingham Palace, Buildings and architecture of Bristol, Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford, Buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford, Building of the World Trade Center, Catherine de' Medici's building projects, Chicago Board of Trade Building, Heian Palace, Holkham Hall, IG Farben Building, House with Chimaeras, Hoysala architecture, City of Manchester Stadium, Mosque, Michigan State Capitol, New Orleans Mint, Oregon State Capitol, Oriel College, Oxford, Palazzo Pitti, Palladian architecture, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Point Park Civic Center, Round Church, Preslav, Sanssouci, Scottish Parliament building, Shotgun house, Sicilian Baroque, St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, St Nicholas, Blakeney, Templon, Vkhutemas, West Wycombe Park
Featured lists
Chicago Landmarks, National Treasures of Japan (castles), National Treasures of Japan (shrines), Pritzker Prize, New churches by John Douglas, Church restorations, amendments and furniture by John Douglas, Houses and associated buildings by John Douglas, Non-ecclesiastical and non-residential works by John Douglas, Works by Charles Holden, 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, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Providence, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Tulsa, Vancouver, Listed buildings in: Runcorn (urban area), Runcorn (rural area), Widnes
[edit] Good articles
Architects: William Adam, Antoni Gaudí, Zvi Hecker, Timothy L. Pflueger, Antonin Raymond, Kenzo Tange. Buildings: 108 North State Street, 5th Avenue Theatre, Akhtala monastery, Akshardham Temple, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Algonquin Hotel, Andriyivskyy Descent, AT&T Corporate Center, Ballard Carnegie Library, Baths of Zeuxippus, Beaumont House, Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground, Blackstone Library, The Casbah Coffee Club, Central Troy Historic District, Chana School, Chester Cathedral, Chester Rows, Chicago Spire, Chicago Theatre, Chrysler Building, Churche's Mansion, Clinton Presidential Center, Crown Fountain, Dolphinarium, Dunstaffnage Castle, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, Édifice Price, Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, Elgin Cathedral, Ellwood House, The Exchange, Bristol, Forbidden City, Fort Greble, Fort Pasir Panjang, Golubac fortress, Great Mosque of Gaza, Haapsalu Castle, Halton Castle, Harold Washington Cultural Center, Heller House, Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Hull House, Hurva Synagogue, Imbrex and tegula, Imperial War Museum North, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, Joffrey Tower, Joseph F. Glidden House, Kaunas Fortress, Liverpool Town Hall, Louvre, Manila Hotel, Marquette Building (Chicago), Mezhyhirskyi Monastery, Millennium Stadium, 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, Pavillon de Flore, Peckforton Castle, Presidio of Santa Barbara, Queen's Pier, Rancho Camulos, Robot Building, Rock N Roll McDonald's, Roman Baths (Bath), Rookery Building, Roslin Castle, Santa Maria de Ovila, Senate House (University of London), Shamrock Hotel, Singapore Changi Airport, Smederevo Fortress, Sycamore Historic District, St Mary's Church, Acton, St Mary's Church, Nantwich, St Mary's Church, Nether Alderley, St. La Salle Hall, St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford, Sunol Water Temple, Taipei 101, Taj Mahal, TCF Bank Stadium, University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas), University of Illinois Observatory, University of Virginia, Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester, Valley of the Kings, Via della Conciliazione, Victoria Rooms (Bristol), Vilnius Castle Complex, Waller Hall, Walls of Constantinople, Walls of Dubrovnik, Wales Millennium Centre, World Trade Center, Zhenguo Temple. Cities, countries and regions: Architecture of Denmark, Architecture of Houston, Architecture of Leeds, Architecture of Madagascar, Architecture of Norway, Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England, Buildings and architecture of Bath, Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
[edit] Did you know (DYK)s
- Stephen and Harriet Myers House - 28 February 2012
- Redstone Inn - 25 February 2012
- Alabama Judicial Building - 23 February 2012
- Hook and Ladder No. 4 - 21 February 2012
- Piyale Pasha Mosque - 21 February 2012
- Great Mosque of Central Java - 20 February 2012
- Zeckendorf Towers - 17 February 2012
- Girih - 13 February 2012
- Joseph Clarkson Maddison - 12 February 2012
- Xinye Village - 10 February 2012
- Ablaq - 9 February 2012
- Malloch Building - 8 February 2012
- Architecture of Turkey - 4 February 2012
- First Congregational Church of Litchfield - 2 February 2012
- John Henry Devereux - 31 January 2012
- Clayton & Black - 22 January 2012
- Newberry House - 21 December 2011
- St Philip's Church, Salford - 21 December 2011
- Peter Beaven - 20 December 2011
- Schlosstheater Schwetzingen - 12 December 2011
- Lope de Vega Theater, Seville - 6 December 2011
- Richards Medical Research Laboratories - 3 January 2011
[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 Industrial design
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Woodworking
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lights Camera Wiki/Architecture
[edit] Daughter projects
- WikiProject Airports
- WikiProject Bridges
- WikiProject Civil engineering
- WikiProject Historic Homes
- 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
- The proposed wikiprojects listed below are currently covered under the umbrella of the architecture wikiproject but by non-specialist. It is expected that wikiprojects or task forces for these subjects will eventually be created - you can do it today!
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- WikiProject Architectural heritage
- WikiProject Construction
- WikiProject Interior architecture and design
- WikiProject Interior decorating
- WikiProject Landscape architecture
- Wikiproject Palaces - for palaces, stately homes, schloss, chateaux etc.
- Wikiproject Developers
[edit] Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
[edit] External watchlist
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