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Welcome to the Architecture Wikiproject
How to contribute	WikiProject Tasks	Category policy
Sign Up	Expand stub articles	Stub categories
Forums	Pages needing attention	Infoboxes
Similar WikiProjects	Engineering Portal	Architecture Portal

Imperial War Museum North by Daniel Libeskind

Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament Building by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue

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

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 below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles! Template:ArchitectureCOTM

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Message Board Week commencing October 23, 2006
Feel free to add anything you think might be of interest.
1. Wikipedia currently has no notability policy for buildings - If anyone is interested in formulating such a policy, please contact User talk :Mcginnly.
2. Proposals are underway for the redesign of {{Modernarch}} and {{Regional-arch}}. 
Essentially they have been redesigned to be a full page width wide rather than the current "right hand panel" style which interfered with
image placement in articles. 
Your comments would be very welcome and then we'll need to fix the formatting of all the current articles that hold these templates. 
3. Portal:Architecture/New article announcements has been created to keep us all in touch with any new architecture articles we create, 
please add any you've created recently.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to

To thoroughly explore Architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
Improve Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
To provide a place to discuss common issues on Architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Architecture
To 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.
To manage editing of the Architecture WikiPortal

Daughter projects

WikiProject Airports
WikiProject Bridges
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.

Similar WikiProjects

The parent of this wikiproject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts
Wikipedia:WikiProject Woodworking
You are welcome to help organise media files for the Commons Project Architecture, started on 5th March 2006.
Since 27th July 2004, the German Wikipedia has a WikiProjekt Architecture and building industry. For coordination please look at the Discussion Page.
Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - started 17 October 2006

Forums

Architecture forum
Construction forum
Engineering forum
Building and Structures Forum
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture/Categories for categorisation ideas.

Sidebar projects

WikiProject Architecture/Categories lists the general framework of the architecture categories. See also: Portal:Architecture/Categories, Portal_talk:Architecture/Categories.
Suggestion - Develop an Architecture Manual of Style
Suggestion - Move eligible (world-wide public domain) architecture images to Wikimedia Commons
WikiProject Construction
WikiProject Civil & Structural engineering
WikiProject Landscape architecture
WikiProject Architectural heritage

How to contribute

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

Create new articles about architects, architecture, buildings and construction.
- See Help for Authors for guidelines.
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.

Expand articles

Add Infoboxes to articles about architects, architecture or building and structures.
Upload images to the WikiMedia:Commons and add images to all architecture pages.
Add external links to websites with additional information about the subject of an article and respect the rules regarding copyright violations.
Check 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 which is now updated each week, with the goal of updating the page on a daily basis.

Improve articles

Check for spelling and factual errors and correct wikilinks.
Help organise and Check categorisation of existing articles.
Revert Vandalism on this portal and on articles.

Communicate

Submit quality articles for Wikipedia:Peer review or Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
Create a request for a new article about Architecture, buildings, city planning and public space
Add to the list of Missing encyclopedic articles about architecture.
Discuss articles with members who have displayed interest in these subjects on the talk pages of the user or the article.
Contribute to discussions listed here: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.
List any questions or requests on the WikiProject talk page.

Help for authors

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

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 the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
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
Save the article
Edit the article again, and add the text for your article under the headings that are created.

Infoboxes

The starter templates above are embedded with the following infoboxes than can be inserted separately into an article:

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.

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
{{Template:Regional-arch}} Regional architecture
For writing an article about architecture, buildings, structures, an architect or anything else related to this Wikiproject put this Template at the top of the articles talk page. {{Template:Architecture}} which will display this:

The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page. If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised.

Architecture NA‑class

	Architecture portal This page 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.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles
NA	This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

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 architecture stubs
{{architect-stub}} for architect stubs.
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

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.

Useful resources

Please use pictures and drawings in the article! You find many in the Category:Architecture in the Commons

Pictures and drawings

Category:Architecture in the Commons
- Category:Architectural drawings
www.greatbuildings.com - Architecture database

Information databases

www.archinform.net - Architecture database archINFORM (en/de), here you can find many literature links
www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro - SPIRO, an image database, from the Architecture Visual Resources Library at UC Berkeley
www.structurae.de - Database Structurae with engineer buildings (en/de/fr)
Online Catalogue of the Canadian Centre for Architecture - architects and architecture (photographs, prints, drawings)

Text

aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms

Pictures and Media Files

Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded to the Commons, not to any national Wiki. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the image files, see: Commons:CommonsProject_Architecture#Naming_of_Files.

WikiProject Tasks

Collaboration of the month

Collaboration of the Month candidate: - Nominate a new article or discuss the current candidates.

WikiProject Improvement drive nominations

Collaboration

Nominate or review and comment about Improvement drive nominations

Current nominations

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):

Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review/Islamic architecture

Wikipedia Peer Review

Submit or comment on articles for Peer review.

Current articles:

Wikipedia:Peer review/Islamic architecture

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.

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)

Participants

New participants, simply sign your name at the bottom of this list:

Warofdreams | talk
Isomorphic | talk
Secretlondon | talk
KRS | talk
Pinkville | talk 16:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Burschik | talk
DVD+ R/W 15:32, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
A Y Arktos | talk 10:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dogears | talk 21:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Justinc | talk 10:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
GUÐSÞEGN – U T E X – 05:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wootking Tom | talk 00:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mcginnly | Chinwag 11:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mach10 | talk 13:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dahlis | talk 00:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hierophant | talk 11:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dubud | talk 13:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Erebus555 | talk 15:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Bok269 | talk 21:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Blahm | talk 14:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mexicansky | talk 20:18, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Garcilaso | talk 17:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Carptrash 07:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC) | User talk:Carptrash[reply]
Abdullah Geelah | talk 14:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Chaerani 03:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Padraic 12:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Douglas Anders 12:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Glenn4pr 04:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hand of Bjesomar | talk 20:27, 2 October 2006
Krm500 18:04, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
PaulM27| talk Paulm27 01:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Internazionale
Alistairtwiname 15:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 2006 - 31 participants

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Userbox for those interested in architecture

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For those who does not work in the field of architecture but loves those stuff.

This user is an architect.

Userbox for architects

Featured content from the Main Page

Recent Featured Article nominations

Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
Current articles:

Featured articles

Architects:

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Featured lists

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List of tallest buildings in:

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 *[[User:Hand of Bjesomar|Hand of Bjesomar]] | [[User talk:Hand of Bjesomar|talk]] 20:27, 2 October 2006
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-*[[User:Paulm27|PaulM27]]| [[User talk:Paulm27|talk]] [[User:Paulm27|Paulm27]] 01:12, 10
+*[[User:Paulm27|PaulM27]]| [[User talk:Paulm27|talk]] [[User:Paulm27|Paulm27]] 01:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
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 *[[User:Internazionale|Internazionale]]
+* [[User:Alistairtwiname|Alistairtwiname]] 15:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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