Digital Environments: Design, Heritage and Architecture
<< Contents

Contributors

 

Tanya Szrajber

Tanya Szrajber is Standards and Training Officer in the Collections Data Management Section (CDMS) at the British Museum, with particular responsibility for standards and terminology. She is the current Chair of the Museum Documentation Association (MDA) Archaeology Terminology Working Group, and is on the CHArt editorial board. Tanya studied Philosophy/Psychology at Oxford University and has an MPhil in Medieval Art from the Courtauld Institute, London.

Michael Grant

[No biographical details]

Gary Ennis

[No biographical details]

Melissa Terras

Melissa M. Terras graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1997 with an MA in History of Art and English Literature, then undertook an MSc in IT (and the Humanities), also at Glasgow . She is currently studying for a doctorate in Engineering Science with Classics at the University of Oxford, developing computer applications to aid Papyrologists with the transcription of Ancient Documents.

Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey is Head of the School of Humanities and a founding member of the Institute for Image Data Research. His research interests include the application of image analysis and retrieval techniques to the History of Art and Design and the Conservation of Fine Art. He assisted in the setting up of ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture and Media Internet Gateway, and its sister project, VADS, the Visual Arts Data Service. He supervised the ADAM User Needs Survey in 1996 and is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Design History and the CHArt Journal (Computers and the History of Art).

Margaret Graham

Margaret Graham is currently on secondment from the School of Information Studies as Research & Development Manager of IIDR. Her research interests include the visual information needs of users, the evaluation of IR systems and the effects of ICT in libraries and information services. She is currently the project head of the joint IIDR/British Library (Library & Information Commission) funded VISOR Project, researching information seeking behaviour in image retrieval.

Jules Moloney

Jules Moloney has been lecturing at the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland since 1996. His research and teaching focus is the impact of digital technology on architectural design and education. He was previously in architectural practice in London.

Luciana Bordoni

Luciana Bordoni graduated in Mathematics in 1977, and specialised in Control System and Automatic Calculus Engineering in 1979, at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. Since 1980, she has been working for ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment) in Casaccia (Rome) in the field of data processing, databases, information handling. Currently she works at ENEA's Funzione Centrale Studi/Documentation Unit whose main aim is to develop methods, techniques and systems that can contribute to innovating those sectors whose task is to disseminate information.

Attilio Colagrossi

Attilio Colagrossi graduated in Mathematics from "La Sapienza" University of Rome. He also specialised in Control System and Automatic Calculus Engineering at the same University. Since 1978 he has worked in the field of Informatics for Public Administration. Currently, he is responsible for the transmission data systems of the National Hydrological Service of the Italian Government. Since 1990 he has been Contract Professor of Informatics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. He also collaborates with the Italian National Research Council for the development of research in advanced programming systems and automated deduction.

Giovanna Martellotti

Giovanna Martellotti from the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome in 1977 with a degree in painting restoration. Since then she has worked as a fellow in the Cooperative C.B.C. Conservazione Beni Culturali, in Rome.

Claudio Seccaroni

Claudio Seccaroni graduated in Rome in 1984 with a degree in Chemical Engineering . He currently works in the Unit for the Safety of the Cultural Heritage at the ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment).

Gareth Bradshaw

Gareth Bradshaw graduated from Trinity College with a first class B.A.(Mod) in Computer Science in 1998, and is currently working on an MSc degree, under Dr Carol O'Sullivan, in the Image Synthesis Group in the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin.

Rachel Moss

Rachel Moss has worked as a consultant to Duchas the Heritage service and the Heritage Council of Ireland on a number projects concerning the recording and management of collections of medieval loose stone. She is currently registered for a PhD degree in the Department of the History of Art, Trinity College Dublin, where she has taught courses on Early Irish Art and Romanesque Sculpture.

Tim Benton

Tim Benton is Professor of Art History at the Open University. His research interests include Le Corbusier's work of the 1920s and 1930s and the history of modern architecture and design. He is currently working on a book on Le Corbusier's domestic architectural designs (1914-1935) which includes a study of all the architectural drawings and documents associated with these projects. As one of the founding members of CHArt, he has supported the application of computing methods to art history, as external examiner of doctoral dissertations and Taught Masters programmes, and in his own work.

Ian Pickering

Ian Pickering is Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Mackintosh School of Architecture. He is coordinator of courses with the Universities of Glasgow and Paisley - 'Engineering with Architecture'. He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and has taught at the AA School, the Royal College of Art, the Polytechnic of the South Bank and at the Mackintosh School of Architecture since 1984. He was visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, in 1994.

He has worked as an architect in practice during the 1970s-1980s. His interest in the Architecture of SW France derives from studies of Bastides as student and personal contacts with St Avit.

Tim Sharpe

Tim Sharpe has research interests in: participatory design techniques, CAAD and user participation in design, energy efficiency and passive solar techniques, VR communication. His past experience includes: Architect for Technical Services Agency, Community Architecture Scotland and is currently Lecturer in Architectural Science and Methods and Procedures at the Mackintosh School of Architecture.

Joanne Bushnell

Joanne Bushnell was involved in setting up the Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute in 1996, and acted as Exhibition Organiser until 1999, when she became Director of Aspex Visual Arts Trust which runs the Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. In 1998 she completed an MA in Computers and their Application to Art History at Birkbeck College, for which this paper formed her major project.

Alan Day

Alan Day trained as an architect and worked on a number of housing projects in London and Glasgow. For the past 15 years he has been researching into aspects of computer modelling and his book 'Digital Building' was published in 1996. He is currently Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.

Thom Gorst

Thom Gorst worked as an architect in the 1980s on a number of high profile inner-city housing developments involving public consultation, including the Coin Street development for the GLC at Waterloo, and the riverside Cherry Garden Housing scheme for Southwark Council, where he was the Assistant Borough Architect. Since becoming a lecturer at the University of Bath, he has published two books which both demonstrate his commitment to demystifying architecture and making it accessible to all.