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New Bass Connections Project: World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham

Students: Apply by August 23!

Faculty and staff members of DAHVC have been awarded funding via Duke’s Bass Connections for a 2023-24 project that will examine the histories of Duke in/and Durham between 1924-1932.


Fall 2023 Courses

Politics and Modern Architecture

Politics and Modern Architecture

Given the needs for labor, materials, and legal permissions, architects in the modern period by definition intersect with interests of power. This course explores the…

Pencil sketch showing gothic buildings with a chapel at the center and a large fountain in the foreground.

Duke’s Historical Landscape

This course will cover the development of the plan for Duke’s West Campus in 1924-1925. As a project-based course, students contribute historical research, 3D models,…

Digital Imaging

Digital Imaging

Photoshop and Illustrator used to introduce single and serial images for print and web output. Consent of instructor required.

Medieval Castles of Europe

Medieval Castles of Europe

This course will examine the transition of Western Europe into a fortified landscape from the mid-11th century until the advent of large-scale artillery in the…

Digital Humanities Proseminar 1

Digital Humanities Proseminar 1

Overview of topics in digital humanities and computational media, with special attention to visual media. Studies of critical digital heritage, virtuality and culture, information aesthetics,…

A pixelated view of an empty two-lane road.

Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling methodologies, theory, and practice. In-depth analysis of digital storytelling in various media forms and modes of production. Cultural impact of new media narratives.…

Pencil sketch showing gothic buildings with a chapel at the center and a large fountain in the foreground.

Building the Olmsted Record: Duke University’s Landscape Architecture

Building the Olmsted Record: Duke University’s Landscape Architecture documents the history of Duke’s landscape architecture from its early conception in the 1920s. The project has…

Painting of a white man sitting with books and a door behind him. Superimposed: Dictionary of Art Historians. Image Credit: Lee Sorensen

Dictionary of Art Historians

https://vimeo.com/835706833 Hear from Dictionary co-PIs Lee Sorensen and Hannah Jacobs about the history of the project. The Dictionary of Art Historians started as a long-standing…

Modeling Agency

Modeling Agency

Agent Based Modeling (ABM) serves to computationally model populations within the built environment. Agents are placed within 3D spatial simulations and navigate the modeled space…

3D model of the Nazi architectural plan for Krakow. Model created by Davide Contiero

Mapping Occupied Krakow

As is well known, Krakow became a key location within the National Socialist plan for military expansion and the implementation of genocide in Eastern Europe…

Hypothetical floor plan for a setting in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Image credit: Victoria Szabo & Cosimo Monteleone

Visualizing Lovecraft’s Providence

This project explores the use of historical and cultural visualization techniques to instantiate the imagined Providence, Rhode Island of author H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft famously…

Image showing photogrammetric phases of creating a digital model. The object is a 15th-century Incan pacha in the Nasher Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Image Credit: Edward Triplett

Art of the Americas Interactive

This project is a partnership with the Nasher Museum to re-imagine the exhibition of the museum’s collection of ancient American Art, one of the best…

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Lab Calendar

August 30, 2023
  • HCVIS 580S - Proseminar I (Szabo)

    August 30, 2023  10:05 am - 12:35 pm

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August 31, 2023
  • ARTHIST 390S - Duke's Historical Landscape (Triplett & Jacobs)

    August 31, 2023  10:05 am - 12:35 pm

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  • ARTHIST 227 - Medieval Castles of Europe (Triplett)

    August 31, 2023  3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

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September 1, 2023
September 4, 2023
September 5, 2023
  • HOLD: Departmental Activities

    September 5, 2023  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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  • ARTHIST 227 - Medieval Castles of Europe (Triplett)

    September 5, 2023  3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

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