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The CSA Propylaea Project is a cooperative project to create a single digital resource of information about the Propylaea, the building at the entrance to the Athenian Acropolis. The project involves CSA and its Director,Harrison Eiteljorg, II;the archaeologist/architect in charge of work on the Propylaea, Tasos Tanoulas; and the structural engineer who has worked on the Propylaea and is now the Director of the Acropolis Restoration Service, Mary Ioannidou. The aim of the project is to digitize existing information about the structure in the forms of drawings and photographs, to build a computer-aided design model of it, and to create a single, integrated resource consisting of model and related information, including text materials.
The CSA Propylaea Project has received a very generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to support the work, and progress has begun. As the project goes forward, this Web site will lead to information about the building itself - in the forms of CAD models, photographs, drawings, and text. Since one aim of the project is to serve as a paradigm for similar attempts to gather and make available digital information about important buildings of the past, information about the processes used in the project, the problems encountered, and resulting recommendations will also be made available via this Web site.
A postcard from Athens, probably sent late in the nineteenth century,
to
Mademoiselle L. Rubigny in Paris and found in an Athens flea market in 2001.
The Propylaea is shown after the demolition of the Frankish Tower but before
twentieth-century restorations. Note the value of the stamp, .01 drachmas.
Our thanks to Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos for finding the postcard and
giving it to CSA.
Available materials concerning the Propylaea:
| Photographs | Drawings (not yet available) |
CAD models (not yet available) |
In addition to the materials concerning the Propylaea, there are various materials regarding its predecessor, the so-called older propylon:
| Photographs of the older Propylon |
Drawings of the older Propylon (not yet available) |
CAD
model of the Older Propylon |
CSA Newsletter articles about the project:
An Apparatus to Aid in Surveying High Walls by Harrison Eiteljorg, II, XX.3 (Winter 2008)
Surveying with a Total Station and No Prism -- A Reconsideration of Surveying without Targets, XVII.3 (Winter 2005)
Parametric Modeling in AutoCAD -- Almost, XVII.3 (Winter 2005)
"The Cyrax 3D Scanner in the Propylaea -- Surveying Again," XVII.2 (Fall 2004)
"Old Data in New Clothes," XVII.1 (Spring 2004)
"From Field Data to CAD Model: Modeling the NW wing of the Propylaea," XVII.1 (Spring 2004)
"A Final Survey Experiment on the NW Wing of the Propylaea," XVI.3 (Winter, 2004)
"Note-Taking with Total Station Survey Work," XVI.3 (Winter, 2004)
"More Survey Experiments on the Propylaea" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II, XVI.2 (Fall, 2003)
"Surveying with Photographs -- PhotoModeler® 5," XVI.1 (Spring 2003)
"Surveying the Northwest Wing of the Propylaea -- A Pilot Project," XVI.1 (Spring 2003)
"Using CSA Propylaea Project Data Files" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II, XV.2 (Fall, 2002)
"Unicode File Names: New CSA Policy," XV.1 (Spring 2002)
"Multi-File CAD Models" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II, and Susan C. Jones, XV.1 (Spring 2002)
"The Roof of the NW Wing of the Propylaea" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II; XV.1 (Spring, 2002)
"The CSA Propylaea Project - Reconstructing the Pinakotheka Roof" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II; XIV.3 (Winter, 2002)
"A Spreadsheet as a CAD Aid - Again" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II; XIV.2 (Fall, 2001)
"Recent Work on the CSA Propylaea Project" by Harrison Eiteljorg, II; XIV.2 (Fall 2001)
"First Fruits of CSA Propylaea Project," XIV.1 (Spring, 2001)
"Slide Digitizing - More Exacting Experiments," XIV.1 (Spring, 2001)
"Scanning Propylaea Drawings," Harrison Eiteljorg, II, XIV.1 (Spring, 2001)
"Using the CSA Layer Naming Convention on the Propylaea Model," XIV.1 (Spring, 2001)
"Making Aims Match Needs," Harrison Eiteljorg, II, XIV.1 (Spring, 2001)
"Slide Digitizing -- A Lesson Learned," XIII.3 (Winter 2001)
"New Photographs on CSA Propylaea Project Web Page," XIII.3 (Winter 2001)
"Scanning Drawings for Preservation and Display -- What Resolution?" XIII.3 (Winter 2001)
"Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant for CSA Propylaea Project," XIII.2 (Fall, 2000)
"CSA Propylaea Project Taking Shape," XIII.1 (Spring, 2000)
"Propylaea Project Gets Back In Gear," XII.3 (Winter, 2000)
"Building a Model of the Propylaea," XI.1 (Spring, 1998)
Scholarly Papers
"The CSA Propylaea Project," Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos and Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Computer Applications in Archaeology annual meeting, April, 2002.
"The CSA Propylaea Project," Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, January, 2002.
"Did Mnesicles' Reach Exceed His Grasp? The CSA Propylaea Project," Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College, November, 2001.
"The Architect in the Classical Period," Harrison Eiteljorg, II, European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting, September, 2001.
"The CSA Propylaea Project," Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, April, 2001.
The Propylaea from below (© CSA, digital photograph taken in February, 2000)
The northwest wing of the Propylaea from below (© CSA, digital photograph taken in February, 2000)
The southwest wing of the Propylaea from below (© CSA, digital photograph taken in February, 2000)