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Great Buildings Online Kevin Matthews
Artifice, Inc.
Eugene, Oregon
2000
Internet URL:
http://www.greatbuildings.com
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Last viewed: December 2000
Keyword Architecture
Great Buildings Online is an architectural web site sponsored by Artifice, Inc., a publisher of software tools for spatial design. This site is the free online counterpart of the Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM, which sells for $149.50. Although this is clearly a commercial Web site, marketing the company's design software products, Artifice CEO Kevin Matthews has created an innovative web product that offers aficionados a wonderful way to virtually view centuries of great architecture. By downloading the company's free Design Workshop(R) Lite software, one can walk through hundreds of 3D architectural computer models.
The site is very well organized and easy to navigate. Users can perform a simple search by name of building, architect, or place, or...