Subject: 20 November 1996
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:12:41 -0500


Five years ago today was the last day that there was no such thing as
Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture. Since that time the notion of
architect's designing virtual museums has become somewhat vogue, but
www.quondam.com has never received 'official' recognition as the first (or
at least oldest) virtual museum to be designed by an architect. Oddly, the
Guggenheim Virtual Museum has received enormous press and official
recognition, yet, in complete irony, it does not even exist as an online
entity despite its self proclamation as being the most important virtual
building of the 21st century. Quondam used to offer an online journal
entitled NOT THERE. Perhaps it's now time for Quondam to start handing out
the NOT THERE award.

www.quondam.com today manifests architecture as the delivery of content.
Moreover, Quondam strives to deliver architectual content that is not
available anywhere else, thus generally following the dictum that a virtual
museum should be what a real museum cannot be.

Stephen Lauf
architect of www.quondam.com



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