By Joe Shepter With niche-hunting season just about closed on the Web, it's hard to find a more surprising bag than that of Paul Petrunia. In some ways, they're not that far apart. Peel back a few layers of color and type, and you'll find that many first-generation Web designers started out in architecture. The vocabulary of the Internet is largely theirs, full of sites, portals, and structures, rather than layout and typography. But in other ways, they're quite different.
Web design is a new field, while architecture was around before writing.
The Web is full of teenage hotshots, while architecture has rising stars with AARP cards. Trendy Web sites look up to their architectural counterparts in awe. When I ask them to do a project, they complete it. Archinect features many special projects by architects and Web designers. Here's a list of some of the all-time favorites.