Architecture and Building

RESOURCES BY TOPIC

Topics covered by this guide include architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture. Types of listings range from discussion groups to electronic publications to databases -- and of course a wide variety of websites. This is a selective guide. Links to more comprehensive link collections are included. For some topics just one or two sites with good links to the net resources in that topic are listed. Although the emphasis is on quality sites, sometimes sites that are currently not well-developed but show promise of being so are included.

This guide, started in 1993, is posted to the UNLV Libraries Architecture Studies Library page [/arch/rsrce/webresources/index.php]. Additions and corrections, as well as suggestions for categories, can be sent to Jeanne Brown (jeanne.brown@unlv.edu), head of the UNLV Architecture Studies Library. Permission is granted to use this material for non-commercial purposes, provided the author (Jeanne Brown) is credited.
This Architecture Internet Database is very extensive.
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Architecture Internet Resources -> Resources -> Competitions -> Databases

Resources for: Databases

archINFORM: Architectural Buildings/Projects Database [http://www.archINFORM.net/start.htm]
Database of "over 5000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database." Lists by person and town; searchable. Useful reference tool for dates and locations.

archiV - die architektendatenbank [http://www.workshop-archiv.de]
"archiV is a databank for the German speaking area. it contains addresses, lists of projects and supplies biographical and project information." Can search by architect and project type. 7/98, 6/08.

Death by Architecture: Competitions [http://www.deathbyarch.com]
Organized into student competitions, and those open to others. Links to web information if available.

Environmental Impact Statement Collection [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/searcheis.html]
Database of citations to the Environmental Impact Statements held by Northwestern University's Transportation Library -- said to be nearly all the EIS's issued by federal agencies since 1969. The statements are available for loan for a fee. 12/98

Getty Databases [http://www.getty.edu/search/index.html]
Databases and research tools, including the Census of Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance (password required) and the Getty Provenance. 7/99

High-Rise Buildings Database [http://www.ctbuh.org/HighRiseInfo/TallestDatabase/tabid/123/Default.aspx]
Compiled by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. "Data on thousands of tall buildings: the latest facts and statistics, visual images and video, and listings of professional firms linked to specific buildings and specialty categories." Differential access for Council members/non-members [one search produced 3 hits for non-members, 64 hits for members]. 10/01

Historic American Building Survey/ Historic American Engineering Record [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/]
"The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies. As of March 1998, America's built environment has been recorded through surveys containing more than 363,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century." 3/99

Land Use Database [http://ludb.clui.org/]
Searchable by keyword, browsable by type of site (cultural, industrial, mining, military, nuclear, radioactive transportation, waste, and water) which can be limited by location. "The database includes museums and displays related to land use, and one of the most thorough listings of land art sites available." 12/98, 6/08

Las Vegas Architects and Buildings Database [http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/archdb/arch.php]
A database created and maintained by the UNLV Architecture Studies Library reflecting library and web materials for thousands of architects, firms and projects from Las Vegas, Nevada and surrounding areas. Last accessed 8/06.

National Register of Historic Places [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/]
Last accessed 1/03.

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings [http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/]
Browse or search this substantial online text and image collection which draws on the "collections, data, images and professional expertise of The Athenum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and several local cultural institutions." A model project. 8/02

Smart Growth (EPA) [http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/]
"This site highlights numerous policies and programs that states and localities nationwide have implemented to further smart growth." Search, or browse by program objective, technique or state in which implemented. 8/02, 7/08 updated 11/08

structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures [http://www.structurae.de/en/]
"structurae is an International Database and Gallery of Structures. It is provided as a free service to engineers, as well as teachers and students of structural engineering. This site contains contemporary and historical information on works of structural engineering and their designers, and firms that constructed them. The intention is to provide a broad overview of structures and as much technical information as reasonable." Also points to relevant print and web materials. Searchable; browsable by designer, geographic area, type of structure, firm, and project name. 5/99, last accessed 7/08