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 -> Computing

Resources for: Computing

ACADIA - Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture [http://www.acadia.org]
Information including membership info, officers, steering committee, author/title index to the Acadia Quarterly and their proceedings 1981-96, and a conference paper database (1992, 1993) for the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture.

ACM SIGGRAPH Computing Bibliography [http://www.siggraph.org/publications/bibliography/]
Over 21,000 article references in the fields of computer graphics,
computer animation, geometric modeling and computer vision.

Last accessed 1/03.

Barcelona Pavilion [http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/barcelona/barcelona.html]
Computer construction.

Bentley MAINline [http://www.bentley.com]
Information about and for the users of MicroStation CAD software. Provides numerous training programs. Provides "applications that help engineers, architects, contractors, governments, institutions, utilities and owner-operators design, build and operate more productively, collaborate more globally and deliver infrastructure assets that perform more sustainably." 6/08

BLOCON -- Building Physics Computer Programs [http://www.buildingphysics.com/]
"PC-programs for building physics applications such as heat transfer, moisture, air, energy balances, and ground heat storage." Average price seems to be about $200.

CADalog [http://www.cadalog.com/]
Over 3000 Autocad related files. 8/99

CADD Education Center [http://www.caddprimer.com/]
Online tutorial, and substantial portions of the CADD Primer to download. 2/00

CUMINCAD (Cumulative Index of Papers on Computer Aided Architectural Design) [http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home]
"This is a collaboration between TU Vienna and University of Ljubljana and is a very comprehensive, searchable library of papers related to computer aided architectural design and computing in AEC from the 1960s to 1999. All have full abstracts, some have URLs and author email addresses." 2/00

Design Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology [http://www.ds.arch.tue.nl/splash.htm]
Design Systems is a group in the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning of the Eindhoven University of Technology and contains information on their research and curriculum in designing with and of computer applications. AW 4/99, 6/08.

Integra Products [http://www.integra.co.jp/eng/products/]
Several products with architectural applications, including Inspirer - a system for a physically accurate lighting simulation and image rendering aimed mainly for architectural applications, Insight - a plug-in for 3d Studio Max/Viz, and Flow - a tool for simulation of heat and mass transfer in an arbitrary environment. 4/01

Integrated CAD Research Information System (ICARIS) [http://itc.fgg.uni-lj.si/ICARIS]
"ICARIS is an experimental research network related to integrated CAD in civil engineering and architecture." It includes bibliographies, full-text papers, a searchable civil engineers' calendar of events, and EDITEC and W78 membership databases.

Intergraph [http://www.intergraph.com/products/]
Software, FAQs.

Jack Human [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~hms/home.html]
University of Pennsylvania's Center for Human Modeling and Simulation: information on their program to model humans in a CAD environment.

Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition - the University of Sydney [http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/research/]
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney. "The vision of the Key Centre is to improve the quality of design through the application of the latest developments in computing." They are especially interested in artificial intelligence in design, multimedia in design, and computer-support for collaborative design. 6/08

Radiance WWW Server [http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html]
Description of the radiance ray-tracing software, sources on the Internet from which to obtain it, tips for using it, an archive of a radiance discussion group, and other www sites featuring radiance.

Ray Tracing Bibliography [http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Graphics/ray.html]
Searchable and browsable. More than 700 entries as of 2/99.

RealWorld Imagery [http://www.realworldimagery.com/]
Texture maps of people, plants, objects -- clip art for 2d and 3d graphics, available for sale on CD. Thumbnails shown online. Desert shrubs included. 2/01

SmartDraw [http://www.smartdraw.com/engineer.htm]
Windows program for drawing flowcharts, engineering diagrams, circuits, networks and business presentations. Free sample. 6/99

TenLinks: The Ultimate CAD Directory [http://www.tenlinks.com]
Top ten links in about 150 categories! "TenLinks, Inc. is an online CAD, CAM and CAE media company. Founded in 1999 with TenLinks.com, TenLinks has grown into a network of websites and newsletters that together form the largest community of CAD, CAM and CAE users on the Internet." 4/99, last accessed 7/08.

ThinkQuest: Library: Architecture [http://thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=121]
ThinkQuest has periodic competitions to create web sites, which are then posted to ThinkQuest. Architecture web sites cover cities [e.g. Chicago], buildings [e.g. Taj Mahal], history [e.g. Architecture through the Ages], and more. 5/04

Turning the Pages [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/]
Project of the British Library. Turn page by page such amazing treasures as the Lindisfarne Gospels and Leonardo's Notebooks. 5/04 10/08.

Virtual Reality and Architecture (VRArch) [http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/VRArch/]
Compiled by Toni Emerson, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington. 8/99