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 -> Reference Tools -> Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri

Resources for: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri

Alexandria Digital Library [http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/index.html]
University of California, Santa Barbara hosted "distributed digital library for geographically-referenced information." Substantial set of links to other "spatial data on the web." Includes the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus: A set of terms for categories of geographic places ( http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ver070302/index.htm)4/99, 6/2008

Architecture Glossary [http://architecture.about.com/arts/architecture/library/bl-glossary.htm]
Just a little over 50 words with definitions and illustrations. 7/00

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html]
Hierarchical vocabulary of about 120,000 terms. 7/98

Artlex: Dictionary of Visual Art [http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html]
2800 terms. Longer articles on architecture, landscape, etc. Many definitions link to specific examples [e.g. see "arch"]. Also provides a blog called Artlex Daily. 12/98, 6/08.

Dictionary of Islamic Architecture [http://archnet.org/library/dictionary/]
Definitions with links to illustrations. 7/02

Ergo Architecture Gallery of Architectural Quotations [http://www.ergoarchitecture.com/quotations/default.htm]
Not extensive, but interesting. 12/98

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html]
Hierarchical structure of nearly 900,000 places. "The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a place may also contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes." 7/98

Glossary of Castle Terms [http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.html]
Last accessed 1/03.

NetSERF's Hypertext Medieval Glossary [http://www.netserf.org/Glossary/]
1400 words, A-Z. 12/98

Wikipedia on Architecture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture]
5/05, last accessed 7/08