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.
Scroll down, use ->EDIT ->FIND , or the hotkeys Control F to search within these pages.

Architecture Internet Resources -> Resources -> Digital Projects

Resources for: Digital Projects

AcIS Imaging and Hypertext Projects [http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/imaging.html]
A joint project of AcIS -- Academic Information Systems -- and Columbia University Libraries. It includes 2000 digitized images (e.g. of Paris maps, Calatrava Bridges, and miscellaneous other topics). Home of the Digital Image Access Project.

Arts and Architecture [http://www.artsandarchitecture.com/]
"A&A was an avant garde magazine of international importance, covering modern art, music, literature and architecture" contains representative projects from all issues of the magazine 1945-1967, also complete presentions of all 35 Case Study Houses as originally published in A&A." Last accessed 12/07.

California Heritage Collection [http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/CalHeritage/]
"The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collection of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley." Included are images from these collections and many more: Artistic Homes of California 1887-1890, Buildings of Berkeley ca. 1915, California Mission Sketches, and Construction Photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge 1933-1934. In addition to the images is information on the collections. 12/98

Chartres Cathedral [http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index]
Wonderful site. More than 2000 images. Searchable and browsable. Well indexed. 11/05

Chicago Imagebase [http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/index.html]
"The Chicago Imagebase is a Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images and other data along with information on how to use this data to study the city." 8/99

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Digital Design Lab [http://www.arch.columbia.edu/]
Projects online by semester. From the homepage follow links under "works" 4/07

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture [http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/]
"A database of the Chipstone and Longridge image collections of furniture, ceramics and prints. Objects date mostly from the 18th century. The ceramics pieces are now extensively documented with research by Leslie Grigsby of Winterthur. The images are available for
academic research and teaching." 11/08

Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Lab [http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/udv/mission.htm]
Includes a noise study, transit study, historic preservation study. Online resources provide tutorial information on GIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Autocad and more. http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/udv/education.htm 11/05, updated 11/08.

Library of Congress American Memory Collections: Topics: Art and Architecture [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html]
A treasure, this page leads to information and/or images for many of the Library of Congress collections including the photographs of the Detroit Publishing Company (1885-1930), the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection -- "Northeastern U.S. and Florida, emphasizing architecture," the Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, and Horydczak Collection of architecture. 3/99

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

SAHARA [http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=HOME&category=Sahara%20HOME]
"SAHARA is a new digital image archive developed in 2008 by the Society of Architectural Historians in collaboration with ARTstor. Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SAHARA will allow SAH members either to upload their own digital photographs and QTVR panoramas to a shared online archive or to download images for teaching and research." 4/09

UCLA Cultural VR Lab [http://www.cvrlab.org/]
Substantial projects focusing on the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. 11/05

University of Washington Digital Collections [http://content-dev.lib.washington.edu/]
Go to the A-Z list for two relevant digital projects: the Cities and Buildings Database, and the Urban Archives Database. 11/05