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 -> History

Resources for: History

Aesthetic Movement [http://www.fswarchitects.com/links.html]
Links to 19th and 20th century architecture and design (1870 - 1930). 06/08

American Architecture [http://www.realviews.com/]
Examples and brief descriptions of styles from 1690 (Georgian) to 1930 (American Foursquare). 12/01

American Cultural Resources Association [http://www.acra-crm.org]
Established in 1995, this is a "business/professional organization for people working in historic preservation, architectural history, architectural anthropology, and landscape architecture." 6/08.

Ancient City of Athens [http://www.stoa.org/athens/]
Last accessed 1/03.

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.

Architectural Dublin [http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/]
"Dublin's architectural development from medieval times through the 17th and 18th Centuries."

Architectural Styles [http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w367/styles/index.htm]
House and Commercial styles illustrated, with key characteristics indicated. House styles listed alphabetically. 12/01

Architecture and Urbanism of the Southwest [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/adobe/index.html]
Stuart Glogoff from the University of Arizona describes the site thusly: "In addition to John Messina's original essays, the site includes many images from slides that John has shot in Mexico. Among the most interesting is a sequence of images of an "adobero," adobe maker, demonstrating how adobe bricks are produced. John's essay spans the Pre-Hispanic Period to the present and features sections entitled: "Adobe," "Courtyard," and "Town Making." It also provides a recommended readings list of books and articles." 7/02, last accessed 9/08.

Architecture in America: Touring Turn-of-the-Century America [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html]
Photos from the Detroit Publishing Co. 1880-1920, includes more than 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. 6/08.

Archnet [http://archnet.org]
Promoted as "an online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world." Includes the Dictionary of Islamic Architecture in the references section, many images that can be searched in a variety of ways, CAD files for download, course syllabi, and more. 7/02

Art History Resources [http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html]
Arranged by period; some architecture resources included.9/95, 6/08.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) [http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/]
"AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community." Art and architecture images are grouped into the following categories: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, 18th - 20th Century, and Non-Western. 1/00, 6/08.

Art Nouveau World Wide [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/artnouveau/en/index.htm]
History, materials, women, musuems -- some of the categories of entries on this site. 4/06

Arts & Crafts Movement [http://anc.gray-cells.com/Intro.html]
Entries for 25 of the big names in the movement, including Greene and Greene, Roycroft, and Morris. 3/09

Arts & Crafts Society [http://www.arts-crafts.com/]
Bibliography, links, merchant listings. 8/99

ArtServe: Australian National University -- Institute of the Arts [http://rubens.anu.edu.au]
Over 19,000 images of architecture and architectural sculpture of the Mediterranean Basin, a small selection and brief survey of Islamic architecture, and a searchable book on Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey.

Bauhaus [http://www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhausarchiv/index.htm]
"The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin is concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), the most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century." Last accessed 6/08.

Capitol Project [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/cap_home.html]
Ambitious project by the American Studies Group and the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia to document Washington, D.C.

Center for Palladian Studies in America [http://www.palladiancenter.org/]
This organization, started in 1979, seeks to advance the study of Andrea Palladio and his influence in America. They publish the semi-annual journal, Palladiana, and have several useful resources such as booklists, and a timeline. 09/09

Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology [http://www.csanet.org/]
"CSA's aim is to encourage appropriate uses of information technology by those involved in research in archaeology and architectural history." "Gateway" to materials on this topic. 11/02

Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture [http://www.bath.ac.uk/casa/about]
"Concerned with the integrating of two apparently diverse fields, architectural history and computing." Completed projects, including computer modelling of reconstructions of Alberti buildings, Serlio's Renaissance Theatre, and Inigo Jones' Whitehall Banqueting House are at http://www.bath.ac.uk/casa/completed/index.html

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 Architecture Foundation [http://www.architecture.org]
On Chicago's buildings and architects.

Classical Architecture [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu]
The Art and Archaeology section contains plans and images for over 400 buildings. The architecture database can be searched by period, site, region, and type. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/search

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 Archive of American Architecture [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html]
Slides from the collection of Jeffery Howe, Boston College. Arranged by century, building type, style, architect. Enlargeable thumbnails. Substantial. 11/98

Digital Archive of European Architecture [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/default.html]
Slides from the collection of Jeffery Howe, Boston College. Arranged by period. Enlargeable thumbnails. 11/98

Digital Imaging Project [http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm]
"Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-Modern." A project by Mary Ann Sullivan to put her slide collection on the web. As of April 1, 1998 10% of her collection is there. Thumbnails can be clicked and enlarged.

Digital Karnak [http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/]
A digial project portraying the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, designed and built at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) under the direction of Dr. Diane Favro (director of the ETC) and Dr. Willeke Wendrich (editor-in-chief of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. 1/09

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, Architecture and Building [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/txtSubGuide.html]
The architecture and building selections of The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, a University of Wisconsin Madison project collecting text and images pertaining to the decorative arts with a concentration on Early America. 10/09

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

Historic House Architecture [http://www.ragtime.org/arch]
"Guide to Historic Houses with emphasis on Late-Victorian and Craftsman Style Bungalows." Description of styles rather than specific buildings.

Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism [http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/arch170/]
Syllabi, lecture notes, links to images (or info about images) for this UC - Berkeley architectural history class. 2/00

Image Exchange, Society of Architectural Historians [http://www.sah.org/index.php?submenu=Image&src=gendocs&ref=ImageExchangeAVRN&category=Main&PHPSESSID=1480f25fa506e192489e95f2270e420b]
Images of American Architecture, grouped into five chronological periods, 1600 - 1976. Images of world architecture, ancient through modern. The images on this site are posted primarily for the benefit of students, teachers, and researchers. They are meant exclusively for non-profit educational use. 6/08

Images of Medieval Art and Architecture in England and France [http://www.pitt.edu/~medart]
Primarily churches, cathedrals and abbeys.

Information System for Los Angeles [http://www.usc.edu/programs/cst/isla/lessonplans/isla.html]
Decription of the project to create a digital archive of the development of the Southern California metropolitan area. 6/08

Islamic and Arabic Arts and Architecture [http://islamicart.com]
Last accessed 1/03.

Islamic Architecture [http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/islamicarchitecture/index.html]
"Textual and Visual Resources available at MIT Rotch Library and Rotch Visual Collections." Also includes links to specific mosques and Islamic Architecture in general. 01/05

Islamic Architecture in Isfahan [http://www.isfahan.org.uk/]
Click on icons on the left to select options. Menu options include fundamental concepts, minarets, mosques and shrines, palaces and bridges, and bibliography. 6/08

Janson's History of Art [http://www.prenhall.com/janson]
Links to web resources by chapter. 8/99

Jerusalem Mosaic [http://jeru.huji.ac.il/open_screen2.htm]
Overview of people, water, food, and sites through several periods of Jerusalem history. 2/00

Kidder Smith Images of American Architecture [http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/kidder/kiddhome.html]
"Selection of images from the Kidder Smith Slide Archives, Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Current coverage of New England will continue to be expanded to include the entire U.S. Indexed by site name, architect and geographic location."

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

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome [http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html]
Images of Greece and Rome, and Roman architecture in England and France. 11/05

Museums Abroad [http://www.exploringabroad.com/art/museums.htm]
Site provides resources and an informational directory on hundreds of museums and exhibits around the world organized by country. Last accessed 6/07.

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

NetSERF [http://www.netserf.org/]
"The Internet connection for medieval resources." Medieval history, architecture, religion, etc. Glossary, bibliographies, book reviews and more. 4/06

New York Skyscrapers [http://www.in-arch.net/NYC/nyc.html]
Organized by period. Images, information on structures, materials, renovation. Extensive. 02/09

Palaces of Venice [http://www.jc-r.net/venezia/palazzi/indexe.html]
Covers a substantial number of palaces, giving image and description. 5/04

Paris Maps [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps]
100 maps, 1716-1887, with choice of quick view or detail.

Perseus Building Catalog [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0039]
Images and short text on selected Greek and Roman buildings. 4/02

Pompeii Forum Project [http://pompeii.virginia.edu/]
"The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative venture that focuses on the urban center of Pompeii. There are three components to the project: documentation of standing remains; archaeological analysis; and urban study that seeks a) to interpret the developments at Pompeii in the broader context of urban history and b) to identify at Pompeii recurring patterns of urban evolution that can be applied to contemporary issues in American urbanism." 2/00

Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles [http://www.buildinghistory.org/]
"A guide to researching historic buildings in the British Isles." Addresses beginning points for research, looking at maps and images, and a variety of building types. 3/00

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

Society of Architectural Historians [http://www.sah.org]
Resources for architectural historians as well as information on the society. Substantive original material is provided by the society, such as the list of dissertations and biographical material on American architects (1897-1947). Numerous web links. "The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide." 7/08

Society of Architectural Historians Net Resources [http://www.sah.org/index.php?submenu=Resources&src=gendocs&ref=Resources&category=Main]
Focused set of links, heavily image-oriented.

Spiro Kostof Lectures [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/kostof.html]
Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was widely recognized as one of the world's leading architectural historians. This site provides 26 lectures as well as a commemorative addresss (Spring 1987). Program notes for the Kostof Lecture Series by David Eifler, UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library, 2008. Last updated 7/08.

SPIRO, Architecture Image Library, Query Form [http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/]
"SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs. SPIRO content is the responsibility of AVRL, while programming and system support is provided by UC Berkeley's Museum Informatics Project (MIP). SPIRO was named in honor of the late architectural historian Professor Emeritus Spiro Kostof, and stands for "Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online. SPIRO is freely available on the World Wide Web." 4/02, updated 10/08

THAIS - 40 Centuries of Architecture [http://www.thais.it/architettura/]
Images of Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by location, subject, and period. (Language: Italian/English) Link established 12/98, last accessed 7/08.

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America [http://www.classicist.org/]
Information on their publications, summer program, year-long certificate program, conference/workshop, and journal.

Timeline of World Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's timeline allows searching by period and by special topics. Architecture is highlighted for a few periods, such as Renaissance architecture.5/04

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

Vitruvio.ch -- Architecture on the Web [http://www.vitruvio.ch/index.php]
Links to web sites arranged by period, from primitive through Renaissance to Future. Links to architecture historians, to "master" architects, and more. 2/01

World Art Treasures: Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation [http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/]
Photos, including gardens of the Renaissance http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Home/high_gardens.html, and art and architecture from Egypt, China, Japan, India, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Last accessed 7/08.

World Heritage List (UNESCO) [http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31]
The World Heritage List includes 878 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. Arranged by country, each entry has brief description, justification for its placement on the list, and thumbnail image. Links with partner institutions if available. 10/99, last accessed 7/08