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 -> Image Collections

Resources for: Image Collections

AIA Nevada and Western Mountain Region Design Awards Collection [http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/aiaawa.html]
Last accessed 7/03

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America [http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/index.html]
Photographs from the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, American Memory, Library of Congress (The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects). 11/06, 6/08.

ArchiVision [http://www.archivision.com]
"Architecture and visual arts image bank" supplying slides or digital images. A portion of their offerings are viewable on the net.

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 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 on File [http://www.artonfile.com/]
Images of art, architecture and design, searchable by category, title, place, artist. Results can be displayed with or without thumbnails. over 7000 images. Slides available for purchase. 5/00

Arts and Humanities Data Service Visual Arts [http://ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/collections/architecture.htm]
Monuments, churches, and urban design images. 11/06

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.

Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes [http://catena.bgc.bard.edu/]
The initial offerings of this site focus on the villa as a landscape type -- purpose is to serve as an educational tool for teachers and scholars of landscape history affiliated with schools and universities. There are featured villas and a section of historical documentation. 6/08

Cities and Buildings Database [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/]
Images of buildings in more than 30 countries. Access is geographically arranged. The aim is to create an electronic image archive on "Cities and Architecture." 7/98, 6/08.

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.

Emporis [http://www.emporis.com/en/]
11/06

Great Buildings Collection Online [http://www.artifice.com/gbc/buildings.html]
Information and images of 750 buildings. Information includes architect, location, date, building type, and print resources on the building. 7/98

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 Las Vegas [http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/graphics/index.html]
Last accessed 7/03.

Images on the Net Guide [http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/image-collections/index.html]
A hypertext guide to exploring Internet image collections, compiled by Katherine Poole. Arranged topically, and by category (such as "computer animations" or "live pictures & video imagery").

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

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."

Landscape Architecture Image Resource (LAIR) [http://www.lair.umd.edu/default.htm]
"The LAIR Website has been designed to foster active, collaborative learning and encourage community building across a variety of campuses serving landscape architecture education." 4/09

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

Pattern in Islamic Art [http://www.patterninislamicart.com/]
"Offers more than 4000 free downloadable images of such patterns as used in the decoration of Islamic architecture. The bulk of these images are drawnfrom David Wade's own photo-archive, itself the fruit of his visits to various Islamic and formerly Islamic regions over a period of some thirty years. In addition to his photo-archive the site offers other related material such as drawings, diagrams and analyses, background notes, and previouslypublished material." 8/08

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

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

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

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

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.

VADS : online resource for visual arts [http://www.vads.ac.uk/]
"a stunning collection of over 100,000 images... re-branded and re-launched itself and contains collections as diverse as the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings, the Woolmark Company Archive, and the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection." VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service) is based at the Farnham Campus of The University College for the Creative Arts. Last accessed 7/08.

Web Gallery of Art - a virtual museum of over 20,000 reproductions [http://www.wga.hu/index.html]
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 20,300 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, downloadable catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided. The Web Gallery of Art is intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers. It is a private initiative not related to any museums or art institutions, and not supported financially by any state or corporate sponsors. However, we do our utmost, using authentic literature and advice from professionals, to ensure the quality and authenticity of the content." 8/05, last accessed 7/08.

WorldImages - California State University IMAGE Project [http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/]
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images.

IMages can be used for non-profit educational purposes. Search the portfolios for architecture groups, which include Architecture 19th century, Architecture 20th century, and Russian architecture. 11/05, last accessed 7/08.