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 -> Indexes to Print Material

Resources for: Indexes to Print Material

American Planning Association - Planning Advisory Service Reports Subject Index [http://myapa.planning.org/pas/subject.html]
Or search by chronological order: http://myapa.planning.org/pas/chron.html Last accessed 1/03.

ARCHINDONT [http://archindont.torontopubliclibrary.ca/]
Architectural Index of Ontario, an index to periodical and monograph citations about Toronto buildings prepared by the Metro Toronto Reference Library. Search by architect, designer, name of building, building type, and street address. Information on each building includes address, type, name, notes, architects, and citations. 2/01

Architectural Index [http://www.archindex.com/]
Index to the approximately ten most basic architectural magazines. Most searching is by subscription; however 1982-1988 articles may be searched for free. The print version is available in many architecture libraries. 9/98

Avery Title List [http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/databases/dbdetails/details/AveryIndex.htm]
A list of titles covered by the Avery Index, current as of Jan. 1997. 8/99

Domus Map Guides [http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/architecture/architects/domus.html]
Listing of maps in the journal Domus, from 1986 onward, by MIT Architecture Librarian Michael Leineger. 5/00

Index to Historic Preservation Periodicals [http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/catdat.html]
From the National Trust Library. 6/99

Ingenta [http://www.ingenta.com]
Last accessed 1/03.

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

National Technical Information Service [http://www.ntis.gov]
Search "over 3 million technical, scientific, and business information products published by U.S. government agencies adn international sources." Ordering information is included, but not abstracts. 10/00

Quakeline [http://mceer.buffalo.edu/utilities/quakeline.asp]
"The database of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), contains bibliographic information on the subjects of earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazards mitigation, and related topics." Primarily 1987 onwards. Includes non-book as well as print materials.

RIBA Library Catalog [http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/RIBALibrary/Catalogue.aspx]
Catalog/index including books, articles, slides, drawings, photographs, manuscripts. 10/99, last accessed 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

Urban Land Institute Project Reference File Index [http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/architecture/architects/prf/index.html]
Compiled by Michael Leininger of MIT's Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning. Subject index, and listing of projects by name.