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 -> Information Databases and Image Banks

Resources for: Information Databases and Image Banks

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.

archiV - die architektendatenbank [http://www.workshop-archiv.de]
"archiV is a databank for the German speaking area. it contains addresses, lists of projects and supplies biographical and project information." Can search by architect and project type. 7/98, 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.

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

Environmental Impact Statement Collection [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/searcheis.html]
Database of citations to the Environmental Impact Statements held by Northwestern University's Transportation Library -- said to be nearly all the EIS's issued by federal agencies since 1969. The statements are available for loan for a fee. 12/98

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

High-Rise Buildings Database [http://www.ctbuh.org/HighRiseInfo/TallestDatabase/tabid/123/Default.aspx]
Compiled by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. "Data on thousands of tall buildings: the latest facts and statistics, visual images and video, and listings of professional firms linked to specific buildings and specialty categories." Differential access for Council members/non-members [one search produced 3 hits for non-members, 64 hits for members]. 10/01

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

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

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.