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 -> Architectural Archives

Resources for: Architectural Archives

Alexander Architectural Archive [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/]
University of Texas. Description of the collections. Exhibit of selected images. 8/02, 6/08

Alexander Parris Digital Archive [http://www.parrisproject.org/About.htm]
Over 400 images and transciptions on the work of 19th century Massachusetts architect-engineer, Alexander Parris (1780–1852). 6/2008

Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania [http://www.upenn.edu/gsfa/archives/archives/index2.htm]
Description of the collection, which includes the Louis I. Kahn Collection. 8/02

Architectural History Collections, University of North Carolina, Charlotte [http://library.uncc.edu/display/?dept=special&format=open&page=1294]
Description of collections documenting the architectural history of the Charlotte area. 8/02

Architectural Photographs Collection, Cornell University [http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/adw.asp]
More than 1200 of the photographs [out of 13,000] online and searchable. Photographs from the 18th and early 19th centuries. 8/02. 6/2008.

Art Institute of Chicago Center for Architectural Drawings [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/arch/]
Last accessed 1/03.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia Architectural Archives [http://www.philaathenaeum.org/research.html]
Last accessed 1/03.

Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning Drawings and Documents Archive [http://www.bsu.edu/cap/facilities/archives/about/]
Documenting Indiana architects and buildings. 5/05

Canadian Architectural Archives [http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/CAA/index.html]
Established in 1974, collects, preserves, and ensures access to the records of twentieth century Canadian architects and architectural firms with regional, national and international significance. 8/99, 6/08.

Canadian Architecture Collection [http://cac.mcgill.ca/]
"Its mandate is to document the work of past and present architects who have studied and/or taught at the McGill University School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Through photographs, drawings, and corollary documentation, the CAC also seeks to represent the evolution of the McGill campus, the city of Montreal, and the architectural heritage of Quebec and Canada." Includes various archives, such as the Safdie collection, and Building Canada, a digital collection of over 2000 images of Canadian architecture. 6/99

Canadian Center for Architecture [http://www.cca.qc.ca/]
General description of the CCA, and its library and exhibition program. CCA personnel are listed.

Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives [http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/]
Includes links to other architectural archives as well. 8/98

Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering [http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/adecenter/adecent.html]
Established by the Library of Congress in 2002 to "focus attention on, encourage support for, and promote the study of the Library's unmatched architecture, design, and engineering collections, thereby increasing the public's awareness and appreciation of the achievements of the architecture, design, and engineering professions and their contributions to our quality of life." 4/03

Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology Archive [http://www.csanet.org/archive]
Information on and discussion of issues relating to the archiving of computer files. The CSA CAD Archive currently contains the CAD model of the older propylon on the Athenian Acropolis. Laura Tatum, Yale University Library, notes in her article in fall 2002 Art Documentation "Documenting Design: A Survey of State-of-the-Art Practice for Archiving Architectural Records" that "this may be the model with the most far-reaching implications for future archiving of digital materials:all material accessible in the CSA Archive is available for any interested user to recreate and study ...." 11/02

Chicago Historical Society Charles F. Murphy Architectural Study Center [http://www.chicagohs.org/research/aboutcollection/architecture]
Description of the scope of this collection "documenting Chicago's rich architectural history." 8/02

Currier Museum of Art: Archive - Zimmerman House, Frank Lloyd Wright [http://www.currier.org/collections/2col.aspx?id=2458]
The Isadore J. and Lucille Zimmerman House (1950) was designed by one of the world’s greatest modern architects, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Web site includes slide show and list of resources and drawings available at the museum.

Environmental Design Archives [http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/]
"The work of most of the San Francisco Bay Region's historically significant architects and landscape architects are represented in the collections of more than 150 architects and firms. These collections contain drawings, plans, specifications, photographs, audio-tapes, personal papers, business records, furniture, art and artifacts." 4/99

International Archive of Women in Architecture [http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/guide.html]
Last accessed 1/03.

International Archive of Women in Architecture: Imagebase [http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/iawa]
Just one of the categories of Virginia Tech's Imagebase, this collection of images from the International Archive of Women in Architecture has about 2000 images, sorted by woman or category. The women in this imagebase are architects, designers, and landscape architects. A sample google search showed these images do not come up in the google results. 4/05

Irish Architectural Archive [http://www.iarc.ie/]
Includes searchable biographical index. 7/98

Julia Morgan Collection [http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/morgan/index.html]
Includes biography, description of the collection at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and box list. 12/98

McGill University Blackader-Lauterman Library Architectural Archives [http://www.mcgill.ca/blackader/]
Description of the Moshe Safdie archive in the collections section, along with other architectural archives. 4/03

MIT Museum's Architecture and Design Collection [http://web.mit.edu/museum/collections/architecture.html]
Description of the collection. 8/02

Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota [http://special.lib.umn.edu/manuscripts/architect.html]
Description of collection. Abstracts of individual collections. Image databases for selected collections, allowing search by date and place, with images and descriptive information retrieved. 8/02

Parkinson Architectural Archives [http://www.parkinsonarchitecture.com/]
"Architectural drawing/historical photograph archives of the Parkinson architectural firm of Los Angeles (1894-present)." Last accessed 6/08.

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

Texas Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/txcopar.html]
Their "goal is to organize and develop a resource for institutions holding architectural, building and planning records in the state of Texas." They plan on sharing both expertise and information on holdings. 4/02

Theatre Historical Society of America [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa]
Information on the American Theatre Architecture Archive, links to historic theatre web sites. 7/98

Tulane Southeastern Architectural Archive [http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/SEAAHome.html]
Brief description of their collection and the procedures to access the collection in New Orleans. 10/99

Unesco Portal to Architectural Archives in Europe [http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Architectural_Archives/Europe/index.shtml]
Last accessed 1/03.

University of California, Santa Barbara Architectural Drawing Collection [http://www.uam.ucsb.edu]
Last accessed 1/03.