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 -> Education-Related -> Educational Initiatives

Resources for: Educational Initiatives

Agents of Change [http://aoc.uoregon.edu/]
Successor to the Vital Signs project. Teaching exercises; case studies in the workshop section. Links to additional case studies coming from the Vital Signs project are at http://aoc.uoregon.edu/case_studies/index.shtml. Case studies coming from the environmental controls class 1999-2008 are at http://www.uoregon.edu/~hof/ 06/08

Architect Studio 3d [http://www.architectstudio3d.org]
Guides students age 11-14 in designing a home, based on principles espoused by Frank Lloyd Wright. 11/05

Architectural Models [http://www.architecturalmodel.net/]
Extensive online course on building models. Some sections are free, others are for a fee. "Virtual museum" of models. 11/00, 6/2008.

Architecture for Kids at Loggia [http://www.loggia.com/designarts/architecture/kids.html]
Links to sites "exploring architecture for kids and educators." 9/02

Architecture School : Sundance Channel Reality Show [http://www.sundancechannel.com/architecture-school/]
"A six-part series which follows a group of students at Tulane University as they submit competing designs for an affordadable home in Katrina-battered New Orleans". Accessed 8/08

archKIDtecture [http://www.archkidecture.org/]
Includes reading list, projects, kids blog, links to teaching sites and more. "archKIDecture was established in 1996 to encourage visual literacy and explain math, science and visual arts concepts through the medium of architecture." 4/07

Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) [http://www.cubekc.org/lessons.html]
Materials catalog and lesson plans designed to teach kids about architecture, planning and communities. 9/02, 6/08.

Centre for Education in the Built Environment [http://www.cebe.heacademy.ac.uk/]
"CEBE is one of 24 Subject Centres which comprise the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), funded by the four UK Higher Education funding bodies. The Network was established in January 2000 to promote high quality learning, teaching and assessment practices in UK Higher Education. The primary purpose of CEBE is to provide discipline based support for learning and teaching in the built environment subject communities of Architecture, Town Planning, Landscape, Building and Surveying." Resources for the subjects, plus teaching tools. 7/02

Education for Sustainability Profiles [http://www.secondnature.org/efs/efs_profiles.htm]
Profiles of sustainability initiatives of higher education institutions. Listed by institution and by type of project (including sustainability research). Searchable. 6/99

Education Programs -- Architecture in the Classroom [http://www.phlf.org/education-department/]
List of class project suggestions from the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation. 9/02

Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines [http://www.arlisna.org/resources/onlinepubs/informationcomp.pdf]
"Compiles a list of core information literacy skills for students, divided into basic, intermediate and advanced skills in each design discipline. Serves as an aid to librarians as they strive to define and delimit information literacy skills for students in design discipines. Updated with additions: July 2007."

MIT World [http://mitworld.mit.edu/]
On-demand videos of public events at MIT. Architecture is one of the categories. 11/05

PhDiA: resource center for doctoral education in architecture and environmental design [http://www.phdia.org/PhDiAmore/]
PhDiA is a resource center and organization for doctoral education in architecture and environmental design. PhDiA members include university faculty, doctoral students, and professionals. "PhDiA was established to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to the education of doctoral students in architecture. PhDiA sponsors a peer-reviewed journal and supports regular conferences.
11/08

Teaching Resources - Association of Colegiate Schools of Architecture [https://www.acsa-arch.org/faculty/teachingresources.aspx]
Sharing teaching resources such as "a report of the second AIAS task force on studio culture". 11/08

ThinkQuest: Library: Architecture [http://thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=121]
ThinkQuest has periodic competitions to create web sites, which are then posted to ThinkQuest. Architecture web sites cover cities [e.g. Chicago], buildings [e.g. Taj Mahal], history [e.g. Architecture through the Ages], and more. 5/04

Vital Signs [http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/vitalsigns/]
Curricumlum materials project to develop teaching and resource materials for architecture students' study of lighting and mechanical systems. No longer an active page, but useful for the case studies. 11/05