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 -> Education-Related -> Learning Materials

Resources for: Learning Materials

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

ArchNet Course Syllabi [http://archnet.org/courses/]
Syllabi and bibliographies for courses on Islamic and middle east architecture and planning, primarily from MIT and University of Texas Austin. 7/02

Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism [http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/arch170/]
Syllabi, lecture notes, links to images (or info about images) for this UC - Berkeley architectural history class. 2/00

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

MIT OpenCourseWare Architecture [http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Architecture/index.htm]
Syllabi, student projects, readings, assignments etc. for many undergraduate and graduate courses. 11/05

Syracuse University School of Architecture [http://soa.syr.edu/]
Includes student and faculty work, an image library, course syllabi, dean's message, newsletters etc. Last accessed 7/08.

University of Miami School of Architecture [http://www.arc.miami.edu]
Information on the school, local architecture ("Arquitectura Tropicana"), a virtual gallery of students' work, courseware (of particular interest may be the online course "Digital Design Studio"), faculty books in print, research (e.g. New South Dade Planning Charette) and other information.

University of Virginia School of Architecture [http://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU/~arch]
Online course materials, some of which are accessible off campus, full-text research reports, student homepages and portfolios. Syllabus and lectures for Introduction to Structural Design: http://urban.arch.Virginia.EDU/~km6e/arch324

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

World Lecture Hall: Architecture / Building [http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm]
Follow the link to Architecture/building. Links to syllabi, essays, lecture notes and images of seven architecture courses from Columbia, MIT, University of Oregon, Syracuse, and the University of Virginia. Last accessed 7/08.