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Architecture
- Links to Architecture Sites on the Internet
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Try the
Digital
Librarian's Architecture page. It provides a wide range of links
along with short annotations. Also try their
Images
page, their
Art page,
and their
Home
and Interior Design page.
ADAM: The
Gateway to Art, Design, Architecture, & Media Information on the Internet
(UK). This site provides a searchable catalog for web sites and electronic
mailing lists in the following areas: fine art, design, architecture,
applied arts, media, theory, museum studies and conservation, and professional
practice.
Architecture.com:
This site from RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) includes information
about architects, architecture, and RIBA itself. It includes a link to the
RIBA library catalog, which provides a free index to journal articles, books,
drawings, and photographs.
Architecture
and Building : (University of Las Vegas-Nevada) Links are
arranged by topic. Topics include green architecture, themed design, urban
environment and many more.
Architecture
on the Internet: From the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Categories include Meta-Sites, searchable indexes, discussion lists and
newsgroups, periodicals, and competitions.
Artsource:
Created by Mary Molinaro in 1994, this sites seeks to provide a selective list
of networked resources. At last check, this site was updated last year, so
some links may be broken.
Asian
Historical Architecture.
Avery
Architectural and Fine Arts Library Internet Links
BuildingOnline:
This site focuses on building industry information and includes a search engine
to help find manufacturers, architects, landscaping information and more.
Boston
Architectural Center Web Links: Created for BAC users, this site holds
a long list of links grouped by subject. It is not annotated.
CAD Digest:
Created by Tenlinks, CAD Digest sifts through the Web to find the best CAD
related material to bring the user the most comprehensive CAD information on the
web. The site is updated daily.
Cyburbia.org
- Internet Resources for the Built Environment: This site, hosted by the
School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, contains
"a large selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning,
architecture, urbanism, growth and sprawl, and other topics related to the built
environment. Cyburbia also contains information about architecture and planning
related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts a bulletin board with job
listings and discussions on many topics."
Decopix -
The Art Deco Architecture Site
dmoz
Open Directory Project: Architecture: Links arranged by subject.
E-Architect
-- For Architects and the Architectural Profession: (from the
AIA) Offers news, job resources, and other information to help keep you
up-to-date in the architecture field.
Galaxy
- Architecture: This searchable directory of Internet resources is
compiled by humans rather than by computers.
Green
Architecture on the Web: This site from
Loggia.com
provides an annotated list of links on sustainability and green building design.
GreenHomeBuilding.Com:
Provides a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural
building.
Infomine
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: From the Library of the
University of California, Riverside, this resource provides a searchable
database of online resources. This section of Infomine focuses on visual
and performing arts.
Information
Resources for Architecture Students: An online guide to doing Architecture
research at Philadelphia University's Gutman Library.
Mikesart at
Home: This is a commercial site that includes home decor, interior
design, architecture, design arts, art, home improvement, lifestyles,
& entertaining.
Perseus
Project: Encyclopedia: (Tufts University) "The
Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the
ancient world and beyond." The Encyclopedia includes articles as well
as images.
Philadelphia
Architecture: (AIA Philadelphia) Provides some information on
Philadelphia's architectural history, as well as information on Main Line
Estates and resources for sustainable design.
TenLinks.com - The
Ultimate Technology Directory: This commercial site includes links for
CAD as well as architecture, construction, and engineering.
Voice
of the Shuttle: This page, maintained by Alan Liu, contains thousands
of links for the humanities including architecture, anthropology, art and art
history, and archaeology.
Why
the Towers Fell: This page is the web companion to Nova's "Why the
Towers Fell," which was broadcast on April 30, 2002.
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See also
Image Databases
archINFORM:
This online-database for international architecture includes more than
"9000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and
planners " and focuses on 20th century architecture.
Cities/Buildings
Database: (University of Washington) This database is a contains more
than 5000 images of buildings and cities from around the world.
The
Great Buildings Collection: This site provides a "gateway to
architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings
and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and
architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for
famous designers and structures of all kinds."
Historic
American Buildings Survey: This database from the Library of Congress
document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United
States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and
engineering technologies. The database is searchable by keyword, subject, and
location. Warning: only about 25% of the records for the buildings are complete.
National
Register of Historic Places
Philadelphia
Architects and Buildings Database: Funded by the William Penn Foundation,
the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project (PAB) will bring together the
resources of the Athenĉum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania
Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, and the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The databases is searchable by
project, address, architect, and institution.
Skyscrapers.com:
The online-database contains information on buildings from over 2,500 cities
worldwide. "Skyscrapers.com is the world leader in building information.
Through an international network of many editors we manage and maintain this
database of tall buildings. Here you will find 40,131 skyscrapers, tens of
thousands of companies and facts."
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AASL
Directory of Architecture School Libraries: Provides directory
to architecture school libraries in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hong
Kong, and the U.K. Many of these libraries offer their own resource pages,
so it may be worth a look.
ArchitectsUSA:
This is an Internet directory of over 30,000 architecture firms put together by
SearchUSA. The information in this directory comes from the Yellow pages
and submissions from architecture firms.
Brief
Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947: The
database consists of transcriptions of the more than 1,200 brief obituaries
published in the American Art Annual and its successor, Who's Who in
American Art.
International
Archive of Women in Architecture: IAWA focuses on collecting the
papers of women working the during the time when there were few women doing so
(pre-1950). Covers architects, landscape architects, designers,
architectural historians, and urban planners as well as the records of women's
architectural organizations from around the world.
On-Line
Arts & Crafts Movement Resource Directory: This is a "Yellow
Pages directory of businesses, artisans, organizations and events relating to
the Arts & Crafts movement. Includes Mission Style antique dealers,
reproduction furniture and lighting, art pottery and historic preservation
organizations."
ProFile on
the Web -- Listing of U.S. Architecture Firms: Use this database for
helping you to find architecture firms and businesses in the U.S. You may
search for firms by location, name, special focus, services, and key personnel.
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Accessibility
Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities. Also visit
The
Center for Universal Design: Resources page
Illustrated
Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings: The Secretary of the
Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.
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Bricsnet.com:
E-marketplace for the building industry
Home Styles
-- home plans and home planning products
Landscape
Construction Manufacturer Directory
REDI:
Resources for Environmental Design Index
Sweet's:
The Construction Marketplace
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About.com's
guide to finding images
Digital Librarian's
Images page
Use Google's Image Search Engine!
Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America, 1935-1955: The
Gottscho-Schleisner collection: This archive, from the Library of
Congress's American Memory web site, provides over 29,000 images of
architectural photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William H. Schleisner including
interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic
buildings, and other structures.
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Detroit
Institute of Arts Visual Resources Art Image Database
Digital
Archive of American Architecture
Find
an Image (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Finding
Images Online: Directory of Web Image Sites (by Paula Berinstein
author of Finding Images Online: Online User's Guide to Image Searching
in Cyberspace) See also
Picture
Resources
SILS
Art Image Browser
SPIRO
- Architectural Slide Library Online Image Catalog
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The Athenĉum
of Philadelphia
GSFA
University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives
See also
Philadelphia
Resources: Architecture/Buildings
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American
Institute of Architects (AIA)
ARLIS/NA:
(Art Libraries Society of North America): This site provides information
about the organization as well as a link to their
JobNet
site.
The Society of
Architectural Historians (SAH)
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Architectstore.com
Architronic
Canadian
Architect and Builder: (McGill University) The Canadian Architect and
Builder was published between 1888-1908 and at the time the only professional
architectural publication in Canada. The Canadian Architect and Builder is now
available online full-text.
City
Journal: City Journal covers issues of the new urbanism movement especially
in New York City and Washington, D. C. City Journal is available online
in full-text content back to 1995.
Design
Architecture
ENR
(Engineering News-Record): Provides access to articles from ENR.
They claim to cover "major projects, technological achievements, business
conditions, markets, finance, costs, legislation, government, management, labor,
construction methods, equipment and materials." It also links to
Architectural
Record.
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Africa
Revised: Topics include "German Colonial Architecture in Togo" and
"Military Architecture: testimony of encounter."
Asian
Architecture
Asian
Historical Architecture: Contains over 4,000 photographs of historical
Asian architecture in China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Thailand,
Cambodia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. You can browse the site
by country or city, and entries include brief information and bibliographies.
Canadian Museum of
Civilization Corporation
Egypt
& Islam
India
- American Institute of Indian Studies Photo Archive
Islamic
Art, Music, And Architecture Around The World
Mediterranean Architecture
Mayan
Archaeology: Digital Media Center Databases, OhioLINK.
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Arts and Crafts
Bauhaus-Archive
Museum of Design
Architects
Alvar Aalto
Peter David
Eisenman
Frederick Fisher and
Partners
Frank Gehry
Jacques
Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Steven Holl
Koolhaas
Fumihiko Maki
Richard Meier and Partners
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural Firms
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