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Architecture - Links to Architecture Sites on the Internet


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See also Design, Art, and Web Design

General Sources & Internet Guides

    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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Databases of Buildings

        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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Directory and Biographical Information

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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Guidelines

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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Product Information

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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Images

    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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Local Archives

The Athenĉum of Philadelphia 

GSFA University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives

See also Philadelphia Resources:  Architecture/Buildings

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Professional Organizations & Associations

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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Electronic Journals

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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Architecture by Region

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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Movements

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

A Epstein and Sons, International ADD Aedas
Albert Kahn Associates Allen Jack + Cottier Allies and Morrison
Alsop Architects AM Partners AMA Group
Ankrom Moisan Associated Anshen + Allen ARCHI+1
Architects Hawaii Architecture-Studio AREP
Arkitema K/S Arte Charpentier et Associes Arup Associates
Ashton Raggatt McDougall ASSAR Atelier D'Art Urban
Aukett B+H Architects Barton Willmore
Bates Smart BBG-BBGM BDP
Benoy Bentel Associates
Broadway Malyan BSA LifeStructures Burckhardt+Partner
Burt Hill Kosar Rittlemann Callison Cambridge Seven
Cannon Design CASCO Diversified CF Moller
Chapman Taylor Chetwood Associates Cooper Carry
Corgan Associates Cox Associates + Planners de Architekten Cie
Dennis Lau/ Ng Chun Man DAR DeStefano and Partners
Diamond and Schmitt DLR Group Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Elkus/Manfredi Ellerbe Becket EPR
Equator European Erick Van Egeraat Estudio Lamela
Ewing Cole Fairhursts Design Group Fanning/Howey
Fentress Bradburn Fitzroy Robinson Foster and Partners
FRCH Design Worldwide GAPP Gensler
Gerkan,Marg und Partner GHM Consultancy Group Gould Evans
Gregotti Associati Griswold Heckel and Kelly Gruzen Samton
Gulf Consult GVA & Associates Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson
Hames Sharley Hamilton Associates HarleyEllis
Hawkins/Brown HBO+EMTB Heery International
Henn Architekten Hillier Associates HKS
HLM Design HNTB Corporation Ho and Partners
HOK IFB Ingenhoven Overdiek
Ishimoto Jaspers-Eyers and Parnters Jerde Partnership
John McAslan JSK Architects KITO Architects
Kanko Kikaku Sekkeisha Kaplan Mclaughlin Diaz Karlsberger Companies
Keppie Design Ltd. Kisho Kurokawa Architects KKE
Kleihues + Kleihues Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kothari Associates Kume Sekkei Co Ltd L Robert Kimball
Langdon Wilson Leigh and Orange Ltd. Leo A Daly
Lewis and Hickey LMN Architects Lohan Caprile Goettsch
Michael Weindel & Junior Murphy/Jahn Murray & Laoire
Nadel Architects NBBJ Nicholas Grimshaw
Nikken Housing System Niles Bolton Associates
NORR Northwest Architectural Novotny Mahner
Nyrens Arkitektoutor OBM International Limited Page Sutherland Page
Palafox Associates Parr Partnership Pei Cobb Freed
Percy Thomas Partnership Perkins & Will Perkins Eastman
Petroff Partnership Architects Phillips Group PLH Arkitekter
PRP Architects Rafael de La-Hoz  
Reichen et Robert Reid Architecture RHWL Architects
Richard Rogers RKD Architects RMJM Ltd.
RMW Architecture RNL Design Roger Fems + Partners
Rolfe Judd Rosser International RTKL
S+P Architects   SAMOO
Samyn & Partners Sasaki Associates SB Architects
Scott Brownrigg Sheppard Robson SHL
Skidmore, Owings Merrill Smallwood Reynols Stewart SmithGroup
Spector Group Squire and Partners Stauch Vorster
Studio Architecture Swanke Hayden Connell SWECO
Tabanlioglu Architecture Teng and Associates Thomson Adsett
TPS Consult TRO/Ritchie Organization URS Corporation
Valode et Pistre Vilhelm Lauritzen VOA Associates
WCWP International White Arkitekter AB Wilson & Associaties
Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo Winward Structures Woodhead International
Woods Bagot WZMH Architects Yasui Architects
Young+Wright Zeidler Partnership Zen-Noh
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca ZVA Architects  

 

 

 

 

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