REFERENCE - ARCHITECTURE
Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture
-- See
Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953. History of architecture
Encyclopedia
of World Art,
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959-87. 15 vols. [Ref R 703 E56]
The
Grove Dictionary of Art Jane Turner, ed. New York:
Grove’s, 1996 [34 vols.] The Dictionary of Art is the
most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary of art AND ARCHITECTURE available. This is
an excellent place to begin your search for information on
ARCHITECTURE, architects and art topics.
Art & architecture thesaurus
/ Toni Petersen, director.
Use for terminology and definitions of genre..
Illustrated dictionary of architecture
/ Ernest Burden
American architecture : an illustrated encyclopedia
/ Cyril M. Harris
The Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture
/ Peter and Linda
Murray
Encyclopedia of architecture : design, engineering & construction
/
Joseph A. Wilkes, editor-in-chief
World
architecture index : a guide to illustrations
/ compiled by Edward H.
Teague
Supervised research projects in urban planning (1949-1997)
/ edited by
Marilyn Berger ; compiled by
Moukdad, Haidar
Dictionary of building preservation
/ edited by Ward Bucher ; Christine
Madrid, illustration editor
The book of buildings : a panorama of ancient, medieval, renaissance,
and modern structures-
Reid, Richard, 1939-
Pictorial dictionary of ancient Athens
[by] John Travlos. 1908-
Pictorial dictionary of ancient Rome Nash, Ernest
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SELECTED WORKS IN GENERAL COLLECTIONS - ARCHITECTURE
American Architecture And Urbanism / [By] Vincent Scully
Scully, Vincent Joseph, 1920- New York, Praeger [1969] 275 p. illus.,
maps, plans. 26 cm
Modern Architecture And Other Essays / Vincent Scully ; Selected And With
Introductions By Neil Levine
Scully, Vincent Joseph, 1920- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,
c2003 399 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Learning From Las Vegas / [By] Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, And
Steven Izenour
Venturi, Robert Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1972] xvi, 188 p. illus.
37 cm
Architecture and design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 / edited by
Abigail Harrison-Moore and Doro
Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006 xix, 515 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
A vision of a living world / [Christopher Alexander]
Alexander, Christopher
Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Environmental Structure, c2005 x, 697
p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Managing change : sustainable approaches to the conservation of the
built environment : 4th Annual
US/ICOMOS International Symposium (4th : 2001 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, c2003 viii, 214 p. : ill.
(some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm
The anthropology of space and place : locating culture / edited by Setha
M. Low and Denise Lawrence-
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003 ix, 422 p. ; 25 cm
Buildings that changed the world / Klaus Reichold, Bernhard Graf
Reichold, Klaus München ; New York : Prestel, c1999 191 p. : ill.
(chiefly col.) ; 31 cm
JOURNALS AND SELECTED PERIODICALS IN THE LIBRARY -
ARCHITECTURE
JSTOR:
Architectural History [CORE] The scholarly journal
archive; provides full text
of over 450 journals covering a broad array of disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences. UNCA collections include Arts and
Sciences I, II, III, and IV. See
detailed lists.
America: History and Life. [CORE] Indexes the
scholarly literature about all periods of American history. Includes
abstracts.- 1964 - present
Infotrac Academic OneFile. [CORE] 11,000+ mostly
peer-reviewed, full-text journals with
extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine,
social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. Includes
Impact Factor analysis, Journal
Citation Reports, links to JSTOR
& ISI Web of Knowledge content.
1980+ Gale
Academic Search Premier. [CORE]
Multi-disciplinary database with indexing for
more than 8,000 publications and full text for
4,500+ of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975
or further. EBSCOhost
Project Muse. Search over 200
full-text journals from leading other university
presses. Covers a broad range of disciplines, including art, literature,
history, mathematics, psychology, and religion
Cambridge University Press.
Online access to over 220 peer-reviewed academic journals in
African Studies, Agriculture,
American Studies, Animal Science,
Archaeology, Anthropology,
Architecture, Asian Studies,
Biology, Biomedical Sciences,
Business, Classical Studies,
Computer Science, Cultural Studies,
Earth and Atmospheric Science, Ecology and
Conservation, Economics,
Engineering, European Studies,
History, History and Philosophy of Science,
Language and Linguistics, Latin American
Studies, Law,
Literary Studies, Mathematics,
Medical Policy, Medicine,
Middle East Studies, Molecular Biology,
Music and Drama, Neuroscience,
Nutrition, Philosophy,
Physical Science, Plant Science,
Politics and International Relations,
Psychology and Psychiatry, Religious Studies,
Social Studies
IMAGE SOURCES - ARCHITECTURE :
ArtStor
[UNCA users only]
includes major collections from around the world. Collection
focuses on art history.
CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online.
[UNCA users only] Offers
rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art
history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures,
presentations, and research resources.
ADAM
"A searchable catalogue of over 2000 Internet resources on Art, Design,
Architecture & Media Information. The sites have been selected and catalogued
by professional librarians."
- Islamic architecture resources.
archINFORM
A database of over 12000 built and unrealized projects by architects and
planners, mainly of the 20th century. It originated as a record of interesting
building projects compiled by students. Based in Germany.
archiV_die
architektendatenbank - [In German] contains addresses, lists
of projects and supplies biographical and project information and may be
searched by architect and project type.
ART
HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB
Possibly the most extensive web resource for links to sites about Art
and Art History on the Internet. Created by
Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe,
Sweetbriar College and available on the Internet since 1995. Go to the
appropriate period and review Architecture links.
(in German)
- over 150,000 records of
historic architecture-related material (NOTE: text data only, no images
yet)
Cities and Buildings Database - University of Washington
"collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across
time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and
educators on the web."
Digital Archive of American Architecture
An image database from Boston College. Created by Professor Jeffrey Howe, who
photographed the sites. Over 1400 images of American architecture.
- from Bluffton College - large and
growing archive of architecture and archaeological sites
EMPORIS
- a commercial database of the world's buildings,
particularly sky-scrapers. Emporis.com is one of the
world's largest available platforms concerning building-related
information. Includes buildings, companies and photos in more than 50,000
cities worldwide. As an open platform, Emporis.com allows users and
companies from all over the world to participate in the completion of
building information in their own cities. Don't expect to find small
cities and don't expect the images to be free.
galinsky - a showcase for the world's most
exciting modern buildings. Photographs, descriptions
and visitor information for more than 200 buildings
across Europe, derived from work by students in the
Harvard
Graduate School of Design.
Great
Buildings Collection,- an extensive site for photographic images and architectural
drawings of buildings from around the world. Also includes 3D models,
commentary, bibliographies, and web links to additional sites. A first
stop for architecture searches.
Green Building - at the OpenDirectory Project
High-Rise Building Database - Compiled by the Council on Tall
Buildings and Urban Habitat. "Data on thousands of tall buildings: the
latest facts and statistics, visual images and video, and listings of
professional firms linked to specific buildings and specialty categories."
Access is limited and may vary in response for members and non-members.
House Styles -An illustrated guide to North American residential
architecture, with facts and photos for the most popular house styles from
the 1600s to modern times.
- compiled by Alison
Stones,University of Pittsburgh, includes well known sites. Chartres is
particularly well-covered.
JEANNE
BROWN'S GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING SOURCES ON THE INTERNET
A comprehensive list of links to sites on architecture, building and
construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management,
energy and the environment, and landscape architecture. Updated frequently.
National Register of
Historic Places, National Park Service,
Washington, D.C. Search the National
Register Information System,
Historic
American Buildings Survey, or
Historic
American Engineering Record. Information about the
HABS/HAER
Collections. Includes the
- HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey)
provided through the Library of Congress American Memory Project
(1933-present) - generally includes large TIFF images, all downloadable.
Includes more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century
- site includes over 4,400 illustrations of tall
buildings, as well as comparative data.
SPIRO
An online public access catalog for the University of California at Berkeley
Architecture Slide Library. Contains over 200,000 slides and now 55,000 +
digital images. Authoritative information for image identification and
source information. Topics are comprehensive and include:
architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and city views, fine arts,
minor arts, material culture. Searchable by architect and building name,
building types, building materials, building components
-
focus is on structural elements of architecture and its engineering
components. Comprehensive in scope. Provided as a "free service to
engineers, as well as teachers and students of structural engineering.
This site contains contemporary and historical information on works of
structural engineering and their designers, and firms that constructed
them. The intention is to provide a broad overview of structures and as
much technical information as reasonable." May be searched by designer,
geographic area, structure, and project and firm names.
THAIS -
A resources of images of Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque
architecture, indexed by location, subject, and period.
WEB SITES of GENERAL INTEREST and TOPICAL ARCHITECTURAL
SITES
Alvar Aalto Museum
Asymptote
Architecture
Archives
Search by architect, client, location, or collection name. Carnegie
Mellon University.
Architecture Studies Library, University of Nevada : Architecture and
Building
PERSEUS ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
PROJECT - Tufts University
site. Classical architecture resources.
20th
Century Architecture
Architecture
Architecture Virtual Library · http://www.clr.toronto.edu/VIRTUALLIB/arch.html:
This is an excellent, searchable architecture virtual library. .
Arcosanti
: Home
Cyburbia formerly called PAIRC - *4200* architecture and planning links
Cyburbia (formerly called PAIRC - The Planning and Architecture
Internet Resource Center) contains a comprehensive directory of Internet
resources relevant to planning, architecture, built environment. Cyburbia also
contains information about architecture and planning related mailing lists and
Usenet newsgroups. http://www.cyburbia.org/
galinsky - a
showcase for the world's most exciting modern buildings. Photographs,
descriptions and visitor information for more than 200 buildings across
Europe, derived from work by students in the
Harvard Graduate School of
Design. Site also includes information regarding travel to European
cities with remarkable architectural examples detailed.
Green Spec
-Guideline specifications for environmentally considered building
materials & construction.
Greening of the
White House - Includes products and information
JEANNE
BROWN'S GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING SOURCES ON THE INTERNET
A comprehensive list of links to sites on architecture, building and
construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management,
energy and the environment, and landscape architecture. Updated frequently.Periods and Styles - History of Architecture
[very slow to load] A resource that comprehensively covers the history
of architecture and its styles. Part of About.com resources
RUDI
An information resource for research, teaching and professional
practice in the field of urban design in the Western cultural context.
Materials are often multimedia.
TED
TALKS
Both "Technology" and "Design"
are included in the online video presentations by
architects and designers.
UNECE Human Settlements Database
The database is maintained by the Environment and Human Settlements Division,
with specific reference to data on housing and building. Data are collected
for the ECE Bulletin of Housing and Building Statistics and through the
Country Profiles on the Housing Sector from a number of both national and
international sources
WWW
Virtual Library - Architecture
A large number of links provided in easily scanned categories.Frequent updates.
WATERS OF ROME: hydraulic infrastructure/aqueducts/fountains/sewers
- An amazing site that includes a cross-section of Rome and its many
levels of development.
Waters
of the City of Rome published refereed articles
contributed by scholars and graduate students in our new occasional on-line
journal "The Waters of Rome". ... Compliments the
WATERS OF ROME
www.iath.virginia.edu/rome/first.html
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World Lecture Hall: Architecture -
"The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains
links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to
deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi,
assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia
textbooks, etc."