ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING

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."

ArchNet Digital Library - 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.

Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur (in German)

Canadian Centre for Architecture - 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.

Digital Imaging Project - 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.

Images of Medieval Art & Architecture - 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 Built in America - 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

Skyscraper Page - 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

Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures - 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 newsgroupshttp://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 

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."