Architecture and Building is a guide to net sites on architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture, compiled by
Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada Las Vegas Architecture Studies Library. For a listing of sites by category, go to the
Contents Page. For a listing of sites by site name, go to the
Alphabetical Index.
This Architecture Internet Database is very extensive. Scroll down, use ->EDIT ->FIND , or the hotkeys Control F to search within these pages.
Contents page
Alphabetical index by site
Part 1: Reference Tools
ADA Accessibility Guidelines (Americans with Disabilities Act)
[http://www.access-board.gov/adaag/html/adaag.htm]
Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines. Full text of the Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities, as amended. 2/99
Design Linc
[http://www.designlinc.com]
Of special interest are design tips for exterior and interior residential projects. Also included are links to companies providing products, to government resources, and to non-profit organizations. 11/02
ACM SIGGRAPH Computing Bibliography
[http://www.siggraph.org/publications/bibliography/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Dissertations on American Architectural History 1897-1995
[http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/daah/daah1.html]
Last accessed 11/04.
AIA Firms
[http://www.aia.org/consumer/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Architects in Canada Directory
[http://www.cusimano.com/dir/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Architects USA
[http://architectsusa.com/home/]
Listings of over 30,000 architecture firms, from Yellow Pages and from submissions by architects. The geographic location of a firm must be known to find a specific firm. Can search firms categorized by size. A list of licensing boards is part of the site. 7/98
Arts & Crafts Movement Resource Directory
[http://www.ragtime.org/Ragtime_Resources.html]
Company categories include reproductions and antiques.
Biographies of American Architects, 1897-1947
[http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/bioint.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Blue Book of Building and Construction
[http://thebluebook.com]
Building and construction. Search by region. Narrow search within a region by using keyword or company name. 8/02
Engineering News-Record Firm Finder, including 500 Top Firms
[http://www.enr.com/people/default.asp]
Last accessed 1/03.
International Archive of Women in Architecture
[http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/guide.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
International Archive of Women in Architecture: Imagebase
[http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/iawa]
Just one of the categories of Virginia Tech's Imagebase, this collection of images from the International Archive of Women in Architecture has about 2000 images, sorted by woman or category. The women in this imagebase are architects, designers, and landscape architects. A sample google search showed these images do not come up in the google results. 4/05
Pritzker Architecture Prize
[http://www.pritzkerprize.com/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Reed Design Registry
[http://www.firstsourceonl.com/profile/index.asp]
Last accessed 1/03.
Architecture Glossary
[http://architecture.about.com/arts/architecture/library/bl-glossary.htm]
Just a little over 50 words with definitions and illustrations. 7/00
Archpedia Architecture Dictionary
[http://www.archpedia.com/Architecture-Dictionary.html]
5/05
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
[http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html]
Hierarchical vocabulary of about 120,000 terms. 7/98
Artlex: Dictionary of Visual Art
[http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html]
2800 terms. Longer articles on architecture, landscape, etc. Many definitions link to specific examples [e.g. see "arch"]. 12/98
Classical Architecture Vocabulary, Perseus Encyclopedia
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Secondary/Encyclopedia/encyc.subj.html#Architecture]
Last accessed 1/03.
Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
[http://archnet.org/library/dictionary/]
Definitions with links to illustrations. 7/02
Ergo Architecture Gallery of Architectural Quotations
[http://www.ergoarchitecture.com/quotations/default.htm]
Not extensive, but interesting. 12/98
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
[http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html]
Hierarchical structure of nearly 900,000 places. "The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a place may also
contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes." 7/98
Glossary of Castle Terms
[http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Looking at Buildings Glossary
[http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/default.asp?document=2.30]
Last accessed 5/04
NetSERF's Hypertext Medieval Glossary
[http://www.netserf.org/Glossary/]
1400 words, A-Z. 12/98
Wikipedia on Architecture
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture]
5/05
Academic Programs in Historic Preservation and Allied Fields
[http://www.uvm.edu/histpres/ncpe/chart.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Accredited Programs in Landscape Architecture
[http://www.asla.org/nonmembers/accredited_programs.cfm]
Last accessed 1/03.
ACSA: U.S. and Canadian Schools with Professional Degree Programs
[http://www.acsa-arch.org]
Last accessed 1/03.
DesignIntelligence’s America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools. 2006
[http://www.di.net/archschools/schools.html]
Last accessed 11/06.
Dissertations on American Architectural History 1897-1995
[http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/daah/daah1.html]
Last accessed 11/04.
Dissertations Underway on Architectural History
[http://faculty.washington.edu/jn/diss.htm]
Last accessed 1/03.
Iowa State Instruction Commons
[http://www.lib.iastate.edu/commons/courses.html]
Syllabi and course notes from a variety of courses, including architecture. 1/03
National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB)
[http://www.naab.org/]
Mission, history, accredited programs, terms and rules, conditions for accreditation, and affiliated links. 3/99
Periodicals for Architecture Schools
[http://www.library.njit.edu/archlib/aasl/core-list/index.cfm]
Last accessed 1/03.
American Planning Association - Planning Advisory Service Reports Subject Index
[http://www.planning.org/pas/subject.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
National Technical Information Service
[http://www.ntis.gov]
Search "over 3 million technical, scientific, and business information products published by U.S. government agencies adn international sources." Ordering information is included, but not abstracts. 10/00
RIBA Library Catalog
[http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Library_898.html]
Catalog/index including books, articles, slides, drawings, photographs, manuscripts. 10/99
Solar Energy Index
[http://www.asu.edu/lib/resources/db/solareng.htm]
Journal articles, patents, technical reports, pamphlets -- alternative energy sources
archINFORM: Architectural Buildings/Projects Database
[http://www.archINFORM.net/start.htm]
Database of "over 5000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database." Lists by person and town; searchable. Useful reference tool for dates and locations.
archiV - die architektendatenbank
[http://www.workshop-archiv.de]
"archiV is a databank for the german speaking area. it contains addresses, lists of projects and supplies biographical and project information." Can search by architect and project type. 7/98
Cities and Buildings Database
[http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/]
Images of buildings in more than 30 countries. Access is geographically arranged. The aim is to create an electronic image archive on "Cities and Architecture." 7/98
Emporis
[http://www.emporis.com/en/]
11/06
Environmental Impact Statement Collection
[http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/searcheis.html]
Database of citations to the Environmental Impact Statements held by Northwestern University's Transportation Library -- said to be nearly all the EIS's issued by federal agencies since 1969. The statements are available for loan for a fee. 12/98
Gary Price's List of Lists
[http://www.specialissues.com/lol/]
"The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet." Includes construction, education, the arts. 6/03
Great Buildings Collection Online
[http://www.artifice.com/gbc/buildings.html]
Information and images of 750 buildings. Information includes architect, location, date, building type, and print resources on the building. 7/98
High-Rise Buildings Database
[http://www.ctbuh.org/Resources/Resources-HighRiseDatabase.aspx]
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." Differential access for Council members/non-members [one search produced 3 hits for non-members, 64 hits for members]. 10/01
Historic American Building Survey/ Historic American Engineering Record
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html]
"The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States through a
comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies. As of March 1998, America's built environment has been recorded through surveys containing more than 363,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century." 3/99
National Register of Historic Places
[http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/]
Last accessed 1/03.
SPIRO, Architecture Image Library, Query Form
[http://shanana.berkeley.edu/spiro/]
With over 55,000 digital images (and growing each year), this site is invaluable for image identification and source information. Topical areas 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. 4/02
structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures
[http://www.structurae.de/en/]
"structurae is an International Database and Gallery of Structures. It is 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." Also points to relevant print and web materials. Searchable; browsable by designer, geographic area, type of structure, firm, and project name. 5/99
THAIS
[http://www.thais.it/architettura/default_uk.htm]
Images of Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by location, subject, and period. 12/98
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