Architecture and Building
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.
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ADAM Project: Search Engine
[http://adam.ac.uk/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Architecture and Building: Net Resources
[http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
BuildingOnline, Search Engine
[http://www.buildingonline.com/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Columbia's Avery Library Catalog Clio
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/clio/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Library of Congress
[http://lcweb.loc.gov]
Last accessed 1/03.
RIBA Library Catalog
[http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Library_898.html]
Catalog/index including books, articles, slides, drawings, photographs, manuscripts. 10/99
University of California Catalog Melvyl
[http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cdl90]
Last accessed 1/03.
Timeline of World Art
[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's timeline allows searching by period and by special topics. Architecture is highlighted for a few periods, such as Renaissance architecture.5/04
ARCAT The Architect's Catalog
[http://www.ARCAT.com]
Directory information, links, product and spec info. 7/98
LA Info Online: Landscape Construction Manufacturer Directory
[http://www.la-info.com/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Oikos Green Products Gallery
[http://www.oikos.com/products/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Sweet's Group
[http://www.sweets.com/]
Last accessed 1/03.
ThomasNet
[http://www.thomasnet.com]
"Powered by ThomasRegister and ThomasRegional". Last accessed 7/05.
Techstreet
[http://www.techstreet.com/]
Standards catalogs from a wide variety of organizations (AAMA to UL). Engineering standards, specifications, technical books and resources for engineers and scientists 12/02
Part 2: Resources
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
ADA Home Page (U.S. Department of Justice)
[http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm]
Technical assistance materials, new or proposed regulations, enforcement, certification of state and local building codes. 4/99
Adaptive Environments Center
[http://www.adaptenv.org]
Material from the Adaptive Environments Universal Design Education Project.
Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
[http://www.jan.wvu.edu/links/adalinks.htm]
Documents from EEOC and the Department of Justice. FAQs and guides prepared by Cornell University. 4/99
Center for Universal Design
[http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/]
Publications, links to organizations, examples of design, principles/laws/standards. 6/99
Evan Terry Associates
[http://www.evanterry.com]
Useful information on ADA and accessible design.
Universal Access to Outdoor Environments
[http://www.beneficialdesigns.com/trails/utap.html]
On the Universal Trail Assessment Process. 6/99
Universal Design Education
[http://www.udeducation.org/]
The two main categories are Teach and Learn: learn about universal design, and resources to use in teaching universal design. 5/04
AGRAM
[http://agram.saariste.nl/]
Documentation on the work of architects who have "influenced the development of architecture in its use of space." Includes Corbusier, Loos, Jujol, and others (in English). Website by R. Saariste. 01/05
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.
Architecture of Thomas Jefferson
[http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/wilson/home.html]
Materials to support a University of Virginia course. Many categories are noted as "under construction". Last updated March 1998. 8/99
Archive of Designer Raymond Loewy
[http://art.net/Lile/Loewy/loewy]
Biographical bullets, selected list of clients, bibliography of publications by and about him -- a most impressive advertisement for the auction of his archives on June 10, 1995.
ArtCyclopedia
[http://artcyclopedia.com]
Search architects and designers such as Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Palladio for material from museum web sites, net articles, image archives. 11/03
Broadacre All-Wright Site (Frank Lloyd Wright Guide)
[http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
California Architects
[http://www.california-architects.com/]
Choose firm name or view images by building type. Provided are firm profile, list of projects, and list of publications. Architects and Landscape Architects. 11/03
Chicago Architects Oral History Project
[http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/caohp/]
"The Chicago Architects Oral History Project was begun in 1983 under the auspices of the Art Institute's Department of Architecture to document the life experiences of architects who shaped the urban environment in Chicago." 2/00
Chicago Architecture Foundation
[http://www.architecture.org]
On Chicago's buildings and architects.
Christopher Alexander
[http://www.math.utsa.edu/sphere/salingar/Chris.text.html]
"Some Notes on Christopher Alexander by Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros, mathematician and architectural theorist." Sections include biography, publications, buildings, philosophical contributions, and other. 6/99
Coop Himmelblau
[http://www.coophimmelblau.at/]
Information and images of both recent and older works, downloadable lectures, list of publications, and more. 1/01
Corbusier
[http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/lecorb.html]
"Rather than using the traditional format of an exhibition which illustrates and discusses the works in the show, this site compiles texts, images and pictures on the Internet of those works of Le Corbusier, presented there. The site follows a thematic arrangement according to the subjects: (1) the architect, (1.1) private houses, (1.2) private houses, (2) city planning, (3) large buildings : projects, (4) large buildings, (5) Unit d'habitation, (6) Chandigarh, (7) Modulor, (8) religious buildings, (9) exhibition architecture, (10) references, (11) search this site. A brief explanatory paragraph is given for each building or project, which contains or refers to the links to the several internet resources." In German, except for the abstract, but lots of visuals. 4/00
Eames Office
[http://www.eamesoffice.com/]
Resources, bibliography, biography, gallery, online purchase of products, and more. 8/99
Famous architects
[http://architect.architecture.sk/]
"Biographies of well-known architects, primarily of the Modern Movement."
Frank Lloyd Wright -- Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
[http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/flw.html]
Drawings and models reconstructing unbuilt FLW projects.
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
[http://www.savewright.org/]
Images and information aimed at saving FLW buildings. 3/00
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
[http://www.franklloydwright.org/]
Including short videos! 1/00
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
[http://www.wrightplus.org/]
Good information about the Robie House [http://www.wrightplus.org/robiehouse/robiehouse.html] and the materials held by the trust. 11/05
Frederick Law Olmsted
[http://www.newbedford.com/olmsted.html]
Links to sites on the man and his work. 8/99
Friends of Schinkel
[http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g126/peikx001]
Information on the society founded April 6, 1995, a newsletter, and (soon) a biography, chronology, bibliography and articles -- on Schinkel.
Graced Places: The Architecture of Wilson Eyre
[http://www.design.upenn.edu/Eyre/Eyreintro.html]
A selection of his projects in text and images. Part of the University of Pennsylvania's Architectural Archives [http://www.design.upenn.edu/Eyre/Aarchives.html]
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
[http://www.gapw.com]
130 years of projects from this Chicago architecture firm. 11/03
Joze Plecnik, a virtual museum
[http://www.plecnik.net/]
"Dedicated to Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik" Last accessed 6/07
Joze Plecnik, Architect (1872-1957)
[http://www.ijs.si/slo/ljubljana/plecnik.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Loos/Corbusier
[http://agram.saariste.nl/scripts/index.asp?dir=loos&pics=lo&tekst=Adolf Loos]
Information on their buildings (including dates, books documenting). In Dutch.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
[http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/lmvdr.html]
In German. 12/01
New York Architects
[http://www.newyork-architects.com/]
Choose firm name or view images by building type. Provided are firm profile, list of projects, and list of publications. Architects and Landscape Architects. 11/03
Palladio's Italian Villas
[http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/home.html]
Census of villas, bibliography, substantial information.
Parkinson Archives
[http://www.parkives.com]
"Architectural drawing/historical photograph archives of the Parkinson architectural firm of Los Angeles (1894-present)."
Peter Behrens
[http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/pbehrens.html]
In German. 12/01
Pritzker Architecture Prize
[http://www.pritzkerprize.com]
History of the award, list of winners, images of projects or recent winners.
Quondam, Virtual Museum of Architecture
[http://www.quondam.com]
"Quondam's Collection began as a group of 3-dimensional computer models representing significant building designs that were never built. The collection presently contains thirty buildings, two urban databases, two
virtual environments, two analogous buildings, and two image banks." Philadelphia and Schinkel are two foci. 4/00
Safdie Hypermedia Archive
[http://cac.mcgill.ca/safdie/]
Biography, bibliography, and projects. 4/03
SkyscraperPage.com
[http://www.skyscraperpage.com/]
Under the "city diagrams", you can get elevations and stats for buildings by city and by architect. Or you can search by keyword on the home page so you can see all the hotels or offices or whatever. They're not all skyscrapers...there are 24 stadiums, and some buildings that are only 3 floors high. Search results come in the form of elevations on a graph, with tallest first, but you can sort them by year. The stats are below each building. 7/02 submitted by Jacque Tygart.
Vitruvio.ch -- Architecture on the Web
[http://www.vitruvio.ch/index.php]
Links to web sites arranged by period, from primitive through Renaissance to Future. Links to architecture historians, to "master" architects, and more. 2/01
Walter Gropius
[http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/wgropius.html]
In German. 12/01
Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/]
Library of Congress online exhibit. 4/03
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