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
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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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American Cultural Resources Association
[http://www.acra-crm.org]
Established in 1995, this is a "business/professional organization for people working in historic preservation, architectural history, architectural anthropology, and landscape architecture."
Architectural Anthropology Home Page
[http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter]
Architectural anthropology, habitat research, and the habitat theory of culture.
Alexander Architectural Archive
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/]
University of Texas. Description of the collections. Exhibit of selected images. 8/02
Alexander Parris Digital Archive
[http://www.parrisproject.org/About.htm]
Over 400 images and transciptions on the work of 19th century Massachusetts architect-engineer. 5/05
Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
[http://www.upenn.edu/gsfa/archives/archives/index2.htm]
Description of the collection, which includes the Louis I. Kahn Collection. 8/02
Architectural History Collections, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
[http://library.uncc.edu/display/?dept=special&format=open&page=1294]
Description of collections documenting the architectural history of the Charlotte area. 8/02
Architectural Photographs Collection, Cornell University
[http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/adw.asp]
More than 1200 of the photographs [out of 13,000] online and searchable. Photographs from the 18th and early 19th centuries. 8/02
Architectural Records Conference
[http://www.ccaha.org/arch_rec/arc_toc.php]
Full text of over 20 papers given at the 2000 conference in Philadelphia. 11/04
Art Institute of Chicago Center for Architectural Drawings
[http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/arch/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia Architectural Archives
[http://www.philaathenaeum.org/archives.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning Drawings and Documents Archive
[http://www.bsu.edu/cap/facilities/archives/about/]
Documenting Indiana architects and buildings. 5/05
Canadian Architectural Archives
[http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/CAA/index.html]
Info about the collection. 8/99
Canadian Architecture Collection
[http://cac.mcgill.ca/]
"Its mandate is to document the work of past and present architects who have studied and/or taught at the McGill University School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Through photographs, drawings, and corollary documentation, the CAC also seeks to represent the evolution of the McGill campus, the city of Montreal, and the architectural heritage of Quebec and Canada." Includes various archives, such as the Safdie collection, and Building Canada, a digital collection of over 2000 images of Canadian architecture. 6/99
Canadian Center for Architecture
[http://www.cca.qc.ca/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives
[http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/]
Includes links to other architectural archives as well. 8/98
Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering
[http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/adecenter/adecent.html]
Established by the Library of Congress in 2002 to "focus attention on, encourage support for, and promote the study of the Library's unmatched architecture, design, and engineering collections, thereby increasing the public's awareness and appreciation of the achievements of the architecture, design, and engineering professions and their contributions to our quality of life." 4/03
Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology Archive
[http://www.csanet.org/archive]
Information on and discussion of issues relating to the archiving of computer files. The CSA CAD Archive currently contains the CAD model of the older propylon on the Athenian Acropolis. Laura Tatum, Yale University Library, notes in her article in fall 2002 Art Documentation "Documenting Design: A Survey of State-of-the-Art Practice for Archiving Architectural Records" that "this may be the model with the most far-reaching implications for future archiving of digital materials:all material accessible in the CSA Archive is available for any interested user to recreate and study ...." 11/02
Chicago Historical Society Charles F. Murphy Architectural Study Center
[http://www.chicagohs.org/research/aboutcollection/architecture]
Description of the scope of this collection "documenting Chicago's rich architectural history." 8/02
Environmental Design Archives
[http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/]
"The work of most of the San Francisco Bay Region's historically significant architects and landscape architects are represented in the collections of more than 150 architects and firms. These collections
contain drawings, plans, specifications, photographs, audio-tapes, personal papers, business records, furniture, art and artifacts." 4/99
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
Irish Architectural Archive
[http://www.iarc.ie/]
Includes searchable biographical index. 7/98
Julia Morgan Collection
[http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/morgan/index.html]
Includes biography, description of the collection at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and box list. 12/98
McGill University Blackader-Lauterman Library Architectural Archives
[http://www.mcgill.ca/blackader/]
Description of the Moshe Safdie archive in the collections section, along with other architectural archives. 4/03
MIT Museum's Architecture and Design Collection
[http://web.mit.edu/museum/collections/architecture.html]
Description of the collection. 8/02
Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota
[http://special.lib.umn.edu/manuscripts/architect.html]
Description of collection. Abstracts of individual collections. Image databases for selected collections, allowing search by date and place, with images and descriptive information retrieved. 8/02
Parkinson Archives
[http://www.parkives.com/]
"Architectural drawing/historical photograph archives of the Parkinson architectural firm of Los Angeles (1894-present)."
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/]
Browse or search this substantial online text and image collection which draws on the "collections, data, images and professional expertise of The Athenum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and several local cultural institutions." A model project. 8/02
Texas Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/txcopar.html]
Their "goal is to organize and develop a resource for institutions holding architectural, building and planning records in the state of Texas." They plan on sharing both expertise and information on holdings. 4/02
Theatre Historical Society of America
[http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa]
Information on the American Theatre Architecture Archive. 6/98
Tulane Southeastern Architectural Archive
[http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/SEAAHome.html]
Brief description of their collection and the procedures to access the collection in New Orleans. 10/99
Unesco Portal to Architectural Archives in Europe
[http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Architectural_Archives/Europe/index.shtml]
Last accessed 1/03.
University of California, Santa Barbara Architectural Drawing Collection
[http://www.uam.ucsb.edu]
Last accessed 1/03.
InsideArch
[http://www.insidearch.org/home.php]
Devoted to understanding the culture of the architecture profession, as seen in specific architectural firms. Ratings based on such factors as design quality, work hours, attitude toward interns. 11/03
AIA Firms
[http://www.aia.org/consumer/]
Links to AIA member sites.
Architects in Canada Directory
[http://www.canadianarchitecture.com/Archi/archi00.htm]
Organized by name, firm, city.
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
Architectural Library
[http://www.architectural-library.com]
Canadian products, architects, consultants, associations.
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
Reed Design Registry
[http://www.firstsourceonl.com/profile/index.asp]
Search engine for locating architectural design firms in the United States. Entries provide name, address, phone, specialization.
AIA SOLOSO
[http://soloso.org/eknowledge/index.htm]
“Soloso is a new centralized knowledge and content acquisition experience being provided by AIA National for members. The site launched in May of this year and is a research tool that, over time, will become a premiere resource of information about architecture and the profession. Soloso will house member content, AIA contributor content, and third party content. All of the content is accessible through three search mediums, the Thinkmap, the scroll tape, and the typical search box method. Soloso was created as a platform for member interaction. Currently members interface with Soloso by contributing their own content in the form of articles, projects, and/or images as well as reviews, profile pages, and feedback. To learn more go to [http://www.soloso.org/eknowledge/help/index.htm]” 10/07.
Carpman Grant Associates Wayfinding Consultants
[http://www.wayfinding.com]
Description of their services. 12/98
EVOLV
[http://www.evolv.com]
An "Internet based project management service with over 1700 companies and 8000 users in the building industry." Their service is called ProjectCenter, and is also made available through AIA's e-Architect. 10/99
Facade Group, Inc.
[http://www.facadegroup.com]
The Group specializes in commercial building facades, providing consulting services to Architects, Contractors and Developers and drafting services to curtain wall sub-contractors. 2/01
Toronto Music Garden
[http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/parks/music_index.htm]
Description of the garden and how its design relates to BachSuite No.1 for Unaccompanied Cello. 4/03
The origin of this section is a series of emails responding to a query on ARLIS-L, April 2003.
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