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.
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Building Industry Information

Abacus Construction Index [http://www.construction-index.com]

"A directory of 2,000 recommended websites and online documents for UK construction professionals. Also covers case studies and newsletters." 4/03

aecportico [http://www.aecportico.co.uk/]

UK construction industry info, "including an extensive directory of trade associations and professional institutes." 12/01

Associated Builders and Contractors [http://www.abc.org]

Last accessed 12/04.

B4UBUILD.COM [http://www.b4ubuild.com/]

Building resources for residential construction. Book reviews by category, resources like what basics you need to know, links to building indexes and search engines. 8/98

bricsnet.com [http://www.bricsnet.com/]

Incorporating AEC Info, bricsnet.com aims to be your one-stop shop for construction and building. News, articles, products, demos, and industry resources -- software tools and building industry content, project management and information. 12/99

BRIX [http://www.fmb.org.uk]

Builders Resource and Information Exchange, site of the Federation of Master Builders, "the largest trade association in the UK construction industry." Information on government bodies, books, products. Links. Journals full-text online. Street maps for anywhere in mainland Britain.

BuilderSpace.com [http://www.builderspace.com/]

Information portal for the building and design industry. Site contains resources of interest to practicing architects and students of architecture, including architecture news, competitions, conferences, exhibits, A.R.E. Exam information and resources and much more. 11/03

BuildItWorldwide [http://Builditworldwide.com]

Directory broken into categories Buy It, Build It, Design It, Document It, Byte It, Go To It, Work It, Read It, and Document it. 6/00

BuildNet [http://www.abuildnet.com]

Links to construction-related businesses, and directory listings.

CMD First Source [http://www.reedfirstsource.com/index.asp]

Registration required (free). "Daily updated news, cost data from R.S. Means, product information from Architects' First Source, project leads from Construction Market Data and the industry's most complete building code reference." 4/02

Construction Canada [http://www.constructioncanada.com/]

Canada construction industry info. 12/01

Construction WebLinks [http://www.constructionweblinks.com/]

Substantial links in categories of organizations, industry topics, and resources. 2/01

Construction WebLinks [http://www.constructionWebLinks.com/]

In three sections: organizations, industry topics, and resources. Prepared by the law firm of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, a construction law practice. The sections relating to legal topics are especially noteworthy, including governmental agencies in the organizations section; and in the industry topics section: licensing, building codes, laws and regulations, legal and contracts, insurance, bonds. 8/02

Design Build Network [http://www.designbuild-network.com]

Lists industry suppliers for the design, construction and outfitting of new buildings. It also lists industry events and conferences and has a growing glossary of industry terms &&http://www.designbuild-network.com/glossary/&&. The site has a projects section listing interesting new buildings by building type from around the &&world http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/&&. 10/06

Electric-Find: Gateway to the Electrical Industry [http://www.electric-find.com/]

Organized into categories including associations, publications, manufacturers, and a variety of electrical specialties. 1/01

Electricity Forum [http://www.electricityforum.com/]

”The Electricity Forum is a portal for the North American electrical industry, since 1996, with more than 5,000 pages relating to electricity news, information, electrical construction equipment directories, associations, magazines, electrical trades training, and more.” Accessed 10/07

Martindale's - The Reference Desk: Remodeling [http://www.martindalecenter.com/Ref1Home.html]

Links to dictionaries, online interactive calculators, courses and tutorials, and building material supplies and equipment. 12/98

McGraw-Hill Construction Network for Products [http://products.construction.com]

Accessed 10/06

NWBuildNet [http://www.nwbuildnet.com]

Although billed as the Online Construction Resource for the Pacific NorthWest, it is actually of broader interest than its regional orientation would suggest. Information on news, services, resources, associations, builders, publications.

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Building Types / Styles

All About Skyscrapers [http://www.allaboutskyscrapers.com/]

"Exploring every aspect of the Skyscraper." 1/07

American Architecture [http://www.realviews.com/]

Examples and brief descriptions of styles from 1690 (Georgian) to 1930 (American Foursquare). 12/01

American Society of Theatre Consultants [http://www.theatreconsultants.org/index.html]

Their publications and links will be of interest. 10/2006

Architectural Styles [http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w367/styles/index.htm]

House and Commercial styles illustrated, with key characteristics indicated. House styles listed alphabetically. 12/01

Architype Review [http://www.architypereview.com]

Architype Review seeks to advance the discussion of design within specific building typologies and explore the influence that type has on the design process. Architype’s primary goal is to honor those projects that are challenging the limits and redefining the norms of a certain building type. In addition, Architype promotes sustainable design and provides support to competitions and student travel abroad opportunities. Each volume/number covers a different building type. 10/06

Archnet [http://archnet.org]

Promoted as "an online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world." Includes the Dictionary of Islamic Architecture in the references section, many images that can be searched in a variety of ways, CAD files for download, course syllabi, and more. 7/02

Building Big [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/index.html]

Very basic information on the building of skyscrapers, domes, tunnels, dams and bridges. Each section lists about ten specific structures and gives facts and history for each. 4/02

California Mission Studies Association [http://www.ca-missions.org]

Extensive set of annotated links, mission directory, articles, and news. 7/98

Campus Architecture [http://chronicle.com/indepth/architecture/]

Chronicle of Higher Education subscribers can access this page providing examples of campus buildings. A list of buildings with institution, state, type, date, square footage, cost, and architect are at [http://chronicle.com/stats/architecture/] 11/05

Casino City Link Directory [http://www.casinocity.com/]

Links to casinos with websites, world-wide.

Castles on the Web [http://www.castlesontheweb.com/]

Castles and abbeys in various countries. Glossary of castle terms: [http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.html]

Center for Health Design [http://www.healthdesign.org]

Current research projects, book reviews and online publications ordering. 7/98

Church Architecture [http://www.churcharchitecture.net/Index.html]

Full-text articles and images on church building and renovation. 5/04

Church Architecture, Church Furnishings, Church Liturgy [http://www.ecclsoc.org/]

The Ecclesiological Society homepage. "Architecture of all periods from around the world, with the centre of gravity in the UK." 4/00

Covered Bridges of Michigan [http://www.net-link.net/~michaelf/covered.htm]

Last accessed 1/03.

Covered Bridges of the Philadelphia Region [http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/bridge/CB1.html]

Arranged in a variety of ways: by county, by structural type, by driving tour, and by season!

Functionalism and the City of Viipuri [http://www.greatgridlock.net/Viipuri/viipuri.html]

"This is a study of the emergence and development of Functionalist Modernism in the city of Viipuri in pre-war Finland (today part of the Russian Federation). It features some of the buildings that represent the era of Scandinavian "white Functionalism", among them the world-renowned Viipuri Municipal Library by Alvar Aalto." 10/00

Googie Architecture Online [http://www.SpaceAgeCity.com]

Nice site on this unique architecture, with special emphasis on Orange County. 5/99

Hewn and Hammered [http://www.hewnandhammered.com/]

"All about Prairie, Craftsman and Mission Architecture Art and Design." A pleasant site to browse. 5/05

High Performance School Buildings [http://www.sbicouncil.org/highperformanceschoolsonlineresources.htm]

Resources from the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council. 5/05

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 House Architecture [http://www.ragtime.org/arch]

"Guide to Historic Houses with emphasis on Late-Victorian and Craftsman Style Bungalows." Description of styles rather than specific buildings.

Home Styles [http://www.thehopkinscompany.com/your_style/your_style.html]

Architects Hopkins Company define eight major home styles. 10/06

Images of Medieval Art and Architecture in England and France [http://www.pitt.edu/~medart]

Primarily churches, cathedrals and abbeys.

Islamic Architecture [http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/islamicarchitecture/index.html]

"Textual and Visual Resources available at MIT Rotch Library and Rotch Visual Collections." Also includes links to specific mosques and Islamic Architecture in general. 01/05

Islamic Architecture [http://www.islamicarchitecture.org]

Islamic Architecture features illustrated descriptions and reviews of notable mosques and monuments. 2/04

Legalskate [http://www.skatepark.org/]

Primarily "serves as resource for those working to legalize skateboarding or get a skatepark built in their community," but some design info. 6/99

Looking at Buildings [http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/]

Last accessed 6/06

Minnesota's Historic Bridges [http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/bridges/bridges.html]

As of 6/26/98 there are "27 bridges online with text and photographs from the National Register of Historic Places nominations. The focus of the exhibit are the state's masonry arch, truss and reinforced concrete arch bridges." Access bridges by location or by type.

Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/]

Photographs and information on nine missions.

National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities [http://www.edfacilities.org/]

Comprehensive site devoted to design of K-12 facilities. Categories include "healthy school design", "classroom design" and "high performance schools." 4/05

New York Skyscrapers [http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc.html]

Organized by period. Images, information on structures, materials, renovation. Extensive. 10/00

Palladio's Italian Villas [http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/home.html]

Census of villas, bibliography, substantial information.

PARKitecture in Western National Parks [http://www.cr.nps.gov/hdp/exhibits/parkitect/]

"PARKitecture in Western National Parks celebrates the concept of designing with nature through the exhibition of black and white photographs and measured drawings of representative structures and sites in ten well-known parks. You can select a park to see what we've highlighted from it, or choose a facility type...." 4/02

Planning and Building Libraries [http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/architecture/index.htm]

Site for architects and librarians, linking to web resources on such subtopics as automation, lighting, security, standards, and others. 1/01

Planning and Managing the Workplace Student Projects [http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/dea453_653/student_projects.html]

Reports of student projects 1998 - 2001 for this Cornell course relating to workplace design. 11/02

Public Library presentations [http://urbanafreelibrary.org/departments/presentations/]

Several presentations made to the Public Library Association Conference on library design and lighting, by Fred Schlipf and John Moorman. 11/05

Roadside Architecture [http://www.roadsidepeek.com/archit/index.htm]

"Special focus on mid-century styles" including googie architecture and tiki style. 6/00

Skyscraper Museum [http://www.skyscraper.org/]

Exhibitions, publications list, beginnings of a photo archive, and a graphic on the world's tallest buildings. 10/99

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.

TempleNet [http://www.indiantemples.com]

Though there is no indication that any additions have been made to this site since 1997, there is still a good bit of information here on Indian Temples. 8/98

Theatre Historical Society of America [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa]

Information on the American Theatre Architecture Archive, links to historic theatre web sites. 7/98

Theatre Projects Consultants [http://tpcworld.com/]

News, portfolio, links to theater projects. 7/02

Whole Building Design Guide [http://www.wbdg.org/index.php]

"The WBDG is the only web-based portal providing government and industry practitioners with one-stop access up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria and technology from a 'whole buildings' perspective." Design guidance to create high-performance buildings, organized by building type. Also useful are links to government sites with information on building mandates. 11/02

Wired New York [http://www.wirednewyork.com]

"Over a thousand original photographs of New York City. Skyscrapers and architecture section shows famous skyscrapers, World Trade Center, buildings under construction. A guide to the city has images of New York landmarks and attractions." Also in skyscrapers and architecture section is an alphabetical list of buildings, not limited to buildings for which there are photographs. Best with Internet Explorer. 4/02

Yurt Info [http://www.yurtinfo.org]

Basic information, links, and forums for building and living in yurts. 10/06

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