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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Cannon Group
[http://www.cannon-roof.com]
Roof and building consultants. Links to roofing sites at [http://www.cannon-roof.com/link_ct.htm]
Kevan R. Shaw Lighting Design
[http://www.kevan-shaw.com]
Articles on his philosophy and practice, illustrated list of clients and projects.
Project Management Forum
[http://www.pmforum.org/]
Construction-related materials, products and services; includes the geographically-organized Professional Services Locator Directory.
Associated Builders and Contractors
[http://www.abc.org]
Last accessed 12/04.
Enertia Building Systems
[http://enertia.com]
"Designers, manufacturers, and builders of environmental solar homes."
USAPainter
[http://www.usapainter.com]
Info for and about painting contractors, including the National Directory of Painting contractors.
Atlas of Cyberspaces
[http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html]
"This is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces." Maps are grouped into type, e.g. geographic,
artistic, historical, census, etc. according to the conventions used to create them. 10/99
MUVA Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais
[http://www.elpais.com.uy/muva2/]
Of interest is the technique for virtually guiding the viewer through the cyberspace museum. 7/98
Online Planning
[http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/planning/olp.htm]
Quarterly full-text journal covering the intersection between planning and cyberspace. 11/98
Planet 9 Studios
[http://www.planet9.com]
Virtual models of several cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kyoto, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, New Orleans, New York, San Diego, Washington. Needs a vrml plug-in. Great potential, but for the
cities I accessed there were problems,including not being able to identify what I was seeing, and for Las Vegas, not being able to get the model to come up at all. 10/99
Virtual Cities Resource Centre
[http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/planning/cities.htm]
"To explore and develop the representation of urban form on the World Wide Web." Includes links to virtual cities on the web. 11/98
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
Best Practices of City Governments
[http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/best_practices/]
US Council of Mayors database. 10/01
Best Practices of City Governments
[http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/best_practices/]
US Council of Mayors database. 10/01
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
Getty Databases
[http://www.getty.edu/search/index.html]
Databases and research tools, including the Census of Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance (password required) and the Getty Provenance. 7/99
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
Land Use Database
[http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/ludb/index.html]
Searchable by keyword, browsable by type of site (cultural, industrial, mining, military, nuclear, radioactive transportation, waste, and water) which can be limited by location. "The database includes museums and
displays related to land use, and one of the most thorough listings of land art sites available." 12/98
Las Vegas Architects and Buildings Database
[http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/archdb/arch.php]
A database created and maintained by the UNLV Architecture Studies Library reflecting library and web materials for thousands of architects, firms and projects from Las Vegas, Nevada and surrounding areas. Last accessed 8/06.
National Register of Historic Places
[http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/]
Last accessed 1/03.
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
Smart Growth Policy Database
[http://cfpub.epa.gov/sgpdb/sgdb.cfm]
"This database highlights numerous policies and programs that states and localities nationwide have implemented to further smart growth." Search, or browse by program objective, technique or state in which implemented. 8/02
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
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs from the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, American Memory, Library of Congress
[http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/index.html]
Browse by subject. 11/06
Combo Directory
[http://www.combo.com]
Interior Designers Collection virtual furniture fair, information on office ergonomics.
CORE -- Industrial Design Resources
[http://www.core77.com/]
"The" net spot for industrial design. Resource Lab contains information on events, jobs, associations, links, and more.
Design Linc: Disability Products and Design Resource Center
[http://www.rahul.net/designlinc]
"The Design Linc is an on-line Interior design resource and information service, specifically geared to locate high quality products and services available for the Physically challenged (All disabilities) individual."
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
[http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/]
Electronic facsimiles, links to documents, images and resources. 6/01
Florence Design Academy
[http://www.florencedesignacademy.com/]
Information on the courses (including masters level) the school offers in interior, industrial, and graphic design. Includes a gallery of student work. 4/03
Industrial Design Systems and Products
[http://www.designmatrix.com]
Gary Swift's firm page. Includes information on pattern languages and structured planning.
InformeDesign: Where Research Informs Design
[http://www.informedesign.org/]
Research summaries can be browsed by category [Space, Issues, or Occupants] or searched by keywords. Each research summary includes design issue, design criteria, key concepts, research methods, and limitations of the study. Substantial site. 5/04
Interior Design Directory
[http://www.i-d-d.com]
Mixed bag of categories: classifieds, feng shui, design resources, newsstand,color forecasts, design trends, and more. 1/00
Interior Design Quotes.Com
[http://www.interiordesignquotes.com/index.html]
"Presenting the wise words of Interior Design pioneers" 05/07
ISDesigNet
[http://www.isdesignet.com]
The online version of Interiors and Sources Magazine. 10/06
Kitchen Designer Ideas
[http://www.kitchendesignersideas.com]
Kitchen floor plans, contemporary and old world kitchen designs, country kitchen floor plans, design plans for kitchen remodeling, galley kitchen plans and plans for building a kitchen island. 10/06
Mauk Design: Exhibit Design and Corporate Communications
[http://www.maukdesign.com/]
Several examples of exhibition design. 10/99
Milenski ART
[http://www.milenskiart.com/]
Firm specializing in nightclub and restaurant design -- samples included on the site. 7/02
MoCo Loco -- Modern contemporary design and architecture
[http://www.mocoloco.com]
Self-described web magazine featuring "news and views" in a variety of design areas. Search, or browse by such topics as art, architecture, lighting, botanical, textiles, books, designers, and more. 4/05
Online Design Source
[http://www.onlinedesignsource.net]
Contains information and comprehensive directories of vendors/manufacturers, trade marts, professional organizations, schools with interior design programs, and careers opportunities in the industry. 11/06
Visual Identity System, USGS
[http://www.usgs.gov/visual-id/]
Program, including design specifications, color palette, and identifier banners, to create a consistent identity for the US Geological Survey. Papers by such designers as Vignelli in the "Reference Library" selected
"to provide a framework for thinking about organizational missions, visual identities, and design standards." 5/99
AcIS Imaging and Hypertext Projects
[http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/imaging.html]
A joint project of AcIS -- Academic Information Systems -- and Columbia University Libraries. It includes 2000 digitized images (e.g. of Paris maps, Calatrava Bridges, and miscellaneous other topics). Home of the Digital Image Access Project.
Arts and Architecture
[http://www.artsandarchitecture.com/]
"A&A was an avant garde magazine of international importance, covering modern art, music, literature and architecture" contains representative projects from all issues of the magazine 1945-1967, also complete presentions of all 35 Case Study Houses as originally published in A&A." Last accessed 12/07.
California Heritage Collection
[http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/CalHeritage/]
"The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collection of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley." Included are images from these collections and many more: Artistic Homes of California 1887-1890, Buildings of Berkeley ca. 1915, California Mission Sketches, and Construction Photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge 1933-1934. In addition to the images is information on the collections. 12/98
Chartres Cathedral
[http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index]
Wonderful site. More than 2000 images. Searchable and browsable. Well indexed. 11/05
Chicago Imagebase
[http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/index.html]
"The Chicago Imagebase is a Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images and other data along with information on how to use this data to study the city." 8/99
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Digital Design Lab
[http://www.arch.columbia.edu/]
Projects online by semester. From the homepage follow links under "works" 4/07
Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Lab
[http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/udv/projects.htm]
Includes a noise study, transit study, historic preservation study. 11/05
Library of Congress American Memory Collections: Topics: Art and Architecture
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html]
A treasure, this page leads to information and/or images for many of the Library of Congress collections including the photographs of the Detroit
Publishing Company (1885-1930), the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection -- "Northeastern U.S. and Florida, emphasizing architecture," the Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, and
Horydczak Collection of architecture. 3/99
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
UCLA Cultural VR Lab
[http://www.cvrlab.org/]
Substantial projects focusing on the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. 11/05
University of Virginia Supporting Digital Scholarship
[http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sds/]
Of interest to architecture are the projects on the Salisbury Cathedral and the Pompeii Forum. 11/05
University of Washington Digital Collections
[http://content-dev.lib.washington.edu/]
Go to the A-Z list for two relevant digital projects: the Cities and Buildings Database, and the Urban Archives Database. 11/05
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