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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Electronic Publications

Architectural Record [http://www.archrecord.com]

Subscription info, some full-text articles, Green Architect section (inlcuding products, articles, continuing education opportunities), news. 10/99

Architectural Research Centers Consortium Journal [ [http://www.arccweb.org/journal/journal_html/index.htm]

Full-text articles. 5/04

Architectural West [http://www.architecturalwest.com/]

Some articles online. Subtitle: "The magazine of the Western Architect and Specifier." 12/02

Architecture Magazine [http://www.architecturemag.com]

Some full text articles. January 1998 onward. 8/98

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

Online magazine, from the publishers of the Great Buildings Collection. "ArchitectureWeek covers new buildings as they open worldwide and a broad spectrum of design and technical issues. It showcases articles from well known journalists and experts in every aspect of architectural design, practice, building technology, and digital media." 6/00

Architronic [http://architronic.saed.kent.edu/]

You can subscribe to Architronic, architecture's first electronic journal, produced by Kent State University Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, by sending a message to [ listserv@listserv.kent.edu ] : subscribe arcitron [name]. It appears three times per year, with irregular supplements. The most recent issue and the full archive are maintained at the Kent State web site. Elwin Robison's article tracing the history of Architronic is available at [http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n3/robi7n3.html]

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

Aridlands Newsletter [http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/ALNHome.html]

Issues since 1994 available full text. Each issue has a theme. Issue 36 is on Desert Architecture. 7/98

art-public.com: Public Art Online Newsletter [http://www.sigap.net/art-public-com/english.php3]

Full-text articles available only after entering a subscription. 5/01

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.

Building Operating Management [http://www.facilitiesnet.com/bom/]

Full-text, 1995 onwards. 9/99

Charette [http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/Charette/index.html]

"Online access to Charette magazine (vols. 1-54, 1920-1974), an essential source for architectural research in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. " Carnegie Mellon Architectural Archives. 4/03

City Review [http://www.thecityreview.com/home.html]

Devoted to New york, including its architecture and urban issues. 8/98

Commerce Business Daily [http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov/index.html]

This site provides free access to the CBD. The CBD is in the category "Business Opportunities."

Design Intelligence [http://www.di.net/]

The business of design. Previews and sample articles only; full journal with subscription.

DRS News

Electronic newsletter of the Design Research Society. Distributed via mailing list. To subscribe send an email message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the message Join Design-Research [First Name Last Name].

e Design Online [http://sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/index.html]

"e design Online is the electronic journal of the Florida Design Initiative, dedicated to promoting 'best practices' in design, construction and operation of facilities. Online jounal of sustainable design archive. No longer active. "

Echos du Patrimoine [http://www.skene.be/RW/RWECHO45/echo4501.htm]

Newsletter covering historic preservation in southern Belgium and Brussels, with good reviews of current publications. 7/00 [annotation courtesy of Al Willis]

EcoTecture:The Online Journal of Ecologic Design [http://www.ecotecture.com/]

News, features, reviews, online bookstore. 3/00

Engineering News-Record [http://www.enr.com]

Full-text of cover article. Online directory section includes search capability of their top 500 design firms.

Environmental Building News [http://www.buildinggreen.com/]

"A Newsletter on Environmentally Sustainable Design and Construction." Some full-text articles.

Environmental Design and Construction [http://www.EDCmag.com/]

Some articles full-text online. You can also subscribe online to the free print subscription. 3/01

Frank R. Walker Company [http://www.frankrwalker.com/]

Online book ordering and online contents of concrete and masonry chapters of Building Estimator's Reference Book. 8/98

GreenClips [http://www.greenclips.com/]

[http://listserv.energy.wsu.edu/greenclips/visit.html]. You can subscribe by sending email to: GreenClips-request@listserv.energy.wsu.edu . "GreenClips is a summary of recent articles in the media on environmental news. It has a special focus on sustainable design for buildings-green architecture-and related government and business issues. The one-page digital summary is published every two weeks."

Habitat, the Newsletter of the CTI Centre for the Built Environment [http://cebe.cf.ac.uk/learning/habitat/HABITAT1/Contents.html]

Full text of articles, reviews, reports related to "teaching within the built environment disciplines." 7/98

Harvard Design Magazine [http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/]

Sample articles from current and back issues. Subscription information. 10/01

Healthcare Design [http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/]

Some articles available online, both from current and past issues. 4/05

Home Energy Magazine [http://www.homeenergy.org]

Issues from 1993 and 1994 online, with plans to add them back to volume 1, 1984.

Interiors & Sources [http://www.isdesignet.com/ME2/Audiences/Default.asp]

Full-text current and back issues. Index to articles going back to at least 1995. Searchable and browsable directory of products and companies. 9/98

International Journal of Design Computing [http://www.arch.usyd.EDU.AU/kcdc/journal/]

"The International Journal of Design Computing is a refereed journal that is published on the World Wide Web and will be archived by the University of Sydney Library. The objective of the journal is to promote research and technology transfer in design computing through the publication of interactive, multimedia journal articles within the general topic of design computing." 1/00

Internet Library of Early Journals [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/]

Includes The Builder 1843-1852. Similar to reading microfilm, but online. 6/01

Journal of Design Communication [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JDC]

"A scholarly, refereed publication of the Design Communication Association." Covers the "disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, graphic design, and other related design disciplines." Fall 1998 and Spring 2000 issues posted, full-text. 2/01

Katarxis [http://luciensteil.tripod.com/katarxis/index.html]

Webzine on New Traditional Architecture and Urbanism. 4/03

LBL Center for Building Science News [http://eetd.lbl.gov/newsletter/CBS_NL/]

Full-text of the 1994 and 1995 issues of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab newsletter on energy.

Metropolis Magazine [http://www.metropolismag.com]

Some full-text articles starting from Dec. 1994 issues. Magazine section: monthly web picks (with links).

Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics Online [http://www.nexusjournal.com/]

"Nexus Network Journal is a peer-reviewed online research resource for studies in architecture and mathematics." 6/00

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide [http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/]

Scholarly e-journal on 19th century visual culture, including architecture. Scheduled to be published three times per year, with issue one published spring 2002, under the auspices of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. 7/02

Online Planning [http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/planning/olp.htm]

Quarterly full-text journal covering the intersection between planning and cyberspace. 11/98

PLAN [http://sap.mit.edu/resources/newsletter_plan/]

Newsletter of the MIT school of Architecture and Planning.

PLANETIZEN: Planning and Development News, Jobs, & Events [http://www.planetizen.com/]

In addition to what is indicated in the subtitle, includes full-text feature articles. 6/01

PlannersWeb [http://www.plannersweb.com]

Varied site, regularly updated and expanded. Includes articles from the Planning Commissioners Journal, planning links, sprawl resource guide (annotated guide to web resources, and list of articles), articles contributed to PlannersWeb, and more. 6/98

Planning Report: Insider's Guide to Managed Growth [http://www.planningreport.com/tpr/]

Although this is a subscription publication, there is much freely available online. focused on Southern California. 6/01

Provocations [http://www.design-site.net/provoc.htm]

"An Online Journal of Architecture and Ideas." Full-text articles.

Rice Design Alliance [http://rda.rice.edu/index.php?topgroupid=2]

This site holds full-text of many of the papers given in the 1994 spring lecture series on the virtual city, as well as information on the Design Alliance and their ongoing programs. This site also contains features and reviews from Cite. AW 4/99

SchinkelNews [http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g126/peikx001]

Produced by the Friends of Schinkel.

Specifier Magazine [http://www.specifier.com.au/]

12/06

Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments [http://www.terrain.org/]

Articles, editorials, essays, fiction, "UnSprawl" case studies. 3/01

Urban Reinventors [http://wp.urbanreinventors.net/]

"An online urban journal, whose aim is to analyze political strategies of urban redevelopment implemented by entrepreneurial local administrations of western countries within the growth-oriented and competition-driven framework of urban governance of the contemporary city. ." 7/07

varnelis.net [http://varnelis.net/]

SCI-arc faculty member Kazys Varnelis' page, composed of "news, criticism, analysis, and projects on contemporary architecture and urbanism." 12/01

Volume5 [http://www.volume5.com/]

Interviews, books reviews, and links [many of which are from %%buildingtrades.com%%]. Chat space and architecture events in LA. Run by architecture faculty. 7/02

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