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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CIE International Commission on Illumination (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage)
[http://www.cie-usnc.org/]
Publications, press releases, extracts from CIE Journal
Designing with Light
[http://www.designingwithlight.com]
Allows designers to explore lighting solutions online and easily assemble comprehensive project information in a personalized project folder. 10/06
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
[http://www.iesna.org]
About the IESNA, their online catalog (as of 6/25/98 the 1995/96 catalog was up), and links. 7/98
inter.Light
[http://www.light-link.com]
"Dedicated exclusively to lighting products and lighting design with a special emphasis on energy efficiency. inter.Light includes a directory of lighting companies, searchable product databases, a photo gallery of hot lighting products, lighting design case studies, information about the lighting provisions of the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) and links to other useful lighting information on the Internet."
International Association of Lighting Designers
[http://www.iald.org]
Requirements for membership, membership benefits, code of ethics. 7/98
Ledalite
[http://www.ledalite.com]
Information on their products; articles written by staff; links.
Lighting Center
[http://www.thelightingcenter.com]
Lighting manufacturers and detailed product information. Includes links to a variety of categories such as "energy, government, and utility lighting programs," "light pollution articles," "light source comparison and reviews," and "lighting, electrical and miscellaneous organizations."
Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
[http://www.lrc.rpi.edu]
Overview of the center and its projects, abstracts from the National Lighting Product Information Program and DELTA (Demonstration and Evaluation of Lighting Techniques and Applications), and a nice set of links to lighting sources on the net (and to net sources on energy, optics, patents, and standards as well).
Lighting Resource
[http://www.lightresource.com/litelink.html]
This site offers an extensive set of links to net sources on lighting. 6/03
Lighting the Way: A Key to Independence
[http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/lightHealth/AARP/index.asp]
The Lighting Center at RPI has developed lighting principles for older adults. The three reports here are aimed variously at senions, health care professionals, and designers. 11/05
Lighting.com
[http://www.lighting.com]
News, links, small jobs section. 6/00
Lightolier
[http://www.lightolier.com]
The site features complete product specification information for Lightolierıs comprehensive product line, links to authorized distributors and Lessons In Lighting, an accredited online educational program. Visitors can also browse an extensive collection of photos highlighting a variety of product applications. 10/06
National Research Council of Canada Lighting Resources
[http://www.nrc.ca/irc/light]
Lighting resources including full-text research papers, and information on their Lighting Quality project which examines the relationship between interior lighting and behavior.
TIR Systems Inc.
[http://www.tirsys.com/]
On their product the light pipe, "consisting of a hollow prismatic light guide and a remote HID source." 7/98
Alexandria Digital Library
[http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/index.html]
University of California, Santa Barbara hosted "distributed digital library for geographically-referenced information." Substantial set of links to other "spatial data on the web." 4/99
ArcData Online: ESRI's Internet Mapping and Data Site
[http://www.esri.com/data/index.html]
"ArcData Online allows you to browse a wide variety of geographic data to select and download the data sets for your area of interest. The ADOL database includes both free and commercial data sets that may be licensed
and downloaded." 6/99
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
[http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html]
"Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state. There are two main types of links on each state page: maps and images local to this site, and links to external web
sites." 8/99
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
[http://davidrumsey.com]
"Rare 18th and 19th century maps" primarily North and South America. 4/02
Images of Early Maps on the Web
[http://www.maphistory.info/imageus.html#states]
Links to images organized by geographic location. 1/03
Las Vegas Maps
[http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/maps/index.html]
Las Vegas maps available in the University of Nevada Las Vegas Architecture Studies Library, or online. Includes strip mapping studies, topos, and other maps useful in planning and architecture. 5/04
Library of Congress American Memory Project Map Collections 1544-1996
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html]
Maps collections of various types including cities/towns, conservation/environment, and general. Searchable by subject, geographic location, title, and creator. 5/99
Map History/ History of Cartography
[http://www.maphistory.info/]
A global overview of the history of cartography, aimed at surfers or scholars, spread over about 100 pages. The site provides reference information and lists activities, opportunities and resources. There are also leads to the collecting of early maps. 'Map History' is managed by the former Map Librarian of the British Library and forms part of the WWW-Virtual Library. 11/03
National Geographic Map Machine
[http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/]
Online maps categorized by theme and location. 7/02
Oddens's Bookmarks
[http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html]
Searchable site of over 10,000 cartigraphic links including clickable maps and atlases, other electronic map collections, sellers of cartographic material, cartographic and geographical societies and departments, and more. PW 7/00
Panoramic Maps at the Library of Congress
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/]
Part of the American Memory Project. Searchable by geographic location, keyword, subject and creator. 4/99
Stanford University Earth Sciences Library Map Collections
[http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/branner/collections/map_collections.html]
8/05
TerraServer USA
[http://terraserver.microsoft.com/]
USGS aerials and topos. Many are from the late 1980s and early 1990s. 5/04
TopoZone.com
[http://topozone.com/]
Topos, but also shaded relief maps, street maps, and aerial photos. 5/05
U.S. Gazetteer
[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer]
"This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. You can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state
abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code." 3/99
U.S.G.S. Geographic Names Information System
[http://geonames.usgs.gov/]
Searchable database of almost 2 million U.S. features. Provides description of feature and will locate on map if requested. Links to other Geographic Information servers, including the GEOnet Names Server [[http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html]], an international gazetteer that provides latitude and longitude but does not link to a mapping program. PW 7/00
U.S.G.S.Geography: The National Map
[http://nationalmap.usgs.gov/]
"Online, interactive ... geospatial data." 6/04
University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html]
Over 700 online U.S. maps as well as maps worldwide. 3/99
Western Regional Climate Center
[http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/]
Useful data and maps on the western states, including climate historical summaries, daily temperature and precipitation, radar and satellite imagery, climate maps, etc. Links to other sources such as the solar
radiation data at the University of Oregon. 6/99
Entries provided by "PW" are courtesy of Penny Whitten, UNLV Libraries.
Architectural Record Daily Headlines
[http://archrecord.construction.com/]
Accessed 10/06
ArchNewsNow
[http://www.archnewsnow.com/]
Daily updates. 10/06
Engineering News-Record
[http://www.enr.com]
Weekly construction news.
New York Times on Architecture
[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/architecture/index.html?partner=rssnyt]
Accessed 10/06
Specifier Magazine
[http://www.specifier.com.au/]
12/06
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
[http://aceee.org/]
Broad-based energy policy concerns. Highlights of the 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Building are posted. 12/98
1930s Architecture in Tel Aviv
[http://www.interart.co.il/bauhaus/index.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Amsterdam Heritage -- Historic Buildings
[http://www.bma.amsterdam.nl/adam/index_e.html]
Buildings arranged both by period [Gothic, Renaissance, Dutch Classicism, Flat Style, Louis Styles, Revival Styles] and building type [bridges, churches, public buildings, warehouses, houses]. Good balance of text and
image. 11/00
Ancient City of Athens
[http://www.stoa.org/athens/]
Last accessed 1/03.
ARCHINDONT
[http://archindont.torontopubliclibrary.ca/]
Architectural Index of Ontario, an index to periodical and monograph citations about Toronto buildings prepared by the Metro Toronto Reference Library. Search by architect, designer, name of building, building type, and street address. Information on each building includes address, type, name, notes, architects, and citations. 2/01
Architectural Dublin
[http://www.archeire.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/index.html]
"Dublin's architectural development from medieval times through the 17th and 18th Centuries."
Architecture and Urbanism of the Southwest
[http://www.elearn.arizona.edu/adobe/]
Stuart Glogoff from the University of Arizona describes the site thusly: "In addition to John Messina's original essays, the site includes many images from slides that John has shot in Mexico. Among the most interesting is a sequence of images of an "adobero," adobe maker, demonstrating how adobe bricks are produced. John's essay spans the Pre-Hispanic Period to the present and features sections entitled: "Adobe," "Courtyard," and "Town Making." It also provides a recommended readings list of books and articles." 7/02
Architecture Centre Network
[http://www.architecturecentre.net/index.asp]
"The Architecture Centre Network is the independent body that coordinates, supports and advances the work of architecture and related centres in the UK. Architecture Centres are involved in community training, capacity building, policy delivery and primary education in the fields of architecture and the built environment." Good starting spot to scope out the architecture field in the UK context. 5/05
Architecture Cincinnati
[http://www.daap.uc.edu/library/archcinci/index.html]
"A Guide to Nationally Significant Buildings and Their Architects in the Greater Cincinnati Area." 1/00
Architecture in America: State Houses to Skyscrapers
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html]
Photos from the Detroit Publishing Co. 1880-1920.
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
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
Arcosanti
[http://www.arcosanti.org]
Paolo Soleri "urban laboratory" project near Phoenix.
Australian Architecture
[http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visual_culture/projects/diva/]
Includes digital images of architecture in Melbourne and Sydney. 9/02
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
California Mission Studies Association
[http://www.ca-missions.org]
Extensive set of annotated links, mission directory, articles, and news. 7/98
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
Capitol Project
[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/cap_home.html]
Ambitious project by the American Studies Group and the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia to document Washington, D.C.
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.
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
Chicago Loop Guide
[http://www.yelodog.com/html/loop/loop.html]
The loop, divided into quadrants, with information on selected buildings (architect, date built, address, description). Thumbnails of the buildings. 5/00
Chicago's South Side
[http://www.yelodog.com/html/south_side/south_side.html]
Buildings at the University of Chicago and "Back of the Yards." Description, information on the architect and date built, thumbnails. 5/00
Cities and Buildings Database
[http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/]
Images of buildings in more than 30 countries. Access is geographically arranged. The aim is to create an electronic image archive on "Cities and Architecture." 7/98
City Gateways
[http://www.sapling.org.uk/city/]
Provided by Sapling, the gateway for architecture, planning and landscape information in the UK. 11/05
City of York Walls
[http://www.york.gov.uk/leisure/Local_history_and_heritage/city_walls/]
Description of monuments and buildings along the walls. 4/07
City Review
[http://www.thecityreview.com/home.html]
Devoted to New york, including its architecture and urban issues. 8/98
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!
Discovering Contemporary Architecture Athens-Paris-London
[http://www.culture2000.tee.gr]
Last accessed 2/04.
DIVA (Digital Images -- Visual Arts)
[http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visual_culture/projects/diva]
Alphabetical index of file names; gif, jpg, and html files. Includes Australian Art and Architecture images.
Downtown Los Angeles Walking Tour
[http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/index.html]
By the University of Southern California Department of Geography. Divided into seven sub-regions: Civic Center/Little Tokyo, Fashion District, Historic Core, New Downtown, Pueblo/Chinatown, South Park, and Wholesale District/Skid Row. 5/00
Edinburgh Contemporary Architecture
[http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk/]
Last accessed 2/04.
Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
[http://detroityes.com/home.htm]
Divided into several "tours" such as "Gilded Age Tour," "Gone Today Tour," "City Rises Tour" and others. 1/00
Finnish Architecture in the 1990s
[http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/archi_jt1.html]
Information and photographs on architects and buildings. 2/00
Glasgow Architecture
[http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/]
Last accessed 4/03
Governors Island
[http://www.gsa.gov/pbs/pr/govisland.htm]
"Through the use of interactive text, images, and video, this website presents information about the history, facilities, and possibilities of Governors Island, the 173-acre historic facility in New York Harbor that until recently housed the nation's largest Coast Guard facility." 12/98
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
[http://www.gapw.com]
130 years of projects from this Chicago architecture firm. 11/03
Guide to Colorado Architecture
[http://www.coloradohistory-oahp.org/guides/architecture/archindex.htm]
Brief explanation of a variety of styles found in Colorado architecture. 10/02
Guide to Historic Architecture in Fresno, California
[http://historicfresno.org]
Nicely done, with fast-loading graphics and a variety of information including events and issues regarding preservation, buildings on the national and local register, proposed historic districts, historic walking tours, and biographies of prominent architects and builders in Fresno.
Images of Medieval Art and Architecture in England and France
[http://www.pitt.edu/~medart]
Primarily churches, cathedrals and abbeys.
Indiana Historic Architecture
[http://www.preserveindiana.com/]
Images, links, lists of historic sites. 4/99
Information System for Los Angeles
[http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/digarchives/]
Decription of the project to create a digital archive of the development of the Southern California metropolitan area. 2/00
Islamic and Arabic Arts and Architecture
[http://islamicart.com]
Last accessed 1/03.
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 in Isfahan
[http://isfahan.apu.ac.uk/]
Menu options include fundamental concepts, minarets, mosques and shrines, palaces and bridges, and bibliography.
Jerusalem Mosaic
[http://jeru.huji.ac.il/open_screen2.htm]
Overview of people, water, food, and sites through several periods of Jerusalem history. 2/00
Las Vegas Today and Tomorrow
[http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/]
Cross between a blog and a web site with maps and info on new Vegas projects. And there are many. 11/05
Las Vegas, Nevada Architecture and Buildings Guides and Collections
[http://library.unlv.edu/arch/lasvegas/index.html#artand]
Last accessed 1/03.
Los Angeles Conservancy
[http://www.laconservancy.org/]
Resources on preservation, links, news on LA area historic preservation and the conservancy's walking tours. 5/00
Los Angeles: Past, Present & Future
[http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/]
Maintained by USC's Information Services Division, this site has links in three categories: Los Angeles Past, Los Angeles Present and Los Angeles Future. Many of the links take you to material from the University of Southern California archives. 4/05
Major Attractions of Russia
[http://russia-in-us.com/attract.html]
Includes Moscow architecture 13th - 19th centuries, Baroque architecture of St.Petersburg, the Museum of Wooden Architecture in Karelia.
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.
Modern Phoenix: The Neighborhood Network
[http://www.modernphoenix.net/]
Extensive content, including "photographic documentation, articles and interactive discussion of classic midcentury design, art and architecture in Phoenix... The site also includes Contemporary design with a Modern spirit (MoCo) and renovations of classic modern structures." 11/05
Navigate LA
[http://NavigateLA.LACity.org/]
Aerial photographs, topographical maps and more, for Los Angeles. 6/01
New York Skyscrapers
[http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc.html]
Organized by period. Images, information on structures, materials, renovation. Extensive. 10/00
Ontario Architecture
[http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/]
Building styles in Ontario Canada and their associated terminology. 11/03
PADDI
[http://www.paddi.net/]
"PADDI (Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland) is produced in collaboration by the Architecture and Planning Libraries of Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin. PADDI is a bibliographic database containing over 11000 entries, which aims to provide wide access to information on all aspects of the built environment and environmental planning in Ireland, north and south. Indexing of material began in 1980;
indexed material includes items published from c 1865 to the present, but the majority of items date from the mid 20th century onwards; the time period covered is 12th century to the present." Can search by building name, architect, and place -- as well as by subject or building type. 4/01
Paris Maps
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps]
100 maps, 1716-1887, with choice of quick view or detail.
Periferia
[http://www.periferia.org/]
"Internet Resources for Architecture and Urban Design in the Caribbean." Projects, publications, contacts. 10/99
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
Pompeii Forum Project
[http://pompeii.virginia.edu/]
"The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative venture that focuses on the urban center of Pompeii. There are three components to the project: documentation of standing remains; archaeological analysis; and urban
study that seeks a) to interpret the developments at Pompeii in the broader context of urban history and b) to identify at Pompeii recurring patterns of urban evolution that can be applied to contemporary issues in American urbanism." 2/00
SINE Structural Images of the North East [of England]
[http://sine.ncl.ac.uk]
Search, or browse by building type. The images are from Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham and Teesside. 11/03
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.
Sydney Harbour and Opera House Pictures
[http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/exhibits/SydneyHarbour/]
Last accessed 1/03.
Tokyo -- Recent Architecture
[http://www.ellipsis.com/guides/tokyo/contents.html]
Last accessed 1/03.
Walking Melbourne
[http://www.walkingmelbourne.com]
"An archive database of hundreds of Melbourne buildings from the past to the present." 7/02
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
World Art Treasures
[http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/]
Photos, including gardens of the Renaissance [http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Home/high_gardens.html], and art and architecture from Egypt, China, Japan, India, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand
World Heritage List (UNESCO)
[http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31]
Arranged by country, each entry has brief description, justification for its placement on the list, and thumbnail image. Links with partner institutions if available. 10/99
Worldview Cities
[http://www.worldviewcities.org/]
Produced by the Architectural League of New York, the site includes profiles of firms, historical and statistical information, articles on critical issues, and photographs for each city in its collection. Cities as of 11/05 include:
Caracas [http://www.worldviewcities.org/caracas/main.html] --
Oslo [http://www.worldviewcities.org/oslo/main.html] --
Tijuana [http://www.worldviewcities.org/tijuana/main.html] --
Dhaka [http://www.worldviewcities.org/dhaka/main.html]
Zone 1
[http://www.z-1.org/web/content.htm]
"Archiving and promoting contemporary architecture in Quebec." 7/98
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