- Amsterdam Heritage
- Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
- Arcosanti
- Capitol Project
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
- Eastern Art - Creswell Photographic Archive
- PADDI: Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- ScottishArchitecture.com - The Virtual Architecture Centre
- Sistine Chapel in Rome
- Skyscraper Museum
- SkyscraperPage.com
- Triumph of the Baroque
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- Amsterdam Heritage
- Information on Amsterdam and its architecture, including the history and topographical development of the city.
Author: City of Amsterdam Municipal Department for Preservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Sites
DeweyClass: 720.9492
- Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
- A digitised collection of over 29,000 photographs taken by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner between 1935 and 1955. Entries can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject. Images returned depict architectural subjects including agricultural buildings, airports, banks, city and town halls, dams, government buildings, housing, ironwork, plumbing fixtures, and theatres, focusing largely on the northeastern United States, particularly New York City and Florida.
Author: Gottscho, Samuel & Schleisner, William
DeweyClass: 720
- Arcosanti
- An experimental town in the high desert of Arizona. When complete, Arcosanti will house 7000 people, demonstrating ways to improve urban conditions and lessen the impact on the earth.
Author: Cosanti Foundation
DeweyClass: 720
- Capitol Project
- Explores the Capitol building in Washington DC with narratives on both the building itself and the events represented in its art and architecture. American history and culture are depicted through images of paintings of the landing of Columbus and the discovery of the Mississippi, information on Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington, and links to national resources such as the Arlington National Cemetery, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum. A search engine and an archive of graphics arranged by artist and subject are provided.
Author: University of Virginia
DeweyClass: 720
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
- A guide to architecture in America from the 17th century to the present, with particular emphasis given to local architectural monuments. Houses, churches, commercial buildings, skyscrapers and public buildings such as libraries, museums and universities are featured, together with examples of different architectural styles and information on individual architects.
Author: Boston College
DeweyClass: 720
- Eastern Art - Creswell Photographic Archive
- The unique negative collection of Professor K.A.C. Creswell, eminent pioneer of medieval Islamic architectural history. Among the photographs are many of those used to illustrate the two publications which remain the basic research tools for scholars of medieval Islamic architecture: Creswell's Early Muslim Architecture, and Muslim Architecture of Egypt. A search form allows the collection to be queried by a combintation of function, name, city/site, country, date and negative number.
Author: Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
DeweyClass: 723.3
- PADDI: Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland
- Bibliographic database of over 16,000 items relating to all aspects of the built environment in Ireland and Northern Ireland. A range of search options are offered, including searching by subject or building type, structure name, location, architect or designer, and document type.
Author: Planning Architecture Design Database
DeweyClass: 720
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- Collection of several hundred digital images, mainly covering architecture in Italy in the 15th-17th century, with some images from France and England.
Author: University of Virginia Digital Image Center
DeweyClass: 720
- ScottishArchitecture.com - The Virtual Architecture Centre
- The Glasgow Lighthouse and the Architecture and Building Aids Computer Unit at Strathclyde extend the increasingly popular debate on Architecture and the Built Environment. Virtual Architecture Centre is an online platform accessible to the general public, educational institutions and the architecture profession aiming to provide a central hub for information in the field of Scottish architecture and the built environment. The resource provides communication and links between communities around Scotland and the Lighthouse, and offers resources for lifelong learning, outreach work and activities and events, while also providing a means to co-ordinate a wide range of activities concerned with the built environment.
Author: The Lighthouse and the Architecture and Building Aids Computer Unit, Strathclyde
DeweyClass: 720.9411
- Sistine Chapel in Rome
- A brief history and description of Cappella Sistina in the Vatican.
Author: Il Sogno
DeweyClass: 726.4
- Skyscraper Museum
- Documents the architectural style of New York, considering the design, technology, creation, and functionality of skyscrapers. Provides access to an exhibition archive, a collection of historical documents and collaborative projects, a timeline showing construction dates of the world's tallest buildings, and information for visitors.
Author: Willis, Carol
DeweyClass: 720.483
- SkyscraperPage.com
- Directory of skyscrapers searchable by geographical location, architect, year, type of building, address, and status (built, construction, proposed, vision, cancelled or destroyed). In addition to these search parameters, results returned comprise a scaled diagram of each structure, roof and pinnacle heights, and number of floors.
Author: SkyscraperPage.com
DeweyClass: 720.483
- Triumph of the Baroque
- Exhibition of architectural models made in Europe between 1600 and 1750, describing the emergence of baroque architecture in Rome, which was to inspire European design for over a century. Sections cover churches and chapels, civic, commercial, and military architecture, private residences, and royal palaces. An illustrative example accompanies each section.
Author: American National Gallery of Art
DeweyClass: 720
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