Architecture : Home

Web Sites

Search, also, architects' web sites for plans, drawings, etc.

• ArchDaily
• Archipedia (Society of Architectural Historians)
• archINFORM .
• Architectural Record .
• Architecture and Design Collection Highlights (The Getty Research Institute)
• ArchNet .
• American Institute of Architects: Practicing Architecture
• American Institute of Architects: Blueprint for America Initiatives
• Atlas of Urban Expansion
• Building Types Study
• Cities and Buildings Database .
• CyArk 
• Design Boom .
• Global Cities & Buildings Database
• Great Buildings Collection
• Heritage Documentation Programs
• Historic American Buildings Survey
• Planning Maps of Midwestern Cities in the 1920s and 1930s
• Society of Architectural Historians: Digital Resources
• Structurae: international database and gallery of structures
• Urban Land Institute

• ARTstor
• Mass Department of Environmental Protection Image Collections
• Digital Public Library of America

• Geography and Map Reading Room (Library of Congress) .
• Map Collections: American Memory
• Panoramac Maps, 1847 - 1929  .
• Old Maps Online .

• Historical Map Web Sites
• Persuasive Cartography - The PJ Mode Collection .

• The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library:
• American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History .

• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

Overviews | Definitions | Concepts:

• The Architecture Reader: Essential Writings from Vitruvius to the Present
• Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world   
• International dictionary of architects and architecture
• Oxford Art Online
• The Oxford Companion to Architecture
• Dictionary of Architecture & Construction
• Time-saver Standards

• CREDO Reference
• Oxford Reference

    JumboSearch for Books     

1. A Few sample subject browsing:

• Architecture and race
• Disabilities and architect*
• Feminism and architecture United States.
• Race relations and city planning
• "Architecture -- Designs and Plans"
• "Architectural drawings" 

More search patterns you can try out

• Issues/themes, the building, its type, its locale, the city or the country, its period or style; its client/patron, its materials, its setting/site, the architect and his/her theory and ideals, etc.

Note: WorldWide Libraries (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and  sign up for a BPL eCard , Tufts students and faculty eligible)

"Digital books" on Internet Archive