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- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Humanitites, social sciences, and sciences. Includes: Scholarly journals, book chapters, and primary sources.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Architecture, art, design, and manufacturing. Includes: professional magazines, scholarly journals, conference papers, and news.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - ARTstor This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Art, architecture, and humanities. Best for: Research or presentations that need images or primary sources. Includes: Images of art, architecture, and artists. Little to no research information is given for the images.
- Springer eJournal Collection This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics but strongest in technical and scientific research. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals.
- Applied Science & Technology Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Engineering, computer software, artificial intelligence, and space science. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly sources or images. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, and images.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Environmental Studies (Gale In Context) (formerly GREENR) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Environmental topics such as pollution, carbon markets, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Best for: Starting your research or choosing a topic. Includes: Wikipedia type articles, scholarly journals, magazines, news, statistics, primary sources, and podcasts.
- GreenFILE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Environmental topics such as climate change, green building, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals and magazines.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Magazines, news, scholarly journals, and primary sources.
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Websites
- American Institute of ArchitectsThe leading association for the professional and educational outlets of architecture in the United States.
- Architectural Record MagazinePeriodical source for architecture design, modern architecture, and green architecture from McGraw Hill Construction.
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online (Getty Research Institute)Thesaurus for various architectural terms, providing synonyms and related terms in addition to basic definitions.
- Built Works RegistryGlobal registry of architectural projects and the built environment.
- International Architecture DatabaseContains information on over 38,000 built and unrealized architectural projects, mostly from the 20th century.
eng.archinform.net - SAH Archipedia: Classic BuildingsChosen by members of the Society of Architectural Historians, you will find roughly 100 buildings per state detailed for their architectural merit and historical significance. Much of the content is pulled from the SAH publications on U.S. architectural history.
- Society of Architectural HistoriansThe society promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide for the benefit of all. One of the largest and most active architectural history organizations in the U.S.
- World-ArchitectsGlobal survey of important architectural projects and product news from the field. Many contemporary projects are highlighted.
Images
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Art, architecture, and humanities. Best for: Research or presentations that need images or primary sources. Includes: Images of art, architecture, and artists. Little to no research information is given for the images.
- Architectural Association School of Architecture Photo LibraryLarge searchable database of architectural structures from around the world.
- Asian Historical ArchitectureProvides over 32,000 photos of 1,200+ architectural sites spread across 23 different Asian countries.
- Cities & Buildings Database5500 images of architecture and city views from around the world.
- RIBApixHuge collection of digital images from the British Architectural Library. While the images are all for sale to purchase or license, lesser quality versions can be downloaded with a free registered account.
- SPIRO: The online catalog & image database of the College of Environmental Design Visual Resources CenterImage library for architectural structures.
Video/Media
- Alexander Street Press - Architecture130+ architectural videos - most of which are some form of documentary - that are available to stream from our databases.
- Films on Demand - ArchitectureNearly 400 architectural videos and documentaries available to stream from this database.
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Books
20th Century Architecture by Call Number: NA680 .G567 1998 (Heathrow)ISBN: 9780879519124Publication Date: 1999A celebration of the great buildings and structures of the modern age. This book traces every moment in architecture, from Modernism to Classicism, and details every major architect of the century past.
American Architecture by Call Number: NA705 .R669 2016 (Heathrow)ISBN: 9780813350073Publication Date: 2016This widely acclaimed, highly illustrated introduction to the history of American architecture is now fully revised throughout. American Architecture introduces readers to the major developments that shaped the American-built environment from the first Americans to the present, from the everyday vernacular to the high style of aspiration.
Architecture by Call Number: NA2520 .P7513 2008 (Heathrow)ISBN: 9780691141503Publication Date: 2009By way of more than 2,000 years of architectural history, this richly illustrated book defines and shows all the major components of the art--from theory, plans, and models to structural elements such as columns, arches, and domes, to materials and decorative elements. With beautiful color photographs on virtually every page, and precise captions that point directly to important aspects of each photo, this book provides an easy-to-use visual grammar of the nearly infinite variety with which the elements of architecture have been used in buildings across the ages and around the world.
Architecture: A Visual History by Call Number: NA202 .N43 2001 (Heathrow)ISBN: 1856485889Publication Date: 2001This oversized volume presents a true visual history of architecture through more than 400 color photographs. Features a large number of high-quality, full-page reproductions of striking images of most of the familiar icons of architectural history.
Ebooks
Architectural Graphics by ISBN: 9781119073383Publication Date: 2015This guide offers a comprehensive introduction to using graphic tools and drafting conventions to translate architectural ideas into effective visual presentations, using hundreds of the author's distinctive drawings to illustrate the topic effectively.
The Fundamentals of Architecture by ISBN: 9782940447350Publication Date: 2012The Fundamentals of Architecture 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. It is intended to unravel the complexity of architecture to explain its process and make it more accessible.
Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building by ISBN: 9781118882276Publication Date: 2016Fundamentals of Integrated Design introduces the technologies and processes of sustainable design and shows how to incorporate sustainable concepts at every design stage. This comprehensive primer takes an active learning approach that keeps students engaged. This book dispenses essential information from practicing industry specialists to provide a comprehensive introduction to the future of design. This new second edition includes: Expansive knowledge--from history and philosophy to technology and practice.
How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture by ISBN: 9780195161984Publication Date: 2005Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building's function: how it stands up, keeps its occupants safe and comfortable, gets built, grows old, and dies--and why some buildings do this so much better than others.
Sustainable Architectural Design: An Overview by ISBN: 9781317636281Publication Date: 2015This book is a guide to a sustainable design process that moves from theory, to site and energy use, to building systems, and finally to evaluation and case studies, so you can integrate design and technology for effective sustainable building.
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