Architecture Web Sites

Architecture Web Sites

Last updated (partial) March 17, 2002. Jeffery Howe. email: howej@bc.edu

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General Sources

Architectural Record: The resource for architecture and architects

architecturecafe - home

Architecture News - Archibot.com

Archpedia.com - Your guide to world famous architects and their architecture.

Architext Links

Dissertations Underway on Architectural History

How to Research Architecture

Research Materials for Architecture & the Built Environment Located in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Research at the Getty)

architectural terms

Center for Theory and History of Architecture
Culture 4.0 -- WWW Resources
The Vernacular Architecture Forum Bibliography
Women and Architecture
Yahoo! Groups : ArchVoices

Links
About Architecture and Home Design and House Building
alambina: Architects, Practices and Projects [A - Z]
a.n.a.r.c.h.i.t.e.c.t.o.n .:[ architecture | design | web ]:.

Archetours, Inc. - travel

@rchi-tec - energiesparende Architektur mit neuen Medien

ArchiNET - The South African Architecture Network

A & I - Architettura & Ingegneria homepage

a - n o d e | technology for architects and artists

Arch'India Online - The Indian Architectural Resource Guide

ArchiNed - De architectuursite van Nederland

Architect Africa Online - South Africa

Architectural Links of Interest

The Architecture Hate Page - Welcome!

Architecture Through the Ages

ArchitectsOnline:Architectural Links

Architects On Line

Architecture Resources on the Internet

Architecture - the Mining Co. links

Architecture Web Resources

ARCspace - World Architecture

ARQ.cl - Architecture in Chile

Arquitectura Mexicana / Mexican Architecture

Architettura nel mondo - architecture in the world -- link list

Buildzone netchannels- India's building Industry portal

Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture - Bath, England

Center for Theory and History of Architecture

Construction, Building, Architecture: Image and Photo Resources

Cupola's Hot Links - Architectural Listings

Cyburbia - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center - formerly PAIRC; a comprehensive resource

Cyberplaces Web Site - The Internet Guide for Architects, Engineers & Contractors

Death by Architecture

db - deutsche bauzeitung

Deutschlands Architektur

Edinburgh Architecture Edinburgh Architects Contemporary Architecture

F.A.T. (Fashion Architecture Taste)

Great Buildings and Structures

Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List

Great Structures of the World

Horus's Architecture links

Inside Architecture Homepage

kyrie's architecture page

MoMA | collection | architecture and design

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

NAV Internet Architekt Links - Belgian

Nerd World : ARCHITECTURE

noticias >> arquitectura :: arte :: diseño

Ordine degli Architetti di Roma e Provincia

Pam Mack's History of Technology Links

Proyectoyobra.com - Argentina

Real Estate - Welcome from The Mining Company

Recursos a Internet d'Art i Arquitectura de Ramon Soler

Sólo Arquitectura

TECTÓNICA - Spain

tradición moderna

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Architecture

ZONE ARCHITECTURE - Contemporary Architecture from Quebec

Surveys and Guides; AAmsterdam Monumenten; Archeire-- Architecture in Ireland; Architecture (Arts); Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv; Boomtown- Frankfurt; Canadian Centre for Architecture Home Page; Deutschlands Architektur; Digital Architecture; edinburgharchitecture.co.uk; Gateway to Art History - Gardner's Art Through the Ages; Headsmashers House of Architectural Links; Historic City Center: Old Montreal; International Archive of Women in Architecture; Irish Architectural Archive; Museum Architecture; Ogram's 17th Century New England Links: Images & Facsimilies; Online resources for London architecture; Pevsner Architectural Guides to England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales; Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture; RIBA Library; Russian Art and Architecture; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich - Departement und Abteilung für Architektur; A Virtual History of Architecture - from Sweden; The Virtual Study Tour - New Zealand

Miscellaneous

a - n o d e | technology for architects and artists

ARCHINECT - online portfolios, bookstore, links

Architecture Books - Bookstore - architectstore

The ArchitectStore - architecture books and links

BIAS Architecten, Netherlands

Brian Rose - architectural photography (Netherlands)

GABION - architecture writings by Hugh Pearman

Green For New England - Environmental Federation of New England

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Hong Kong Institute of Architects

LAVA - Lab for architecture

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut

Society of Architectural Historians: Homepage

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Interior Design

Period and Style for Designers

The International Theatre Design Archive - Project 2000

SPECSOURCES - The future of interior design.

Image Archives

American Memory All Collections Search

archINFORM - 20th century architecture -- Karlsruhe, Germany

Architecture and Interior Design photographs for 20th c. America: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection

Chicago Architecture and Art Imagebase - U of Ill, Chicago

Columbia Digital Image Access Project DIAP Images

Digital Archive of American Architecture - Boston College

Digital Archive of European Architecture - Boston College

Digital Images of Architecture -- Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College

Exploring Image Collections on the Internet: Resources at MIT and Beyond

The Kidder Smith Images on American Architecture

Lambeth Palace Library - digitized church plans

MIT: Rotch Visual Collections: Films and Videos: Information and Sources at MIT and Beyond

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - U of VA

SAH imagebank pilot

SPIRO - Architectural searches - UC Berkeley

See also regional and period studies.

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3D Models

Architectural Models

Architecture.Design.History.Images.3D Models-Artifice Great Buildings Collection

Integrated Buildings - 3D Images Home Page

The Museum of Reconstructions

Villa Savoye - VRML

Virtual Venice- Explore 3D Worlds in Venice Italy with Intel's Home Computing

Welcome to The Museum of Reconstructions

Careers

Careers in Architecture - AIA Homepage; Select "Career Resources"

Career Discovery Program - Harvard

I Want To Be An Architect

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

Society of Architectural Historians: Graduate Schools

Education in India: including Schools of Architecture

Theory

The Divine Proportion

The Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden section

The Golden Mean

The Golden Mean - Proportion 1

Golden Proportion

The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music

Implosion - Habitat Theory of Culture

NEXUS 2000 - Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics - Third

NEXUS '98 - Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics - 2nd Int'l Interdisciplinary Conference

Proportion and Architecture

The Transformation of Nostalgia: European Architectural Theory of the 1880s

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Urban Planning

Center for the Study of the Built Environment

The City Beautiful and Washington D.C.

Charles Buls, Urban Design - Belgium

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Gateway

Historic Cities Support Programme (HCSP)

LAB[au] architecture and urbanism, 0/1 LAB METALAB - Brussels

TerraServer - High resolution satellite photos (US and Russian)

URBAN PLANNING, 1794-1918

u r b a n i z a m . n e t - Croatian urbanism and design

See also: American Cities

Maps

Boston U.S.A.: Greater Boston Map

Index de l'Atlas historique de l'Antiquite tardive

Microsoft Expedia Maps - Place Finder

Other Maps Relating to Islam's Historical Development

Landscape Architecture and Gardens

The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance

SFA Mast Arboretum, Austin, TX

Stowe Landscape Gardens

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Landscape Architecture

Architectural Journals Online

American Bungalow Magazine

Antique Homes Magazine

Architecture Magazine

a+t - review of art & technology; in Spanish & English

Architronic (journal)

The City Review

Design_Architecture Home

Harvard Design Magazine

Nexus Network Journal Home Page: Architecture and Mathematics Online

The Latest Architecture News

Web Architecture Magazine.

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American

General; Regional Guides; Native American; Style Guides; Cities; Skyscrapers; Churches - US; Buildings - Other

Architects - Misc.

Arquitectonica
Ralph Adams Cram
William J Dodd (1862-1930) ~American Architect and Designer
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects and Town Planners
Sir Norman Foster and Partners
From Louis Sullivan to SOM: MIT grads go to Chicago
Frank Gehry Im Frank O. Gehry age Tour
Frank O. Gehry
Irving Gill Central
Michael Graves
Greene and Greene Homepage
Henchion + Reuter Architects
Philip Johnson interview - Academy of Achievement
Fay Jones
Paul Lukez Architecture
Richard Meier
Olmsted Web Site
Frederick Law Olmsted NHS Home Page
Bart Prince - Architect - Bibliography
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP
SOM - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
VSBA - Venturi, Scott, Brown Associates
William J Dodd (1862-1930) ~American Architect and Designer~
William Ware: Drawings at Work

Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, Architect

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson

Rotunda Fire Commemoration, University of Virginia Designed by T. Jefferson; fire 1895.

US: Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe @ Architects in CyberSpace???
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Main Campus Tour, Illinois Institute of Technology
Mies van der Rohe - buildings
The Barcelona Pavilion - Mies van der Rohe

I.M. Pei

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Cesar Pelli

Cesar Pelli & Associates Home Page

H.H. Richardson

H. H. Richardson

H.H. Richardson's Austin Hall, Harvard

Harvard Preservation: H.H. Richardson collections

The Legacy of H.H.Richardson

Louis Sullivan

Lieber-Meister - The Louis Sullivan Page

Images of Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890-91, by Louis Sullivan.

Louis H. Sullivan's Purdue State Bank: HOME

The National Farmers Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota

Frank Lloyd Wright

FLW links - separate list

World's Fairs

ExpoMuseum - World's Fair History
1851
The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview

The Great Exhibition of 1851

1876
Centennial Exposition

Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection | The Free Library of Philadelphia

Centennial Exhibition: Tours

Centennial Exhibition: Tours | State Buildings

McCabe - Illustrated History of 1876 Exhibition

World's Fair of 1876, Philadelphia

1893

1893 World's Fair Columbian Exposition Memorabilia

1893 World's Fair Web-Book Contents Listing

African-American Women and the Chicago World's Fair, Introduction

After the Exposition

The Book of the Fair: Paul V. Galvin Digital History Collection

North Side: People: George Ferris

World's Fair of 1893, Chicago

World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

World's Columbian Exposition

1900--

Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Buffalo Worlds Fair of 1901

Century of Progress Exposition - Chicago, 1933

Expo 1935 Brussels

New York 1964 World's Fair

New York World's Fair - 1964/1965

EXPO 2000 - Hannover, Germany (with historical background on exhibitions)

Amusement Parks

Coney Island History Web Site

Palisades Amusement Park Historical Society

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Ancient Architecture

General

Archaeology Magazine -- with useful links

Palace of Ashurnasirpal II Quicktime & Mpeg movies

ArtServe - Art and Architecture from the Mediterranean Basin

Ancient World Web

Ancient Near East - Guide to Resources

Images of Ancient Iran

The Museum of Reconstructions

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Virtual Archaeology

Egyptian

Djoser Complex - Stepped Pyramid

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

NOVA Online/Pyramids -- The Inside Story (VR)

Greek

The Corinthian Page

Labyrinth at Knossos

Project Perseus' Home Page

Ancient City of Athens

Roman

Ancient Reconstruction of the Pompeii Forum

The Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna

Historic Atlas Resource - Europe (Ancient Rome)

LacusCurtius • Pont du Gard - 47 Web Links

PompeiiForum Project

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Medieval Architecture

Amiens Cathedral Digital Project at Columbia University

La cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens

Cathedrals and Churches in France

Byzantine and Medieval Web Links

The Castles of Wales

Chartres Cathedral - GCSU

Constantinople Project

Durham Cathedral

Gothic Dreams: Earthlore Explorations Introduction - Gothic Architecture

Leaning Tower of Pisa - official web site

The NIXNET Medieval Architecture Homepage

Official Guide to the Vialardi di Sandigliano Foundation and the medieval Torrione Castle

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Non-Western

Architecture Asia - The architect & design network for Asia

Asian Historical Architecture

Image India - photographs

Kisho Kurokawa, contemporary architect - Japan

Legacy India - photographs

Islamic

Aga Khan Award for Architecture Home Page

Arabic and Islamic Architecture - Suite101.com

Historic Cities Support Programme (HCSP) - Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Islamic Architecture in Isfahan

Islamic Patterns

TEXTUAL & Visual Resources on Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism; Rotch Visual Collection, MIT

Renaissance Architecture

Brunelleschi's Monograph - site for Brunelleschi

From Human Architecture to Architectural Structure: Part I - Brunelleschi's Perspective

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

Medici Villas in Florence and Tuscany, Italy

Palladio's Italian Villas

Palladio's Villa Emo by Lionel March; Nexus Network Journal Autumn 2001

Villa Emo: the history of Villa Emo

Baroque Architecture

17th and 18th Century Architecture in England

Francesco Borromini 1599-1667 - Struktur und Metamorphose - Albertina Exhibition

Chateau de Versailles

19th Century Architecture

19th and 20th Century Architecture and Design - The Aesthetic Movement

artnet.com: Resource Library: Stick style

Arts & Crafts Bibliography

Arts and Crafts in Midwestern Architecture

Arts & Crafts Page

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852

The Beckford Project

A brief biography of James Wyatt

Eastlake Style, 1880

Friends of K.F. Schinkel

Sagrada Familia -- Gaudi
Gilded Age Outline

The Great Exhibition of 1851

Greene and Greene Homepage

Glasgow School of Art | Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Rogue Victorian Architecture -- High Victorian Gothic

The Transformation of Nostalgia: European Architectural Theory of the 1880s

Visiting Bruxelles Art Nouveau

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20th Century Architecture

Alvar Aalto Museum

The Barcelona Pavilion - Mies van der Rohe

bauhaus-archiv museum für gestaltung

History of the Bauhaus

Bauhaus WEIMAR/DESSAU 1919-1933

BIAS Architecten, Netherlands

Functionalism and the City of Viipuri, Finland

Visual Tour of Gropius House

Hundertwasser Architektur

Nazi Architecture in Munich

Gerrit Rietveld: Red and Blue Chair

Rem Koolhaas/OMA Source Page

Rem Koolhaas Interview

Rem Koolhaas/OMA @ Architects in CyberSpace

Giuseppe e Alberto Samonà: opere e progetti. Home page.

Pascal Arquitectos. Architecture, Interior and Landscape Design - Mexico

Santiago Calatrava Web Site - Spanish architect / engineer

LeCorbusier

Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) Ein kleiner Streifzug durch sein Werk -very detailed site

Le Corbusier Architecte/Artiste

LeCorbusier: Carpenter Center

Le Corbusier / Charles Edouart Jeanneret

Le Corbusier database by AGRAM

Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) Ein kleiner Streifzug durch sein Werk

LeCorbusier -- Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp - photographs by J. Howe, Boston College

LeCorbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp - photos by Scott Demel

Le Corbusier Shop - books, CDRoms, prints

LeCorbusier -- Villa Savoye - photographs by J. Howe, Boston College

Villa Savoye - VRML

Patrimoine Le Corbusier à Firminy - Firminy: La plus grande concentration d'oeuvres architecturales de Le Corbusier

Photo Gallery: the Villa Savoye

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Historic Preservation

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Arc Boutant Historic Preservation Home Page - internship opportunities

BBC - History - Researching your home

The Boston Preservation Alliance

Boston University Preservation program

Conservation OnLine

Digital Librarian: Architecture & Historical Preservation

Green For New England - Environmental Federation of New England

Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador

Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation, Preservation and Storage, State Library of Victoria

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), National Park Service

LC-HABS/HAER Collections

National Historic Landmark Index

National Register of Historic Places

National Trust for Historic Preservation

National Trust for Historic Preservation: Historic Sites

OldHouse.com The interactive network for older homes.

The Old House Network

Organization of World Heritage Cities

Preservation Alliance of Wichita Falls, Texas

Preservation Brief - Understanding Old Buildings

Preservation of Historic Adobe Buildings The traditional materials and construction of adobe buildings and the causes of adobe deterioration.

Preservation: The Ultimate Recycling - North Carolina's Newsletter

PreservationWeb

Researching the History of Your House

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities

US/ICOMOS - NPS World Heritage Home Page

Engineering

Advanced Building Technologies

AEC InfoCenter: Architecture, Engineering, Building Construction

American Society of Architectural Perspectivists

Architectural Engineering (Civil and Construction Engineering)

ArchiTECH.PC cad architecture 2D 3D rendering texture animation bill of materials building construction aec

Construction Defects

Golden Gate Bridge - Highway and Transportation District

Housing and Construction Law

Special topic: bridge disasters

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster

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Web Cam Views - live updates

Boston

Other US
Syracuse, NY - Weather Camera at Clinton Square

Europe

Web Cam Links
Realtime Camera Paradise - list of links

Fine Arts Department

Art History Webmasters Association

These pages created and maintained by Prof. Jeffery Howe of the Fine Arts department. Many links originally provided by Bapst Art Library staff.