Architecture
See also: Design Arts
Image Collections
Digital Imaging Project
View photographs of notable buildings in Europe and North America.
Digital Archive of European Architecture
An online image archive created by Jeffery Howe of Boston College, begins with prehistoric images of Stonehenge and ends with 20th century post-modernism in Paris.
Digital Archive of American Architecture
Another digital archive created by by Jeffery Howe of Boston College, includes images from the 17th to the 20th century with explanatory material.
Cities and Buildings Image Database
An archive containing over 12,000 images of buildings that you can browse by location, date, architect, or style.
Royal Institute of British Architects: RIBApix
A searchable database of around 60,700 images related to architecture, photographs are also browsable by architect, date, style, location, and medium.
Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
A database of Medieval French architecture from the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library.
Medieval Art & Architecture
Resources for Gothic and Medieval French, German, Italian, English, and Islamic art and architecture.
Art & Architecture
Over 40,000 images from the Courtauld Institute of art, search or browse sets of images created by other users.
Great Buildings Online
Architecture throughout history and across the globe in an online multimedia encyclopedia, documenting over 1,200 buildings with text, photos, and 3D models.
ArchNet: Digital Library
Image collections of historical monuments and contemporary architecture, browse by country, building type, style, or time period.
Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs
A collection of around 13,000 photographs of architecture and decorative arts from the 19th and early 20th century, at Cornell University Library.
Museums and Exhibits
ICAM: International Confederation of Architectural Museums
Includes a members index that links to museums worldwide.
MIT Museum: Architecture and Design Collection
View images created by students along with other study related items.
National Building Museum
Museum of design, engineering, and architecture with a limited online collection.
The Skyscraper Museum
A museum dedicated to the tall buildings of New York City.
MoMA: Architecture and Design
Features online exhibitions and projects plus highlights, and recent acquisitions.
MoMA: Tall Buildings
An online exhibition that explores twenty five skyscrapers designed for cities around the world from 1994 to 2004.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
An international research center and museum with searchable collections online.
V & A: Architecture
View images of decorated rooms and sections of buildings.
The Getty: Architecture and Room Elements
View images of objects related to architecture, fireplace accessories, frames, supports, and textiles in the Getty Museum collections online.
Musee d'Orsay: Architecture
View objects related to architecture in the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Art Institute of Chicago
View works in the Architecture and Design collections, includes architectural fragments and drawings, design objects and furniture, Bertrand Goldberg Archive, System of Architectural Ornament, and Prairie School.
Resources
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Architect
A list of around 15 important architects featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Getty: Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
A database of generic terms that describe concepts, artists, objects, and places important in art and architecture.
Architecture.com
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) provides information about architecture, and architects.
Society of Architectural Historians
A non profit organization promoting architecture.
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