Architecture
See Also: Design Arts, Feng Shui
Image Collections
Digital Imaging Project
Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.
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.
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Scanned slides of Renaissance and Baroque Architecture from the University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.
Cities and Buildings Image Database
Features over 5500 images of architecture and city views from around the world.
RIBApix
A large database of images from the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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 1200 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.
Decopix
An Art Deco architecture resource with a large collection of photographs and other resources online.
Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs
A collection of around 13,000 photographs of architecture and decorative arts from the19th and early 20th century, from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Museums and Exhibits
ICAM
The international confederation of architectural museums, includes a members index that links to museums worldwide.
MIT Museum: Architecture and Design Collection
Collections of student thesis drawings from 1873 through the 1960s and other materials from the first American architectural program.
National Building Museum
Explores and celebrates architecture, engineering, design, construction, and urban planning.
The Skyscraper Museum
Examines the skyscrapers of New York City as objects of design, investments in real estate, products of technology, sites of construction, and places to work and live.
MoMA: Architecture and Design
Features online exhibitions and projects plus highlights, recent acquisitions, and selected works from the permanent collections.
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
Architectural drawings and photographs of whole rooms and parts 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: Architect
A list of around 15 important architects in the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, 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 that promotes awareness of the built environment.
