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Internet
Researcher:
A Guide to Architecture Resources
This page is designed to help you find Internet resources in
architecture. Its purpose is to serve as a starting point -- a guide to
selected resources -- rather than a comprehensive list.
Databases and Indexes
- APA
Publications Index
- An online index to the publications of the American
Planners Association, many of which are not indexed by the Avery Index:
Planning, Journals of the American Planning
Association, PAS Memo, Zoning News, Land Use
Law and Zoning, Job Mart, The Commissioner, Resources,
AICP Planners' Casebook, and The New Planner.
[http://www.planning.org/publications/overview.htm]
- University
of California Berkeley Architecture Slide Library
- The University of California Berkeley Architecture Slide
Library has digitized its slide collection and made it available over
the Internet. One can search by period, topic, architect, building or
location to see slide images along with the catalogue entry. One can
also browse the index of the database.
[http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html]
- Great Buildings
Online
- A database of images and descriptions of hundreds of
historical and modern buildings; each building is accessible by either
name or architect. Each entry includes a description, commentary, and a
bibliography of works relating to each building; many entries have
photographs, pictures of models, or plans, as well.
[http://www.greatbuildings.com/]
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Web Indexes
- Architecture
and Building/Architecture Web Resources
- A comprehensive web index with links to reference tools,
electronic publications, architecture schools, image databases,
architect's homepages, archives, building types, contests, discussion
groups, online journals, green architecture resources, lighting
resources, and so on. Frequently updated.
[http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html]
- Cyburbia.org: Internet
Resources for the Built Environment
- This site, formerly called "The Planning and Internet
Resource Center," provides access to Internet resources in architecture
and planning research, and is an excellent source for zoning maps,
demographic statistics, landscaping standards, links to images of
famous buildings and so on.
[http://www.cyburbia.org/]
- Official City Sites
- This site provides links to the official web sites of
cities around the world, which often contain links to planning
commissions, zoning maps, master plans and the history of planning for
that particular city.
[http://officialcitysites.org/]
- intute: Arts and Humanities
- This is a free online service providing access to Web resources for education and research. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing. Search or browse the database of Architecture resources, which have been selected, evaluated and described by subject specialists. The target audience is lecturers, researchers and students within UK higher and further education.
[http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/]
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Reference
- Art
and Architecture Thesaurus
- An online thesaurus of terms describing art, images,
architecture and objects from antiquity to the present. Most
architecture indexes use the vocabulary from Art and Architecture
Thesaurus; for example, use the thesaurus to find out when you need to
use "siding" and when you need to use "cladding" when searching for
items.
[http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html]
- How
to Research an Architectural Structure
- This site, from the New York Public Library, is an
excellent introduction to the strategies of architectural research.
Includes bibliographies and helpful hints in the event of a frustrated
search.
[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/artarc/archit/arch.html]
- ProFile on the Web
- A database of names, addresses, phone numbers, services and
foci of architectural firms in the United States.
[http://www.cmdg.com/profile]
- RSMeans.com
- The home page for R.S. Means, a publisher of building codes
and cost estimators. This page provides links to Mean's Construction
Dictionary Online and a Quick Cost Estimator (requires free
registration).
[http://www.rsmeans.com]
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