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Faculty of Architecture and Design

See the DBIS subject overview for a comprehensive list of architecture and design sources.

Images

ARTstor

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Updated regularly. Comprised of over 2.5 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images as well as by art historians.

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Archnet.org

Open access to a very unique set of resources related to the built environment of the Muslim world.

Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens & Landscapes

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Updated regularly. A typologically organized archive of digital images with accompanying educational materials. The initial component of Catena is built around the villa, an important landscape type in garden history. Serves as an educational tool for teachers and scholars of landscape history affiliated with schools and universities. The images and intellectual content on this site should be used for educational purposes only.

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Cities / Buildings Database

Updated regularly. Offers more than 5,000 images of buildings from across time and throughout the world. Search for buildings by country, city, style, title of building, architect and/or date of construction.

Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey

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Updated regularly. The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) has been added to the holdings. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes. This online presentation of the HABS/HAER/HALS collections includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, written history pages, and supplemental materials.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Open access to over 800,000 images from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs.

VADS (Visual Arts Data Services)

Updated regularly. Provides a central resource of over 100, 000 high quality digital images from across a range of visual arts subjects (including applied arts, architecture, design, fine art and media) from across the UK.

RIBApix


Maps & GIS

ArcGIS Open Data Hub

CADMapper

DataONE

Digital Maps & Geospatial Data Portal

Library of Congress Map Collections

The focus of the collection is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection. Digital maps represent a small fraction of the LOC's 4.5 million items in its Geography and Map Division.

United Nations Environment Programme

USGS Historic Topographic Maps

Currently more than 141,000 GeoPDF maps of the approximate 180,000 in the full collection are available for download. The project is ongoing.

World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is available free and offers multilingual options. It offers a wide-range of primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Materials

Architecture and Design Materials Library (ADML)

Here you will find an index of the design materials archived in Klingemann Library


Periodicals

Print editions of the following periodicals are available in the Klingemann library. Digital versions are linked below.

FRAME (stylized as FRAMʎ)

Features works pertinent to visual and material culture in ways that transgress traditional disciplinary borders.


Research Articles / Databases

Art & Architecture Source

Access to full-text or indexed journal articles, books and images in the fine and decorative arts and architecture.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

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Updated weekly. Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Avery indexes not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Includes obituary citations.

GreenFILE

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Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 5,800 records.

JSTOR

Access to full-text or indexed journal articles, books covering Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, and Garden & Landscape.

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Online Catalogue

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Updated daily. Provides an index to over 300 of the world's most respected architectural periodicals as well as a catalogue of the books and audio visual materials held in the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Library, including the RIBA Library Photographs Collection, the RIBA Library Manuscripts Collection, and the RIBA Library Drawings Collection. Also includes a biographical database of architects. It covers a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from prehistory to the present, which are international in scope. In addition to architectural theory, practice and history there is material on allied subjects such as building and construction, civil engineering, structural engineering, landscape architecture, interior design and decoration, the decorative arts, town and country planning, and construction law.