Related Guides
Architectural Image Websites & Databases
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use. Includes more than 40,000 architectural imags.
A selection of image of Frank Gehry-designed buildings in the ARTstor database
- Architectura: Architecture, Textes et Images Books on architecture. Manuscripts or prints published in France, written in French or translated into French (16th-17th centuries). Institute National d’Histoire de l’Art, Tours.
- Art Historical Images of Sculpture and Architecture from Pre-historic to Post-modern Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University. Indexes: art historical sites, artists and architects, and chronological.
- Cities/Buildings Image Archive Meredith L. Clausen, Architectural History Professor, University of Washington. “Researchers can now search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.”
- Great Buildings Online Artifice, Inc., publishers of The Great Buildings Collection CD-ROM. Browsable list of buildings. Highlighted entries indicate image available at this Web site. Building entry includes discussion, bibliography, and architect information.
- Perseus–Art and Archaeology Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project, Tufts University. A digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The Architecture Catalog is searchable by site, period, architect, region, and type.
- THAIS Images of Egyptian, Greek, Islamic, and Romanesque architecture indexed by Location, Subject, and Period.
Architectural Illustrations in Books
Elements of Architectural Design by
Chapters on style, composition, materials, components, forms, e.g., doorways, interlaced arches.
Location: Mugar Stacks NA2750 .B864 2000Publication Date: 2000
The Elements Of Style : A Practical Encyclopedia Of Interiorarchitectural Details, From 1485 To The Present by
American and British domestic architecture, from Tudor to Post-Modern. Analytical drawings, historic engravings, and photographs describing and detailing thirteen features: woodwork, metalwork, lighting, services, built-in furniture, staircases, kitchen stoves, fireplaces, floors, ceilings, walls, windows, and doors. Essays on American and British vernacular, brief biographies of architects and designers mentioned in text, glossary, directory of American and British suppliers.
Location: Mugar Stacks NA2850 .E44 1996Publication Date: 1996
Index to Italian Architecture by
Citations to illustrations of 1800 works represented in 80 books.
Location: Mugar Stacks NA111 .T4 1992Publication Date: 1992
Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History by
Arranged by year from 1900 to 1989.
Location: Mugar Folio NA680 .S517 1991Publication Date: 1991
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by
Arranged by architectural detail, e.g, beam, geometry, plaster. Detailed line drawings with features labeled and defined. Index of all terms represented.
Location: Mugar Folio NA31 .C44 1995bPublication Date: 2011
World Architecture Index by
References to 7200 architectural works reproduced in 100 books. Indexes: site, architect, type, work.
Location: Mugar Off-site Storage: sign in and request NA202 .W67 1991Publication Date: 1991
