Architectural Indexes
List of Alumni Library's Journals in Architecture, Art and Design
Architectural Index currently indexes 18 national magazines on
architecture, building and construction. 17 of these
are held in the Alumni Library. The index is available online through
the Databases section of the library
homepage and in the Wentworth Library in print form in annual
volumes, which cover 1973 to 1978, and 1985 to the present.
Art Full Text provides indexing, abstracting, and some full-text
to domestic and foreign publications in the subject areas of archaeology,
architecture, art history, city planning, motion pictures, graphic
arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture,
museology, photography, and related fields. It is available online
via the Alumni Library homepage in the Databases
section. It covers 1984 to the present.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is an index to more than
1,000 worldwide
publications on archaeology, city planning, interior design
and historic preservation as well as architecture. Coverage reaches
from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s)
to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, with
more than 229,000 records is updated daily. It is available online
through the Databases
section of the library homepage, and in the Wentworth Library in
print form covering 1979 through 1993.
RIBA
Online Architectural Catalogue (Royal Institute of British Architects)
contains records for items held in the RIBA Library, added from
the 1980's onwards. The catalogue includes:
- An index to articles in over 300 periodicals held in the RIBA
Library
- A catalogue of books, drawings and photographs held by the RIBA
Library.
General Interest Indexes
Expanded Academic Index is an index to periodicals in the humanities,
social sciences, business and current events. It provides the full-text
of many journal articles. It is available online through the Databases
section of the Alumni Library homepage . It covers 1980 to the present.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text provides indexing, abstracting
and some full-text articles to periodicals in the subject areas
of science and technology. It is available online via the Alumni
Library homepage in the Databases
section. It covers 1983 to the present.
The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature is the classic
periodical index to publications on general interest subjects and
current events. It is available in the Wentworth Library in print
form covering 1954 to June 1998.
ARCHITECTS
Aldo Rossi
Alvar Aalto
Frank Lloyd Wright
I.M. Pei
Le Corbusier
- The
Architect Le Corbusier - Article by Witold
Rybczynski from Time Magazine with photo portrait, accompanied
by audio.
- Le
Corbusier Biography and bibliography, with samples of
his work, in Great Buildings Online.
Mies van der Rohe
- Rohe,
Ludwig Mies van der Brief biography, bibliography and
works of the German-born architect, teacher and philosopher of
International Modernism, provided by Great Buildings Online.
- Mies in Berlin: Mies
in America Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art online
exhibit on the architect's career, with a project list and images.
Norman Foster
Santiago Calatrava
Steven Holl
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ARCHITECTURAL
JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS
ARCHITECTURE PORTALS
- About.com
Architecture Page Includes information on great buildings,
master architects, periods and styles to "Do It Yourself"
sites. AEC Links.com
- Information about codes, standards and includes a link to Forbes
Report on World's Ugliest Buildings.
archINFORM
- Searchable by architect or location, then gives a series
of projects which lists architectural references.
Archinect
- Online magazine, current feature is pictures of Gehry's
Disney Concert Center, in progress.
Architecture & Building: Net Resources
- (Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Topics covered
by Ms. Brown's selective guide include architecture, building
and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility
management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture.
Architecture Web Sites
- (Boston College)
- Cyburbia Internet Resources
for the Built Environment
- (University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning)
Good site for urban planning with a searchable resource directory.
E-Architect.com
- (American Institute of Architects Web Site) Includes news and
job postings.
-
Visual Dictionary of Architectural Terms
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Architecture
Yahoo Architecture Includes list of world's top ten buildings.
BUILDINGS AND PLACES
- American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 A Study Collection
from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. This site comes
from the Library of Congress' American Memory Database.
An historical view of American buildings and landscapes built
during the period 1850-1920 that includes early pictures of Harvard
University.
- Architecture of specific
places - from the BUBL Information Service. Includes
links to sites on everything from skyscrapers to renaissance and
baroque architecture.
- Building
Types Online This Architectural Record site offers over
800 Building Types Studies that have been written up in past issues
starting in 1999. Photos, drawings, descriptions, etc. are included.
- Buildings
and Structures via Yahoo
- Cities/Buildings
Image Database University of Washington database offers
5,000(+) images of buildings worldwide. Search for buildings by
country, city, style, title of building, architect and/or date
of construction.
- The Great Buildings
Collection Can be searched by geographic location, period,
and architectural characteristic. Some building files include
a floor plan. This is also available on CD in the Alumni
Library here at Wentworth.
- New York
City Skyscrapers
BOSTON BUILDINGS AND MAPS
- A
Digital Archive of American Architecture (from Boston College)
- American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: "Boston"
From the Library of Congress' American Memory web site.
395 items offer views of Boston, specific buildings, parks, estates
and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's park system.
Also some plans, maps, and models.
- Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel
Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955: "Boston"
- Boston
Atlas from the Boston Redevelopment Authority Includes links
to historical images and aerial photographs
Boston Gas Company Photographs
- ; John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Almost
400 images, dating from 1882 to 1972, are available on the Web.
- Boston Online
photos and webcams Includes links to topographic maps.
- Boston
Online Historic photos
- iBoston.org
- Boston's History and Architecture Includes exterior views
of both BPL buildings, both Boston City Hall buildings, Trinity
Church, Prudential Center and Hancock Tower.
- City Section -
Created by a team of Wentworth architecture students under the
guidance of Assistant Professor Andy Johnston and
Associate VP of Academic Technology
Monique Fuchs, this site, a
Transect Study of Boston, includes over 350 pages of research and
analysis on the environments of Boston and its suburbs.
- Digital
Imaging Project: Architecture and Sculpture Art historical
images, Bluffton College. Includes exterior views of University
Hall at Harvard, Boston Public Library, Austin Hall at Harvard,
Baker House at MIT, Boston Architectural Center, Harkness Commons
and the Graduate Center at Harvard, Boston Public Library Extension,
Boston City Hall, Government Center Garage, John Hancock Tower,
Kresge Auditorium and Chapel at MIT, JFK Federal Office Building.
- Kidder
Smith Images Project New England --Rotch Visual Collections,
MIT Includes exterior views of Baker House, MIT, Boston City Hall,
Boston Public Library, Carpenter Center at Harvard, Christian
Science Center, Peabody Terrace at Harvard, Fanueil Hall, Gund
Hall at Harvard, Holyoke Center, Harvard; Hancock Tower, Kresge
Chapel and Auditorium at MIT, Memorial Hall at Harvard, Science
Center at Harvard, Mass. State House, and Trinity Church.
- Massachusetts
Electronic Atlas
IMAGE COLLECTIONS
- American Memory: Created
by the Library of Congress, a multi-media collection of primary
source materials on the history and culture of the U. S.
- ArchNet Digital library on
architecture of the Islamic world --Aga Khan Program, Harvard
and M.I.T.
- Art & Architecture,
mainly from the Mediterranean Basin --ArtServe, Australian
National U.
- Artcyclopedia
Both an art encyclopedia and an image dateabase, John Malyon's
Artcyclopedia offers overviews of artists and movements with links
to online images.
-
Bridgeman Art Library - available through Grove's Dictionary
of Art Search for images
- Chicago
Architecture Imagebase --Dept. of Art History, U. Illinois,
Chicago
- Cities
and Buildings Collection (University of Washington)
- Digital
Imaging Project: Architecture and Sculpture Art historical
images, Bluffton College. Includes exterior views of University
Hall at Harvard, Boston Public Library, Austin Hall at Harvard,
Baker House at MIT, Boston Architectural Center, Harkness Commons
and the Graduate Center at Harvard, Boston Public Library Extension,
Boston City Hall, Government Center Garage, John Hancock Tower,
Kresge Auditorium and Chapel at MIT, JFK Federal Office Building.
- Digital
Librarian: Images This clearinghouse of image collection websites
is extensive, though not indexed or categorized.
- 4000
Years of Architecture --THAIS, Milan Images of Greek,
Roman and Egyptian churches, temples and mosques.
- Great Buildings Collection
Online Some building files include a floor plan.
Available also on CD workstation in Alumni Library at Wentworth.
- Historical
Architecture of Asia
- Images of England
--English Heritage
- Kidder
Smith Images Project New England --Rotch Visual Collections,
MIT Includes exterior views of Baker House, MIT, Boston City Hall,
Boston Public Library, Carpenter Center at Harvard, Christian
Science Center, Peabody Terrace at Harvard, Fanueil Hall, Gund
Hall at Harvard, Holyoke Center, Harvard; Hancock Tower, Kresge
Chapel and Auditorium at MIT, Memorial Hall at Harvard, Science
Center at Harvard, Mass. State House, and Trinity Church.
- Landscape Architecture
Image Resource (LAIR) --USDA + 6 U.S. universities
- New York Public Library
Picture Collection
- PastPix: Source for Historical
Images A cataloged and downloadable collection of British
photographs dating back to the 1850s.
- S*P*I*R*O
Architecture Slide Library Database (University of California
at Berkeley)
- The
Virtual Study Tour from the University of New Zealand,
Auckland, Computer reconstructions by students.
- World Art Database
California State University IMAGE project Includes exterior
views of Sagrada Familia Church (Gaudi), Gamble House (Greene
Bros), Crystal Cathedral (P. Johnson), Boston City Hall, Lovell
House (Neutra), Louvre, Pyramid (Pei), Pompidou Centre (Rogers
& Piano), Air Force Academy Chapel (Som), Arcosanti (Saleri),
Taos Pueblo.
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