Architecture

AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design. It represents the quality of work being created, as well as shifting aesthetics and sensibilities of the designers of the day. Included in this resource are more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present.

ArchDaily was founded in March 2008, as the online source of continuous information for a growing community of thousands of architects searching for the latest architectural news: projects, products, events, interviews and competitions among others.

Architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this international database. “It includes over 12,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners.” Search for a specific project by architect, town or keyword. Most entries include images and links to other websites.

The Ryerson & Burnham Archives collect artists' and architects' papers that complement and extend the permanent collections of the museum's curatorial departments. The collections contain a wide range of media, including correspondence, published and unpublished writings, scrapbooks, architectural drawings and prints, business papers, photographs, slides, audio recordings, films, video, and ephemera.

The Cities/Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.

All across America, architecture magazines from the 20th century are rotting in basements, if they haven't already been trashed. These visually brilliant publications chronicled the best of Modernist architecture along with the talented, progressive architects of that era. To have your building featured in these magazines was a real honor for an architect.

Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web for architecture.

Discover millions of artworks & images of historical place

This searchable site "documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds."

This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, selected over ten years by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.

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, including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Amos Rapoport Image Collection of Vernacular Design is the largest publically accessible digital image collection focused on vernacular architecture in the world. This collection of over 30,000 images, taken from the private slide collection of eminent vernacular architecture scholar, Amos Rapoport, includes works of vernacular architecture from more than 70 countries.

The Architecture, Design, and Engineering category covers about 40,000 drawings (described in more than 3,900 catalog records), spanning 1600 to 1989, with most dating between 1880 and 1940. The designs are primarily for sites and structures in the U.S. (especially Washington, D.C.), as well as Europe and Mexico. American architects and architectural firms created most of the images. Building types range from the United States Capitol and the Library of Congress to private residences and hamburger restaurants.

The National Building Museum's permanent collection illuminates the building process and documents changing architectural styles and construction techniques. The current collections contain approximately 75,000 photographic images, 68,000 architectural prints and drawings, 100 linear feet of documents, and 10,000 objects, including material samples, architectural fragments, and building toys.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Contains images from ancient Greece and Rome, including architecture.

Find the SAH Archipedia, a multimedia online encyclopedia of American architecture, SAHARA, a shared online archive of architecture images for teaching and research, & JSAH also appears in an online, multimedia edition. JSAH online presents the same text content, but with an expanded illustration program that includes video, sound, 3-D models, panoramic photos, and zoomable images here.

SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs.

The Block and Koenig slides are two of the smaller unique collections in the possession of the USC Libraries. They document examples of 20th century California architecture that developed stylistically from the foundations of the International Style as established by the 1932 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, titled Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, and of European pre-World War II Modernism.

The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.

Includes Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and other image. Digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)

Consisting of approximately 11,000 images that document the architecture, landscape and urban planning of sites across the United States - with a particular emphasis on Chicago and its suburbs - and, to a lesser extent, internationally, The Historic Architecture and Landscape Image collection, or HALIC, contains mounted photographic prints, lantern slides (both black and white and hand-colored), and postcards dating from the 1860s to the 1970s.

Whether you’re researching one of one of Indiana’s most influential architects or want to see the Indiana courthouse photographs, you will be able to find thousands of our drawings and photographs in the University Libraries’ Digital Media Repository.

This collection features architectural elevation schematics, renderings, sketches and speculative designs of buildings from the Baylor University campus and Waco, TX. Materials in this collection represent elevation and cross-section diagrams only; mechanical and structural schematics are not included except in cases where the building is no longer extant, such as the original structure of S.P. Brooks Hall on the Baylor campus, which was demolished in 2006 and replaced by the current building of the same name.

The Burdette Keeland Papers cover the period 1926 to 2000 and are comprised of his architectural drawings; business and personal files; memorabilia; photographic prints and negatives; as well as materials from his teaching career. The collection occupies 25 linear feet of shelves and 15 drawers of flat files. It is stored in 40 boxes, 112 oversize folders, and 5 tubes for rolled material. It also includes one oversized construction sign and one piece of framed artwork.

This website allows you to make appointments to view or obtain copies of Building Plans on file in the Microfilm and Plans Library. Be advised that in accordance to the General Records Schedule GS1-SL for State and Local Government Agencies records retention for residential properties are for 10 anniversary years after issuance of certificate of occupancy. Although the Department tries to maintain the records as long as possible as a service to customers, records that have exceeded the mandatory retention may not be available.

This digital exhibit stems from another of the Jones-Wright intersections: the acquisition and re-location of the Wright-designed Usonian-style Bachman-Wilson residence by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to northwest Arkansas, where Jones resided, taught, and designed from 1953 until his death in 2004. The exhibit continues that intersection with images and writings that offer comparisons and contrasts of the architectural styles and philosophies of these two great architects.

Every building has a story. The intriguing architecture of Western New York is celebrated through Building Stories, Buffalo Architecture Foundation’s multi-media project documenting and sharing profound individual experiences with architecture, construction, landscape and planning throughout the region. The Buffalo Architecture Foundation Building Stories Collection provides access to submissions from 2011 to the present.

The architectural records of resort hotels constitute an important record of urban design and development. These architectural collections include complete sets of architectural drawings and sketches, from concept to construction, marketing and presentation portfolios, artist’s renderings, photographs, job files, and technical specifications. Many of these drawings, renderings, and photographs have been digitized and form part of the Dreaming the Skyline digital collection.

Collection of architecture images specific to the Pacific Northwest and also internationally.