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American Institute of Architects, New York State
Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection: "Collection of approximately 13,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts and sculpture." White was the first president of Cornell University. From Cornell University Library.
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: "The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures." Click "Browse collection by subject" to navigate this vast collection more easily. From the Library of Congress.
Architecture Topical Glossary-Tudor History: Brief descriptons of architectural terms from the time of the Tudors in England.
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT): "The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture." From the Getty Foundation.
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present: "The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies 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." From the Library of Congress.
Castle Terminology: Here you will find "short definitions for many of the terms associated with medieval castles."
e-Architect: "The principal difference between e-architect and other architecture sites is that we don’t just carry news: on e-architect buildings can be searched by country, city, type or by architect. ... [It] features building news, events, competitions, photos, jobs, awards and products. We feature a range of building types from houses to skyscrapers, plus major landscape and interior projects.
Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Digital Image Collection
Great Buildings Online: Provides images of the world's greatest buildings throughout history with information on their architects, style, and historical context.
House Styles: Articles range from American Foursquare, Arts and Crafts , Bungalows to Victorians. From the magazine Old House Journal.
Images of Sears Homes: "Images and photographs of almost all 447 house designs sold through the Sears Modern Homes program." From Sears Archives.
List of Classical Architecture Terms: Includes building elements, classical orders and types of building. From Wikipedia (please note their disclaimers).
Online Image Resource List: Links to other architecture sites on the Web. From Princeton University School of Architect.
Ryerson and Burnham Archives: "The Ryerson & Burnham Archives collect artists' and architects' papers that complement and extend the permanent collections of the museum's curatorial departments. The Archives' collections are notably strong in late 19th- and 20th-century American architecture, with particular depth in Midwest, Chicago School, Prairie School and organic architecture." From the Art Institute of Chicago.
SAH Archipedia Classic Buildings: "Explore authoritative information on over 1400 buildings by location, architect, period and style, building type, materials, and more." Content is from the book series Buildings of the United States. States included are Massachusetts (Metropolitan Boston), Rhode Island, Pennsylvania (Eastern and Western), the District of Columbia, Virginia (Tidewater and Piedmont), West Virginia, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and Texas. From the Society of Architectural Historians.
The Skyscraper Museum: "The Museum explores [New York City's] tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence." See Also: Interactive projects such as "Ten and Taller: 1874-1900"; "New York's Super Slenders" and more at "Online Projects."
What You Should Know About Architects and Their Services: From the New York State Education Department.
World Architecture News: Architectural news by sector: Arts & Leisure, Big Architecture, Conservation , Education, Hotels, Industrial , Infrastructure, Interiors , Landscape, Master Planning , Offices/Comm, Public Building , Private Housing, Public Housing , Religion, Retail , Sports, Sustainability , Transport, Tall Building , Urban Design. Also includes jobs listings and podcasts.