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Architectural Archive Links
We have attempted to gather many archives sites here - if you wish to link yours - E-Mail us. Specifically these should be working On-Line archives - with images that can be viewed/downloaded and search capacity.
LeCorbusier on CD-Rom - Preview
AcIS/CUL Imaging
and Hypertext Projects - Columbia University
An online library of 2,000 images, in categories ranging frommaps of Paris
to Calatrava Bridges. Many categories are notaccessible outside of Columbia
University.
aedes
galerie und architekturforum - die aktuellen ausstellungen
Ancient
City of Athens - Indiana University
The Ancitent City of Athens is a photographic archive of the archaeological
and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece).
NEW ARCAID The Arcaid Picture Library. Architecture Photos. Commercial Site.
ArchiGopher -
University at Buffalo
Archigopher is a Web site dedicated to the dissemination of architectural
knowledge. Archigopher contains several architectural image archives, including
the works of Kandinski and Palladio.
archINFORM
architectural database
International architectural database with over 5000 entries.
Architectural
Archives - University of Pennsylvania
The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania preserves the
works of more than 250 designers from the 18th century to the present.
Architectural History Online
- The Progressive Era
The work of the architects shown in this presentation is provided to stimulate
interest in their cultural values, just as much as in the designs themselves.
Architecturally
Signifigant Churches of Sydney - UNSW
Architecture
History Images - Australia National University
Architecture Image
Repository (Gopher) - SUNET
Architecture in
America - State Houses to Skyscrapers
This sketch of American architecture highlights forty photographs selected
from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.
Architecture of Cork
This guide to the architecture of Cork, Ireland, includes information on
both new and old buildings.
Architectural Dublin is a historically based introduction to Dublin's architecture. The site covers the development of the city plan from its earliest beginnings through to the present day, prominent architects and buildings, and specific buildings under threat of demolition.
Architecture
of the Mediterranean Basin - UIUC
Most images come from Italy, Sicily, Greece and Turkey, with smaller numbers
from France, Spain and North Africa. They date from the pre-classical period
onwards, and stop about 1820 AD.
Arquitectura
Tropicana - University of Miami
Images from Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, Florida.
ArtServe - Australia National
University
ArtServe contains over 18,000 .gif and .jpg images (4 Gb total) relating
to the history of art and architecture. Categories include European architecture,
Islamic architecture, Megalithic!, Classical Turkey, and Hong Kong, among
many other things.
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Architectural Archives - Contains the work of most of the major architects who have practiced in Philadlphia.
Carnegie-Mellon
University Architecture Archives
The Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives was created in 1984
to collect, conserve and promote the use of architectural records that document
the architects and architecture of Pittsburgh and the tri-state region of
western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia.
Charleston Multimedia
Project
An architectural showplace from its inception, Charleston has also been a
national leader in Historic Preservation, protecting entire neighborhoods
of 18th and 19th century buildings. This page is an online exploration of
its heritage.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
This site contains images of many architecturally signifigant buildings in
the City of Broad Shoulders.
Christus Rex
Large image libraries of Vatican City, the Sistine Chapel, The Raphael Stanze
an Loggia, the Vatican Museums, and Splendors of Christendom.
Cimitero di Staglieno
Genova
Il primo progetto per l'area cimiteriale di Staglieno e' del 1835 e fu affidato
all'architetto Carlo Baribino, che muore pero' qualche mese dopo e quindi
il lavoro viene affidato a G.B. Resasco, un allievo del Barabino.
Color Photographs from the
FSA and OWI
These two collections consist of the color photographs produced by a pair
of government photography units within the Farm Security Administration (FSA)
and the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1945.
Covered
Bridges of the Philadelphia Region
These documents are a guide to the old covered bridges of Southeastern
Pennsylvania and nearby areas, that is, the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester,
Delaware, Lancaster, Philadelphia, and nearby New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware
State.
Detroit Photos Home
Page
This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company includes
over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color
photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States.
Digital Image
Access Project
The Columbia University Libraries and AcIS are investigating methods of accessing
image collections online. As part of this project, over 1200 images are being
placed into a database for image retrieval at Avery Library on a standalone
computer.
Digital Images
for the Visual Arts - Monash University
Earthlore's Gothic
Dreams
There can be no misunderstanding, standing before one of the great Gothic
Cathedrals, these structures were intended to be visually explored and
appreciated.
Gargoyles and Grotesques
The word Gargoyle shares a root with the word Gargle; they come from gargouille,
an old French word for Throat. A true gargoyle is a waterspout.
Gothic
and Renaissance Italian Architecture
Greek
Architecture
Classic Greek architecture is made up of three different orders that are
most seen in their temples. They are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The orders
are known mostly by their column style.
Historic House
Architecture
Guide to historic houses with emphasis on late-Victorian and Craftsman style
bungalows
History of Architecture
in Montreal
Architecture under the French Regime in Quebec (1608-1763) was based on the
Norman and Breton house.
Houses
of Buffalo - University at Buffalo
A look at the unique vernacular styles of residential architecture in Buffalo,
New York.
Images from New
York Album
Published 1883 by Wittemann Bros.
Images
of Architecture and Architectural Sculpture
Images of Medieval Art
and Architecture
International
Archive of Women in Architecture
The purpose of the program is to document the history of women's involvement
in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available
to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects,
designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and
the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world.
Islamic Architecture
in Isdahan
Islamic Architecture,
Calligraphy and Coins
This presentation is an attempt to satisfactorily explain the phenomenon
of Islamic architecture
Jaime's Castles Page
This page has become more popular than my wildest expectations, as a result
I have added a number of castles pictures with more to come.
Japanese Style
Modern Architecture in Nagoya
At this site you will find images of Japanese-style modern architecture (mainly
formalism and expressionism before the Pacific War) located in the city of
Nagoya and the suburbs.
JM Massi's Image
Collection
Images of castles, churches, and other examples of European architecture.
Kansas City
Architecture
Images of signifigant structures in Kansas City, Missouri.
La
Galerie - GAMSAU
Classical architecture raytraced images gallery.
Luna Imaging
Luna Imaging Inc. develops high-quality, long-term, digital image archives
for visual collections in the arts.
Lviv Photo Tour
Lviv is one of the best known towns in Ukraine for its architecture representing
styles from the times of Old Rus to Art Nouveau.
MIT
Museum - Guide to the Architecture COllection
The MIT Museum's Architecture Collection consists of two major components:
the Student Drawing Collection of more than 15,000 theses and projects drawn
by students of MIT's Department of Architecture between 1873 and 1968, and
the Study Collection of over 400 rare drawings by European and American
architects, dating between 1840 and 1920.
Mixed Bag of
Architecture
Over the edge architecture, artwork, photography, handcraft,and design/build.
Modern Landscapes in
Japan
Aim of this site is to explore the transformations of the Japanese landscape
from Early Modern (Edo) to Post-war Japan. A virtual itinerary along the
Tokaido route is simulated, through a sychronic demonstration of images and
accounts, deriving from different historical periods and points of view.
Museum
Architecture - Eindhoven University of Technology
National Building Museum
The world we build for ourselves -- from our homes and offices and factories
to our parks, our roads, our cities as a whole -- is the subject of the National
Building Museum.
NFS Succeed Engineering Visual
Database
The NFS Succeed Engineering database is an online repository of images for
use by engineering faculty and students.
Notre
Dame Cathedral
These photographs constitute the exhibition
Paris Maps
In spring 1993, Prof. Barry Bergdoll of Art History used Gopher to retrieve
these Paris maps as part of a graduate studies course, as an alternative
to using unwieldy paper maps and limited access slides. A subset of the images
is also available here using Gopher.
Perspectives
This site features different monthly virtual-tours of Chicago's landmark
buildings - from Michigan Ave, to the Loop to the Riverfront
Pompeii
Forum Project - University of Virginia
The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative venture that focuses on the
urban center of Pompeii.
Renaissance
and Baroque Architecture - U of Virginia
The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by
Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque
Architecture.
Salem (Massachusetts)
Architecture
A glimpse of Salem's exceptional architectural heritage is presented below.
Most of these houses have furnished period interiors and are open to the
public.
Society of Architectural Historians. Home page & net resources. GREAT LINKS!
SPIRO
Architecture Slide Library - UC Berkeley
SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog (vopac) for the University
of California at Berkeley's Architecture Slide Library (ASL) collection of
200,000 35mm slides.
Streets and Architecture
of Kinokuni
Studio
Multimedial
In dem Park der römischen Villa Massimo, die die deutsche Kulturstiftung
beherbergt, ist eine Gruppe Atelierhäuser für Stipendiaten zu planen.
Syracuse University Architecture
Image Archives
Temple of Liberty
- Building the Capitol for a New Nation
Thomason Tokyo
Thomason is para-art, which is defined as useless and beautiful parts of
architects or structures, such as a door at unusual hight, a gate that is
not passable, stares with no entrance to approach.
Tokyo - A Guide to
Recent Architecture
Traquair
Archive
This site currently contains 700 images of historic structures inQuebec and
the Canadian Maritime provinces, scanned from theimage library of Robert
Traquair, former director of McGill School of Architecture
Turkish Style
The Turkish home is a living tradition whose refinements has continued
uninterrupted for over 10,000 years, from the earliest recorded dwellings
of Central Anatolia to the modern Istanbul townhouse.
University
of Pennsylvania - Architectural Archives
The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania preserves the
works of more than 250 designers from the 18th century to the present. The
research collections in the Archives are available to faculty, students,
and scholars for independent study as well as to support teaching in the
University of Pennsylvania and other institutions.
Venice - Touring Club
Italiano
The beautiful marble buildings reflected in the canals, rich artistic heritage,
and even the quality of light found there make Venice perhaps the most famous
tourist resort in all the world.
Yahoo!
Image Surfer - Architecture Category
Yankee Planning Image
Library
The Image library will be filled with photographs, maps and perhaps, artwork
- all related, no matter how loosely to the environment, coastlines and planning.
If you find them attractive, you may wish to download them to add a little
visual interest to your report, presentation, etc.