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Architecture Resource Guide

Internet Resources 

 General Resources and Directories

 Image Sites

 Educational Sites - Australian

 Societies and Associations

Educational Sites - International

 

General Resources and Directories

ADAM
ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community.

AHURI:Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute -
This database of urban expertise includes curricula vitae's of recognised experts, fields of expertise, experience and lists of publications of experts from the Australian university, government and private sector sectors.

AIA Online Network -
Project leads, product directory, construction news, discussion list employment information.

Architecture(Yahoo)

ARCHOO : Australian Architectural Directory

Art History Resources on the Web

ArtServe -
Architecture database maintained by the Australian National University.

ArtSource -
"…a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc."

Cyburbia -
Formerly called PAIRC - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center, contains a comprehensive directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism and other topics related to the built environment. Cyburbia also contains information about architecture and planning related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several interactive message areas.

Famous Architects

Goode's Bibliography: Doctoral Dissertations Relating to American Architectural History -
Citations are listed chronologically, organised by period. Includes author, institution, and subject indexes.

Historical architecture of Asia

The International Archive of Women in Architecture -
Housed at Virginia Tech, the International Archive of Women in Architecture (established in 1985) archives and documents 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, critics, and planners."
The site has three major sections :
 - 1. Guide to the Collections,
 - 2. Biographical Database,
 - 3. IAWA image database
.

RIBA links -
RIBA Links is a specialist architectural search engine. The links are currently mainly to UK websites, but RIBA is expanding them to achieve worldwide coverage.

RIBA Architecture Web Links -
Gateway to internet resources. Maintained by the RIBA British Architectural Library.

RUDI -
RUDI aims to contribute to improvements in our towns and cities through disseminating knowledge of and information about good practice in urban design.
(Membership required to access majority of site as at January 2007).

Sapling -
SAPLING is the Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway - a global gateway for information, and a forum for its exchange.

Society of Architectural Historians

 

Educational Sites - Australian

 

University of Newcastle -
School of Architecture and the Built Environment

Curtin University -
Faculty of Built Environment, Art and Design

Deakin University -
School of Architecture and Building

RMIT -
School of Architecture and Design

University of Melbourne -
Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning

University of New South Wales -
Faculty of the Built Environment

University of Queensland -
School of Architecture

University of South Australia -
Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design (Division of Education, Arts & Social Sciences)

University of Sydney -
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning

University of Tasmania
School of Architecture

University of Technology, Sydney
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building

University of Western Australia -
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts

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 Educational Sites - International

 

National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries - University of Auckland

Harvard Design School - Department of Architecture

Heriot-Watt University   Edinburgh - Department of Building Engineering and Surveying

MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture

University of Strathclyde - Department of Architecture & Building Science

Victoria University of Wellington - School of Architecture - New Zealand

Washington State University - School of Architecture & Construction Management

Yale School of Architecture

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 Image Sites

Architecture Visual Resources Library -
SPIRO (Slide and Photography Image Retireval Online) University of California, Berkeley (Note that all images are copyrighted.)

Great Buildings Collection
Documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographic images and architectural drawings, maps & timelines, 3D models, and more.

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
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 (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.

Rotch Visual Collections -
MIT

SILS Art Image Browser -
Architecture (University of Michigan)

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 Societies and Associations

e-ARCHITECT -
For Architects and the architectural profession.

American Institute of Architecture Students

Architectural Institute of Japan

Architecture Research Institute
A think/act tank that seeks to study how the rapid and diverse changes associated with the Information Age are rendering traditional urban spaces and buildings obsolete.

Australian Architecture Association -
A new organisation formed to broaden the promotion of architecture in Australia. Founding committee members are Wendy Lewin, Harry Seidler, Richard Johnson, James Grose, Ian Moore, and Alex Popov. Students can join the association at a discounted rate.

Graduate Schools in Architecture

New Zealand Institute of Architects

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Royal Australian Institute of Architects

Royal Institute of British Architects

Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

Society of Architectural Historians