Architecture & Landscape Architecture
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Finding Images on the Web:
This is a great tutorial on how to find, save, and use images from the Web.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access,
free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.
The Art Institute of Chicago - NEW Resource
This site has many wonderful Chicago based architectural drawings, texts, and oral histories.
American Landscape and Architectural Design 1850-1920
This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models. Hundreds of private estates from all over the United States are represented in the collection through contemporary views of their houses and gardens (including features such as formal gardens, terraces, and arbors).
ArchINform International Architecture Database
This database for international architecture, originally emerging from records of interesting building projects from architecture students, has meanwhile become the largest online-database about worldwide architects and buildings from past to present.
This database includes information over more than 14000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database.
It's possible to look for a special project via an architect, town or keyword with the indices or by using a query form. For most entries you get the name, address, keywords and information about further literature. Some entries include images, comments, links to other Websites or internal links.
ArchNet is an international Online community developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, in close cooperation with, and with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is a private, non-denominational, international development agency with programmes dedicated to the improvement of built environments in societies where Muslims have a significant presence.
ArchNet is a growing global community of scholars, students, and professionals concerned with architecture, planning, and landscape design. ArchNet provides these individuals with:
• Comprehensive architectural resources
• New perspectives on the built environment
• Insights into Islamic design and culture
AROUNDER gives travelers a vivid sense of what a city has to offer: historical cathedrals and works of art, museums featuring famous artists, local cafes and stores, breathtaking mountain-top views, quiet parks and gardens.
ArtServe, Australian National University
This site provides thousands of images (including panoramas) of art and architecture, primarily of the Mediterranean Basin and Japan. Many other countries are represented as well.
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:
A photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view nearly 10,000 photos of 620 sites in eighteen countries, with background information and virtual tours. This website is a collection of photos from many different contributors.
Archive provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history.
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.
Begun in 1995, the collection was conceived as a multi-disciplinary resource for students, faculty, and others in the academic community. It has grown steadily since then, with contributions from a wide range of scholars, and now contains nearly 10,000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. They are freely available to anyone with access to the Web for use in the classroom, student study, or for individual research purposes.
Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens & Landscapes
Searchable collection of historic and contemporary images of landscape design centered on the Italian Villa.
Design Center for American Urban Landscape Image Database
DCAUL Image Bank contains over 17,000 images related to urban design issues (focusing on the Twin Cities metropolitan region).
Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.
Google 3D Warehouse: MODELS of Buildings
3D Warehouse
The 3D Warehouse is a Google service that lets you search, share, and store 3D models. Anyone may search and download models, but to submit your own, you'll need to log in using your Google Account.
The models in the 3D Warehouse include everything for your 3D world: buildings, houses, bridges, statues, sculptures, couches, cars, people, pets, and much more.
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From within Google SketchUp or using a standard web browser you can launch a search of the thousands of models stored in the 3D Warehouse. |
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You can download the 3D models you like best to use in your SketchUp models. |
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If the model has a location on earth, for example, a building located in Boulder, Colorado, you can also download it and view it in Google Earth. |
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You can also share your favorite 3D models by uploading them from Google SketchUp into the 3D Warehouse. |
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history 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. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the leading architecture magazine online, and Archiplanet, the community-created all-buildings collection. Now with Google Maps mashups throughout.
Searching is facilitated by searching by words and/or terms, by artist biographies, by image(s) and/or by full-text. The database also makes it possible to search for external images related to the Dictionary. More than 30,000 external image links are currently associated with articles which point to images of art works held in public museum collections throughout the world.
Historic Images of Art and Architecture
Bibliography of Source Publications
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series II.
Britton, John. Cathedral antiquities. Historical and descriptive accounts, with 311 illustrations, of the following English cathedrals. Viz. Canterbury, York, Salisbury, Norwich, Oxford, Winchester, Lichfield, Hereford, Wells, Exeter, Worcester, Peterborough, Gloucester, and Bristol. The engravings mostly by J. Le Keux, esq. from drawings by E. Blore [and others] By John Britton.
London, M. A. Nattali, 1836.
[v. 1. Canterbury and York.--v. 2. Salisbury, Norwich, and Oxford.--v. 3. Winchester, Lichfield, and Hereford.--v. 4. Wells, Exeter, and Worcester.--v. 5. Peterborough, Gloucester, and Bristol.]
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.
Lübke, Wilhelm. Outlines of the History of Art. A new translation from the seventh German edition, edited by Clarence Cook. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1881. Volume I.
Michel, André. Histoire de l'Art / depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'a nos jours. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1905. Tome I, Deuxieme partie.
Reinach, Salomon. Apollo / an illustrated manual of the history of art throughout the ages. From the French by Florence Simmonds. New edition, revised by the author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914
Images Resources: Colby College Site
This is a wonderful, inclusive site. Worth checking out.
Kidder Smith Slide Archives, Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Kidder Smith Slide Archives is a collection of 3400 Kodachromeslides which document ten centuries of architecture in the United States. Photographed by G. E. Kidder Smith, architect,architectural photographer and author of two major surveys of American architecture, these slides represent color documenation of many of the buildings photographed in black and white for Kidder Smith's three-volume Architecture of the United States: AnIllustrated Guide to Notable Buildings, Open to the Public(Museum of Modern Art/Doubleday, 1981), and for a related Smithsonian Exhibition.
Photographs and Drawings of William Muschenheim's architectural work.
Images of New York major buildings.
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
Over 30,000 images of the history of NYC taken from books, magazines, photographs and prints mostly dating to before 1923.
Access to hundreds of thousands of images crossing many disciplines.
179 sites and 381 buildings. Each catalog entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images. This web site currently publishes over 33,000 pictures! Descriptions and images have been produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions and scholars. Catalog information and keywords have been taken from standard sources, which are cited in the entries for each object.
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. They are organized according to his course syllabus. Each section includes images relating to that particular topic as well as images which are included as comparative material, and are included to reinforce particular points which Mr. Westfall makes in his bi-weekly lectures.
These images are provided for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of them is strictly prohibited.
An overview of resources for images - from archaeology, architecture and art to urban design. Includes sources within MIT and beyond.
SAH: Society of Architectural Historians
THE WORLD SURVEY:
We started in August 1998 to prepare a world survey set of digital images basing our choice on an overlap among the illustration sets in some commonly used textbooks. Remember that this becomes a two-window operation once you click to ask for an image; PC users will have to unmaximize and overlap the windows to quickly go from roster to image. We will mirror this on other sites as it gets more populated with images.
A searchable database with images and statistics to over 80,000 high-rise buildings from around the world. (The images may not be downloaded.)
Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures
This site offers you information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world. Our documentation begins at the time of the pyramids in Egypt and Roman construction, continues to Romanesque and Gothic churches and through to the Industrial Revolution all the way to today and beyond. Structurae deals mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc. Explore this site to discover the marvelous works of structural engineering.
View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty
renowned collections. Explore these collections using the Insight® Browser
with no download required, or the Insight® Java Client with advanced
functionality, requiring one time download. View the collections individually
with the Insight Browser or Java Client. With the Insight Java Client, combine
several collections from one category, or combine any collection from
the View All tab.
A searchable database of historical and contemporary architecture
A database of over 50,000 images including many areas of imagery (art, architecture, science, etc.).
- Architecture & Urban Design, UCLA Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design Includes several student projects using computer simulations and VRML modeling.
- ArtServe: Art & Architecture, Australian National University
- MIT, Conference Room with Frank Stella Painting, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
- Prof. Westfall's Renaissance & Baroque Architecture, Univ. of Virginia
- SILS, Architectural Image Browser,School of Information and Library Studies, Univ. of Michigan
- SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library Visual Online Catalog, Univ. of Calif./Berkeley