American Architects from the Civil War to the First World War: A Guide to Information Sources

Annotations from architectural critics from architectural historians on the works of American architects.

Architecture: A bibliographic Guide to the Basic Reference Works, Histories and Handbooks

Includes literature dealing with architectural history written in English and Western European languages and published between 1875-1980

Architecture and Women: A Bibliography Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States

Selected bibliographies about women architects from various sources such as monographs, disserations, articles and interviews from newspaper and journals, exhibition catalogs, conference proceedings, chapters in anthologies, and archival materials.

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Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations Relating to American Architectural History, 1897-1991

The list consists of doctoral these dealing with American architectural history completed between 1897 to early 1991 at universities, for the most part in the United States.

British Architects, 1840-1976: a Guide to Information Sources

Provides bibliographic citations on British architects and buildings

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture: an Annotated Bibliography and Historiography

Selections from monographs, catalogs, and journal articles are directed towards specialists, students, and persons interested in Christian and Byzantine architecture worldwide.

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Information Sources in Architecture and Construction

Includes a wide territory of architecture and construction, using an extensive array of information resources such as periodicals, databases, trade literature, standards, maps and drawings.

Vernacular Architecture in America: A Selective Bibliography

Focuses on modern literature pertaining to architecture of the American folk tradition.

A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840

More than 1,000 architectural entries provide biographical and bibliographical information and lists of major architects.

Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (deceased)

Consists of biographical information for nearly 2,000 architects living and working between c.140-1952 A.D.

Contemporary Architects

Contains 585 entries on architects and partnerships, engineers, theorists, and landscape architects. Each entry provides biographical information highlighting the subject's educational background, awards, honors, and major projects.

Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 - 2 volumes

Two volumes containing over 11,200 entries, includes biographical information on all architects who practiced in Great Britain and former colonies between 1834-1914.

Dizionario dell'architettura del XX secolo

Biographical dictionary of Italian architects in the 20th century

English Mediaeval Architects: A Biographical Dictionary Down to 1550

Information on approximately 1,300 builders, and dates of buildings

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Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects

This classic four-volume work includes biographies on architecs, deisgners, landscape architects from ancient times to the present. Entries include bibliographical references.

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Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture

Describe major examples of world architecture with illustrations. Includes coverage of architecture from non-European regions and contains information about vernacular buildings and engineered structures and works by architects and engineers.

Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture from Postwar to Postmodern

Supplies basic information on architect, building names, locationi, dates of completion for more than 500 popular buildings and complexes built between 1947-1987 in North America.

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Who's Who in Architecture: From 1400 to the Present Day

Provides biographical resources for architects from around the world.

The History of World Architecture Series

Each volume pertains to one period of architectural history, containing photographs, floor plans, and section drawings of many buildings

Ancient Architecture, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, Greece
Baroque Architecture
Byzantine Architecture
Gothic Architecture
Islamic Architecture
Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture
Modern Architecture
Neo-Classical and 19th century Architecture
Oriental Architecture
Pre-Columbian Architecture of Mesoamerica
Roman Architecture
Renaissance Architecture
Romanesque Architecture

Pelican History of Art Series

This scholarly series contains informative texts and extensive

Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830. 9th edition.
Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 4th edition
Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200. 4th edition
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. 4th edition
Gothic Architecture. Revised edition
Greek Architecture. 5th edition

Buildings of the United States

This on-going series aims on identifying the rich cultural, economic, and geographical diversity of the United States as it is reflected in the architecture of each state.

Buildings of Alaska
Buildings of Colorado
Buildings of the District of Columbia
Buildings of Iowa
Buildings of Louisiana
Buildings of Michigan
Buildings of Nevada
Buildings of Rhode Island
Buildings of Virginia
Buildings of West Virginia

Architecture, Design and Construction Word Finder

Gives correct spelling, pronunciation, hyphenation, and abbreviations used for terms in the field of architecture, interior design, and construction.

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction

Includes approximately 24,500 definitions of architectural and construction vocabulary terms.

Dictionnaire des eglises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse

All styles and periods of churches from France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, divided by geographical locations.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Architecture in Five Languages

Architectural terms in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.

Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering and Construction

Comprehensive encyclopedia includes all aspects of architecture, education, regulation, construction industry as a whole, technologies and the laws, as well as economic considerations. 5 volumes

Encyclopedia of Architectural Terms

Explains historical terms used in architecture with texts and illustrations.

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World

Deals with traditional self-built and community-built buildings used in the 20th century, both secular and sacred. Part one is concerned with theories and principles. Part two with cultures and habitats.

Encyclopedia of World Architecture

Illustrates architectural history through words, photographs, and building plans.

Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture

500 lucid definitions of terms illustrated by 2100 line drawings. Explains different architectural styles and details throughout 5,000 years.

Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture

"The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.

International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture

The dictionary features 523 architects and 467 buildings. Vol. 1 covers architects, theorists, engineers, as well as personalities involved in architectural decoration, landscape design and urban planning. Vol. 2 treats architectural schools and styles from ancient Greece to postmodernism and deconstruction.

The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

A superb one-volume dictionary of architecture, including bibliographical entries, technical terms, building materials and definitions of style and movements.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

A comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Expanded coverage includes obituary citations providing an excellent source of biographical data. Coverage is from the 1930's (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860's) to the present. However, for the citations published in the early 20th century, those in the printed version are better indexed. The printed version consists of 15 volumes.

E-Link: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Avery Obituary Index of Architects, 2nd edition.

Covers roughly 17,000 architects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Avery Obituary Index to Architects and Artists

An index to obituaries of architects, mostly American and English. Includees some reference to artists, art historians and city planners.

The Burnham Index to Architectural Literature

This set photographically reproduces the 100,000 card index to periodicals and monographs compiled from 1919 to the mid 1960s in the Ryerson Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago. Indexes over 600 monographs and 200 serials. Emphasis is on Midwestern materials. See the online catalog of the Art Instiute of Chicago at the link below.

E-Link: Art Institute of Chicago Library

Alvar Aalto

Completed works by Aalto arranged in a chronological order. Each project contains illustrations, plans and a short essay.

The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939 : in eleven volumes

Reproduction of Aalto's drawings in the Alvar Aalto Archives and Museum of Finnish Architecture. Each project is accompanied by a short description. 11 volumes.

Le Courbusier Archive

Reproductions of all drawings in the Fondation Le Corbusier, organized by building or project. The introduction in the volume 1 is the only text. 32 volumes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Completed works of Frank Lloyd Wright, divided into 12 volumes by periods. Each project has an essay to go with it.

Louis I. Kahn Archive

Reproductions of Kahn's architectural drawings in the Kahn Collection in University of Pennsyvlania.

The Mies van der Rohe Archive

Reproductions of about 20,000 drawings by Mies in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Short description for each project.

ASTM Standards in Building Codes

Published by American Society for Testing and Materials, this is an authentic source for building design industries and construction to test procedures and check quality for materials and constructions.

Architects' Data

Graphic standards used in Europe, mainly in the United Kingdom

Architect's Detail Library

Comprehensive drawings of detail components such as wood members, steel shapes, wall constructions for architects and engineers.

Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing

Present ready-to-use information about critical building details to help in producing construction drawings, design and develop custom details.

Architect's Handbook of Formulas, Tables, & Mathematical Calculations

Compilation of a vast range of practical, concise formulas, tables, and calculation methods useful to improve the design process by architects and interior designers.

The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design

Combines building codes, industry standards, manufacturer's literature, and engineering reference works into simple formal and spatial approximations to assist exploration of building design.

Architectural Graphic Standards

More than 1,000 pages and 11,000 illustrations guide architects, engineers, contractors, and otehrs to answer questions from site planning to building systems.

The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice (see also earlier edition in loose leaf format in Arch/Art Reference)

Premier manaul of the architectural profession and serves as a reference book. The book is divided into five parts: indexes, architects, firms, projects and a reference set of the AIA documents. Student edition is available.

Building Technology: Mechanical & Electrical Systems

Covers information on technology in the building industry and references for draftsman, junior deisgner, field service engineer, inspector and technician.

Chicago Building Code

Intends to provide easy access to building code requirements in the Chicago area.

Construction Glossary: an Encyclopedic Reference and Manual

Definitions inlcude multiple meanings, historical references, specification language, code interpretations, reference standards, manufacturer's recommended descriptions, and scientific and engineering analysis.

Construction: Principles, Materials and Methods

Attempts to cover every principle, material and method used to design and construct both large and small buildings of most types.

Environmental Resource Guide

Gives information on all kinds of building materials and helps architects and designers make the right choices to protect the environment.

Means Illustrated Construction Dictionary

Covers all of the recent developments in building materials and process, from engineered lumber products to the newest seismic technologies.

Standard Handbook of Structural Details for Building Construction

Provides graphic means of communication between architects, engineers, contractors of the desgin and construction of buildings. The contents are not actual structural designs. They are only suggested representations for the utilization of the materials.

Sweet's Architectural Catalog File

Includes detailed information on building products.

Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Design Data

Part I, "Architectural Fundamentals," provides principles and cross-cutting discussion applicable to many topics and scales. Part II, "Design Data," deals with knowledge and information placed in the sequence of construction.

Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Lighting

Combines design principles, specific application needs, lighting technologies and computed data for architectural designers and engineers.

Time-Saver Standards for Building Materials & Systems

A guide and data source for building materials and systems design, evaluation and selection. Text and illustrations highlight design criteria and selection data of the entire assembly of a building construction project.

ArchiPages

An AIA directory of architectural firms, consultants and services in Illinois.

Entourage : A Tracing File and Color Sourcebook

Provides the following: figures, layout overlays, architectural scales, family activities, sports activities, trees, plants, vehicles, boats, airplanes and clouds and birds.

ProFile: the Official Directory of the American Institute of Architects

Official membership directory of the AIA and has indices for firms and principals and geographical lists of firms. It is also available online at http://www.cmdg.com/profile/

The Conway Library, the Courtauld Institute of Art

Ricker Library has Parts I, II, and III of this set o microfiche. Part I covers architecture of France and Italy up to 1800, arranged topographically. Part II presents architecture in British Isles, Germany and the rest of the world filed by period then by country alphabetically for Non-British architecture and by city for United Kingdom. Part III consists of architectural drawings arranged within each century by the nationality of the architect.

Index Photographique de l'Art en France

Arranged by city. Covers buildings from the 8th century to the present. Strengths are medieval architectural holdings and the collections in French museums. Contains about 95,000 images.

Inventories of Historic Monuments, 1910-1975

Historic monuments in Great Britain.

Marburger Index: Photographic Documents of Art in Germany

Photographs of materials dating from the Middle Ages to the present. Contains western and non-western art including architectural interior and exterior views. Arranged topographically; begins with municipal architecture, followed by sacred and secular buildings.

Royal Institute of British Architects. Library
British Architectural Library drawings collection. (119 reels)

Phase A - (14 reels)
Phase B - (18 reels)
Phase C - Sir E Lutyens (12 reels), Scott Family (38 reels)
Phase D - Palladio Symthson Adam (4 reels)
Phase E - (12 reels)
Phase F - (21 reels)
Includes paper index to Phase A, B, C, D, E