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Architecture

Journals & Indexes | Web Resources | Reference Works | Bates Art and Visual Culture Department | Librarian

This subject guide is a good starting place for researching general topics in Architecture; however, you might also look at Art.

Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Image and Reference Resources

  Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
ABOUT     ARTstor Image database. Includes material from the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection, and the Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts.
  Art Abstracts (Wilson) 1984-
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  Art Index Retrospective, 1929-1984
ABOUT     Grove Art Online Searchable version of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Features: "ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links."
  Scopus
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  International Medieval Bibliography
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  America : History and Life ABOUT    

Web Resources

Great Buildings Collection
"Documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more."

archINFORM International Architecture Database
"Includes over 13000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme."

American Memory Architecture & Landscape Collections
Includes material from the Historic American Buildings Survey, the Landscape and Architectural Design Collection of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, panoramic maps and photographs, and photographs relating to 20th Century Architecture and Interior Design.

Architecture.com
Extensive portal to information on built environments. Hosted by the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Getty Vocabularies
Includes the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). From the Getty Research Institute.

Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

Architecture Reference Works

Dictionary of Art published by Groves
Reference N31 .D5 1996 v.1-34
Online version

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects
Reference NA40 .m25 1982 v.1-4

Encyclopedia of Architecture
Reference NA31 .E59 1988 v.1-5

International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture
Reference NA40 .I48 1993 v.1-2

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World
NA208 .E53 1997 v.1-3

Library contact:

For more information, contact:

Christopher P. Schiff
Music and Arts Librarian
207-786-6274
e-mail: cschiff AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240
(207) 786-6263


Page author: Christopher P. Schiff
Date: 12/12/05


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