Subject Guide for Architecture: Interior Design
Directories and Dictionaries
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus A comprehensive controlled vocabulary of nearly 125,000 terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online Provides access to over 45,000 signed articles with over 22,000 image links. Provides extensive coverage of all visual arts from prehistoric times to present day with a multicultural scope. UT NetID & Password required
Research Databases
ARTBibliographies Modern Provides abstracts on contemporary art, including ceramic and glass art, and textile art. UT NetID & Password required
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Covers architecture and related disciplines -- archaeology, furniture and decoration, historic preservation, interior design, landscape design and urban planning. Compiled at Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, the database indexes over 2,000 periodicals published worldwide. Coverage is from the 1930's to the present with selective indexing dating back to the 1860's. UT NetID & Password required
Art Fulltext (1984+) International periodical coverage includes journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.UT NetID & Password required
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) International periodical coverage includes yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT Password required
Bibliography of the History of Art Indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. UT NetID & Password required
Design and Applied Arts Index Indexes design and craft journals and newspapers. Includes news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Covers all design fields including furniture, interiors, textile, graphic, multimedia, packaging, and theater. UT NetID & Password required
General Resources
- ADAM Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
- Architecture & Interior Design for 20th Century America Photographs by Samuel Gottscho & William Schleisner, 1935-1955
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Design Addicts
- The Design Linc Accessibility Design & Resources
- Design Within Reach
- Environmental Design + Construction Sustainable building information
- Home Portfolio.Com
- I.D Online Covers art, business and culture of design.
- Interiors Sources
- Materials Lab (School of Architecture at University of Texas)
- Metropolis Magazine
Lighting
- Architectural Lighting
- Building Technologies Department Windows & Daylighting Group
- Lighting Center
- Lighting Design Glossary
- Lighting Research Center
Furniture
- Alvar Aalto Foundation
- American Style Features craft art including glass, pottery, ceramics and furniture design.
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts & Material Culture
- Modern Decorative Arts 20th Century Design
- Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 19th century visual culture
- Vitra Design Museum
Associations & Foundations
- American Society of Furniture Designers
- American Society of Interior Designers
- Council for Interior Design Accreditation
- Furniture Society
- Interior Design Educatiors Council
- Interior Design Schools & Colleges
- International Interior Design Association
- MOMA Museum of Modern Art Design Collections & Online Exhibitions
- National Council for Interior Design Qualification
- Parsons School of Design

Contact the Architecture Librarian
Jeanine Williamson974-9164
jwilliamson@utk.edu
Contents
Architects & Buildings
Green Architecture
Image Resources
Interior Design
Planning & Construction
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Additional Resources
Guide
to Standards
Map Library
includes GIS materials
Pendergrass Agriculture Library
for Landscape Architecture materials

