Subject Guide for Architecture: Architects & Buildings
Dictionaries & Glossaries
American Architecture Explanations & examples of architectural styles.
Digital Sanborn Maps for Tennesseee Provides digital access to 695 large-scale maps of 113 Tennessee towns and cities including Knoxville, dating from 1867 to 1970. Specific coverage for individual cities UT NetID & Password required
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Vocabulary of nearly 125,000 terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names contains approximately 900,000 records for places, arranged in hierarchies representing all nations of the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, etc..
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
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
BuildingGreen Features current issue of Environmental Building news and complete archives published since 1993. Includes GreenSpec database of over 1,800 green building products and a database of more than 100 high-performance building case studies. Information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. UT NetID & Password required
Design and Applied Arts Index (1973+) 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
RIBA Library British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects. Includes Architectural Publications Index.
ArchINFORM International 20th Century Architecture
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
Cities & Buildings Database University of Washington
Dissertations on American Architectural History 1897-1995
International Medieval Bibliography Contains articles on medieval subjects and history, with an index containing reference to personal names, medieval and modern place names, subjects, texts and manuscripts. UT NetID & Password required
New York Skyscrapers 100 Years of High Rises
Skyscraper Page Includes drawings & diagrams
Sources for Building History: a guide to researching historic buildings in the British Isles
Smithsonian Institute Architectural History & Historic Preservation Division
Vitruvio Includes detailed drawings & diagrams
Architects
- Architects USA Directory of over 20,000 architectural firms.
- Brief Biographies of American Architects (who died between 1897-1947)
- Death by Architecture Links to architecture firms.
- Directory of African American Architects
- Frank Lloyd Wright Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
- International Archive of Women in Architecture
- Pritzer Architecture Prize
- Profile the Architects Sourcebook
- Union List of Artist Names Contains around 220,000 names and other information about artists from antiquity to present, and the scope is global.
- World Biographical Dictionary of Artists This online edition of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon contains information on visual artists from all over the world and throughout the ages, from antiquity to the present. Although the search interface and some of the search terms are available in English, the biographical full-text entries are in German only. UT NetID & Password required
Comprehensive
- ADAM Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
- Architecture and Building NetResources University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- ArchNet Online Community for Architects, Planners & Designers
- ArtSource Resources & bibliographies
- Entablature A Gathering Place for the Architecture Community
- Galaxy: Architecture
Preservation
Contact the Architecture Librarian
Jeanine Williamson974-9164
jwilliamson@utk.edu
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