GENERAL
Piazzo San Marco, Venice Italy, undated. Image courtesy of The Great Buildings Collection.
CAMIO Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO), formerly AMICO, is an online collection documenting works of art from around the world. Includes interior design and architecture.
CIELO Architecture worldwide from prehistory through medieval period from the image database of California State University Library.
Cities and Buildings Database Over 10,000 images of cities and buildings throughout the world in a database developed at University of Washington.
Courtault Institute of Art Database of images of art and architecture. Use the Browse feature to click through topics in architecture, landscape architecture, and design.
Great Buildings Online Documents architecture and architects worldwide, with 3D models, images, architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, and web links. Interface can be confusing, but worth exploring.
Grove Art Online Essential resource covering all aspects of the visual arts worldwide with extensive description. 100,000 images of painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts.
SPIRO University of California Berkeley Over 70,000 images of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism from prehistory to the present. Thumbnail images available.
Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange A survey set of digital images of world architecture (prehistory - 1980s) collected by and for faculty teaching architecture history.
HISTORIC PERIODS & STYLES
Giacomo Della Porta (1538-1602), Vignola, 1507-1573; Il Gesu;
Rome, Italy; 1571-1577, Facade. Image courtesy of C.W. Westfall.
Art Images for College Teaching (AITC) Online image resource for ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque, 18-20th century, and non-western art and architecture. The AICT website was created by Allan Kohl of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Metropolitan Museum Timeline of Art History Database of images and text organized by historic period and geographic location. Excellent examples of architecture found in the Special Topic Categories pull down menus, such as Byzantine Art, Islamic Art, and Asian Art.
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Images taken by architecture history faculty member C. W. Westfall used in his survey course at University of Virginia, courtesy of the Digital Image Center, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library.
TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE IN AFRICA
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives National Museum of African Art Over 300,000 images documenting the peoples, cultures and history of Africa over the past 120 years. Not specifically focused on architecture, but many examples found by topic.
Dogon-Lobi Site with excellent images of West African architecture organized by Photo Albums. Also search by location name.
ARCHITECTURE IN ASIA
Batak Toba House, Lake Toba Area, Indonesia, undated.
Image Courtesy of Asian Historical Architecture.
Asian Historical Architecture Collection of 9000 photos of 586 sites in eighteen countries in Asia, with descriptive information. Excellent examples of Asian vernacular architecture.
ARCHITECTURE IN CANADA
Unidentified Quebec Church, circa 1929.
Image courtesy of John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection,
Ramsey Traquai Collection.
John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection Archival collection of work by architects and urban planners associated with McGill University Department of Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO
UBC Fine Arts Library Picture Collection - Mexican Architecture Collection This collection of 324 large black and white photographs represents 4,000 years of Mexican architecture from the Archaic period (2,000 B.C-100 B.C) to 1960.
ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
El Moeyedy Bimaristan (Hospital), Cairo, Egypt, circa 1420.
Image courtesy of Cairo Islamic Monuments.
ArchNet Digital library and network hosted by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. Excellent quality images and descriptive texts of historical and contemporary sites throughout the world, with focus on Islamic structures and the work of Middle East architects.
Cairo Islamic Monuments Government of Egypt site featuring images and description of key historical Islamic sites.
ARCHITECTURE IN U.S.A.
Bronx Zoo, Bronx, New York, circa 1910.
Image courtesy of The New York Public Library Picture Collection.
American Memory Multiple collections of photographs and archival material from the Library of Congress. Architecture collections include:
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey
Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture MIT Library collection of 3400 Kodachrome slides documenting 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.
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online Over 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers, original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Primarily on subjects in American history.
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Herzog & de Meuron, The de Young Museum,
San Francisco, California, 2005.
Image courtesy of Arcspace.
Arcspace Browse for excellent images of contemporary architecture and descriptive text, organized by architect. Focus is on Western Europe and North America.
Fondation LeCorbusier Official site for the architect's work and provides access to his original works, notes, manuscripts and images of his many projects worldwide.
Structurae Database of images and descriptive texts on structural engineering, architecture and construction through history, and from around the world. Especially good resource for modern large-scale engineering projects such as dams, bridges, skyscrapers and stadiums.
MAPS
Map of Gibraltar by Johann Martin Will, 1780.
Image courtesy of Historic Cities.
David Rumsey Map Collection Excellent collection of historical maps with focus on 18th and 19th century Americas. Also atlases, nautical charts, and manuscripts. Requires pop-up enabled browser.
Historic Cities This site contains maps and documents about historical cities from Albania to Yemen.
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