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Architecture

• Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
  The Casselman Archive includes over 4,000 digitized color and black and white photos of Islamic architecture in Spain, documenting over 1000 years of Islamic influence on Iberian art and architecture.
• Reed Kroloff on Modern and Romantic Architecture | Video on TED.com
  In this TED presentation, Reed Kroloff talks about the differences between Modern and Romantic architectural styles with examples of work from two prestigious architectural firms in New York. Reed Kroloff is the Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.
• "New Theater" Archive at Columbia University Libraries
  The Avery Architecture & Fine arts Library has acquired a set of letters, telegrams, publicity materials and perspective of the "New Theater" design. This unrealized project was designed for theater director Paton Price.
• 12 Artist Interpretations of City Skylines
  Brynn Mannino from Woman’s Day has put together an article about artists’ interpretation of city skylines. This article features 12 different cityscapes designed in media ranging from staples to potatoes.
• 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
  The Digital Contest Library at the University of Minnesota, College of Design and Liberal Arts has added over 400 images of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. The images include black and white photographs, architectural drawings, landscape architecture, and paintings from a variety of artists including Richard Morris Hunt, Frederick Law Olmstead, and Charles Atwood.
• 3D Printing: The New Face of Design
  Advances in 3D printing technology has significantly altered the world of design, modeling and manufacturing. Ashley Vance in her NY times article looks at how 3D printing is affecting the way manufacturing companies and architectural firms think about design.
• A Digital Archive of American Architecture
  Developed by Prof. Jeffery Howe at Boston College for an architecture survey course at Boston College, this site contains over 1,500 images of American architecture.
• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
  Containing over 3,500 images plus 54 hours of audio from 45 countries, this resource was compiled by scholars, librarians and subject specialists at the University of Wisconsin
• Aga Khan Visual Archive
  MIT's Aga Khan Visual Archive hosts over 120,000 digital images visualizing Islamic art and architecture as well as urban design practices. This repository includes images captured over a 30 year period to document both historic and contemporary sites and is accessible to academic and non-academic users through the MIT Libraries Dome, a Web portal that provides access to some of the university's archival collections.
• AIA PodNet
  The AIA PodNet Architecture Knowledge Review is a weekly podcast available through iTunes. Various professionals and academics contribute to these podcasts and offer a wide-range of perspectives and expertise on a number of topics. Over 160 podcasts discuss topics including FengShui, technological evolution, collaboration, social issues and sustainability.
• Aluka
  Aluka, a resource providing access to a wide range of scholarly data, has created a webpage that documents cultural heritage sites throughout the African continent. By employing Aluka's interactive map, the user can access images of architecture, cultural rituals, and historic sites along with textual data detailing the site's significance and current condition.
• American Memory at the Library of Congress
  Contains over 5 million digitized images of American historical materials, including drawings, maps, and photographs.
• Ancient Rome 3D
  is a digital recreation of over 7,000 buildings during the reign of Constantine (circa 320 CE).
• Ancient Theater Archive
  Created by Thomas G. Hines at Whitman College, this website serves as a comprehensive reference source for Greco-Roman theaters in the Mediterranean. The site includes a glossary of classical architectural terms, maps, histories, theater measurements, audience capacity, panoramas, location of the archaeological archives, and plans with restoration overlays.
• Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments
  Andrew Alpern, the famous New York-based architectural historian has donated his collection of over 170 sets of architectural drawing instruments from Europe and the United States to the Avery Library at the Columbia University. The collection also includes related trade catalogs and rare books.
• Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
  Cornell University is home to over 13,000 photographs of early nineteenth and twentieth century buildings from the United States, Mexico, Greece, the Middle East and Europe.
• Ara Pacis Augustae
  This website provides in-depth visual documentation on the reconstruction and recreation of the Ara Pacis Augustae in Rome. Sources on the website provide scholarly publications, models, drawings, and photographs that help to rebuild the history of the monumental building and its now permanent home at the Richard Meier-designed Museo dell'Ara Pacis.
• Arcade: New York Art Resource Consortium
  Arcade combines material and cultural history documents from the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum, making 800,000 visual and textual records available for public use.
• Arcaid
  A comprehensive and commercial image resource for architecture, interiors, and design.
• ArchDaily
  In 2008, ArchDaily launched its site with the mission of “broadcasting architecture worldwide." ArchDaily is a one-stop source for all architectural project, product, event and competition news, integrating news stories, interviews, and project and product images to keep the architectural community informed.
• archINFORM
  Images, aerial maps, and information pertaining to 14,000 built and unrealized projects from the 20th century.
• Archipedia
  Archipedia is an American architecture search tool that provides access to authoritative information on over 11,000 buildings. Users can perform searches utilizing a number of terms, including architect, period and style, building type, materials, location, and more. Search results include images, a map triangulating all projects that match the search term, and other search terms that might generate additional materials.
• Archiplanet
  Archiplanet is a community-constructed collection of information on buildings and building culture worldwide. Archiplanet uses a wiki-style approach to collaboration.
• Archiportal
  This mashup of Google Maps and Freebase – an open and collaborative database of the world’s knowledge – allows a user to search by location or by architect and view the information plotted on a map.
• Archiseek
  News, discussion forums, and images of significant buildings in North America and Europe.
• Architectural History 102: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
  The University of Virginia Libraries hosts Architectural History 102, a visual resource collection focusing on Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Images included create social and historical context, and reveal evolving architectural forms.
• Architectural League Podcasts
  Architectural League podcasts, both audio and video, document the League’s ongoing lecture series featuring leading figures in architecture and design from around the world.
• Architectural Legacy of Herbert Miller Green
  The architectural drawings, project lists, newspaper clippings and photographs represented in this digital collection were culled from the Alexander Architectural Archive.
• Architectural Record Photographs of Taliesin
  The Architectural Record archive has released digital photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West from the January 1913 journal article featuring Henry Fuermann’s images.
• Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
  The Library of Congress American Memory site hosts over 29,000 images architecture and interior design created in the twentieth century. The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection concentrates on sites in the northeastern United States focusing on architectural subjects that include interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Each image is accompanied by detailed metadata as well as direction for legal use.
• Architecture for Humanity
  Architecture for Humanity is a nonprofit design services firm building a more sustainable future through the power of professional design. This nonprofit engages its volunteers in a variety of innovative design projects in addition to encouraging sustainable design through chapter projects and competitions.
• Architecture Web Resources
  The Architecture Studies Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has an online guide containing links to web resources on topics related to architecture. This continuously evolving database was established in 1993 by Jeanne Brown, head of UNLV Architecture Studies Library.
• Architectuul
  Architectuul is a wiki-style repository whose goal is to provide access to images and other project and biographical content that celebrates the architectural practice. It’s rich assembly borders on ephemera, juxtaposing the expected–images and data concerning architecture from the great historical canon–with the random–state circuses, garages, temporary architecture, obscure contemporary pieces, etc. Each entry include images, project or biographical data, geographical information, keywords, and links to other sites containing relevant content, and can be further developed by the community-at-large.
• Architizer
  Architizer is an open community created to allow architects to interact, show their work, and find clients. The site includes an interactive project map, blog, and crowdsourced project and firms pages. Architizer posts jobs and competitions to facilitate professional networking.
• ArchNet
  Architectural online community with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilizations.
• Arcosanti Project
  Arcosanti is an experimental town near Phoenix, Arizona designed to satisfy the concept of arcology. Visit the Arcosanti website for more information about the city, its design and construction, arcology, and collaboration and volunteer opportunities.
• Arkitekturmuseet Picture Bank
  Arkitekturmuseet's Picture Bank contains 2,500 digital photographs and drawings primarily documenting twentieth-century Swedish design. The images available through Arkitekturmuseet showcase Scandinavian architecture and urbanism while illustrating the lifestyle of the modern. Building and formal typologies represented include industry and retail trade, sport and leisure facilities, the landscape, furniture and furnishings, and interior design for bothprivate and public buildings.
• Armenian Medieval Architecture
  A collection of photographs of medieval Armenian architecture from the Architecture Library of the Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• Arounder
  Travel site Arounder uses Google maps to organize interactive, panoramic exhibits of a number of European cities and a few American sites. For each location listed on Arounder, a number of panoramic views are available including views of church interiors, city streets, public plazas, and natural or manufactured landscapes.
• Art and Architecture - Images from the Courtauld Institute of Art
  Over 40,000 images of art and architecture from the collections of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
• Art Babble
  Art Babble is a unique tool for accessing video resources regarding contemporary and modern art. Created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Art Babble “is a destination for art content online.” Art Babble incorporates videos that include interviews with artists and museum curators, and popular art programming. PBS, LACMA, MOMA, the New York Public Library, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among contributing partners.
• Art Images for College Teaching
  Offering 1,110 images with a focus on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture, AICT is an image exchange resource for the educational community.
• Art in Context
  This online reference library contains an extensive listing of artists with links to exhibition history and gallery representation.
• Art Institute of Chicago Architecture Collections
  Access to over 500 digital images, including architectural drawings and fragments, "System of Architectural Ornament" by Louis Sullivan, and the Bertrand Goldberg Archives.
• Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Architects Oral History Project
  PDF files of interviews with almost eighty architects who helped build Chicago in the 20th century.
• Art Resource
  Art Resource is the world's largest photo archive of fine art, offering material from prehistoric times to the present. The online collection carries works from many of the world's major museums and functions as the official rights and permission holder to the images for many of the institutions represented from both the United States and abroad.
• ArtServe
  Images of art and architecture from Japan, India, Cambodia, and the Mediterranean Basin.
• ARTstor
  Digital library with approximately 750,000 images of art, architecture, and archeology. Subscription is available to UT affiliates with an EID.
• ARTstor Blog: Teaching with ARTstor Category
  The ARTstor blog's Teaching with ARTstor category is a useful tool for determine how best to use materials contained in the ARTstor collection. Each Teaching with ARTstor entry focuses on a unique topic ranging from African architecture to race and identity in American art to women's suffrage, and provides material to support these subjects.
• ARTstor now on Facebook
  ARTstor, the premier digital library for over one million images on art, architecture and humanities is now on Facebook!
• Asian Historical Architecture
  Ranging from monumental to vernacular architecture, this site contains over 10,000 images of 677 sites in sixteen countries.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  The Index contains records describing articles in over 1,000 periodicals in the field of architecture and related disciplines.
• Basel Mission Picture Archive
  The photographs in this archive, taken by Swiss Missionaries between 1850 and 1950, document architecture and material culture from around the world with a particular focus on India.
• Beacon Arts Building | Beacon Arts
  The Beacon Arts Building is a 1951 concrete structure that for most of its life has been a storage structure. Located in the Inglewood Arts District in LA, it now houses contemporary artists' studios.
• behold
  behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs, taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
• Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
  Bildindex consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. This includes a range of image types--drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, etc. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts special collections and continues to sponsor further digitization projects.
• Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
  The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University presents the digital image collection "Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927." The collection allows the user to "meet" the explorers who took these photographers and to map their journey through Asia with their photographic documentation. The images include landscapes, pagodas, shrines, farms, and people.
• Bridgmen Education
  Bridgeman Education provides access to over 300,000 images of every civilization from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and every period from Prehistory to the present across continents and traditions. Collection categories include fine arts, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology and ethnography, history, science and medicine, decorative arts and artifacts. A subscription is required to use the site, though students may contact the institution for individual licensing.
• Bridgmen: Art Culture History
  With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art and historical images.
• British Museums Collection Database
  Currently includes objects from Africa; the Americas; central, east, south and southeast Asia, including the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese ceramics; ancient Egypt and Sudan; Europe; ancient Greece and Rome; the Middle East; Oceania; prehistory; the Museum’s collection of two-dimensional art.
• Built in America
  This online presentation of the HABS/HAER collections includes 35,000 digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials.
• California Heritage Collection
  The California Heritage Collection is an online archive, presented by the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library. Selected from nearly two hundred individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history.
• Calisphere
  Created by the University of California system, Calisphere is a primary resource database containing over 150,000 documents concerning the history of California. Available materials include photographs, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts.
• CAMEO
  CAMEO is a searchable encyclopedia developed at the Conservation and Collections Management Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the conservation, preservation, and production of artistic, architectural, and archaeological materials.
• CAMIO
  OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online visual resource collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums.
• Canadian Architectural Archives
  With a fully searchable collection of over 10,000 images, this collection shows the birth of the modern Canadian city. It also contains bios of 40 architects and firms active in Canada.
• Captured: New York City from Above – Plog Photo Blog
  The Photo Blogs of the Denver Post has a new blog post featuring 67 amazing aerial photographs of New York City. These photographs taken by various photographers provide an extensive coverage of the city and its architecture from the skies above.
• Carlo Scarpa Archive Project
  The Carlo Scarpa Archive project endeavors to preserve the architecture of and the process of practicing architecture employed by Scarpa throughout his career. The project website includes the digitized project drawings for the Museo di Castelvecchio, an interactive floorplan contextualizing these working drawings, and a bibliography chronicling the use of these drawings. As time passes, the archive will digitize drawings and photography for other Scarpa projects.
• Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
  The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection presents photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston through the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. The collection, primarily take in the 1930s, is comprised of over 7,000 images from rural and urban areas of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Johnston's own interest in both vernacular and high style structures helped her to compose vivid portrayals of both interiors and exteriors of various typological structures including mills, churches and plantation houses. Through a joint effort with ARTstor, the Library of Congress was able to digitize all of Johnston's original negatives to develop this online resource.
• Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South
  The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection presents photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston through the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. The collection, primarily take in the 1930s, is comprised of over 7,000 images from rural and urban areas of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Johnston's own interest in both vernacular and high style structures helped her to compose vivid portrayals of both interiors and exteriors of various typological structures including mills, churches and plantation houses. Through a joint effort with ARTstor, the Library of Congress was able to digitize all of Johnston's original negatives to develop this online resource.
• Castles of Japan
  High quality images of castles from the Medieval to Edo Period.
• Centre des Monuments Nationaux
  The Centre des Monuments Nationaux conserves, restores, and manages nearly 100 national monuments, opening up these sites of social, cultural, and architectural history for public consumption. The website uses a geographic search feature in order to locate each monument page. Monument pages include photographs and videos, points of historical interests, details about tours and other activities on site, and a list of literature specific to the building.
• Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
  Taken by amateur photgrapher Charles Weever Cushman between 1938 and 1969, these images document an amazing cross-section of American and international subjects, from inner-city storefronts and industrial landscapes to candid portraits.
• Chronicling America
  The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have partnered to create Chronicling America, a newspaper database that allows you to view newspaper pages from 10 different states and dating from 1880-1910. Chronicling America also includes a search directory with access to information about newspapers collected from as early as 1690.
• Civil Engineering Database
  The American Society of Civil Engineers Database provides access to over 100,000 bibliographic and abstracted records from 1970 to the present. Though a subscription is required, this resource offers unprecedented access to research materials in the various fields of civil engineering.
• Civil Engineering Research Library
  The Civil Engineering Research Library can search 73,000 full-text articles from ASCE journals and conference proceedings and will be adding over 4,000 new articles each year. Though a subscription is required, these resources offer unprecedented access to research materials in the various fields of civil engineering.
• Column of Trajan
  The Trajan's column website provides detailed photographic documentation with over 500 images of the column's frieze. In addition, the site supplies written narratives to contextualize the column and celebrate its construction and history. Indices and a helpful search engine facilitate site navigation to allow for a comprehensive experience of the column in the digital medium.
• Corbis Images
  Corbis Images is a stockphotgraphy site hosting millions of royalty-free and rights-managed images. Corbis' search mechanism allows the user to generate results based on camera angle, point-of-view, and resolution. Corbis also hosts a number of special collections.
• Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project
  The Council of Independent Colleges has developed the Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP), a database that organizes university sites by type, style, designer, function and time period. This database currently includes information for campus master plans, buildings and landscapes at nearly 400 institutions of higher learning.
• CTBUH Tallest Database
  The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) provides free download-able information on more than 10000 tall buildings. CTBUH is an international not-for-profit organization at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
• Curating the City
  The project includes an interactive tour of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, a street home to many architectural styles and diverse communities.
• CyArk
  Ben Kacyra, founder of CyArk, a non-profit organization that works to create a digital archive of the world's heritage sites for preservation and education. In particular, Kacyra and CyArk developed a 3D scanning system that establishes this digital archive to scan and preserve the world's heritage in archival detail. Kacyra created a digital video of his 3D scanning system to show the exact detail to which the program accurately documents each part of the monument.
• Danish Furniture
  danish-furniture.com showcases a beautifully photographed collection of modern Danish classics. The Website operates as a virtual exhibition, featuring images of over 150 seminal works that cite respective architects and manufacturing information.
• DASE
  DASE is a collaborative digital media repository/search engine/slideshow maker/rss feed creation tool. Material on this site may be used for educational purposes by current faculty, students, and staff of The University of Texas at Austin. Provides access to materials, licensed or otherwise, for which the copyright is held by owners other than the university.
• Death by Architecture
  Death by Architecture assembles current information about a broad spectrum of architectural competitions in addition to hosting an extensive resource list linking to blogs and other sites featuring information about design, materials, construction, etc.
• designinform
  designinform links three databases to provide access to over 70,000 abstract and index records from art and design journals published during the twentieth century.
• Digital Images Collection Wiki
  The Digital Images Collection Wiki is an extensive resource for links to other image resource groups that offer access to free collections for study and research. These include visual resources collections from universities, flickr groups etc.
• Digital Imaging Project
  Over thirteen thousand images of architecture and sculpture from antiquity to the present compiled by Mary Ann Sullivan of Bluffton University.
• Dynamic National Archive
  The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) created an online portal known as the Dynamic National Archive. The mission of the BWAF is to expand the recognition of women’s contributions to American architecture and the built environment. In doing so, the archive is home to the Collection of Women of 20th century architecture from all disciplines related to architecture, including building design, engineering, landscape architecture, interior design and urban planning. The Collection includes over 1,100 practitioners from all 50 states and is constantly growing.
• Earth Album
  Earth album is a Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore photos from around the world using Google maps and Flickr.
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
  The University of California, Berkeley has created the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) as "a global consortium of people who share the vision of creating a distributed virtual library of cultural information with a time and place interface." ECAI uses the concepts of time and space to organize and analyze visual data as well as integrate it into a broader network of cultural phenomena.
• Europeana
  Europeana is an internet portal, originally launched in 2008, with the goal of making Europe's social, artistic and scientific heritage accessible to the public. The website is run through the National Library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, and the site features millions of books, paintings, exhibits, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. Over 1500 institutions have contributed to Europeana, including the British Library in London, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Louvre in Paris.
• Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
  photographic tour of neighborhoods and industrial buildings, telling the story of the rise and fall and rise again of a great American city in the late 20th century.
• Flickr Hive Mind
  The Flickr Hive Mind photography search engine is a crowd-curated search tool with a number of search return options along with features that allow users to create groups, tag favorites and search by rights type.
• Flickr: The Commons
  a digital space where cultural heritage organizations, including the Library of Congress and the Brooklyn Museum, have published holdings from their photography archives.
• Forgotten Detroit
  showcases images of vacant structures in Detroit
• Fotolia
  Fotolia is a royalty-free stock photography site with over 7.25 million photos and illustrations and almost 0.5 million vectors.
• Fotopedia Heritage App
  Fotopedia an online photo encyclopedia is providing an app that has 20000 pictures, wikipedia abstracts and other resources concerning UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
• Francis Loeb Library: Bibliographies
  The Francis Loeb Library Bibliographies site contains bibliographic data for Harvard's Graduate School of Design Public Lecture Series from 1993-present.
• Frank Lloyd Wright App for iPhone
  An iPhone App for searching through Frank Lloyd Wright’s works is now available at the Apple iTunes Store. This App helps to locate Wright’s buildings and also gives a description and photograph of each. The App is based on the book The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, A Complete Catalog by Dr. William Allin Storrer.
• Furniture and the Decorative Arts in the Western Home
  The History of Furniture and the Decorative Arts in the Western Home is a repository of web resources that provide an historical perspective on western interiors. Links also include information on furniture styles and the history of wallpaper and textiles.
• Galinksy
  Initially created by graduates and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, this site features images, information, and travel guides for buildings across Europe, North and South American, and Asia.
• German History in Documents and Images
  German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten sections beginning with the early modern period and moving into the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments during the period as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined.
• Getty Collection Online
  Explore the J. Paul Getty Museum's extensive collection through the museum's online database. The collection can be searched by object type or medium, theme, or artist name.
• Glass House Conversations
  In partnership with SVA, the Philip Johnson Glass House has launched a new website that asks "What do you think are the most important aspects of architecture and design to celebrate, and who do you feel deserves recognition for doing this successfully?" The resulting Glass House Conversations will facilitate a global conversation about architecture that focuses on a weekly topic posted each Monday.
• Google Art Project
  A repository of art and art historical content that allows users to experience a wide range of artworks, explore museums through virtual tours, and build and share collections.
• GreatBuildings.com
  Images of over 1,000 significant buildings throughout the world.
• GreenHomeGuide
  GreenHomeGuide connects users with information about how to create sustainable homes and gardens.
• Grove Dictionary of Art
  An enhanced electronic version of the print Grove Dictionary of Art providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on art. Includes updates to the existing 41,000 articles of the print edition as well as over 15,000 links to the web sites of museums and galleries around the world with more than 100,000 color images.
• Guide to Japanese Castles
  With over 1000 images of Japanese castle architecture and landscapes, this site documents 130 of these castles organizing material by site condition and castle name. Historic and tourist designations function as additional search mechanisms.
• Hargrett Historical Maps Database
  The University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library created a database that provides access to historical maps documenting sites around the globe from as early as 1500.
• Harvard Design Magazine
  Harvard Design Magazine is a biannual publication of the Graduate School of Design that investigates contemporary design issues ranging from questions of sustainability and New Urbanism to the problems of representation and memory. HDM's website contains full-text versions of both current and back issues, making available complete publication contents.
• Harvard University Library Visual Information Access
  VIA (Visual Information Access) is a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture, and social history. VIA contains descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. Participating repositories include archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University. New material is added to VIA daily.
• Herbet Cole Archives on ARTstor
  More than 940 images featuring African art, architecture and culture photographed by art historian Herbert Cole is now available on ARTstor. The images are from the Herbert Cole archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Heritage Documentation Programs
  Heritage Documentation Program, as a service of the National Park Service, administers the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), the Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAERS), and the Cultural Resources Geographical Information System Facility (CRGIS). The documents produced through these programs constitutes the nation's largest archive of historical architectural, engineering, and landscape documentation. Records on nearly 40,000 historic sites, consisting of black and white photographs, measured drawings, and written historical reports, are maintained in a special collection at the Library of Congress, available to the public copy-right free in both hard copy and electronic formats.
• Historic Campus Architecture Project
  The HCAP is the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses.
• Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
  The University of Michigan has created a digital project that focuses on historic illustrations that were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect new technologies and aesthetic standards of their time.
• Historical Photographs of China
  The Historical Photographs of China Project is a collaboration between scholars and the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, and the Institut d'Asie Orientale, resulting in the online publication of nearly 7,000 images has assembled a vast database of photographs and other images documenting the history of China in the 20th century.
• Huntington Archive Black and White Photograph Collection of Asian Art
  This digital collection holds approximately 30,000 images of Asian art and architecture. Countries included in this collection are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma) Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
• ICAA Documents: 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art
  The International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has developed the Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive to provide access to materials that document the development of Latin American and Latino art. This ongoing project currently includes primary sources and critical documents that support research on art in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Latino USA.
• ICCROM Image Collection
  The International Centre for the Study and Restoration of Cultural Property has compiled over 200,000 images of historic architecture, plans and drawings as well as conservation missions undertaken by ICCROM's staff.
• Idée Labs
  Idée Labs has created image search tools including the Multicolour Search Lab that utilizes up to ten different colors to access images in both Alamy and Flickr. Two additional search tools access images in Alamy including the tag-based Visual Search Lab, and image-based BYO Image Search Lab.
• Inmagine
  Inmagine is a royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections.
• Intute
  Intute is a free online services that locates the best website for research in fields including art, architecture, engineering and geography.
• J.-E Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures
  Jacques-Édouard Berger was a noted traveler and art collector. J-E Berger traveled extensively through the United States, Europe and Asia and brought back photographs of art and architecture.
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH)
  JSAH Online will mediate the dialogue between traditional modes of scholarship and emerging media, supporting film, video, virtual modeling, digital mapping, QTVR panoramic photographs, and zoomable images that will enrich the readers experience and understanding of the architectural subject.
• Know the Alhambra
  Know the Alhambra incorporates a visual and textual material detailing the social, political, and construction histories of the Alhambra, Generalife and surrounding territory. It's image collection includes both historic images of the site and its surroundings as well as contemporary shots of gardens, courtyards and interiors at both palaces along with images of the urban setting. In addition, Know the Alhambra includes a virtual tour of the palace and provides a brief history of Arab expansion into the Spain as well as general information for tourists and researchers.
• Korean Cultural Heritage Administration
  The Cultural Heritage Administration was created by the Korean State to designate and preserve sites that are considered national treasures and of historic value. This overarching mission encompasses the physical preservation of architecture, sculpture and the natural or imposed landscape of palaces, tombs and even vernacular sites.
• Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge
  USC Professor of History and Political Science Philip Ethington developed this website to confront the issues that plague urban historical investigations of Los Angeles. The site content examines the city through images and, essays both historical and historiographical, to treat the subject comprehensively. The content includes photographs, plans, models, maps, photomontages, and "reflexive index sets," historic images grafted onto a present-day photograph to demonstrate the scope of site history.
• Mapping Gothic France
  Mapping Gothic France is a visual exploration of the parallel narratives of Gothic architecture and the formation of France. The site includes databases of images, texts, charts and historic maps, allowing users to triangulate French political and architectural history geospatially and temporally in addition to offering a narrativized accounting of France's Gothic structures.
• Mapping Main Street
  "Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets."
• Mapping the Recovery of New Orleans - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
  In New Orleans, a local research group GCR & Associates has mapped the population trends in the city post-Katrina from 2006-2010. These trends are based on utility, sanitation, mail and voter activity statistics. Check out the article in New York Times for a graphic representation of the analysis.
• Material ConneXion
  Database containing over 1,400 materials and processes which can be accessed online by UT affiliates.
• Materials Lab
  The School of Architecture's Matrials Lab offers information on material composition, manufacturing, fabrication and emerging materials and contains over 12,000 building and design material samples.
• Medieval New York
  This site integrates the architectural histories of New York City and the Middle Ages. Detailed building descriptions for a number of New York City's religious and residential structures, as well as landscapes, locate this heterogeneous architectural culture within the history of medieval European, Byzantine and Islamic art, architecture, technology and religion.
• MetPublications
  Developed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MetPublications is a database that provides access to over 650 texts published by the museum since 1964. MetPublications offers a variety of search options as well as access to full titles at zero cost. This includes the option to download a title in PDF format.
• MIMOA
  Mi Modern Architecture is a user-generated database that covers international contemporary buildings (over 2,000). Use it as a research tool or as a guide for planning an architectural tour of a city.
• Modern Homes Survey - New Canaan
  The Philip Johnson Glass House Historical Trust is creating a narrative survey of the 91 existing modern homes in New Canaan to provide a “criteria of significance” for their future preservation. The Trust also hopes to expand the online database to other clusters of modern homes.
• Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal
  The Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal provides access to over 100,000 high-resolution historical photographs highlighting construction, architecture and local culture.
• Nano Solar Paint on Cool Hunting
  NextGen, a start-up company is working with a the concept of a paint that can produce electricity from solar power. This innovative idea is based on nanotechnology.
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
  advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation by working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation.
• National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection
  This digital image collection includes unique images of people and places from the turn of the twentieth century that provide evidence of buildings no longer in existence or which have changed over time.
• NCS Colour Scan 2.0 - NCSColour
  NCS Color Scan 2.0 is a color measurement device that lets you scan colors directly from materials. This device not only recognizes colors instantly but also displays it on-screen and stores it for future use.
• New York City Department of Records Municipal Archive Online Gallery
  New York City Department of Records Municipal Archive Online Gallery holds over 870,000 images from 30 different historical collections comprising 160 years of New York City history. Images can be searched and stored on a designated workspace for use in research and presentations. Motion picture and sound recordings are also available.
• New York City Graffiti and Street Art Project
  The Graffiti and Street Art Project was produced by Lewis & Clark College's Watzek Library. It was an experiment to develop and employ mobile technologies for teaching and learning with the expectation that the project might one day serve as a model for creating collaborative digital image projects with mobile devices and Flickr for a non-traditional classroom setting. Students used digital cameras, smart phones, and other social software to document and catalog the ephemeral graffiti and street art throughout the five boroughs of New York City in the Fall of 2010.
• Nolli Map of Rome
  an interactive website allows you to explore Rome’s natural environment, demographics, infrastructure and architecture
• Northern Italian Sketchbook Project
  Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s (1868-1928) sketches of Northern Italy during his tour of the continent in 1891.
• NYC Grid
  A photo blog dedicated to exploring and discovering The City of New York block by block and corner by corner. Updated every weekday, each post covers a new block with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral.
• NYPL Digital Gallery: Cities and Buildings
  Digital images of architecture, cityscape, infrastructure, monuments, town life.
• Olmsted Research Guide
  a database that provides access to archival materials - drawings, plans and correspondence - that relate to the landscape design of Frederick Law Olmsted, his sons, John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Junior.
• Online Archive of California
  The OAC facilitates and provides access to primary sources and their digital facsimiles, including maps, architectural and engineering records held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California.
• Open Buildings
  OpenBuildings is a crowd-sourced global directory that organizes buildings from all over the world by architect, location, materials and program. Constantly updated by its members, OpenBuildings provides access to thousands of images of architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture from as early as 3000 B.C.E.
• Oregon State Photo Archives on Flickr Commons
  Oregon State University is the first university to release images from its photo archives to Flickr Commons. Photo sets focus on natural resources, environmental history, forestry, and agriculture, and will be supplemented over time.
• Paris 26 Gigapixels
  Paris 26 Gigapixels provides high-resolution, panoramic views of the French capital. The image is set up for zooming and also includes icons that provide commentary on various points of interest in the city.
• Parks & Gardens UK
  An image database of historic parks, gardens and designed greenspaces in the United Kingdom
• Perseus Digital Library
  Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library features a collection of primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome, including over 56,000 images.
• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project (PAB)
  Internet database of architectural and historical information and images for over 35,000 structures, mostly in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties. PAB incorporates information from more than 25 Philadelphia-area repositories
• Photographs from the German Federal Archive
  Available on the Wikimedia Commons, this collection of over 100,000 photographs document the political and personal lives of Germans over the course of the twentieth century. Examples of the built environment are also included.
• Photospin
  Photospin is the first creative-content subscription site allowing professionals to share and access affordable and unique image content. This royalty free site offers easy access to high-quality, high-resolution photographs, illustrations, and fonts.
• Place Matters
  Places Matters Census provides images of and personal histories surrounding historic buildings in New York.
• Places
  Places is a a fully web-based, open-access, interdisciplinary journal focusing on contemporary architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and its impact on the public realm as physical place and social ideal.
• Project for Public Spaces Image Collection
  PPS maintains an image collection of markets, parks, buildings, transportation, and people interacting with their environment.
• Reseau Art Nouveau Network
  The Reseau Art Nouveau Network was formed in 1999 to provide a general appraisal of the conditions of Art Nouveau buildings throughout Europe. In the process, the network created an image bank including photographs of Art Nouveau architecture, industrial design, sculpture and art in its 22 member cities and regions. In addition, the network provides a comprehensive list of theses completed on the topic of the Art Nouveau as well as a list of documentation centers in order to facilitate and encourage further study.
• Rob Linrothe's Tibetan and Buddhist Art Photography Now on ARTstor
  1200 images of Tibetan and Buddhist art, architecture and monuments from Rob Linrothe’s collection is now available at ARTstor. This collection is a part of his photographic work from Tibet, China, India and Indonesia.
• ROM Images
  The Royal Ontario Museum's online image collection, ROM, incorporates images of the built environment, world cultures and natural history from its collection. Images located on ROM can be used privately and licensing can be facilitated for all other uses.
• Russian Utopia: A Depository
  An online archive of a Russian museum which collects compact representations of Soviet projects that never came to fruition.
• S. Charles Lee Papers
  includes drawings and photographs of the works of this prolific designer of Art Deco movie theaters on the west coast and in Mexico. From the UCLA Digital Library.
• Sacred Destinations
  A guide to sacred places, pilgrimage sites, and religious art, covering over 1,250 places in 61 countries. User generated photographs, maps, travel guides and brief histories enrich the web resource.
• Save Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
  The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy website includes a number of resources. These include a narrative and photographic biography, an interactive map linking to Wright projects, and links to other sites focusing on Wright as well as websites for individual Wright buildings.
• Scandinavian Art: Renaissance to Modern
  California State University has added over 500 images of Scandinavian art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century to their online image catalog. The images include sculptures, paintings, fashion, and architecture from nearly 400 years of history. The images are free and are openly available through the University’s website.
• Scholars Resource
  Scholars Resource hosts a number of image collections from contributors including Archivision, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The combined collection supports art historical curriculum in a number of areas including Prehistoric, Western, Islamic and Levantine, African, Asian, and Oceanic art.
• Sign Ups for Building Tours
  The Campus Environmental Center is conducting 6 building tours on September 09, 2010.
• Silk Road Seattle
  Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project that explores cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Seventeenth Century. Silk Road Seattle provides historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on traditional culture of the Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
• SIRIS Image Gallery: Ernst Herzfeld Papers
  The Smithsonian plans on adding the work of Ernst Herzfeld to their online resources collection. Herzfeld, a leading scholar in Iranian studies, documented archaeological studies in many exotic places, including Persepolis, Aleppo, and Paikuli. Materials presented online include his personal notebooks, drawings, and sketchbooks.
• Sistine Chapel QTVR
  Villanova University of Pennsylvania has created a QTVR of the Sistine Chapel interior that allows the user to explore this famous institution's interior architecture and frescoes by Michelangelo.
• smARThistory
  smARThistory is an interactive alternative to the expensive and bulky art history primer. smARThistory incorporates a multimedia time-line and podcasts along with 220 images to illustrate 2600 years of art and architectural history.
• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) blog
  The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) blog explores American cultural history and resources relevant to its study. Entries investigate cultural events, the lives of American artists, gender history, photography, architecture and more, in addition to providing information about emerging or reemerging resources and resource centers relevant to research in the social sciences.
• Society of Architectural Historians SAHARA
  Member submitted images of significant sites from the Ancient to Modern eras.
• South Asian Architecture from the Alka Patel Collection, ARTstor
  The final release of Alka Patel’s South Asian Architecture collection containing more than 3000 images is available now in ARTstor. The entire collection has more than 10000 images of architecture from India and Pakistan. The collection also contains photographic material from Cuba.
• Spezify
  Spezify is a search tool that presents textual, graphic, and photographic results in a visual format. Blogs, videos, microblogs and images, couple with web-based versions of more traditional print media to give comprehensive search results.
• Spherical Images Virtual Tours
  Spherical Images is a virtual tour company that captures 360° photographs of cultural sites and activities in 15.5 gigapixels. Check out their blog to access panoramas of Canterbury and St. Paul's Cathedrals, Leeds University, and the London Zoo.
• Spiro Kostof Lectures
  Podcasts for the lectures of this architectural historian's final class in 1991 at UC Berkeley, "A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism." Topics run from the Florentine Rennaisance to the post modernism of the 20th century.
• St. Peter's Basilica: Floorplan
  This interactive floorplan, indicates the uses of each available space within the Vatican complex. The floorplan employs a system of letters and numbers to identify various sculptural and artistic elements in addition to locating elements of specific architectural significance including grottoes, the facade, the piazza, etc. Each letter and number links to an additional page that includes visual and textual information about the site indicated.
• Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
  Carved on the walls of the Templum Pacis between 203-211 CE, the map of Rome includes extremely detailed floor plans of everything from public baths to apartments.
• Structurae
  international database and gallery of structures, indexed by construction method, material, year of completion, and geographical area.
• TARO: Texas Archival Resources Online
  TARO makes descriptions of the rich archival, manuscript, and museum collections in repositories across the state available to the public. The site consists of the collection descriptions or "finding aids" that archives, libraries, and museums create to assist users in locating information in their collections.
• Tate Collection Online Subject Search
  The Tate Collection Online Subject Search provides access to its online information pages for over 66,000 works of art by 3,075 artists. Each page provides important metadata about the object sometimes including a contextualizing description. The subject search function organizes these objects into categories including architecture, objects, history, people, abstraction, places, emotions, concepts, and ideas, religion and belief, and more.
• TED: A Greener Future?
  TED's A Greener Future? page includes 53 videos of lectures delivered by leading scholars, designers and activists engaged in the debate over the environment and climate change. Al Gore, Cameron Sinclair, Norman Foster, and others discuss a wide range of topics including global mass extinctions, sustainable food culture and urban design.
• TED: Architectural Inspiration
  Featuring over 21 conference videos on the TEDTalks Architectural Inspiration page, TED has assembled thematic discussions from Moshe Safdie, Nathaniel Kahn, Daniel Libeskind and more focusing on sustainability, historicism, food culture, and uniqueness as it relates to the built environment and design inspiration.
• The Alley Flat Initiative
  Created by the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation, and the Austin Community Design and Development Center,the Alley Flat Initiative has proposed affordable, adaptable, and sustainable housing options for East Austin residents.
• The Amiens Cathedral Project
  This site allows for on-line exploration of the building and includes computer graphics, photography, and architectural drawings. It is an ongoing project of Columbia University's Digital Design Lab and Art History and Archaeology Departments.
• The Archigram Archival Project
  The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study.
• The Architectural League of New York
  The Architectural League of New York promotes design excellence and innovation by providing a forum for architects and other designers to pursue creative and intellectual work in architecture and urbanism. Through lectures, exhibitions, publications, and podcasts, competitions and grants, the League encourages both new and established architects to become critical designers whose work is not only formally innovative but cognizant of the issues facing our world.
• The BBC's New Web Application Dimensions
  The BBC introduces Dimensions, a new experimental application based on the Google Maps prototype. By picking from a wide array of categories, including environmental disasters, cities in history, and festivals and spectacles, the user can map out the moment in history over a specified area.
• The British Library Introduces Mobile App
  The British Library introduces their new iPhone, iPad, and Smartphone App "Treasures" that includes over 100 highlights from literary, historical and scientific documents. Highlights include rare items like the original version of Alice in Wonderland, images of the world's oldest bible, and hand-painted medieval books.
• The Building Technology Heritage Library
  The Association of Preservation Technology International in collaboration with other institutions has created an online library for heritage building construction and technology. Currently, the collection includes period architecture trade catalogs. The collections are free and accessible to all.
• The Charnel-House
  The Charnel-House blog focuses on the history of avant-garde architecture, the environment, technology and utopianism in Russia and Central Europe, providing access to a wealth of historical images including photographs, sketches, blueprints, watercolors and more.
• The Complete Moreen O'Brien Maser Memorial Collection Now on ARTstor
  ARTstor in partnership with the Visual Resources Collection at Skidmore College's Lucy Scribner Library now exhibits the complete collection of Moreen O'Brien Maser. The 850 images of pre-Colombian objects and sites that form the collection were photographed by Maser and covers Southwest United States and parts of Latin America and Europe.
• The Cultural Landscape Foundation
  The Cultural Landscape Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to educating and creating awareness on the topic of Cultural Landscapes. Visit their website for photographs and information on America’s diverse landscapes, blogs and more.
• The Cultural Landscape Foundation What's Out There Database
  The Cultural Landscape Foundation's What's Out There database is organized by types (parks, etc.), subtypes (Public Park, Neighborhood Park, etc.), and styles (Picturesque, Modernist, etc.), and includes over 300 designer profiles accompanied by short historical essays and even longer biographical essays. With over 150 entries complete with textual and visual data, the database includes sites from all 50 states using the National Historic Landmark properties and National Register of Historic Places to determine sites featuring landscapes of significance.
• The Empire That Was Russia
  The Empire That Was Russia is a searchable database of architecture, ethnic culture, transportation and other images focusing on contemporary Russian life taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. Through the digichromatography color rendering process, Prokudin-Gorskii's black and white and sepia toned images have been converted into color.
• The Giza Archives Project
  Containing excavation photographs, expedition diary entries, maps, and digitized books and articles, this site aims to become the world's central repository for the archaeological history of the Giza site.
• The Huntington Photographic Archive of Asian Art
  The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Asian Art includes over 30,000 black and white images of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma) Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand captured over a 35 year time span. These photographs highlight the art, architectural and cultural history of these Asian cultures, and are accompanied by descriptive texts to facilitate use in the class room.
• The Marquette Building
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has created a website that integrates historical texts, photography, drawings and video in an effort to communicate the architectural, cultural, and preservation histories of the Marquette Building. The website offers a multimedia learning experience that focuses on topics including design and construction,culture, socioeconomics, and marketing.
• The Palenque Project
  The Group of the Cross Project is an archaeological team focusing on the Mayan city of Palenque located in Chiapas, Mexico. The group has created a website documenting its archaeological endeavors at Palenque. The site provides detailed information about cultural objects discovered on the site, the mapping process and site preservation.
• The Petra Great Temple Excavation
  Provides site plans and images of the Great Temple in Petra, Jordan. The site is administered by Brown University and the excavation is under the direction of Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky.
• The Weekly Wright-Up
  The curatorial staff at the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo New York provide news and insights on Frank Lloyd Wright's 1904-1907 Prairie Style masterpiece in addition to exploring items related to Wright studies and the art, architectural and design practices in general in The Weekly Wright-up.
• The Wellcome Library
  The Wellcome Library has assembled an eclectic library of images that range from architectural photographs and representations to scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of cancer cells and bacteria. The Wellcome Library’s image collection is a useful resource for contextualizing architectural history, examining biological forms to create unique designs, and enhancing visual perspectives of the broader sphere of human biological, sociological, historical, and anthropological relations.
• Thirty Conversations on Design
  The Thirty Conversations on Design hosts short interviews with designers from different parts of the world. In these videos, these professionals talk about their inspiration and the next big “design solution”.
• Tiny House Design
  This website covers the small house movement, what it’s like to live and build dwellings under 1,000 square feet as well as resources and plans for sustainable design and socially conscious architecture.
• Turkish Culture Portal
  The Turkish Cultural Foundation has created an online portal with a variety of images relating to Turkish culture and its dissemination. The portal catalogs photographs, drawings, and engravings of architectural monuments from the Islamic style. It also expands to examine other cultural phenomena including culinary cuisine, literature, fabrics and patterns, ceramic tiles, and metal artwork.
• Turning the Pages
  Turning the Pages Gallery provides access to virtual books featuring illuminated manuscripts from the early Renaissance, atlases, botanical illustrations, religious texts and more.
• UNESCO World Heritage
  A searchable database of the 878 sites deemed to have universal value by UNESCO.
• United States Geological Survey
  This site contains links to geologic information, maps, and geospatial data.
• University of Houston Digital Library: Kenneth Franzheim Collection
  The University of Houston Digital Library Kenneth Franzheim Collection makes the Houston architect's photographs, architectural drawings and models available to researchers outside the University of Houston community.
• University of Michigan AAEL Artists' Books
  The University of Michigan’s Art, Architecture and Engineering Library offers a special collection of Artists’ Books. These can be accessed by anyone and the database can be browsed online.
• University of Texas at Austin: School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Image Catalog
  Links to over 65,000 digital images and 144,000 catalog records in the School of Architecture's Visual Resources Collection at The University of Texas at Austin.
• urbanism.org
  Urbanism.org is an excellent source for locating important news items and images relevant to contemporary urban planning and design problems.
• VADS
  Comprised of over 100,000 images, Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) image database is an online resource for the visual arts.
• Video of Frank Lloyd Wright's Coonley House
  The Coonley House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is up for sale. The Chicago Magazine has posted a video tour of the house and an interview with the current owners of the property.
• Wikimedia Commons
  With content that is created and maintained by volunteers, Wikimedia Commons provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts.
• World Heritage Tour
  Panographies (360 degree imaging) of UNESCO World Heritage sites.
• Worldchanging.com
  Nonprofit media organization Worldchanging asks "What does it mean to build bright green structures for the 21st Century?" This writer/journalist collective focuses on chronicling and questioning architectural, community planning, political, and corporate methods of affecting environmental and social change across the globe.
• WorldImages
  The California State University WorldImage database organizes 75,000 images into portfolios highlighting a wide range of content from around the globe including images of cities and building technology, religious and cultural art and artifacts, architecture, material culture, and more. In addition WorldImages hosts a few special collections including faculty contributions, special exhibits and the Sourisseau Academy Clark B. Waterhouse Collection.
• Yale Silk Road Database
  The Yale Silk Road Database presents over 6,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2009.
• Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
  The Yale University Art Gallery's eCatalogue allows internet users to search a collection of over 185,000 objects which includes over 2000 years of painting, sculpture, furniture and other interior/industrial design objects from all over the world.
• Yotophoto
  Internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images. The advance search options include a color search feature.