Selected Web Resources

Websites of design associations, image databases, indexes and product information:

GENERAL

Architecture and Building: Resources by topic (Jeanne Brown)

Artsource

Net Resources - Society of Architectural Historians

Intute: Arts and Humanities: Architecture and planning

Voice of the Shuttle: Architecture Page

 

CANADA

Architecture.ca (Canadian Architecture Online)

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800-1950

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects

Centre for Landscape Research (University of Toronto)

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

Design Exchange

National Research Council Canada

Ontario Association of Architects

Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada

TOBuilt: a database of buildings in Toronto

Toronto Society of Architects

 

IMAGE DATABASES

Cities/Buildings Database

Great Buildings Collection  

Views of 20th Century Canada 
Photography Portal of the Canadian Architectural Archives

 

INDEXES

API: Architectural Publications Index
Accessible through the online catalogue of the RIBA British Architectural Library. On the RIBA Library Online Catalogue search page, select 'Advanced Search', scroll down to 'collections' and choose 'articles'.

Archindont: Architectural Index for Ontario (Toronto Reference Library)

 

PRODUCTS

Oikos: Green Building Source

Sweet's

 

VARIA

American Institute of Architects

American Society of Landscape Architects

archINFORM

The Architectural League of New York

The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Contemporary Furniture Design

Death by Architecture - Competitions

Designinform Research Guides

Green Design/Sustainable Architecture: Information Sources (UC Berkeley)

Pritzker Architecture Prize

Project for Public Spaces

Royal Institute of British Architects

Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture

Sustainable Urban Landscape Information Series

Urban Land Institute

 

BLOGS

ArchDaily 
The most visited architecture website in the world with news, interviews and commentary.

archiCentral

A Daily Dose of Architecture

BLDG BLOG

Lee Bay
The blog of former architecture critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as an architect at Skidmore Owings & Merrill.

Stuck in Studio
A website created just for architecture students -- offers a community space for discussion, blog, and resourse page with job postings, competitions and tools.