Services that let you
store and access your book data on a remote internet server, so that you'll
always have an accurate record of the books you own. You can also send your
friends/family to your Singlefile book collection so they won't buy you a
book you already own.
Architectural visits and tours on a variety
of subjects, led by architects. AD provides weekend architectural tours for
residents and visitors to London and beyond.
An initiative
of the European Forum on Architectural Policies. The website forms an umbrella
for all available information in the field of architectural policies, accessible
for all interested public and organisations. The website is also a place for
discussion and active exchange of views, opinions and news.
Includes listings, resources and Architecture
Education Network. The Architecture Education Network, set up by Architecture
Link, part of London Open House, intends to encourage, enable and facilitate
the teaching of the subject of architecture and the built environment as part
of the national curriculum and out-of-school activities.
http://www.architect.org/
An independent public forum to study the impact
of global economic restructuring and information technology on architecture
and the built environment; and to use that knowledge to create compact, sustainable,
more walkable, and less auto-centric cities
The purpose of this web ring is to unite Architects,
Builders, Clients, and Students together for the benefit of the Architectural
ommunity on the web and in the world.
The architexturez project is an attempt to
create a place online for the collaboration of a distributed network of architectural
students, researchers, practitioners, professors, critics, theorists, laypeople,
and others interested in the study and undererstanding of the designed and
built environment. there are no requirements or political allegiances needed
to participate in this networked forum, other than to share your architectural
ideas in public, outside of the traditional architectural institutions. by
contributing your thoughts, you become an active part of the architexturez
network.
Archnet
is an online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape
architects and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world. Project
being developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning with the full
support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
This site contains addresses of German architects,
biographical information and profiles, lists of projects, project-documentation
and further information about architecture and architects.
In
Spanish. Con secciones de noticias, links a las pagigas oficiales de los arquitectos
mas famosos, asi como sus biografais y una completa base de datos con sus
obras, e importantes manifiestos artisticos como
la Carta de Atenas.
Buildscape
is a growing collection of navigable walkthroughs based on QuickTime VR. It
examines issues concerning our understanding of the built environment. It
explores the experiential learning opportunity of remote walkthroughs and
the extent to which it can mimic the real experience.
Classic ergonomics is of course
mainly concerned with the manual worker on the factory floor and not to any
great extent with the office worker, who with their air-conditioned environment
upholstered furniture and electronic equipment should be the most comfortable
and most efficient.
New Library
Building construction site. Every night, an MPEG movie is generated, and added
to our MPEG archive. Another MPEG movie containing pictures from the beginning
of the constuction until yesterday is also available.
The Centre
is recognized throughout the world for excellence and offers consulting services,
referrals, educational programs, and study tours.located in Boulder, CO USA.
***Documents
a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models,
photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies,
web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds
***The
Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual
arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and
photography from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of
15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the
world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. Subscription
service
First part
discusses the reference titles for architectural research based on categories:
basic sources, encyclopedias & dictionaries, periodical indexes, and other
resources. Next, it discusses an overall research strategy and a logical order
in which to use these sources. The third, fourth and fifth parts reviews resources
***Companion
site to a three-part documentary broadcast on Australian television about
what architecture is and how it defines not only its creators but also its
inhabitants. Includes profiles of the featured architects and buildings
Sites featured
at Loggia include information about master architects and their works, architectural
periods and styles, the history of significant buildings and structures, as
well as the design of furniture and details.'A momentary vignette' provides
a brief glimpse of something from the world of art, architecture and design,
such as an architect or artist, building or painting.
From Pevsner
Architectural Guides and the Buildings Books Trust. Understanding Buildings
- an introduction to architecture; Reference - research tools including glossary,
links and architects index; Exploring Buildings - architecture in detail.
The Foundation,
a charity established by HRH Prince of Wales,' will work to better understand
the mechanics and artistry of successful place-making and to apply them to
today's world'.
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Information resource covering all aspects of urban design, including city
profiles, case studies, design guidance, bibliographies, journals, events
diary, original essays and links.
Formed
by a group of leading professions and other bodies committed to improving
the quality of urban life through urban design. UDAL's goals are to foster
greater awareness of urban design and to promote higher standards of urban
design. UDAL aims to work with all parties concerned with the built environment
- central and local government, local communities, the business community,
property developers and investors and the professions.
The on-line
version of the Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group contains
over 4600 references from Volumes III & IV of the printed bibliography.
It may be browsed by subject area or searched by keyword, author and geographic
region or any combination of these. The bibliography may be found in the Library
| Bibliographies section of the ADS catalogue.
This virtual
architectural history is made by links to already existing information on
the WWW: articles, lectures, bibliography and pictures. The material is chronologically
arranged and it is grouped by time periods. The basic time period is by ten
years.
Each time
period has got an introduction and links to relevant articles, lectures and
bibliography.
It is possible to search freely on the WWW by
using the Yahoo! Net Search form existing on each page
Explores
the politics of domesticity and gender relations through virtual "rooms"
and conceptual domestic"spaces" by 24 artists, architects, poets,
art historians, and cultural theorists.
Street level maps for Great Britain, Europe
and US, world maps in detail, aerial photos for most of Great Britain, travel
directions for Great Britain, weather forecasts for Great Britain