ARC 201 - Design Studio I: Principles

Includes images from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. Architectural highlights range from Le Corbusier to Renzo Piano, QTVR panoramas, photographs of modern architecture by Ezra Stoller and Julius Sherman, and international photographic campaigns from Art on File.

An image site from Cupola Consulting with photographs of structures from around the world. Search by architectural period.

Museums & Exhibit category contains more than 1,400 entries.

This tool enables you to search Flickr, Google Images, and other sites for images with Creative Commons licenses.

Find architectural images and maps from books from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Browse specific collections.

A collection of images from the classical Greek period to the Post-Modern consisting of architecture and sculpture that is arranged by name of the architect or artist, location, or date. There is also a section of women architects' work, with information on more than 60 buildings by Julia Morgan. All images include a date and a description. Though it's a personal web page, the images are helpful and several will cover a single building or monument.

These collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Administered since 1933 through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the private sector, ongoing programs of the National Park Service have recorded America's built environment in multi-format surveys comprising more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.

This is a commercial site with copyrighted images, but its database of buildings contains over 600,000 images from more than 18,000 cities worldwide.

A searchable database of historical and contemporary architecture. (It's in Italian, but you can automatically use Google Translate for the page if using Chrome.)