ARC 498 - Capstone Preparation

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.

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps with GIS information that enables users to locate data by address or geographic coordinates. It also allows users to layer maps from different years on top of each other and over modern street, satellite, and hybrid layers using an integrated map API or by importing into GIS tools. Covers: Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; New York, New York; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Seattle, Washington. Time frame varies by the city.

From the Royal Institute of British Architects, this photo archive spans interior design, landscape, topography, planning, construction, and the decorative arts.

From the Society of Architectural Historians and University of Virginia Press. This free, open-access site contains histories, photographs, and maps for more than 2,300 structures in 847 cities and 26 states.

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

From the University of Washington. Researchers can search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.

Use the filters on the left to sort by type of project, country, architect, and more.

This international database features more than 68,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. Architecture of the 20th century is the main focus.

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.

Find architectural images and maps from books from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centures. 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.

Find images of almost all 447 house designs sold through the Sears Modern Homes program (1908–1940). Some have house plans.

A searchable database of historical and contemporary architecture. (In Italian, can automatically use Google translate for the page if in Chrome.)