Image Resources for Architecture Online

Scope:This guide lists selected online resources for images of architecture. The field of digital imagery is subject to ongoing copyright law, so individual sites afford varied levels of access, use, and quality. Email the subject area specialist at jm127@umail.umd.edu or call 301-405-9260 for more information.

Table of Contents

• General Sources
• Institutional Resources
• Educational Institutions
• Public Institutions
• Search Engine Image Finders

• ADAM--The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
  http://adam.ac.uk/adam/

  The Amazing Picture Machine

  http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

  AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) Thumbnail Catalog

  http://search.amico.org/amico/apw/search/

  Arcaid

  http://www.arcaid.co.uk/samples/index.html

  archINFORM

  http://www.archINFORM.de/start.htm

  Archivision

  http://www.archivision.com/

  Art on File

  http://www.artonfile.com/

  Artcyclopedia: Architects

  http://www.artcyclopedia.com/media/Architect.html

  Asian Historical Architecture

  http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/gateway.htm

  CLIP (Contemporary Landscape Inquiry Program)

  http://www.clr.utoronto.ca/VIRTUALLIB/CLIP/

  corbis

  http://www.corbis.com/

  Cupola Collection: Building and Structures Galleries

  http://www.cupola.com/bldgstr1.htm

  Cyburbia: The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center

  http://www.cyburbia.org/

  Digital Librarian: Images

  http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html

  Entablature: Buildings/Images

  http://www.entablature.com/index.exe?Resource|Buildings

  EBSCOhost Image Collections
  [Off-campus access]

  http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=aph

  Click on the Image Collections icon at top.

  Finding Images Online

  http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/fiolinks.htm

  Getty Images

  http://www.getty-images.com/

  Great Buildings Online

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/

  The Grove Dictionary of Art
  [Off-campus access]

  http://www.groveart.com/

  History of Western Architecture

  http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hst/hist.html

  Online Sources for Images

  http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/image_sources.html

  Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web: Architects

  http://www.ocaiw.com/arquitet.htm

  Photos To Go

  http://www.photostogo.com

  Society of Architectural Historians: Image Exchange

  http://www.sah.org/imagex.html

  TerraServer

  http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp

  Thais

  http://www.thais.it/architettura/default_uk.htm

  VILAR: Virtual Landscape Gallery

  http://www.vilar.com/

  Vitruvio.ch: Architecture in the Web

  http://www.vitruvio.ch/

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Institutional Resources

• AcIS Imaging: Digital Image Access Project
  http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/diap.html

  Architecture Web Resources: Information Databases and Image Banks

  http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/main0013.html#

  Information%20Databases%20andImage%20Banks5245

  AICT (Art Images for College Teaching)

  http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html

  Art on the Web: Architecture Web Sites

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_noframes.html

  ArtServe

  http://rubens.anu.edu.au

  Cities/Buildings Database

  http://www.washington.edu/ark2/

  Digital Archive of American Architecture

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html

  Digital Archive of European Architecture

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/default.html

  Digital Imaging Project

  http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm

  The Digital Media Lab of the Robertson Media Center

  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html

  • The Architecture of China
    http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/asian/docs/home.html

    Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

    http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html

    Traditional Architecture of East Asia

    http://cti.itc.Virginia.edu/~yh6d/index.htm

  DIVA (Digital Images of the Visual Arts)

  http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visual_culture/projects/diva/

  Finding Images on the Web

  http://www.bu.edu/library/training/webimages.htm

  Gateway to Art History

  http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html

  Harvard University Library Visual Information Access

  http://via.harvard.edu:748/html/VIA.html

  History of Contemporary Architecture Slide Catalog

  http://www.design.ncsu.edu/pages/CMZ.00001.HTML

  History of Landscape Architecture

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~helphand/homepage.html

  Image and Multimedia Database Resources

  http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/

  Image Collections and Online Art

  http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/images.html

  Islamic Architecture

  http://bloom.mit.edu/agakhan/

  Kidder Smith Images on American Architecture

  http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/kidder/kiddhome.html

  Landscape Architecture Image Resource

  http://www.lair.umd.edu

  Matrix Image Library

  http://matrix.bc.edu/MatrixImages.taf

  MIT: Rotch Visual Collections: Exploring Image Collections on the Internet

  http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/

  Perseus Project Architecture Browser

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/browser?object=building

  SILS Art Image Browser

  http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/

  SAH Image Exchange Pilot

  http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/imgb/nextone/main4.html

  S*P*I*R*O

  http://shanana.berkeley.edu/spiro/

  The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project

  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/diap/

  Voice of the Shuttle

  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2705

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• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ImageBase
  http://www.thinker.org/fam/subpage.asp?subpagekey=70

  Getty ArtsEdNet: Image Galleries & Exhibitions

  http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/index.html

  Library of Congress

  http://lcweb.loc.gov/

  • American Memory Collections: Topics: Art and Architecture
    http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/collections:@field(SUBJ+@1(Art+and+
    Architecture)):heading=Topics%3a+Art+and+Architecture

    American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html

    Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955

    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html

    Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html

    Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932

    http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/flw.html

    Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929

    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html

    Prints & Photographs Reading Room

    http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/

    Prints & Photographs Reading Room--Online Catalog
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

    Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation

    http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/us.capitol/s0.html

    Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959

    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html

  NARA Archival Information Locator

  http://www.archives.gov/research_room/nail/search_nail.html

  National Gallery of Art Slide Library

  http://www.nga.gov/library/sl-search.htm

  New York Public Library Picture Collection Online

  http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/index.cfm

  Smithsonian Institution Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Services

  http://photo2.si.edu/

  UNESCO PhotoBank

  http://upo.unesco.org/photobank.asp

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Search Engine Image Finders

• AltaVista Image Search
  http://www.altavista.com/image/default

  Google

  http://www.google.com/ (click on Images tab)

  Image Finder (DL SunSITE)

  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/

  Ixquick

  http://www.ixquick.com/ (enter search terms, then click on Pictures)

  LookSmart

  http://www.looksmart.com/eus317836/eus317911/eus67064/eus226549/eus232889/

  eus578623/r?l&

  Lycos MultiMedia

  http://multimedia.lycos.com/ (enter search terms, then click on Pictures)

  Metacrawler

  http://www.metacrawler.com/ (select Images from the pull-down menu)

  Yahoo! Picture Gallery

  http://gallery.yahoo.com/

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