subsections:
links and resources
image banks
architectural bookshops
jobs and tenders online
about.com
- [U.S.] forums, profiles, and links to many 'great architect' sites.
Fairly commercial, with pop-ups. [02/05]
adam - [U.K.] useful vetted search
engine of arts and architecture websites. No new links after May
2000 so getting very out of date. [02/05]
archibot - [U.S.] architectural
news service, bookshop, and search engine. Very quiet for the past
year, though still some action in the forums. [02/05]
archinform - [Germany] profiles
and links for architects and projects. [08/04]
architect.org - [U.S] the
New York-based Architecture Research Institute portal, with competition
links, a journal, and links. No fresh content on last visit. [02/05]
architecture
virtual library - [Canada] an early one - a Toronto University
project - no updates since 1999. [02/05]
architexturez - [India]
mountains of good content and links with a leaning towards the subcontinent.
[02/05]
archnewsnow - [U.S.] worldwide
architecture news links, every day. [02/05]
aroots.org - [France] completely
updated with a clever database this french language site has a tonne
of links in many architectural categories. Forums also. [02/05]
arriscad - links
galore to big name architects, but not very current ones. [02/05]
art deco architecture
- a small art deco resource with links. [02/05]
cyburbia.org - planning resources
and discussion board. [01/05].
city
of the future - links site for cities and structures of the
future. F.A.B. [01/05]
death by architecture - we all owe a big debt to this site -
it's been around for years and Mario's still busy at it - main focus
on competitions.[02/05]
dezain - a busy japanese news site with lots of news links and a photo gallery. [07/05]
emporis building database - massive trove of building information
and images. [08/04]
galinsky - a resource that profiles good buildings by good architects,
whereever they are (as long as that happens to be in Europe or North
America). [05/04]
glass, steel and stone - worldwide building database, includes
many images. [08/04]
great buildings online - large site with architects and buildings
galore - also downloads of 3d models.
great structures of the world - pics and statistics of the structural
wonders of the world - includes data on the Sydney Opera House.
international archive of women in architecture - contains a
biographical directory.
kmtspace - great african site with profiles and photos of many
african and international architects - sections on constructivism,
the New York Five and a lot more.
lava - a dutch university site with an array of interesting
areas (but a lot of dead internal and external links) - includes
a gallery of free 3D models of famous buildings in dwg and 3dS formats.
missarchy - a webite for
young women in architecture. Contains some relevant articles and
a forum. [07/04]
university of nevada - large links library.
skyscraperpage - an illustrated database of more than 5000 tall
buildings worldwide.
university of melbourne architecture library links - one page
of useful links.
virtual tours webring
vitruvio - this swiss portal provides a mixed selection of links
relevant to European Architecture.
auckland
city libraries - large searchable
collection of historic auckland photographs.
digilib
- queensland architectural image database. [09/06]
mitchell - The State Library of New South Wales' Mitchell Library has done us a great favour by putting this online architectural archive together.[09/06]
museum
victoria biggest family album -
a street by street database of photos collected from families.[09/06]
picture australia -
national library of australia search engine looks for images in many
australian institutions - has thumbnail previews.
[12/02]
tyrrell
collection - several hundred pictures of early Sydney, stored
at the Powerhouse museum. [12/02]
archivision
- a Canadian stock photo service dedicated to architectural photography.
Slides and digital images are available.
agram database
- extensive collection of photos of the buildings of Le Corbusier,
Johannes Duiker, Josep M. Jujol, Adolf Loos, K.F. Schinkel, K. Melnikov
and Frank Lloyd Wright.
altavista - click on the images tab and search photos in image
banks (getty and corbis) and on the web.
american
memory - a
huge trove of historical digital images of just about anything
conceivable. And it's not all american. At the moment they are
featuring panoramic maps. [02/05]
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cities/buildings
database - large architecture-specific database at the University
of Washington, with search and thumbnails.[01/02]
digital
archive of american architecture
- a long list of american building images.
digital
imaging project - extensive slide collection of european and north
american architecture, available for educational use. [05/05]
great buildings online
- large site with architects and buildings galore - also downloads
of 3d models.
Hamburg-Harburg
Technical University - their very large photo
library has just grown some more and is worth a look for Corb,
Mies, Gropius pics and links.
library
of congress - 38,000 old U.S, architectural drawings, but few
of them are available to look at, and then only at low resolution
due to copyright concerns. [05/04]
aalto books
- the NZIA online bookshop.
angus and robertson
- this store has 409 architecture books available - minimal descriptions
- online shopping.
architext - the RAIA
bookshop online - hundreds of books available with usually adequate
descriptions - buy by post, fax or in person.
BSP Gallery and
Bookshop - VIC - Old and rare books including a long list of out-of-print
architecture books. [07/02]
building bookshop -
NSW - a Sydney shop with free talks. [05/05]
butterbooks - this site's very own
bookshop, in association with amazon - it's very small but gives access
to several million books at amazon. Buy via this site and support
it - please.
collins - the bookstore
arm of this publisher has a lot of architecture books available -
minimal descriptions if any - online shopping.
riba bookshop - RIBA english
online bookshop - site just gets bigger and better. [01/02]
mcgills - autralian bookshop
with a strong architectural component though the descriptions are
short - with online shopping.
published
art - a small bookshop specialising
in architecture and art, in Surry Hills Sydney. Has a good-sized online
shop.[12/03]
william
stout books - a san fransisco publisher with a diverse range of
architectural books. Tip: SH[12/03]
bloomfield
tremayne - VIC architecture jobs
agency - site has a handy job-finder search engine.
hays montrose - Australia and
New Zaland (and elsewhere) - an english company with antipodean branches.
Has an online job search which was a bit quiet when I visited. They
also provide help to architects looking for work in England.
mycareer - Aust. online
jobs - by fairfax newspapers. Has a good searchable database. This
link
should take you to the right page. [02/05]
RAIA
- the australian institute's job vacancies
page, mostly NSW jobs when I looked. [02/05]
seek nz
- quite a few architecture jobs listed on last visit - mainly via
agencies. [05/03]
building
design - the British weekly is available online but you have
to register. You can see the job listing without registering. [02/05]
mcgraw
hill - U.S. and international jobs - a merger with another site
has pretty much merged out all the architecture jobs. [04/04]
f2
network - the latest public notices
advertising for design consultants in NSW and Victoria can be found
here.
[01/04]
WA
government tenders - this link
at the GEM website should turn up the latest design tenders.
[01/04]
SA
tenders - South Australian government tender site. [01/04]
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