Journal & Magazine Articles
Architecture: Design and History
- Art & Architecture SourceArt & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
- Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsAvery Index to Architectural Periodicals, published by the Getty Research Institute, is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design.
- Architectural Digest Magazine ArchiveThe Architectural Digest Magazine Archive includes cover-to-cover access to issues of the iconic and influential design magazine from the 1920s to 2011.
Architecture: Engineering & Materials
- ASCE LibraryThe ASCE Library is the world’s largest full-text database of civil engineering research and practical publications, offering online access to more than 145,000 technical and professional papers. Gleeson Library provides access to the Journals and Proceedings only.
- CompendexA comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines. It contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
- Engineering SourceEngineering Source is a database for professionals and researchers across all engineering disciplines, including biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental and software. It includes hundreds of full-text engineering journals, magazines and trade publications, plus books, conference papers and more.
Multi-Subject Resources
- FusionFusion allows you to search, in one place, the majority of the library’s books, articles, videos, etc. It includes all the materials in our library catalog Ignacio, as well as the content of the majority of our many databases.
Reference Sources
Encyclopedias
- Gale EbooksA great place to find background information and concise overviews, Gale eBooks offers thousands of authoritative articles published in academic encyclopedias, and written by subject experts.
Bibliographies
- Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Planning, and PreservationAn annotated bibliography of the best scholarship in the discipline.
High-Resolution Images
- ArtstorArtstor features an unparalleled range of images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. Artstor has moved to JSTOR. Registration on JSTOR is required to access your personal Workspace to save images and articles, organize your saved items with folders, share folders, and export your research.
Books, Videos and Multimedia
- AccessEngineeringAccessEngineering provides a collection of interdisciplinary engineering textbooks, reference handbooks, code commentaries, as well as Schaum's Outline series for review and practice.
- Art and Architecture in VideoArt and Architecture in Video delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses, the works within this collection offer a dynamic tool to enhance understanding of visual media.
- Ignacio: Library CatalogThe library catalog lets you search across the holdings of Gleeson Library and Zief Law Library, including books, videos, and other materials.
Other suggestions for searching Ignacio:
- Search by Subject for the architect's name (last name first) to locate books ABOUT that person, including autobiographies, letters, etc.
- You might also try Subject searches for terms such as Architecture History.
Browsing the Book Stacks
Architecture books are on the 3rd Floor South of Gleeson, in the NA section.
Nearby are the design books in the NC section. Very large books are called "Folios" and have their own section on the third floor.
Call number classifications for Architecture
NA1–9428—Architecture
NA1–60—General
NA100–130—Architecture and the state
NA190–1555.5—History
NA1995—Architecture as a profession
NA2000–2320—Study and teaching. Research
NA2335–2360—Competitions
NA2400–2460—Museums. Exhibitions
NA2500–2599—General works
NA 2599.5–2599.9—Architectural criticism
NA2695–2793—Architectural drawing and design
NA2835–4050—Details and decoration
NA4100–8480—Special classes of buildings
NA4100–4145—Classed by material
NA4150–4160—Classed by form
NA4170–8480—Classed by use
NA4170–(7020)—Public buildings
NA4590–5621—Religious architecture
NA7100–7884—Domestic architecture. Houses. Dwellings
NA7910–8125—Clubhouses, guild houses, etc.
NA8200–8260—Farm architecture
NA8300–8480—Outbuildings, gates, fences, etc.
NA9000–9428—Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
Dissertations and Theses
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalThe most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
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