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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2000 so getting very out of date.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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03.05.07 Emergency Architects - Here's a group I hadn't heard of. quote:
"A Different Way of Being an Architect" The fundamental question we asked, without being fully aware of it at the time, was to know if architects and not the individual architect - are able to become organized in exceptional circumstance during major crises, as other professionals have done before (people working in the healthsector, firemen, civil police, journalists, etc.).
Here's the local site - they seem to be up to interesting things in the Solomon Islands. EMERGENCY ARCHITECTS (AU)
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26.03.07 Death by Architecture - Death by Architecture has bounded back with a complete revamp. The site maintains its focus on competitions but has widened from there to include links and reviews. DEATH BY ARCHITECTURE
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09.03.07 Open architecture - Architecture for Humanity have just launched their new site, Open Architecture. It's running pretty slow at the moment due to high traffic, so maybe click "low bandwidth" at the bottom of the page. "The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design." OAN
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18.12.06 Radio - If you're missing the RRR architects show you might find something here to keep you busy till the next season. This is an american site with rather a lot of archived audio and video files. Recent content includes Robert Woodbury on "smart geometry", Lot-ek, and Teddy Cruz. Click on "Learning" when you get to the site. ARCH RADIO
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18.06.06 Masters - If you have an inkling that you want to do a masters, somewhere far far away, this site has Masters of Architecture courses from the world over. ARCHIMASTER
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11.04.06 Pritzker - Brazilian Paulo Mendes da Rocha wins the Pritzker Prize, an award from the Hyatt Foundation. Would it be better if they gave him a hotel to do too? PRITZKER
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