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The study of structures built in periods earlier than the last fifty years, including those who commissioned, designed, built, altered and used them.

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• Academic Departments
• Architects
• Materials
• Museums
• Organizations
• Periods and Styles
• Preservation
• Regional
• Religious
• Ritual Building Protection
• Vernacular

Resources in This Category

• Cities and Buildings Image Database

  http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/
  A searchable photographic database of buildings from around the world and across the ages, designed by the University of Washington's Architecture, History and Art History Departments.

• Cupola

  http://www.cupola.com/
  A picture gallery of cupolas, architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes from around the world. Also US state capitol building histories, wordplay, FAQ and Autocad links.

• CyArk

  http://www.cyark.org/
  A prototype project to test the concept of a digital archive of 3D survey information of endangered world heritage sites.

• Digital Archive of Architecture

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/
  Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA.

• Digital Images of Historic Architecture

  http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
  Galleries of photographs of European and North American architecture from Classical to Post-Modern, whole facades and details, with explanations, by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, US.

• Great Buildings Online

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/
  Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable.

• SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library

  http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html
  Online images from the large collection of slides at the University of California at Berkeley. Can be searched by period, place, building name, personal name, subject type.

• Thais 4000 Years of Architecture

  http://www.thais.it/architettura/
  A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods.

• World Art Treasures

  http://www.jebfoundation.ch/
  Images of a range of ancient and historic art and architecture from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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