Art Research
A database about worldwide architects and buildings from past to present with information of more than 84,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners.
With over 35,000 photos from 1,323 sites in twenty-three countries, this photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage with background information and virtual tours.
A collection of digitized images scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
This database documents tall buildings and major structures with more than 60,000 drawings covering over 100,000 buildings.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.
What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.
This guide will help you find information related to architectural history.
Use the menu (left) to learn how to find books, articles, and background information, as well as additional websites and local resources you may find useful.
A Good Place to Start
An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which change over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible.
This list, while not becoming the primary source for your research, is a good place to generate a list of cultures, architectural styles, and more to deleve into on the schools' databases.
