Thank you to Danae Dracht for gathering these resources.
Last updated 2018.
Current Initiatives of Note
Building for Tomorrow: Collaborative Development of Sustainable Infrastructure for Architectural and Design Documentation
SAA Trends in Archives Practice
Managing Born-Digital Architectural Records
Armstrong, Ann R. E. “Architectural Archives/Archiving Architecture: The Digital ERA.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 25, no. 2 (2006): 12–17.
Ball, Alex. “Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD).” Digital Preservation Coalition, April 2013.
Bantin, James, and Leah Agne. “Digitizing for Value: A User-Based Strategy for University Archives.” Journal of Archival Organization 8, no. 3–4 (July 2010): 244–50.
Bruzelius, Caroline. “Digital Technologies and New Evidence in Architectural History.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 76, no. 4 (December 2017): 436–39.
“Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Design Data.” The Art Institute of Chicago Department of Architecture, 2004, 54.
Fallon, Kristine K. “Early Computer Graphics Developments in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 20, no. 2 (April 1998): 20–29.
Foxe, David M. “Building Information Modeling for Constructing the Past and Its Future.” APT Bulletin: Journal of Preservation Technology 41, no. 4 (2010): 39–45.
Langmead, Alison. “Long-Term Preservation of Architectural Records.” AIA Best Practices, Pulled from Practice Management Digest, May 2004, 2.
Leventhal, Aliza Allen. “Collaborative Preservation Efforts of CAD/BIM Files.” Society of American Archivists’ Architectural Records Roundtable CAD/BIM Taskforce, 2013, 4.
Pierce, Kathryn. “Collaborative Efforts to Preserve Born-Digital Architectural Records: A Case Study Documenting Present-Day Practice.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 30, no. 2 (2011): 43–48.
Pierce Meyer, Katie. “Technology in Architectural Practice: Transforming Work with Information, 1960s–1990s.” Information & Culture 51, no. 2 (May 2016): 249–66.
Smith, MacKenzie. “Curating Architectural 3D CAD Models.” The International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 1 (July 2008): 98–106.
Managing Architectural Records
Ball, Heather, and Brian Shelburne. “Study Collections of Architectural Drawings.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 23, no. 2 (2004): 21–26.
Carey, Alice. “The Importance of Construction Documents to Restoration Architects.” Edited by Nicholas Olsberg. The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (April 1996): 176–84.
Cook, Terry. “Building an Archives: Appraisal Theory for Architectural Records.” Edited by Nicholas Olsberg. The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (April 1996): 136–43.
Cox, Richard. “The Archival Documentation Strategy and Its Implications for the Appraisal of Architectural Records.” Edited by Nicholas Olsberg. The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (April 1996): 144–54.
Lathrop, Alan K. “The Archivist and Architectural Records” 5, no. 2 (1977): 9.
Nelb, Tawny. “Architectural Records Appraisal: Discussion of Problems and Strategies for the Documenting Michigan Architecture Project.” Edited by Nicholas Olsberg. The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (April 1996): 228–39.
Olsberg, Nicholas. “Documenting Twentieth-Century Architecture: Crisis and Opportunity.” Edited by Nicholas Olsberg. The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (March 1996): 128–35.
Tatum, Laura. “Documenting Design: A Survey of State-of-the-Art Practice for Archiving Architectural Records.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 21, no. 2 (2002): 25–31.
Thomas, Christopher. “A Historian’s Experience of Architectural Collections.” The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (1996): 166–75.
Willis, Alfred. “The Place of Archives in the Universe of Architectural Documentation.” Edited by Nicholas Olsberg. The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (April 1996): 192–98.
Reference Books
Bernstein, Phillip, and Peggy Deamer, eds. Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture. 1 edition. New Haven : New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
Kissel, Eléonore, Erin Vigneau, and New York Botanical Garden. Architectural Photoreproductions: A Manual for Identification and Care, 2009.
Lowell, Waverly B, and Tawny Ryan Nelb. Architectural Records: Managing Design and Construction Records. Chicago, Illinois: Society of American Archivists, 2006.
Peyceré, David, and Florence Wierre. Architecture and Digital Archives Architecture in the Digital Age: A Question of Memory. Gollion: Éd. Infolio, 2008.
Price, Lois Olcott. Line, Shade and Shadow: the Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings. Brill | Hes & De Graaf, 2011.
Digitization Projects / Online Exhibitions
Alfred Eichler Collection (CSA)
Journey to The Sea Ranch (UCB EDA)
Lucille Lloyd: a Life in Murals (UCSB)
Maynard Parker Modern Photography (Huntington)
Mirrors and Mass: Wayne Thom's Southern California (USC)
SCI-Arc Media Archive (SCI-Arc)
UCSB Campus Architecture (UCSB)
12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive (Getty)
Websites & Blogs
ARLIS Architecture Section Blog
Resources Requiring Subscription for Access
On Managing Born-Digital Architectural Records
Arrington, Kit, and Kate Murray. “Architecture, Design & Engineering - Archiving Digital Assets: Past, Present and Future.” In Archiving 2018 Final Program and Proceedings, 4:139–42. Washington, DC: Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2018.
Daniels, Maygene. “Arrangement and Description of Architectural Records: Time-Honored Principles and New Technologies.” Comma 2009, no. 1 (January 2009): 99–104.
On Managing Architectural Records
Baca, Murtha, and Patricia Harpring. “The Getty Vocabulary Program: Tools for Describing, Cataloguing, and Enhancing Access to Architectural Records and Resources.” Comma 2009, no. 1 (January 2009): 183–202.
Collins, Julie, Christine Garnaut, and Susan Collins. “Behind the Image: Assessing Architectural Drawings as Cultural Records.” Archives and Manuscripts 35, no. 2 (November 2007): 86.
Fleischer, S. Victor. “Managing Architectural Records in the House That Rubber Built: A Case Study in Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration in Museum Archives.” Journal of Archival Organization 13, no. 1–2 (April 2016): 47–61.
Gawne, Eleanor. “Cataloguing Architectural Drawings.” Journal of the Society of Archivists 24 (October 2003): 175–87.
Koskinen, Susan. “Architectural Archives.” Journal of Library Administration 39, no. 2–3 (June 2003): 15–27.
Willinge, Mariet. “Networking and Cooperation for Architectural Archives/Records.” Comma 2009, no. 1 (January 2009): 163–69.