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Architecture: Intro: Start Here

Written by Liv Valmestad

Encyclopedias/Standards

Oxford Art Online

Reference Collection: Surveys, Directories and Biographies

 Research Hints

Welcome to the world of architecture and design! 

Here are tips on how to research an architect/building.

Strategies for using the UM Libraries Search:

  • Search by architect’s name: Frank Gehry or Francesco Borromini or Zaha Hadid
  • Search by period: architecture Renaissance or architecture modern or architecture 20th century
  • Search by architect's country: architecture canada or architecture hungary
  • Search by style: postmodernism architecture or gothic revival architecture or bauhaus architecture
  • When using several concepts use the following format: church architecture gothic

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Historical Architecture Reference Books

Architecture Explained - Neil Stevenson 
REF NA 200 S72 2007

Architecture Sourcebook - Russell Sturgis (Compiled by)
REF NA 2840 S78 1984

The Book of Buildings: ancient, medieval, renaissance & modern... - Richard Reid
REF NA 703 R44 1983

Drawings of Great Buildings edited by Werner Blaser
REF NA 2706 U6 D72 1983

Historic Architecture Sourcebook - Cyril M. Harris
REF NA 31 H56 1977

Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture Q REF NA 200 F63 1996

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Le Corbusier Plans

            

NA 1053 J4 L478 2005

Complete works on 16 dvd-roms. Contains nearly 40,000 plans, 350 projects of which 200 are introduced by world-famous researchers, and 4000 newly discovered drawings. Numerous photos of the built projects, a detailed database of the contents of the plans, and the possibility to print all of the documents. Located in the Reading Room.