LibGuides: Architecture: Intro: Start Here

Encyclopedias/Standards

Canadian Handbook of Practice for Architects, 3 vols.
Call Number: REF NA 2570 R69122 2009

Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture (also ONLINE)
Call Number: Q REF NA 680 E495 2004
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World
Call Number: Q REF NA 208 E53 1997
Oxford Companion to Architecture
Call Number: Q REF NA 31 O94 2009

Reference Collection: Surveys, Directories and Biographies

A Global History of Architecture
Call Number: Q REF NA 200 C493 2017
Architecture sourcebook: a guide to the resources on the practice of architecture
Call Number: Q REF NA 2750 A75 1997
Contemporary Architects
Call Number: Q REF NA 680 C625 1994
International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture
Call Number: Q REF NA 40 I48 1993
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
Call Number: REF OVERSIZE NA 687 P43 2008
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
Call Number: REF OVERSIZE NA 687 P42 2004

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 20^th 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 Global History of Architecture Q REF NA 200 F63 2020 v. 1 & 2

Open Access Resources, Books & Textbooks

Art History Archive - historical architecture

Basic Concepts of Structural Design for Architecture Students

Better by Design? Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good City

Interior Materiality

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies

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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.