Architecture: Intro: Start Here

AHRnet Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950

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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• Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities

• AHRnet Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950

• Architecture and Fire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation

• Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings

• Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps

• Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground: Unreasonable Creatures

• Art History Archive - historical architecture

• Basic Concepts of Structural Design for Architecture Students

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

• City, Climate, and Architecture: A Theory of Collective Practice

• Coping with Urban Climates: Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance

• The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture

• Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice

• Experiments with Body Agent Architecture: The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il Regno Digitale

• Interior Materiality

• Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

• MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies

• Modernity and Housing

• Moving to Sustainable Buildings: Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries

• Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical regionalism before globalisation

• Woman Architects and Politics: Intersection Between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century

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

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.