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ADA
Accessibility Guidelines
http://www.access-board.gov/adaag/html/adaag.htm
Full text of the Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities, as amended.
2/99
American Institute of Architects
http://www.aia.org/
The voice of the AIA on the Internet providing help, information and
assistance to both professionals and consumers. Offers job openings, job leads,
firm/service directories, advice, and reports.
Architecture
and Building: Net Resources
http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html
Topics covered by this guide include architecture, building and construction,
design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the
environment, and landscape architecture. Types of listings range from discussion
groups to electronic publications to databases -- and of course a wide variety
of web sites.
Asian Historical
Architecture
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/
Over 5,700 images of Asian architecture from over 400 places across Asia.
Electronic Journal of Information
Technologies in Construction
http://itcon.org
Posting of the first article was announced November 1995. The scope of the peer-reviewed
scholarly journal includes products and "how companies are applying state-of-the-art
IT solutions to design and construction practice.
Foster and
Partners
http://www.fosterandpartners.com
Images, information, and articles on the practice of the architect Norman Foster.
Frank Lloyd
Wright Foundation
http://www.franklloydwright.org
This site is designed to provide current information about the Foundation's
programs and resources on the legacy of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Great Buildings
Collection
http://www.greatbuildings.com
Great Buildings Online. This gateway to architecture around the world and across
history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with
3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies,
web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
The International Archive
of Women in Architecture
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/
A collection of "professional papers of women architects, landscape architects,
designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the
records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world."
Wisconsin
Architecture and History Inventory
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ahi/index.html
The Architecture and History Inventory, or AHI, is a search engine that provides
historical and architectural information on approximately 130,000 properties
in Wisconsin. The AHI contains data on buildings, structures and objects that
illustrate Wisconsin's unique history. The AHI documents a wide range of historic
properties such as the round barns, log houses, cast iron bridges, small town
commercial buildings, and Queen Anne houses that create Wisconsin's distinct
cultural landscape. It is a permanent record maintained by the Wisconsin Historical
Society.
Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/hp/register/
The National Register database is a search engine that will enable the you to
learn basic information about State Register and National Register listed resources
in Wisconsin. By supplying information in any of the searchable fields, the
database will return a listing of all related properties.
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus use.
Career
and Technical Education
Fulltext and indexed of Vocational and technical periodicals newsletters and
publications covering all aspects of the Technical curriculum. Includes many
titles not found elsewhere in electronic form. Topics covered are metallurgy,
accounting, imaging, HVAC, telecommunications, drafting, computer maintenance,
hydraulics, software, printing, real estate, marketing, and networking.
General
Reference Center Gold
Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers,
and reference books for information on business, industry, current events, the
arts, science, entertainment, etc.
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- Click on the title of the periodical to see what issues are available at
MATC libraries.
Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page.
Architectural
Digest
Worldwide in scope, this publication focuses on recent, upscale houses
and apartments decorated by the best interior designers in the world.
Architectural
Record
Covers all aspects of the field of architecture, including design, architectural
software, issues in the profession, and new products. Written for the practicing
architect and architectural student.
Fine
Homebuilding
Professional-level information on residential building and remodeling.
Excellent source of ‘how-to’ articles on home improvements and in-depth technique
articles.
Home
Provides creative yet practical concepts for remodeling, decorating and
landscaping. Emphasis is on home design, focusing on creative style and charm
and range from kitchens and baths to custom and older homes.
Interior
Design
Aimed at professionals, reports on all types of interiors: residential,
retail, hotel, restaurant and office with emphasis on recent projects on America.
Substantial articles describe and evaluate projects.
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Twin
towers of the east
720.483 TWINT 2001 DVD
The History Channel
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For a complete listing of Architecture and related resources please consult
the MATC Library Online Catalog.
Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library; a new window will open when you click a title..
Alternative
construction: contemporary natural building methods
691 AL466
Edited by Lynne Elizabeth and Cassandra Adams.
Architects
of the world.
724.6 AS816
By Francisco Asensio Cerver.
Architecture in colonial America
728.0973 D685
By Marian C. Donnelly
The architecture of additions: design and regulation.
720.1 B993
By Paul Spencer Byard.
The Bauhaus ideal, then and now: an illustrated guide to modernist design
745.2 SM666
By William Smock.
Composite drawing: techniques for architectural design.
720.28 UD18
By M. Saleh Uddin.
Computer visualization : an integrated approach for interior design and architecture.
720.28 D682
By Wei Dong, Kathleen Gibson.
Construction drawings and details for interiors: basic skills
729 K48
W. Otie Kilmer
Falling glass: problems and solutions in contemporary architecture
690.21 L887
Patrick Loughran
Frank Lloyd Wright: inside and out
720.92 W94MA
By Diane Maddex
Fundamentals of building construction : materials and methods
690 AL42F
By Edward Allen ; drawings by Joseph Iano.
Great lodges of the national parks
720.978 B261
By Christine barnes.
The HOK guidebook to sustainable design
720.47 W536
By Sandra Mendler, William Odell; drawings by Joseph Iano.
Ideas that shaped buildings
720.1 H436
By M.F. Hearns
Inventing for the enviroment
363.7 IN62
edited by Aurthur Molella and Joyce Bedi
Materials
and components of interior architecture.
698 R56
By J. Rosemary Riggs.
Materials, form and architecture.
721.044 W536
By Richard Weston
Modern style.
745.440904 F311
By Elinor Friedman Felcher.
Most beautiful libraries in the world
727.8 L366
By Jacques Bosser Photographs by Guillaume de Laubier
The Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture.
REF 720.3 F597
By John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Nikolaus Pevsner.
The
Story of architecture.
720.9 G545
By Jonathan Glancey.
Twin towers of the east (vide
720.92 W94MA
By Diane Maddex
Western architecture : from ancient Greece to the present.
720.9 SU967
By Ian Sutton.
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