Great Buildings Online is the gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, selected over ten years by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Built Works Registry (BWR) provides global IDs for architecture and the built environment
The Getty Institute's Getty Vocabulary Program has created databases and thesuari to help find information on artists, fine art terms, and geographic locations.
The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 120,000 records, including 293,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
The Getty Thesuarus of Geographic Names (TGN)
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 912,000 records, including 1.1 million names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.
LOCAL ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY Georgia Tech's Architecture Library
American Institute of Architects
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Library of Congress, American Memory Built in America: HABS & HAER Collection DOCOMOMO / International working party for documentation and conservation of the modern movement Great
Buildings Collection Intute: Architecture and planning: web links selected a national team of subject specialists from universities across the UK. ARCHITECTURE MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE World Architecture Organization |