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ARTHIST 275: Modern Architecture (Main)

Myriad ideas and characters contributed to the built environment of the Modernist era, here defined as the period immediately following the Industrial Revolution through WWII (1880-1945). Through the study of selected works of architecture and urban desig

Databases

Great Buildings Online

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.

Vocabulary & Thesaurii

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.

Web Sites

LOCAL ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY Georgia Tech's Architecture Library

American Institute of Architects (AIA)
The AIA page discusses the organization, guidance on selecting an architect, in architecture, and includes a list of architectural research centers, web
sites related to architecture, and recent awards in the field.


ARCHITECT/ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATIONS & WEB SITES
Alvar Aalto Foundation in Finland
Marcel Breuer
Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris
Fundacao Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil
Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust in Chicago

Library of Congress, American Memory Built in America: HABS & HAER Collection
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American
Engineering Record (HAER)

DOCOMOMO / International working party for documentation and conservation of the modern movement

Great Buildings Collection
A gateway to architecture around the world and across history

Intute: Architecture and planning: web links selected a national team of subject specialists from universities across the UK.

ARCHITECTURE MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE

World Architecture Organization