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Drawings and Images of Buildings

Good sources for drawings and other images of buildings.

• Les Architectes Célèbres. 2 vols. Paris: L. Mazenod, 1958-1959.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA40 .A7
  Photographs and floorplans of famous buildings throughout history (French text).

• ARTstor (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  An online digital image library that includes thousands of architectural images from The Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts, The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection, and other sources.

• Cities/Buildings Database (University of Washington)
  A collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world.

• Davies, Colin. Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA7126 .D38 2006
  

• Drawings of Great Buildings. Basel: Birkhauser, 1983.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2706 .U6 D72 1983
  Plans and some sections and elevations of 185 of architecture's greatest hits.

• Dunster, David. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century. 2 vols. New York: Rizzoli, 1985; London: Butterworth Architecture, 1990.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA680 .D86 1985
  Documents major 20th-century buildings in plans drawn to the same scale (1:250). The first two volumes are: Houses, 1900-1944, and Houses, 1945-1989.
  
• Global Architecture Book. 13 vols. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1981.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA680 .G58
  Outstanding visual documentation for many major buildings of the twentieth century.

• Matthews. Kevin. The Great Buildings Collection [CD-ROM]. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1994.
  HUNT FA-REF-4; HUNT MUS-OFC-4 720.9 M43GA
  Documentation of important buildings and architects. Project entries may include textual information, photos, drawings, 3-D models, and references. The The Great Buildings Collection web site will tell you if there is additional information on the Great Buildings Collection CD-ROM. The CD-ROM is mounted on a PC in the Arts Reference section, and can also be checked out.

• Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)
  Federal program to record historic american architecture and engineering sites.

• Image Exchange (Society of Architectural Historians)
  An extensive collection of images of American architecture contributed by SAH members and obtained from older volumes clearly in the public domain -- for shared educational use.

• Sacriste, Eduardo. Huellas de edificios; una coleccion de plantas de edificios dibujadas en la misma escala. Building Footprints: A Selection of Ground-plans Drawn to the Same Scale. 2 vols. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1962.
  HUNT SPEC-FBQ-4 720 S12H

• Visual Resources Collection (Carnegie Mellon)
  HUNT Phone: x83511
  Circulating collection of slides and electronic images serving Carnegie Mellon faculty and students. Includes extensive coverage of buildings. See especially: Digital Image Database (Carnegie Mellon users only). Carnegie Mellon University Libraries owns more than 110,000 slides and ditital images.

• Stierlin, Henri. Encyclopedia of World Architecture. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1978.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 720.9 S85e
  Plans, elevations, sections, and some color photographs of hundreds of key buildings.

• Teague, Edward H. World Architecture Index: A Guide to Illustrations. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA202 .T4 1991
  Indexes illustrations in more than 100 books covering the history of architecture.

• Weston, Richard. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA2705 .W44 2004
  MUS-OFC-4 NA2705 .W44 2004 DISC
  Plans, section, and elevation drawings of key twentieth-century buildings. Book is accompanied by a CD-ROM with the drawings as .eps and .dxf files.

• World Atlas of Architecture. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984.
  HUNT FA-REF-4 NA200 .W67 1984
  A pictorial history of architecture useful for its variety of color photographs, diagrams, and drawings.