Exploring the Culture of Architecture...
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Explore the community.
Pop City | Pittsburgh City Paper: Architecture | Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture (Kidney) | Bridges and Tunnels | The Spectator and the Topographical City (Aurand)| Pittsburgh Signs Project | Architecture Archives
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Visit, look at, experience, measure, and draw architecture.
Experiencing Architecture (Rasmussen) | Drawing and Perceiving (Cooper) | Design Drawing (Ching) | See Sketchbooks | See Drawing and Representation
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Attend lectures, exhibits, films, etc.
School of Architecture Lecture Series | School of Architecture News & Events | Passport | Carnegie Mellon Events | Arts Pittsburgh Events | Miller Gallery | Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Monitor current architectural news.
AIArchitect | Architect's Newspaper | ArchitectureWeek | ArchNewsNow | World Architecture News
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Monitor architecture sites on the Web.
Archinect | Archnet | ArchitectureRadio | BLDG|BLOG | Death By Architecture | Inhabitat
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Browse and read books.
S, M, L, XL (Koolhaas) | Architecture and Landscape: the Design Experiment of the Great European Gardens and Landscapes (Steenbergen) | After the World Trade Center (Sorkin) | Zaha Hadid: Complete Works | See: Browsing guide for the Arts
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Know how to find books.
Cameo | Worldcat | Google Book Search | Prairie Avenue Bookshop | William Stout Architectural Books | See: Library Catalogs
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Browse and read articles in periodicals.
Architectural Record | Metropolis | Architect | Grey Room | Architecture + Urbanism | Detail | See: Current Arts Journals List
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Know how to find articles and papers.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals | RIBA British Architectural Library Catalogue Online | Art Abstracts | CumInCad | See: Article Databases
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Know how to find images.
Visual Resources Collection | Google: Advanced Image Search | ARTstor | See: Drawings and Images of Buildings
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Utilize general reference resouces.
McMillian Encyclopedia of Architects | Great Buildings Collection | Grove Art Online | Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture | Oxford Reference Online | Credo Reference | See: Reference Resources
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Utilize specialized reference resouces.
Architectural Graphic Standards | Timesaver standards | BuildingGreen Suite | Means cost data books | Sweets Network
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Use the free Web effectively.
Google: Advanced Search | Clusty: Advanced Search | Google Scholar: Advanced Scholar Search | Internet Detective: Wise Up to the Web | Web Evaluation | See: The Web
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Write and present information effectively and ethically.
Writing for Design Professionals (Klimant) | Just Write | Chicago Manual of Style | Envisioning Information (Tufte) | Academic Integrity | See: Citations
ArchitectureSavvy students...
- Seek assistance.
School of Architecture Faculty | Architecture Research Guide | Ask a Librarian