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A Digital Archive of Architecture http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/
Created by Prof. Jeffery Howe for Boston College students, this site includes images of buildings from the prehistoric period, Greek and Roman architecture, Romanesque and Gothic Churches, Medieval fortifications, architectures of the century – starting with the 15th century to present, and an archive of American and European architecture.

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
Explores "achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. […] includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials .” From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Unified Vision: The Architecture and Design of the Prairie School http://www.artsmia.org/unified-vision/
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts site features architects such as William Gray Purcell, George Grant Elmslie, Frank Lloyd Wright, and George Washington Maher, and “offers a closer look at the Institute's objects and those who designed them, as well as an extensive tour of the Purcell-Cutts house. […] Both the collection section and the architectural tours feature numerous historic photos, drawings, and architectural plans.”

Harvard Design Magazine http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/
Published by the Harvard Design School at Harvard University, this site includes selected full-text articles from the magazine on topics in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning. Click on “Current Issue” or “Back Issues” to browse available articles.

Great Buildings Online http://www.greatbuildings.com/
"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." Find construction dates, locations, building types, photos, and more. Also browse timelines, building types, climate, locales, architectural styles, contexts, and building elements.

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/
This site provides a large collection of architectural photographs from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe. “The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.”

The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collections http://moma.org/exhibitions/2002/gilman/
This exhibition "includes some of the most famous utopian [architectural] drawings of the twentieth century...and focuses on radical projects from the 1960s and the 1970s." The two major sections of this exhibition are Megastructures and Postmodern Roots . Architects include Peter Eisenman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Michael Graves, John Hejduk, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Paul Rudolph, James Stirling, Venturi and Rauch, and others.

Architect Studio 3D http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/
"[Frank Lloyd] Wright inspired a generation of architects. Are you one of them? On this Web site, you can design a house, walk through it in 3D, and then share it with the world. You can also learn more about architecture, past and present, and explore Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work." Includes a handbook that discusses interior design, landscaping, and related topics. From the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.

ArchitectureWeek http://www.architectureweek.com/today.html
Architecture Week provides access to articles and images related to architectural design, building technology, digital media, and technical and cultural issues. Coverage of current issues includes information on new building openings worldwide.

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American Institute of Architects (AIA) http://www.aia.org/
The American Institute of Architects (AIA), with over 80,000 members, has represented the professional interests of America's architects since 1857. This site includes a directory of architects and design firms, career and education information, recent press releases and online publications, contract documents, and more.