Knowledge: history
See Also:
- arts → architecture → archives
- arts → art history
- arts → visual arts → sculpture → history
- society → history → by time period → ancient → seven wonders of the world
Links
- Cupola
http://www.cupola.com/ - A picture gallery of cupolas, architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes from around the world. Also US state capitol building histories, wordplay, FAQ and Autocad links.
- World Art Treasures
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/ - Images of a range of ancient and historic art and architecture from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Digital Images of Historic Architecture
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ - Galleries of photographs of European and North American architecture from Classical to Post-Modern, whole facades and details, with explanations, by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, US.
- Great Buildings Online
http://www.greatbuildings.com - Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable.
- SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html - Online images from the large collection of slides at the University of California at Berkeley. Can be searched by period, place, building name, personal name, subject type.
- Digital Archive of Architecture
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/ - Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA.
- ArtServe
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/ - A huge collection of images of architecture across the world, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean region, Australia and Japan, collated by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University.
- Architecture Through the Ages
http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/ - An introduction to world architecture produced by American teenagers through Think Quest. Images, discussion and bibliography for Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, Mayan, Greek Roman and Gothic buildings.
- Thais 4000 Years of Architecture
http://www.thais.it/architettura/default_uk.htm - A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods.
- World Heritage
http://whc.unesco.org/ - Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options.
- Glass Steel and Stone
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com - Offers photographs and descriptions of outstanding buildings across the world, historic and modern.
- UCLA Cultural VR Lab
http://www.cvrlab.org/ - The University of California develops Virtual Reality models of ancient and historic buildings around the world. Mission, staff profiles, computer-generated reconstructions.
- Cities and Buildings Image Database
http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html - A searchable photographic database of buildings from around the world and across the ages, designed by the University of Washington's Architecture, History and Art History Departments.
- CyArk
http://www.cyark.org - A prototype project to test the concept of a digital archive of 3D survey information of endangered world heritage sites.
- Worldheritage Forum
http://worldheritage-forum.net - Weblog by Matthias Ripp and information about UNESCO World Heritage.
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