Architecture

This collection of 2,800 lantern slides from Harvard represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes during the period of 1850-1920.

Art and Architecture in Video, an online streaming film collection, offers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses, the works within this collection offer a dynamic tool to enhance understanding of visual media. The collection spans period and region, including coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design. The breadth of coverage makes this collection integral to both scholarship and technique, providing access to information about the seminal artists and works that continue to inspire the painters, architects, designers, and critics of today.

Collection of 10,000 digital images of buildings and cities from around the world.

Commercial image source.

Documents 1,000 classics of world architecture, and hundreds of the world's greatest designers.

Begun in 1933, HABS has recorded measured drawings of over 35,000 buildings in the United States. It is part of the American Memory digital project from the Library of Congress and also includes the Historic American Engineering Record and the Historic American Landscape Survey.

This database includes information and some images for more than 31,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners around the world. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database.

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films each year. It has an extensive library of both Japanese language titles and English titles related to Japanese Studies.

Explore 835,649 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Request temporary access to the OSU building plans database.

Society of Architectural Historians' image database now called SAHARA.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Provides a central resource of over 100, 000 high quality digital images from across a range of visual arts subjects (including applied arts, architecture, design, fine art and media) from across the UK.