History
- Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable.
- 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.|
» Architecture Through the Ages 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. » ArtServe 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. » Cities and Buildings Image Database 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. » Cupola 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. » CyArk A prototype project to test the concept of a digital archive of 3D survey information of endangered world heritage sites. » Digital Archive of Architecture Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA. » Digital Images of Historic Architecture 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. » Glass Steel and Stone Offers photographs and descriptions of outstanding buildings across the world, historic and modern. » SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library 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. » Thais 4000 Years of Architecture A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods. » UCLA Cultural VR Lab The University of California develops Virtual Reality models of ancient and historic buildings around the world. Mission, staff profiles, computer-generated reconstructions. » World Art Treasures Images of a range of ancient and historic art and architecture from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland. » Worldheritage Forum Weblog by Matthias Ripp and information about UNESCO World Heritage. |
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