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General Resources
Architectural Graphic StandardsPublication Date: 2017 eBook, 12th Edition, Student EditionPresented in a format closely resembling an architect's actual workflow, illustrates how to take design ideas through the entire planning and documentation process. Applicable for students and early career designers with thousands of useful illustrations and hundreds of architectural elements.
Dictionary of Architecture and Construction, 4th ed by Cyril M. HarrisPublication Date: 2005Combines historical and technical information.
Illustrated Glossary of Architecture by John Harris & Jill LeverISBN: 9780571090747Publication Date: 1979Good for when you know what something looks like, but not its name. Primarily for historical applications.
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis ChingPublication Date: 1995
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia covering art and artists worldwide in all fields of the visual arts.
Books
- JMU Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowFind journals, books, ebooks, films, sound recordings, and government documents available to JMU users.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowCatalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide that includes manuscripts written as early as the 1000 B.C., books, audio visual media, and internet source
Research Article Databases
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIndex of journals on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
- Art & Design Databases This link opens in a new windowA cluster of databases containing journal articles, news items, and reviews in the areas of art & design, includes Artbibliographies Modern; the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals; and Design and Applied Arts Index.
- Art & Architecture Archive This link opens in a new windowA full-text archive of magazines covering fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography.
- Artbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new windowAbstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on modern and contemporary art.
- Design & Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, news items, and reviews in design and applied arts periodicals.
Dissertations
- American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955 This link opens in a new windowDoctoral dissertations accepted by US universities from 1933-1955.
- Dissertations & Theses: Global This link opens in a new windowIndex with abstracts and full text for doctoral dissertations and master's theses published from 1980 forward.
- EBSCO Open Dissertations This link opens in a new windowOpen access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) and their associated metadata.
Images
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowDigital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and more, encompassing many time periods and world cultures.
Note: First time, off-campus users accessing via OpenAthens will be required to create a personal account - Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia covering art and artists worldwide in all fields of the visual arts.
- ArchNETInternational online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists and scholars with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilizations
- Built in AmericaThe Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, and part of American Memory
- Cartography Associates Visual CollectionsOver 300,000 images of maps, fine arts, architecture and photography from renowned private and public collections
- CatenaSearchable collection of historic and contemporary images of landscape design centered on the Italian villa
- Flickr CommonsCultural heritage institutions share photographs from their collections
- Library of Congress American MemoryMore than 7 million sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience drawn from more than 100 collections
- New York Public Library Gallery650,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities--illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, fashion plates, and other printed ephemera
- The City Project (Flickr)Flickr photostream for Los Angeles based City Project