Architecture

These resources are intended for architecture students and researchers. Keep in mind that the librarian selected these as curated resources. You are encouraged to explore other interesting subject guides.

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Find the Printed Architecture Book

The subject is quickly located in the library using the following call number:

721 Architectural materials and structural elements
722 Architecture from earliest times to ca. 300
723 Architecture from ca. 300 to 1399
724 Architecture from 1400
725 Public structures
726 Buildings for religious and related purposes
727 Buildings for educational and research purposes
728 Residential and related buildings
729 Design and decoration of structures and accessories

New Arrivals

Student Portfolio

Since 2017, the graduate students, Bachelor of Architecture would deposit a print copy of their graduate project in the library. Search the library record for more information.

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Magazines Archives

GA House

‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making.

GA Document

GA Document presents the finest in international design, focusing on architecture that expresses our time and striving to record the history of contemporary architecture. International scholars and critics provide insightful texts to further inform the reader of the most up-to-date ideas and events in the profession.

Japan Architect

Forward thinking quarterly architectural magazine from Japan which tackles a diverse range of themes, movements and discussions in the fields of Japanese architecture and urbanism.

Harvard Design Magazine

Harvard Design Magazine probes beyond the established design disciplines to enrich and diversify current discourse. Scholarly, poetic, and visually lush, each presents new interpretations of design’s defining role in today’s culture. Distinguished and unexpected voices from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning meet those from the realms of art, science, literature, and beyond. A space for dialogue, speculation, and surprise: Harvard Design Magazine opens a door onto the applied device of design, and the people, places, and politics it engages.

A+U

Forward thinking monthly architectural magazine from Japan which tackles a diverse range of themes, movements and discussions in the fields of architecture and urbanism. Each issue is comprehensively illustrated and accompanied by plans, maps, sections and details.

EI Croquis De Arquitectura Y De Diseno

El Croquis, one of the highest profile and prestigious architectural publications in the world, presents the most important designs and works of architecture in detailed bimonthly monographs that analyse the work of the most outstanding architects on the international scene.

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The Classical Gardens of Shanghai / Shelly Bryant

Description:
In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai’s classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and literature as much as in stone, rock, and earth. But these gardens have not remained static entities.

Rather, they have been remodelled constantly since their inception. This book reflects this process within the constancy of traditional Chinese horticulture and reveals Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens as places representing wealth and social status, social and dynastic shifts, through falling family fortunes and political revolutions to search for a recovery of China’s ancient culture in the modern day.

Reference:
Bryant, S., & French, P. (2016). The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (1st ed., Vol. 5). Hong Kong University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bj4srz

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The portfolio : an architecture student’s handbook / Igor Marjanovic, Katerina Ruedi Ray and Lesley Naa Norle Lokko

Description:
A complete guide to compiling, preparing, and presenting an architectural portfolio. The portfolio is the single most important part of every architectural student’s education. This book is a complete guide to preparing, compiling and presenting this crucial element of the architecture course. The experienced author team gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues including size, storage, layout and order.

They go on to guide the student through the various forms a portfolio can take: the Electronic Portfolio, the Academy Portfolio and the Professional Portfolio suggesting different approaches and different media to use in order to create the strongest portfolio possible. The team also presents the best examples from international student portfolios to show the reader their recommendations in practice.
Reference:

Marjanović, I., Lokko, L. N. N., & Rüedi, K. (2003). The portfolio: An architecture student’s handbook. Architectural.

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Selected Journals

Architecture Collection in JSTOR

JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources. Full runs of more

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth. To document Earth’s species and understand the complexitie

Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS)

It provides online access to about 1,500 journals in the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, applied sciences as well as life science and medicine. Full-text articles are available in most journals.Subject: MultidisciplinarySearchable in Discovery System: YesProvider: Airiti

SAGE Journals

The SAGE Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Package provides access to 554 journals in the humanities and social sciences fields, including leading international peer-reviewed titles many of which are ranked in the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters 2014).Now there are more choices — a

萬方學術期刊 | China Online Journals

該期刊在中國提供了 7,400 多種中文學術期刊全文全文，涵蓋從藝術、金融到醫學和技術的所有學科。它被中國數百家研究所、公共圖書館和大學圖書館廣泛使用，作為其圖書館服務不可或缺的一部分。COJ provides a collection of over 7,400 Chinese academic journals in full text in China, covering all subjects from arts, finance to medical and technology. It is widely used by hundreds of research institu

SARC – Serviço de Alojamento de Revistas Científicas

SARC – Serviço de Alojamento de Revistas Científicas was setup to host online Journal from Portuguese institutions. This service is build with the Open Source tools OJS – Open Journals. SARC – Scientific Journal Hosting Service was created to develop the online publication of scientific journals in

Arts & Humanities Database

The Arts & Humanities Database complements the ProQuest Arts and Humanities portfolio, providing Full Text access to around 600 contemporary specialist arts titles along with journals from related fields including ethnic studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies, and more.Subject: Art, D

Engineering Database

A source of timely news and, with increasing pressures onDiscipline-specific coverage aircraft design and engineering, arctic and tropical engineering, automotive design and engineering, bridges and tunnelsBuildings, towers and tanks, civil engineering for air and space transportation, coastal and o

Materials Science Database

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GreenFILE

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