Architecture

Architectural Graphic Standards
ARTstor
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
JSTOR
LinkedIn Learning
Oxford Art Online
Digital Sanborn Maps
ULI Development Case Studies
WorldCat Online Catalog

ProQuest Ebook Central

Agricultural & Environmental Science

Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
Art Abstracts contains citations and abstract summaries to journal articles and other resources on art, art history, architecture, photography, archaeology, city planning, film, and related subjects. The service includes links and cross-searchability to the Library's subscription to the AMICO Library.

ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern indexes journal articles and other resources on artists, art movements, art theory, art criticism and art history beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century to present.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
International coverage of more than 1,150 leading arts and humanities journals as well as selective coverage from leading science and social sciences journals.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers architecture and related fields such as archaeology, urban planning, historic preservation, and interior design. Coverage reaches from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. 

Bibliography of the History of Art
BHA is a bilingual bibliographical index covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989.

Environment and Urbanization
This twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.

ESI: Digest of Environmental Impact Statements
Indexes and abstracts environmental impact statements the Federal Government releases each year; includes subfile Environmental Routenet.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides digital versions of the backfiles of major scholarly journals. Primarily an archival collection, JSTOR does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of content for most titles.

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

Sanborn Maps (United States)
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. The Sanborn Maps are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

ULI Development Case Studies
There are three types of reports included in this database: ULI Development Case Studies include the complete case study with photos, site plans, project data, and a report on the development process. Award Winning Projects are reports on ULI Award for Excellence winners. Cool Projects include a brief description and a link to the projects web site

Dictionary of Islamic Architecture

Dizionario dell'Architettura del XX Secolo 

Encyclopedia of Urban Studies 

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World

Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture

Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering and Construction 

Fundamental Concepts of Architecture: The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations 

Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture 

Handbook of Synagogue Architecture 

Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art & Architecture

Indian Islamic Architecture: Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments 

The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture 

 

Ara Pacis
Arch20
ArchDaily
Archiplanet
Directory of Open Access Journals
Design Boom Magazine
The Interactive Nolli Map Website
New York Art Resources Consortium
The RIBA Library Catalog
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
Union List of Artists Names (ULAN)
The World Fact Book: CIA
Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasis Grand Tour of Rome

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
Archinect
ArchINFORM
Architecture Lab
Architizer
BLDG Blog
Curbed

Automation in Construction
Automation in Construction is an international journal for the publication of original research papers. The journal publishes refereed material on all aspects pertaining to the use of Information Technologies in Design, Engineering, Construction Technologies, and Maintenance and Management of Constructed Facilities.

Built Works Registry (BWR) 
Every built work included in BWR is assigned a unique identifier number or BWR ID. The BWR ID serves the same purpose as the ISBN/ISSN system does in the world of publishing and provides a standardized system by which a built work can be identified. A BWR record includes a unique ID number, a preferred name and (when possible) variant names, location and geo-location coordinates.

Center for Architecture Video Archives
The Center for Architecture is a leading cultural venue for architecture and the built environment in New York City, informed by the complexity of the City’s urban fabric and in dialogue with the global community.

Design Studies
Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design.

Journal of Planning Literature
The Journal of Planning Literature aims to give the reader an understanding of the state of knowledge of the field for use in research or professional practice in planning and design. This journal publishes review articles, annotated bibliographies, listings and abstracts of recent literature in city and regional planning design. Pidgeon Digital
Online version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes.

Pioneering Women of American Architecture 
This collection hosts the profiles of fifty women, all born before 1940, who made important contributions to American architecture.  

Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
The architectural collections housed at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach are available to Foundation members, researchers, architects, and students. The Foundation’s archive also includes image archives, rare books, maps, and periodicals that document the architectural and social history of Palm Beach.

Semantic Scholar
Find peer-reviewed resources from around the world. 

Urban Habitats
Urban Habitats is an open-access electronic journal that focuses on current research on the biology of urban areas.

Urban History Review
The Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine is concerned with the historical development of urban Canada in a broad sense, with particular emphasis on works being done on Canadian towns and cities, topics that need to be added to the research agenda, methods needed for studying urban places, and availability, reliability and interpretation of research materials

US Modernist Library
The USModernist Library is the largest open digital collection of major US 20th-century architecture magazines with approximately 2.5 million downloadable pages - all free to access.

Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome

The Dissertation: An Architecture Student's Handbook.

Eco-architecture III: Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature

Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment

Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions 

Light in Engineering, Architecture and the Environment

Rethinking the Meaning of Place: Conceiving Place in Architecture-Urbanism

• Building Green
• Smart Growth Online
• Treehugger Design & Architecture
• United States Green Building Council (USGBC)

Bakar, Abu Hassan Abu, and Arman Abdul Razak. Construction Management in Perspective : Contemporary Issues, Ideas and Initiatives. Pulau Pinang: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2016.

DelPico, Wayne J., and ProQuest. Project Control: Integrating Cost and Schedule in Construction. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2013.

Hardin, Brad, Dave McCool. BIM and Construction Management : Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows. Second edition. Hoboken, NJ: Sybex, a Wiley brand, 2015.

Kerzner, Harold R. Project Management: a Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling. 12th ed. New York: Wiley, 2017.

Mubarak, Saleh. Construction Project Scheduling and Control. John Wiley, 2019.

Project Institute Management. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide). 5th ed. Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute, 2013.

Project Management Institute. The Standard for Earned Value Management. 1st edition. Project Management Institute, 2019.

Rapp, Randy R., and Bradley L. Benhart. Construction Site Planning and Logistical Operations : Site-Focused Management for Builders. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015.

Schmid, Karl F. Concise Encyclopedia of Construction Terms and Phrases. New York: Momentum Press, LLC, 2013.

Sweet and Schneier with Wentz. Construction Law for Design Professionals, Construction Managers, and Contractors. Cengage Learning, 2015.

ARCAT
A complete source for finding, selecting, detailing and specifying building products. 

Blue Book of Building and Construction Network
The Blue Book Building and Construction Network provide the information solutions and connections needed to simplify the construction process and continually advance the commercial construction industry across the United States.

Building Green
BuildingGreen helps architects, designers and other sustainability professionals make their projects greener and healthier

Knovel Library
Engineering Data and Technical References to Solve Engineering Problems.

O'Reilly for Higher Education
Primarily focused on information architecture, but contains  materials on project management.  

Sweets
Sweets is the building product source for the design and construction professiona, with comprehensive product information, CAD details, BIM objects, specs, catalogs, galleries, green product information CEUs and more on over 100,000 products

ADA Standards for Accessible Design

Florida Code Resources for Construction Professionals

Florida Building Codes 7th Edition (Miamidade.gov)

Florida Building Codes
Building, plumbing, residential, energy conservation, hurricane, accessibility, and more. 

International Building Code

Miami Dade Development Services & Zoning

Schmid, Karl F. Concise Encyclopedia of Construction Terms and Phrases. New York: Momentum Press, LLC, 2013. 

Course Reserve Information for Students
Course reserves are readings or materials for a class, selected by faculty and made available (in person or online) by the Libraries

LinkedIn Learning
Offers over 42,000 how-to videos on a wide-range of software applications, from Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop to Final Cut Studio.

Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
See Zotero LibGuide 

The Bass Museum of Art

HistoryMiami Museum

Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

Lowe Art Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

Perez Art Museum Miami

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Wolfsonian-FIU

ARC Archive of the New Urbanism Finding Aids

The Abrams Guide to American House Styles

Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities

The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Mulitway Boulevards

The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Values in Disney's New Town

Celebration: The Story of a Town

Celebration USA: Living in Disney's Brave New Town

City Comforts: How to Build an Urban VIliage

The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition

Codifying New Urbanism: How to Reform Municipal Land Development Regulations

Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves

Craving Community: The New American Dream

Everyday Urbanism : Margaret Crawford Vs. Michael Speaks

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape

Global City Blues

Great Streets

Greyfields into Goldfields: Dead Malls Become Living Neighborhoods

The High Cost of Free Parking

Home from Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century

Intown Living: A Different American Dream

It's a Sprawl World After all: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth and Visions of a Better Future

The Lexicon of the New Urbanism

The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream

The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning

The New Transit Town : Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development

New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future

New Urbanism: Peter Calthorpe Vs. Lars Lerup

Once there were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl is Undermining America's Environment, Economy, and Social Fabric

The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream

Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Principles of Urban Structure

Planning for Street Connectivity: Getting from here to there

The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl

Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

The Seaside Debates: A Critique of the New Urbanism

Self-Sufficient Urbanism: A Vision of Contraction for the Non-Distant Future

Seven Recipes for the New Urbanism

Smartcode: A Comprehensive Form-Based Planning Ordinance

The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl

Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America

Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health, and Money

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature

Towns and Town-Making Principles

Traditional Construction Patterns

Tradition Today: Continuity in Architecture and Society

Urban Concepts

Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism

World Made by Hand

Architectural Drawings and Maps Collection, 1985-2008 

Archive of the New Urbanism

Center for Urban and Community Design (CUCD) Archives

Congress for the New Urbanism Records

Historic Preservation Pamphlets, 1967-Present

Home Planning & Building Guides, 1938-1962

Hometown Maps

Robert Bradford Browne Collection, 1923-1987

Robert Fitch Smith Papers, 1894-1964

School of Architecture Archives

Student Publications

ASM0637 William Lyman Philips Papers
The collection mainly consists of Phillips' landscape work; it is made up of originals, brown-line and blue prints, and photographs. 

ASM0655 Bernhardt E. Muller Collection
The Bernhardt E. Muller Collection is a compendium of newspapers, architectural drawings, renderings, and photographs related to the design and construction of Opa-locka, Florida, the nation’s largest concentration of Moorish Revival architecture. 

ASM9980 The Biltmore Hotel Blueprints
This collection contains the original 1924-1925 architectural blueprints used by Schultze & Weaver to design the Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel, as well as a 1981 reconstruction blueprint. 

ASM0341 Florida Postcard Collection
The collection includes postcards from throughout the state, capturing both the natural landscape and the built environment

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ARCHIVES
ASU0651 University of Miami Campus Architecture Collection, 1926-2013
The historical architectural blueprints and the drawings of UM buildings are important components of the University Archives.  The items in the collection are identified by building name, architect, location, types of materials, and date.

CUBAN HERITAGE COLLECTION
CHC0331 Eugenio Batista Collection
The Eugenio Batista Collection contains essays, manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, photographs and original architectural drawings, blueprints and documents of Eugenio Batista (1900-1992), a Cuban architect active in 20th century Cuba and the United States. 

CHC5315 Fernando Ortíz Papers, circa 1940s-1950s
The Fernando Ortíz Papers principally contain original manuscript and typescript notes taken by Fernando Ortíz (18811969) on vernacular Cuban architecture and the history of Cuban architecture. Ortíz was specifically researching the indigenous, African and other folk influences on architecture and building construction.  

CHC0541 UM School of Architecture Cuban Slide Collection
Many of our digitized collections have views of Cuban architecture. 

• CHC5017 Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection, 1890-1999. Series II: Havana, n.d., 1900s-1999 (bulk dates 1910s-1930s) contains photographs of the city of Havana and includes various aspects of the life, architecture, and culture of that capital city. 

• CHC0329 Cuban Photograph Collection. Spans a wide range of topics related to Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. Highlights include historical images from the War of Independence against Spain (1895-1898), and photochrom prints important to the history of photography taken in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War by renowned American photographer William Jackson

• CHC0337 Cuban Photograph Album Collection. Contains primarily travel and family photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• CHC0359 Cuban Postcard Collection. Over 500 postcards depicting landscapes, street scenes, monuments, and other views across the island of Cuba.

• CHC5265 Andrew Giel Photograph Collection. Andrew Giel visited Cuba as a tourist 10 times between September 1955 and December 1959. Fifty years later, Mr. Giel printed 8 x 10 enlargements from the original slide transparencies, featuring views from across the island, including Havana, Trinidad, and Santiago de Cuba.

• CHC0360 Georgina Golik Photograph Collection. Views of Havana and Marianao taken in 1988.

• CHC5313 Raymond Labonte Photograph Collection. Contains photographs taken by US Army Corporal Raymond Labonte during his time stationed at the San Antonio de los Baños US Army Air Base near Havana, Cuba during the 1940s.

• CHC0271 Jorge Nuñez Bengochea Photograph Collection. Photographs of buildings and late 19th century graduating classes of the University of Havana.

• CHC5252 Tom Pohrt Photograph Collection. Photographs from Cuba in the 19th and 20th century, including albumen prints, daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits, stereographs, and color slides.

• CHC0392 Georgina Portuondo Photograph Collection. Photographs of the construction and dedication of the Memorial bust of José Martí in Port Chester, New York.

• CHC0549 Valentín Riva Photograph Collection. Circa 1900 photographs of streets, fortifications and other Havana sites.

• CHC0390 Sunny Storm Photograph Collection. Two interiors of artist Amelia Peláez’s residence in Havana.

• CHC5144 Toy Moon Photograph Collection. Photographs on a variety of subjects ranging from buildings and monuments to street vendors and musicians. Donated by the Toy Moon LLC Company.

• CHC0364 Viewbooks Collection. Selected booklets and souvenir albums of Cuba from the end of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.
 

Architectural Drawings and Maps Collection, 1985-2008 

Archive of the New Urbanism

Center for Urban and Community Design (CUCD) Archives

Congress for the New Urbanism Records

Historic Preservation Pamphlets, 1967-Present

Home Planning & Building Guides, 1938-1962

Hometown Maps

Robert Bradford Browne Collection, 1923-1987

Robert Fitch Smith Papers, 1894-1964

School of Architecture Archives

Student Publications

CUBAN HERITAGE COLLECTION

Andrew Giel Photograph Collection

Cuban Postcard Collection

Eugenio Batista Collection

Fernando Ortíz Papers, circa 1940s-1950s

Georgina Golik Photograph Collection

Georgina Portuondo Photograph Collection

Jorge Nuñez Bengochea Photograph Collection

Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection, 1890-1999

Raymond Labonte Photograph Collection

Tom Pohrt Photograph Collection

Toy Moon Photograph Collection

UM School of Architecture Cuban Slide Collection

Valentín Riva Photograph Collection

Viewbooks Collection

HistoryMiami Archives (keyword=architecture)

Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
The architectural collections housed at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach are available to Foundation members, researchers, architects, and students. The Foundation’s archive also includes image archives, rare books, maps, and periodicals that document the architectural and social history of Palm Beach.

University of Florida Architecture Archives
Preeminent archives program in Florida and the Caribbean collecting historical records relating to architecture, landscape architecture, planning and design
 

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
The Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) collection documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes.

Le Corbusier Online Cane ID and Individual log in required 
The high-definition digital archive, Le Corbusier Plans, was developed by Echelle-1 in partnership with Fondation Le Corbusier. Echelle-1 spent seven years to digitize and catalogue the Foundation's collection of Le Corbusier’s lifetime of architectural works, covering his 325 projects starting from 1905 through to 1964.

ADA Standards for Accesible Design

Florida Code Resources for Construction Professionals

Florida Building Code 7th Edition

Florida Building Codes
Building, plumbing, residential, energy conservation, hurricane, accessibility, and more. 

International Building Code

Miami Dade Development Services & Zoning