LibGuides: Methods of Inquiry in Architectural Design: a quick guide: Image Databases and Websites

Image Databases and Websites

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses.

Cities and Buildings Database
The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
Cleveland Memory Project
The Cleveland Memory Project is a searchable collection of digital resources focusing on the history of greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, created in collaboration with many regional partners.
Google Arts & Culture
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Includes the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey and
Cities and Towns

Catena Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and landscapes
Sponsored by the Bard Graduate Center through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes and its companion website, is envisioned as part of a larger, typologically organized archive of digital images with accompanying educational materials. The initial component of Catena is built around the villa, an important landscape type in garden history. Its purpose is to serve as an educational tool for teachers and scholars of landscape history affiliated with schools and universities.
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Cyburbia
Cyburbia connects planners, students, academics, urbanists, and others who are interested in or help shape the built environment.
Urban Design Collective
Urban Design Collective (UDC) is a collaborative platform for architects, urban designers and planners to create livable and sustainable cities through community engagement.

Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
A by-request streaming video service for educational institutions. The Kanopy platform may not be supported on some devices, such as Chromebooks and mobile devices. You must download the Kanopy App in order to stream the resources.
OnArchitecture This link opens in a new window
OnArchitecture is an online audiovisual service providing a synthetic, deep and detailed panorama of the world's main authors, works, experiences and problematics related to the field of architecture.
OnArchitecture's collection features original videos, such as interviews, buildings and installations, all of this enriched with a selection of complementary material -documents and audiovisuals- about the main authors and figures of contemporary architecture.
OnArchitecture allows you to explore all its content through various search methods. Its catalogue is carefully indexed, linked and segmented in order to facilitate its usage. All of the links between different authors and works have been evidenced in order to stimulate the comprehension and assimilation of the material.