Architecture

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1. 20th Century Australian Architecture
   Especially modernist architecture. 20th century styles and key buildings.
• 20th Century Heritage Society of NSW, The
  ‘Protecting and promoting 20th Century architectural and design heritage in the state.’ Information on architecture, activities, heritage walks and related links.
• Aardvark
  From RMIT, Melbourne.
• Architectural Styles : An Overview
  From the same group as the link for Modern Residential Architecture in the ACT. This looks at a range of styles and provides examples of each.
• Architecture Media [1]
  ‘Print magazines and online information covering : architecture, design, building products & services.’
• Architecture - Modern 20th Century Australia
  Bibliographic listing from the University of Technology Library, Sydney.
• Australian Architecture
  Extensive annotated bibliography.
• In The Mind Of The Architect
  An ABC [Australia] presentation looking at the work of a range of Australian architects. Looks at buildings, architects, provides slide shows and more.
• Jorn Utzon …
  [Sydney Opera House Collection, 1956-1967]
  A collection of drawings, manuscripts, photographs and models from the State Library.
• Modernist Residential Architecture In The ACT
  House profiles, a range of resources and related links about housing and architectural styles in Canberra.
• Our House
  ‘More than 40 historians from throughout Australia write about their own homes or tell the histories of other people’s houses.’ Online presentation. Not all are in the 20th century.
• State of Australian Architecture, The
  Listen to a Radio National program from 2000 [RealPlayer required].
• Sustainable Sydney 2030
  ‘An initiative of the City of Sydney. Developed in consultation with the community and a team of Sydney’s best minds in urban planning, architecture and design, it was coordinated by the City of Sydney’s internal strategy team and an expert consortium.’ See the future in 3D, find information about the Exhibition, hear [Jan] Gehl’s vision [podcast] and either read or download the discussion paper.
• Twentieth Century Architecture [Modern]
  ‘A description of the development and characteristics of the International Modern style of the twentieth century.’
2. Contemporary Architecture & Theory
   Considers theories and buildings from about 1960 to the present from both Australia and overseas.
• architecture.com.au
  ‘Is based around the prestigious RAIA National Architecture Awards, which have been running since 1981. The gallery currently contains approximately 2 000 projects that have been entered in the awards program from 1981 onwards.’
• Googie Architecture
  Designs from the 50s and 60s ‘space’ style.
• Group Theory and Architecture
  The first of a two part series on this topic, with a link to the second section.
• International Journal of Architectural Theory
  Mostly in German but with some articles in English. Current and previous issues are accessible.
• Modern Architecture
  From Questia. Fee-based to fully access, but indicators may help access at your own library.
• SkyscraperPage
  ‘The world’s finest resource for skyscraper and urbanism enthusiasts. Featuring unique skyscraper diagram illustrations, a world-wide buildings database, one of the world’s busiest skyscraper-themed discussion forums and one-of-a-kind skyscraper posters.’
• Thematic Theories of Architecture
  While going well beyond the period noted it does provide information for that era.
• Theories & Approaches
  From the About portal. ‘Resources on this page explore a variety of philosophical approaches to building design.’
• Theories of Architectural Synthesis
  Similar to the Thematic Theories’ link above.
• Theorizing A New Agenda For Architecture
  A textual review of a book of the same name. It does, however, still include a fair amount of information about the topic.
• Vitruvio Search Engine
  Search engine allowing access to historical periods, architects and more.
3. Design :
• Cool Your Home Naturally
  Cool your home without using air conditioning and minimise cost. Colours, landscaping, blocking heat, shade devices and more included.
• designHome
  Interior architecture and design. Commercial site but interesting ideas.
• Home Ideas
  Australian site.
• Pattern Book
  The New South Wales’ Government ‘Pattern Book’ for architects indicating what is thought to be good design.
4. Energy Efficiency :
• Advanced Building Technologies
  Technologies that improve energy and resource efficiency of commercial and residential buildings.
• Basix
  ‘Introduced by the NSW Government, BASIX, the Building Sustainability Index, ensures homes are designed to use less potable water and be responsible for fewer greenhouse gas emissions by setting energy and water reduction targets for house and units.’
• Energysmart
  Similar to SEDA.
• SEDA
  New South Wales Government site aimed at helping homes and business reduce energy consumption by 40%. Now part of the Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability. New department doing the same things, April 2007.

1. General Sites & Portals :
• Architecture
  ‘250 000 pages of useful information about architecture, architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects’. Sub-directories include - RIBA Gallery, Great Buildings, Library, Links.
• Architecture and Building
  Links to architectural resources and reference tools.
• Architecture Web Sites
  Links for aspects of architecture from different periods to styles and images, theory, journals and more.
• Frank Lloyd Wright Quotations
  What the famous architect had to say about everything.
• MIT Open Courseware in Architecture
  Covers both undergraduate and graduate courses which have been presented at MIT. Examples include : Introduction to Design Computing, Urban Design, Design Fabrication to name just a few of the 69 offerings in Architecture.
• Sapling.info
  ‘Sapling.info is the Architecture, Planning & Landscape Information Gateway — a global gateway for information and a forum for its exchange, centred around more than 1 000 reviewed links.’ Be sure to check the Architecture Gateway as well as others listed elsewhere on this page.
• The Cool Hunter
  The architecture section of this site. Brilliant graphics and commentary covering some amazing designs and ideas. Other sections may also be relevant, e.g. design, lifestyle, … .
• The Virtual Study Tour
  A New Zealand developed site which provides a range of architectural and design reconstructions, simulacra and projections. It is quite good and well worth visiting.
• WWW Virtual Library : Architecture
2. Graphic Design
   Principles, design elements, visual communications, relationships between type, form and image.
• All Graphic Design
  ‘A Graphic Design Portal with Graphics Resources and Desktop Publishing Directory of DTP resources including Graphic Design Image Editing Shareware, Graphic Design Message Boards/Forums, Actions, Filters, Templates, Graphic Design Schools, Graphic Design Jobs, and other graphic design resources.’
• Australian Graphic Design Association
• Classic Graphic Design Theory
  ‘A short introduction to graphic design theory, explaining the different aspects of design which are considered when composing a piece of fine art or producing a graphic layout.’
• Designer Today Graphics Software Tutorials
  Covers an extensive range of the major programs.
• Design Talk Board
  ‘Graphic design resources, graphics news and talk forums for designers, art directors, pre-press professionals, web developers and design students.’
• Elements of Design
  ‘The five elements of : lines | shapes | mass | texture | colour are the building blocks of design.’ Initially linked to desktop publishing but still applicable.
• Graphic Design Forum
  Forum, blogs, articles, news, resources and more.
• Graphic Design : BUBL Links
  Annotated links to a variety of resources.
• Graphic Design
  From Wikipedia. Information with embedded links.
• Graphic Design Basics Article
  Text article with associated links.
• Internet Resources for Visual Communication
  Links in directories by the library of the University of South Australia.
• Normal Room
  ‘See how people live around the world ! Explore the variety of lifestyles and cultural peculiarities ! Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe.’
• Principles of Graphic Design
  Done in a sequence of information covering 5 major areas from an introduction to Typography. Also downloadable.
• Professional Graphic Design Links
  13 directories of links from Elements & Principles to ROI Research.
• Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication, Part 1
  Text article with extensive bibliography. Also check their Links page.
• Visual Communication
  Journal with contents available in .pdf format.
• Visual Communication Sites
  From the University of Iowa.
• Visual Communications Journal
  ‘A professional communicative link for educators and industry personnel associated with design, presentation, management, and reproduction of graphic forms of communication.’ Each year’s output downloadable in .pdf format.
• Wiki Graphic Design Textbook
  Done under headings of disciplines, theory, projects, etc..
3. Great Buildings :
• Great Buildings Collection, The
  Buildings, architects, places, architecture books, 3D models, architectural types, links, bibliographies and two levels of search.
• Operaen
  The Copenhagen Opera House. Built with a donation of $500 million, but with some specific requirements.
• Sydney Opera House
  A virtual tour, bookings and further information.
4. Help Sites :
• Archicentre
  Managed by the Royal Institute of Architects. Property inspections, renovations, house hunting survival plus links including health and emergency services.
• Design Community - Architecture Forum
  Discussion forum for all thing architectural from design to employment and beyond. Also has an archived section.
5. Institutes, Associations & Groups :
• Royal Australian Institute of Architects
• Royal Institute of British Architects
• Society of Architectural Historians
  ‘The Society of Architectural Historians [SAH] is an international organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide.’ The Australian & New Zealand association can be found here [SAHANZ].

1. Magazines & Journals :
• Architectural Design Research
  ‘This journal promotes the publication of architectural design research, focusing particularly on project-based design research and associated discourse on design.’ From RMIT.
• Architecture Magazine - ‘Archit’
  A Fee-based magazine. Sections listed include resources, practice, culture and several others.
• Architecture Media [2]
  Architecture magazines including Architecture Australia, Houses and others. Also association links.
• Architectural Theory Review
  Sample copy available plus tables of contents.
• Fabrications
  ‘The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.’
• Journal of Architectural Education
  ‘The Journal of Architectural Education is a refereed journal published by Blackwell Publishing for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.’
• Specifier
  ‘Specifier Magazine is an established journal of architectural products and projects in Australia. Specifier Online presents full text of current and past issues.’
2. Project Management :
• For information on Project Management, go to the Engineering page and check Project Management there. While some links relate peculiarly to engineering projects, there is a good selection of basic project management information. One good example in the Architectural field follows.
• Architecture and Construction …
  [Management Subject Guide]
  From Deakin University Library.

1. Software :
• Architecture Software and Digital Media
  ‘Use this index to find information about architecture software, digital media and computer-aided design resources for architects and home design hobbyists.’
• Building Design Studio
  Free house design software designed to help with energy conservation.
2. Special Styles & Buildings :
• Architecture Through The Ages
  A Thinkquest site looking at architecture in civilisations including Mayan, Greek, Roman, Classical, Chinese, Aztec, Egyptian. A section on Cathedrals.
• Broadacre All-Wright Site
  A guide to 60+ Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. A distinctive style.
• Cairo Architecture
  Architecture found in Cairo and Egypt. Photographs of styles. Visit Cairo Opera House.
• Castles
  Architectural information about castles and their structure from earliest to medieval times.
• Fusion of Form and Function : Art We Live In
  A Thinkquest site. Different architectural styles of history and the last century in particular, the physics and engineering skills behind implementation, use the timeline, even create your own building.
• House that Mike & Heather Built, The
  An inner Sydney project where a terrace house was remodelled to produce its own power, water and re-use sewerage on site.
• Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
  Slides demonstrating these styles used in an US architecture course.
• Roman Art and Architecture
  Roman architecture, painting and sculpture.
• Sapling Heritage Gateway
  ‘Sapling Heritage Gateway features reviewed links to heritage-related education, organisations, places, portfolios, products, research, resources and services on the web.’ Has recommended sites annotated with icons, and all sites rated.
3. Urban Design & Planning
   Key planning ideas, the context of the built environment, design proposals, strategic analyses of building situations.
• About Planning
  ‘About Planning is an Internet clearing house for information about websites, publications, essays and news related to land use planning, growth management, comprehensive planning, smart growth, new urbanism and much more.’
• Basic Research Resources
  [For City & Regional Planning]
  ‘A selective bibliographic guide to basic city & regional planning reference sources.’ US oriented.
• Cyburbia
  ‘The urban planning portal’. A resource directory, forums, gallery, bookstore and more.
• Headspace : Architecture : Built Landscapes
  From the ABC [Australia] ‘a special double issue to the particles, practitioners and principles behind the design of our homes, offices and public spaces.’
• Journal of Urban Planning and Development
  Current and previous issues. Abstracts and .pdf versions of articles.
• New Urbanism
  ‘A leading and well respected informational website promoting good urbanism, smart transportation, transit oriented development, and sustainability.’
• Online Planning Resources
  ‘The lists cover a wide range of resources. They are well annotated.
• Open Directory - Urban & Regional Planning
  Extensive series of links, many in directories.
• Parole
  ‘Words, related to the transformation of the urban landscape, in a hypermedia database, along with more than 1 000 related links.’
• Planum
  The European Journal of Planning.
• Radical Urban Theory
  Dominantly US oriented. Looks at aspects of urban theory and occurrence.
• RUDI [Resource for Urban Design Information]
  UK based. Fee-based but with a Free Trial.
• Sapling Urban Design Gateway
  ‘Features reviewed links to urban design-related education, organisations, places, products,research and resources and services on the web.’ Has recommended sites annotated with icons, and all sites rated.
• Urban Cartography
  Check the category archives for a wealth of information.
• Urban Design & Planning
  From architectus [Australia]. Download project sheets for their various projects from Ultimo to Arana Hills.
• Urban Ecology
  ‘Working to promote and create ecologically integrated human settlements.’ Uses a site [Christie Walk in Adelaide] as an example.
• Urban Planning
  From Wikipedia. Information with embedded links.
• Urbanwords
  ‘The website of The Dictionary of Urbanism … a comprehensive and often irreverent reference for everyone whose business or passion is cities.’
4. Sapling Sustainability Gateway
   ‘Sapling Sustainability Gateway features reviewed links to sustainability-related education, organisations, places, products, research, resources and services on the web.’ Has recommended sites annotated with icons, and all sites rated.