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Afghanistan - The Harrison Forman Collection
"...documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the Soviet Union invaded the country. The photographs were taken by Harrison Forman in 1969. The online collection consists of 174 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed at the American Geographical Society Collection...The online collection is organized into six browsable subject categories: architecture, history, land, people, and transportation."
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Architecture of the Getty Center
Versions 1 (200 photographs) and 2 (600 photographs)
"The photographs and text in this web site are meant to supplement those published in various magazines and books and to provide images of additional aspects of the architecture, landscaping, and details...This web site focuses on the architecture of the Center, including its landscaping...the audience I have in mind is primarily college and university students and others with a serious interest in the architecture being studied."
By Charles S. Rhyne, Professor Emeritus, Art History, Reed College
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) - Photo Archive
"The AIIS collection from the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, has over 125,000 photographs in the collection. The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics."
Part of the Digital South Asia Library
Built in America
Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
"The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as windmills, one-room schoolhouses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright."
American Memory, Library of Congress
A Digital Archive of American Architecture
"This archive, currently consisting of nearly 1,400 digitized images of American architecture (280 buildings) plus explanatory material, was originally constructed as a supplement to my course...The color images on this site are low resolution scans of my own slides and photographs in my collection. Utilizing the flexibility of hypermedia, the historical material and slides contained here can be can be accessed in a variety of ways, such as by date, style, purpose, and location."
By Jeffery Howe, Boston College
A Digital Archive of European Architecture
By Prof. Jeffery Howe, Boston College
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Great Structures of the World
Sections include: Canada ; USA ; Asia ; Europe ; Australia ; Egypt ; Emirates.
"How to Research an Architectural Structure: A Research Guide"
By Lee Robinson, Librarian, New York Public Library
Manhattan Timeformations
Mapping Manhattan's Skyscraper Districts through Time
"This project uses computer models and interactive animations to depict the dynamic relationship between Manhattan's skyscrapers and other layers of urban information, such as: geologic formation, settlement patterns, landfill, transportation and communications infrastructure, zoning laws and real estate cycles."
By Brian McGrath, Architect
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