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Bard Graduate Center
PhD and MA Programs in the Cultural History of the Material World
bgc.bard.edu
Architectural Design
Generative Components software lets you create with no boundaries.
www.bentley.com
Google 3D Warehouse
Search, share, and store 3D models. Download or submit your own models!
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A picture gallery of cupolas, architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes from around the world. Also US state capitol building histories, wordplay, FAQ and Autocad links.
www.cupola.com
Images of a range of ancient and historic art and architecture from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.
www.bergerfoundation.ch
Digital Images of Historic Architecture
Galleries of photographs of European and North American architecture from Classical to Post-Modern, whole facades and details, with explanations, by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, US.
www.bluffton.edu
Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable.www.greatbuildings.com
SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library
Online images from the large collection of slides at the University of California at Berkeley. Can be searched by period, place, building name, personal name, subject type.
www.mip.berkeley.edu
Digital Archive of Architecture
Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA.
www.bc.edu
A huge collection of images of architecture across the world, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean region, Australia and Japan, collated by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University.
rubens.anu.edu.au
An introduction to world architecture produced by American teenagers through Think Quest. Images, discussion and bibliography for Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, Mayan, Greek Roman and Gothic buildings.
library.thinkquest.org
Thais 4000 Years of Architecture
A photographic guide to Egyptian, Greek, Islamic and Romanesque architecture, indexed by localities, subjects and periods.
www.thais.it
- Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options.
whc.unesco.org
Offers photographs and descriptions of outstanding buildings across the world, historic and modern.
www.glasssteelandstone.com
The University of California develops Virtual Reality models of ancient and historic buildings around the world. Mission, staff profiles, computer-generated reconstructions.
www.cvrlab.org
Cities and Buildings Image Database
A searchable photographic database of buildings from around the world and across the ages, designed by the University of Washington's Architecture, History and Art History Departments.
content.lib.washington.edu
A prototype project to test the concept of a digital archive of 3D survey information of endangered world heritage sites.
www.cyark.org
Weblog by Matthias Ripp and information about UNESCO World Heritage.
worldheritage-forum.net