Doug Evans' Links

Organizations 

SAHANZ 

Link to SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND [SAHANZ] web site.

Society of Architectural Historians

Founded in 1940, the Society encourages scholarly research in the field and promotes the preservation of significant architectural monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage.

Docomomo

The acronym DOCOMOMO stands for DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement. Initially founded in 1988 in The Netherlands, there are now DOCOMOMO working parties in over 40 countries. The organization is dedicated to the study of significant works of Modern Movement architecture, landscape design and urban planning around the world.
DOCOMOMO US is the official working party of the United States.

Art Deco Society of Australia

Art Deco Society Inc. (ADS) is an incorporated not-for-profit cultural organisation, operating in Victoria and Tasmania. It is dedicated to the preservat- ion and celebration of aspects of the Art Deco era such as architecture, landscaping, furniture, industrial design, fashion, graphics, art, jewellery, entertainment and transport. A major objective is to raise the awareness in the community of the importance of Twentieth Century buildings.

Library and Image Resources

Aardvark

On-line guide to contemporary Melbourne architecture first published as book and CD-rom in 1997. Winner of R.A.I.A. Victorian Chapter Award for Architecture in the Media 1998.

Cities Buildings Image Data Base

The Cities/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.

MIT Libraries - Kidder-Smith Slide Archive

The Kidder Smith Slide Archives is a collection of 3400 Kodachrome slides which document ten centuries of architecture in the United States. Photographed by G. E. Kidder Smith, architect, architectural photographer and author of two major surveys of American architecture, these slides represent color documenation of many of the buildings photographed in black and white for Kidder Smith's three-volume Architecture of the United States: AnIllustrated Guide to Notable Buildings,

A Digital Archive of American Architecture

This archive, currently consisting of nearly 1,500 digitized images of American architecture (280 buildings) plus explanatory material, was originally constructed as a supplement to my course FA 267 From Saltbox to Skyscraper: Architecture in America. This class surveys the
development of architecture in America from the 17th century to the present, with particular emphasis given to local architectural monuments.

Archive of European Architecture

 

Chicago Image Base

The Chicago Imagebase is a Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images and other data along with information on how to use this data to study the city.

Publications and Portal Sites 

Harvard Design Magazine

Harvard Design Magazine aims to provide a forum for thoughtful and articulate practitioners, journalists and academics primarily from architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning.

Basilisk

There is a loose organizing structure to this first release of basilisk, that gathers itself around the category of the virtual. Not necessarily 'Virtual Reality,' as current hype understands it, but other operative realms of the virtual which have existed within technologies of representation, language, and production.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH
PROJECT-BASED DESIGN RESEARCH + DISCOURSE ON DESIGN

Editors:
Brent Allpress - RMIT Architecture, Australia
Michael Ostwald - University of Newcastle, Australia

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH is an academic journal affiliated with the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia AASA which represents all Architecture Programs and Schools across Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The journal is supported by contributions from each of these member institutions:

On-Line Writing Style Guides

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association

This guide is based on a document prepared in 1995 by Patricia S. Burgess, Ph.D., a volunteer staff member for America Online, and subsequently modified and updated for use on the World Wide Web by members of the Humanities Department and library staff at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. In March and April of 1997, it was modified to its present question-and-answer format.

http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_intro.htm

 

The Columbia Guide to On-line Style

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/basic.html