LibGuides: Architecture and Landscape: Websites

Frank lloyd Wright Foundation

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
See all about his buildings, including virtual tours.

Do you want to read some more about his work? The library has the ebook Wrightscapes, which pays particular attention to site planning, landscape design, community scale and regional planning. The authors include many original diagrams, rare archival material, and some 200 photographs and site plans, many never published before, detailing Wright's residential and public work and his urban design initiatives

Action Groups

Architects Climate Action Network
ACAN is a network of individuals within architecture and related built environment professions taking action to address the twin crises of climate and ecological breakdown.
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Also has a Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/ArchitectsCAN
Decolonising Architecture Art Research
Delphina Foundation
Based in the heart of London, Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.
Escala
ESALA Climate Action is a student and staff group aiming to tackle the Climate Emergency in our pedagogy, research, and community practices at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA).
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Looks at carbon footprint, recycling./repurposing and decolonising /diversity of architecture
Voluntary Architects' Network
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) founded in 1995. They design partitions for evacuee's in disaster areas.

Materials

A new section to cover different construction materials. Let me know if you have something useful to add.

Wood
The Dezeen guide to wood in architecture, interiors and design

Landscape

American Society of Landscape Architects
External Works Index
Garden and Landscape Directory
Garden Museum, Lambeth
The Garden Museum explores and celebrates British gardens and gardening through its collection, temporary exhibitions, events and garden
Landscape Institute
Landzine
The Museum of Rural live
This houses materials from the Landscape Institute
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
Promotes the stewardship and awareness of significant landscapes and offers educational resources.
Garden Design Magazine
This magazine includes a section on landscape design, includes some free material and lots of images.
Gardenista
A website featuring garden and landscape design ideas, products, and guides
Land8
An online community for landscape architects and students, offering forums, job listings, and resources.
The Dirt
A blog by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), featuring news and articles on landscape architecture
The National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP)
Provides resources for professionals in the landscape industry.

BoB (Box of Broadcast)

Bob is managed by Learning Onscreen. As well as providing access to many progammes aired post 1950, it provides curated playlist such as any shown below (I will add to the list as I come across them).

There are also many playlists created by academics around the country. When searching enter your topic and select playlist, before pressing search.

e.g there are currently 7 lists using the search phrase "landscape design".

Architecture Playlist

Other sites of possible interest

archINFORM
archINFORM includes information over more than 83000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners.
Archinect
A community and online resource for architects and architecture enthusiasts.
British Listed Buildings
A public website, It lists buildings throughout the UK. Includes a location map, co-ordinates and sometimes photos uploaded by the public.
Building History
This is a guide to researching the history of buildings. "There are bibliographies on everything from architects to Victorian architecture. There are introductions to a wide range of building types and architectural styles, plus the development of towns and villages,...and a section on churches"
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Please note: Whilst this source may be useful, its last update was 2016
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.
Galinsky
Free access to exciting modern buildings and the means to explore them: photographs, descriptions and practical information for visiting them
Great Buildings
GreatBuildings, presents "one thousand selected classics of world architecture, and hundreds of their great designers, in the leading general architecture reference site".
Heritage Gateway
This website allows you to cross-search over 60 resources, offering local and national information relating to England’s heritage.
MIT Architecture OpenCourseWare
Provides free access to architectural courses and resources from MIT
Something Concrete + Modern
Something Concrete and Modern is an ongoing project to document the buildings, people and plans that transformed the town and cities in the North East of England in the years following the Second World War.
Survey of London (book from British History Online)
" The Survey of London, founded in the 1890s, is the nearest thing there is to an official history of London's buildings. This series provides detailed architectural and topographical studies of the capital's built environment."
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
A leading resource on tall buildings and sustainable urban design.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Recognizes outstanding contributions to humanity through architecture.
VADS
VADS is a service of the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), it provides images covering a broad range of the visual arts including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media
World Architecture Community
An online platform for architects to showcase their work and exchange ideas.
Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library
This library is a collection of books and slides collected on Paul Oliver's travels. There is a link within this page that gives you access to his slide collection

Multimedia

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