LibGuides: Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Subject specific content

Free Indexes and Open Source Material

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
Provides "a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature"
OpenDoar
Open Source journal articles
Internet Archive aka Wayback Machine
Everything that has been on the web is here, and is still being updated. It holds , old programmes, animation, books, sound and much more.
VADS
Access to images from art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.

archINFORM
"The largest online-database about worldwide architects and buildings from past to present"
BHO - British History Online
A not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. Of particular interest is the Survey of London.
British Listed Buildings Online
Cities and Buildings Database
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.
External Works Index
Solutions for your landscaping and civil engineering projects
Heritage Gateway
This website allows you to cross-search over 60 resources, offering local and national information relating to England’s heritage.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Free landscape/architecture courses 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"

All of these newsfeeds are free unless otherwise stated.

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" Last updated 2016
American Society of Landscape Architects
American Society Of Landscape Architecture
Council for Tall Buildings
"Advancing Sustainable Vertical Urbanism"
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Garden Museum, Lambeth
Hidden Architecture
Landscape Institute
The Museum of English Rural Life (Readng)
This also houses materials from the Landscape Institute
National Association of Landscape Professionals
RNDRD
"RNDRD is a partial index of architectural drawings and models scanned from design publications throughout the 20th century."
Urban Design Forum
World Architecture (Community)
An online platform for architects to showcase their work and exchange ideas
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An online platform for architects to showcase their work and exchange ideas

CAD Tutor
Gresham Talks
Gresham College is an independent institution funded from the estate of its founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. around 1579.
The College hosts lecture's given by appointed Gresham Professors, Visiting Professors and visiting speakers,
It hosts 130 annual lectures and events are free and open to all and there are now over 2,000 lectures freely available online on this website and on YouTube
Ted Talks
Guest speakers from the world of academic and industry talk on a myriad of subjects, including architecture.
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Podcast are also provided

Courtauld - Conway Photo Collection of the Courtauld
The Conway Library contains almost 1 million photographs of world architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and manuscripts.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library
This includes physical and digitised materials. His slide collection (POVALi) is open to all.
V & A

Royal Institute of British Architects, Marylebone

The Library is freely accessible to all students

Royal Chartered Institute for Landscape Architects

We champion landscape and the landscape profession, through advocacy and support to our members