Check out the Course Reserves.

Archipedia (Society of Architectural Historians)

The Oxford Companion to Architecture

Oxford Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art)

Oxford Reference

Dictionary of Architecture & Construction / edited by Cyril M. Harris.

Time-saver Standards for Urban Design / editors, Donald Watson, Alan Plattus, Robert G. Shibley.

Building Types Study (in Architectural Record)

American Institute of Architects: Practicing Architecture

American Institute of Architects: Blueprint for America Initiatives

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

1. Architects

Sullivan, Louis, (search by last name)

McKim, Mead and White

2. in the contexts of building types/Styles/Periods:

Architecture domestic

Dwellings

Historic buildings

church architecture

Public architecture

sustainable architecture

Architecture, Gothic

Skyscrapers

3. related Topics/ Issues:

"united states" and revival and architecture
(e.g., style revivals)

"united states" and urban* and architect*

"united states" and suburb* and architect*

*architect* searches for architect, architecture, etc.

4. in a larger context, e.g. architecture of a country:

Architecture -- Japan

 

5. Plans, Sections and Elevations (primary sources)>

architectural drawing and united states

architectural drawing and wright

architecture details and (modern or 19th century)

architectural rendering

architecture designs and plans and (modern or 20th century)

Digital

ARTstor (including SAHARA Project by the Society of Architectural Historians)

Artifact (Tufts University)

Great Buildings Collection (from the magazine Architecture week, a vast collection of current and historical "photographic images, architectural drawings, maps, timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, and web links.)

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

Image Quest (two million rights-cleared images)

City of Chicago Landmarks

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

A Digital Archive of American Architecture

Digital Archive of European Architecture

International Architecture Database

Dream, Design, Build: The UW Architecture Student Drawing Collection, 1914-1947

Books with images at Tisch

(architect* or building*) and united states and pictorial works

monuments and pictorial works

architect* and photo*

architect* and exhibition*

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

3. Architecture (the Avery Index)

(the principal database)

 

4. From more Cultural Perspectives:

America: History and Life

Historical Abstracts. (non-U.S.)

Africa

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Index Islamicus

PRISMA (Latin American Studies)

Slavic and East European Studies

 

5. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Variety of Keywords to cover all aspects

Search with a whole range of keywords: the building, its type, its locale, the city or the country, its period or style; its client/patron, its materials, its setting/site, the architect and his/her theory and ideals, etc.

C. Learn the Language of the Source

In Avery citations on the fairly recent project "the Big Dig House in Lexington, Massachusetts" you will find such subject terms as "Adaptive reuse", "Construction and demolition debris"

The search on the "Wellesley College Library" in Avery finds few articles on the building itself at this point. However, a search on the architect discovers articles on their past and related works University and College Libraries. You place your specific question in a larger context--the study of a type of buildings.

D. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

E. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Current:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

 

Boston News (Boston Globe and Local Newspapers)

Historical

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks