Architecture and Design

Architecture: Essential Resources for Research

UCLA Library: Resources and Services

UCLA Library Homepage

Arts Library Web Pages

Making an Interlibrary Loan Request

SRLF: Requesting Materials

Online Access from Home

Finding Books: Online Catalogs

• UCLA Library Catalog
• MELVYL (searches holdings of all 10 UC libraries and libraries worldwide, plus selected article indexing)
• WorldCat (library holdings worldwide)

Finding Journal Articles

• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Library Catalog and Architectural Publications Index
• Art Full Text and Art Retrospective
• Design and Applied Arts Index
• Academic Search Complete
• GreenFile
• EI Compendex (Engineering, including architectural and civil engineering, building construction, material science)
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR

Images/ Image databases

• AUD Image Database
• Archivision
• ARTstor
• Luna Insight Collections
• Google Image Search
• Image Resources

Selected Online Reference Sources

• Great Buildings Collection
• Material ConneXion (a database of new and innovative building materials)
• Oxford Art Online (an electronic encyclopedia that includes architecture and design topics)
• Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD) (information on the buildings and designers of California, Oregon and Washington)
• Phildelphia Architects and Buildings database (more than 260,000 projects and buildings, over 24,400 architects, engineers and contractors, and over 127,000 images. Although the focus is on Philadelphia buildings and Philadelphia based-architects, numerous projects from other locations are also represented, including over 5500 projects in California)

Research Guides

• Architecture and Urban Design: A Basic Research Guide
• Image Resources Research Guide
• Course Guides