An excellent database for architectural research, including both peer-reviewed articles and books. Includes architectural drawings and many images, Covers medieval and ancient architecture.
Drawings, photographs, and written histories for built environments in the United States and associated territories. The survey is a program of the National Parks Service, and is constantly updated.
Article Databases in Architecture
An article index is a searchable database that helps you find relevant articles and scholarly sources for your research. While an article index doesn't always provide the full text of the articles themselves, it helps you identify relevant articles and citations for further exploration.
Particular emphasis and focus on visual culture and architecture from Coptic Egypt, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia, and the Near East. Includes early apostolic times up to 1550 CE.
The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1550 (some manuscript holdings up to the middle of the sixteenth century). Particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. This has been corrected over the last few years with the addition of significant holdings from Coptic Egypt, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia, and the Near East. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, and these include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, etc.
This is a very good source for architectural research but be sure to include additional keywords such as "built heritage" or "cultural heritage" to differentiate between built architecture and computer networking architecture in Scopus.
This is a very good database for medieval architecture research, including European, Arabic, Islamic and North African sources.
The International Medieval Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of j in this this interdisciplinary field. Areas covered include classics, English language and literature, history and archaeology, theology and philosophy, Medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic and Islamic studies, history of education, art history, music, theatre and performance arts, rhetoric and communication studies. Dates covered range from 400 to 1500 A.D., and geographic coverage includes Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The database also allows users to search the Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale, an index of over 40,000 books and 64,000 book reviews on medieval topics since 1957.
