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Architecture

This guide highlights select resources that will help you get started with research about architecture.

Architecture

Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library at USC Another comprehensive Art and Architecture Library site, also provides access to Homer the USC Library Catalog.

National Trust for Historic Preservation This is the home page for the major historic preservation organization in the nation.

Yesterland This site is all about what was, it's a lot of fun take a look at it.

MODCOM; Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee This wonderful site provides information on programs and tours offered by the Los Angeles Conservancy.

Los Angeles Downtown News The official newspaper of the downtown cultural, construction and business scene, a must read for anyone interested in Downtown Los Angeles.

you-are-here.com architecture A comprehensive archive of photos of Los Angeles architecture and views. Organized by broad subject.

Cal Poly Pomona Document Resource Center (DRC) For students interested in getting blueprints, planning documents, etc. related to our Cal Poly Pomona campus.

Arcosanti & Paolo Soleri 27 years ago, the Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti, an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona. When complete, Arcosanti will house 7000 people, demonstrating ways to improve urban conditions and lessen our destructive impact on the earth. Its large, compact structures and large-scale solar greenhouses will occupy only 25 acres of a 4060 acre land preserve, keeping the natural countryside in close proximity to urban dwellers. Arcosanti is designed according to the concept of arcology (architecture + ecology), developed by Italian architect Paolo Soleri.

Monona Terrace It was nearly 60 years ago that Frank Lloyd Wright drew the plans that eventually inspired the Monona Terrace Convention Center. Today it is a reality but not without fights, intrigue and vision worthy of an Olympian battle. If you can't visit Madison Wisconsin and see this final monument to Frank Lloyd Wright then visit this website.

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) From Virginia Polytechnic Institute, “...women's involvement in architecture by collecting...the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations....”

WWW VL Architecture The WWW Virtual Library Architecture site.