Architecture Subject Guide

Art and Architecture Databases

• Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson): covers all periods of art and architecture
• Artbibliographies Modern (ABM): extensive coverage of international journals including art and architecture
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals: covers architecture and decorative arts
  

Interdisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• Erudit Scholarly Journals (CRKN): French journals
• JSTOR: articles and images
• Google Scholar

Find Theses & Dissertations

• Spectrum Research Repository
• Theses Canada

Reference Books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, lexicons, etc.)

Arnold, Dieter. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Princeton University Press, 2003
Webster Library (Reference) - NA215 A7513 2003

Ching, Francis D.K. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995
Webster Library (Reference) - NA31 C44 1995

Cowan, Henry, Peter Smith, and W.K. Chow. Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology. 4th ed. Routledge, 2004 - eBook

Curl, James Stevens. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2006 - eBook

Curl, James Stevens, and Susan Wilson. A Dictionary of Architecture. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford University Press, 2021 - eBook

Davies, Nikolas, and Erkki Jokiniemi. Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction. Elsevier/Architectural Press, 2008 - eBook

Glacey, Jonathan. Architecture: A Visual History. Penguin Random House, 2017
Webster Library (Course Reserve Room) - NA200 G527 2017

Hopkins, Owen. Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon. Laurence King, 2012 - eBook

Jones, Tom Devonshire, Linda Murray, and Peter Murray, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2013 - eBook

Leick, Gwendolyn. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture. Routlege, 1988 - eBook

Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Architecture. Scarecrow Press, 2008
Webster Library (Reference) - NA200 P35 2008

Peterson, Andrew. Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge, 1996 - eBook

Sennott, R. Stephen. Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004 - eBook

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Architects

Adams, Annmarie, and Peta Tancred. Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession. University of Toronto Press, 2000 - eBook

Allaback, Sarah. The First American Women Architects. University of Illinois Press, 2008
Webster Library - NA736 A48 2008

Brodie, Antonia. Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914. 2 vols. Continuum, 2001
Webster Library (Reference) - NA967 D5723 2001

Desai, Madhavi. Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices. Routledge, 2016 - eBook

Hartman, Jan Cigliano, ed. The Women Who Changed Architecture. Princeton University, 2022
Webster Library - NA1997 W664 2022

McMann, Evelyn de R. Biographical Index of Artists in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2003 - eBook

Morgan, Ann Lee, and Colin Naylor. Contemporary Architects. 2nd ed. St. James Press, 1987
Webster Library (Reference) - NA680 C625 1987

Pepchinski, Mary, and Mariann Simon, eds. Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe, 1945-1989. Routledge, 2016 - eBook

Placzek, Adolf. MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects. 4 vols. MacMillan, 1982
Webster Library (Reference) - NA40 M25 1982

Read, Alan. Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture, and the Everyday. Routledge, 2000 - eBook

Richards, J.M. Who's Who in Architecture: From 1400 to the Present Day. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977
Webster Library (Reference) - NA40 W48

Wilson, Dreck Spurlock, ed. African-American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge, 2004 - eBook

Voet, Caroline, Eireen Schreurs, and Helen Thomas. The Hybrid Practitioner: Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture. Leuven University Press, 2022 - eBook

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Architecture in Canada (History)

Kalman, Harold. A Concise History of Canadian Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2000 - eBook

Lam, Elsa, Graham Livesay, and Kenneth Frampton. Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present. Princeton Architectural Press, 2019 - eBook

Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor, and Michelangelo Sabatino. Canada: Modern Architectures in History. Reaktion Books, 2016 - eBook

Find more books in the Library's collection using the Library of Congress Subject Heading: Architecture - Canada - History

Architecture in Montreal (History)

Architecture domestique. Vols. 2-3. Communauté de Montréal. Service de planification du territoire, 1987
Webster Library - NA7243 M6 A72 1987

Marsan, Jean-Claude. Montreal in Evolution: Historical Analysis of the Development of Montreal's Architecture and Urban Environment. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990
Webster Library NA9130 M6 M3713 1990

Pinard, Guy. Montréal: son histoire, son architecture. Vol. 5-6. Méridien, 1992
Webster Library (Reference) - FC2947.4 P55

Répertoire d'architecture traditionnelle sur le territoire de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal. Architecture commerciale. Vol. 1, 3. Communauté urbaine de Montréal. Service de planification du territore, 1980
Webster Library - NA747 M65 A73 1980

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Architecture (History)

Anderson, Christy. Renaissance Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2013 - eBook

Bergdoll, Barry. European Architecture, 1750-1890. Oxford University Press, 2000 
Webster Library - NA956 B47 2000

Coldstream, Nicola. Medieval Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2002
Webster Library - NA350 C65 2002

Collins, Peter. Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998 - eBook

Coloquhoun, Alan. Modern Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2002
Webster Library - NA680 C593 2002

Garlake, Peter. Early Art and Architecture of Africa. Oxford University Press, 2002 - eBook

Haddad, Elie, and David Rifkind, eds. A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, 1960-2010. Ashgate, 2014
Webster Library - N7380 G37 2022

Stalley, Roger. Early Medieval Architecture. Oxford University Press, 1999
Webster Library - NA350 S73 1999

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. Chinese Architecture: A History. Princeton University Press, 2019 - eBook

Rybczynski, Witold. The Story of Architecture. Yale University Press, 2022
Webster Library - NA200 R93 2022

Upton, Dell. Architecture in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1998
Webster Library - NA705 U78 1998

Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 - eBook

Yegül, Fikret, and Diane G. Favro. Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2019 - eBook

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