Architecture, general

Here are some selected links you might like to try.

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Archinect
The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.
http://www.archinect.com|

Archipedia
Archipedia is a free open-content atlas for world architecture, covering buildings, structures and landscape projects. Users can add and edit content.
http://www.archipedia.org/|

Archiplanet
Archiplanet is a wiki-based site allowing users to post details and images of buildings and structures of all kinds.
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page|

Architecture Centre Network (ACN)
ACN is an independent organisation representing centres of architecture and the built environment in the UK. Includes a directory of architecture centres, news, events, resources, links, and a forum.
http://www.architecturecentre.net/docs/home/|

Architecture Foundation
Previews of their programme of exhibitions and events which promote contemporary architecture and issues of the urban environment.
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/|

Architecture on 3 Programme Archive
An archive of interviews, features and investigations into architecture, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The archive includes profiles of leading architects, debates about the profession and on selected buildings, recommended architecture walks, and a gallery of best-loved buildings. Real Player is needed to use the 'Listen Again' feature, though some programme transcripts are also available.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/architecture/progarchive.shtml|

Art & Architecture
The Art and Architecture web site has more than 40,000 images here, and a network of over half a million links. Provided by the Courtauld Institute of Art.
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/|

BLDGBLOG
An architecture blog containing the musings of Geoff Manaugh on architecture and the built environment.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/|

Cities Around the World
Provided by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images taken between 1942 and 1994, from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library. The collection can be searched, or browsed by city or country.
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/cities/index.cfm|

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment exists to promote high quality design and architecture and to raise the standard of the built environment generally. The site includes a library of projects, news and links.
http://www.cabe.org.uk/|

Gabion: Retained Writing on Architecture
Gabion is an illustrated archive of critical writing on architecture, design and related topics by columnist and design critic Hugh Pearman. The site includes the full, uncut versions of articles previously published in The Sunday Times.
http://www.hughpearman.com/|

Glass Steel and Stone: the Art of Architecture
Images and details of buildings around the world, plus sections on architecture humour, quotations, odd architecture and haunted architecture.
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/|

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
Documents the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, planners, designers, etc.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/|

Open Architecture Network
The site aims to improve living standards through collaborative design. Designers can share ideas and plans and collaborate with each other, to build a more sustainable future.
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/|

RIBA Enterprises Ltd
RIBA Enterprises Ltd is the commercial arm of The Royal Institute of British Architects. The site acts as a gateway to the company's divisions and their products.
http://www.riba-enterprises.com/|

Secured by Design
Secured by Design focuses on crime prevention at the design, layout and construction stages of homes and commercial premises and promotes the use of security standards for a wide range of applications and products.
http://www.securedbydesign.com/|

SPIRO Architecture Slide Library, UC Berkeley
SPIRO contains surrogate images of photographs and drawings from approximately 2,000 books, 200 periodical titles, and 100 postcards, posters, and calendars. SPIRO also contains surrogate representations of slides from 25 slide vendors and 220 donors. Because the photographs from which the digital surrogates were made are copyrighted, please do not download or otherwise use any images in WebSPIRO without permission of the copyright holder.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html|

Top 100 Architecture Blogs
Provided by an international real estate firm, this is a list of 100 of the top bloggers with a focus on architecture in its widest form, chosen for frequently and recently updated blog entries.
http://www.intlistings.com/articles/2007/top-100-architecture-blogs/|

Virtual Study Tour
A fascinating collection of reconstructions and VR tours of famous buildings and a few unbuilt ones.
http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/|

Women Architects
Site concentrating on the work of selected women architects.
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/women/contents.html|

World Architecture Community (WA)
WA is an independent global forum for architects from all over the world. Architects and practices can submit information on themselves, their buildings, and architectural theory.
http://www.worldarchitecture.org/main/|

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