Research Guides: Architecture: Web Resources

Architecture Related Blogs

Architecture Lab
The goal of Architecture Lab is to make architecture more connected, and bring together architects/designers from around the world searching for the latest architectural news: projects, products, events, interviews and competitions among others.
BLDGBLOG
BLDGBLOG (“building blog”) was launched in 2004 and is written by Geoff Manaugh.
Build
The BUILD Blog is a discussion of modern design in the Pacific NW written by BUILD LLC, an industrious architecture company based in Seattle, Washington.
Contemporist
A community that celebrates contemporary culture, focused on architecture, design, art and travel.
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
(Almost) daily architectural musings and imagery from New York City by John Hill.
The Energy Vanguard Blog
Posts here are written by Allison A. Bailes III – who happens to have a PhD. in Physics that he puts to good use teaching others about building science and energy performance.
Life of an Architect
Bob Borson is an award-winning architect whose Texas firm works primarily with modern residential design. That makes Borson’s blog, Life of an Architect, more or less exactly what it sounds like. If you want the latest in design, technology, education, culture and even social media, enhanced by a friendly, personal touch, accept no substitute.

Additional Resources for Architecture

ArchDaily
In 2008, while working as architects, our founders realized that there was no place for their peers to experience the latest projects, products, and trends. So, we decided to build it.
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.
Architect
The magazine of the American Institute of Architects. (Trade)
Architecture for Architects
A Journal of the American Institute of Architects.
The Architect’s Newspaper
The Architect’s Newspaper serves up news and inside reports to a niche community of architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, lighting designers, interior designers, academics, developers, contractors, and other parties interested in the built urban environment.
Building Design + Construction
Building Design+Construction (BD+C) is a trade publication and web site serving the information needs of designing, building, and owning firms in the non-residential construction industry.
DesignCurial
DesignCurial covers the latest news, expert opinion and in-depth features for audiences with an interest in architecture, design, interiors and art.
Design Milk
If it’s cool, it’s here: architecture, art, furnishings, interior design, style, technology and news … everything related to design.
Dezeen
Dezeen is one of the world's most popular and influential architecture and design magazines, and the winner of numerous awards for journalism and publishing.
Evan Troxel
"I make things, solve problems through design, and teach everything I know." Evan Troxel
Great Buildings
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, selected over ten years by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
International Archive of Women in Architecture
The purpose of the database is to document the women's involvement in architecture and landscape architecture, industrial and interior designer, and urban planning from around the world.
National Gallery of Art: The Italian Architectural Drawings Photograph Collection
The Italian Architectural Drawings Photograph Collection (IADPC) was assembled under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). The collection of approximately 45,000 photographs and 350 manuscripts on microfilm documents drawings made before 1800 of Italian architecture from repositories around the world.
Pacific Coast Architecture Database
Welcome to the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD). PCAD includes a range of information on the buildings and architects of California, Oregon and Washington.

AAU Guest Speaker Series

School of Architecture AAU Guest Speaker Series
There are 128 recorded guest speaker lectures for the School of Architecture.

Selected Architecture Related Podcasts

99% Invisible
99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. With 80 million downloads, 99% Invisible is one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes.
Archispeak
Welcome to the Archispeak Podcast. Each episode, Evan Troxel, Neal Pann, and Cormac Phalen have a casual conversation about all things architecture, and we invite you to listen in as we talk about everything in the profession, both the good and the bad.
The Business of Architecture
Architecture and business come together in this varied series. Informative conversations, tips, strategies and secrets of business development for modern day practice are discussed in the podcasts. Guests include Adam Nathaniel Furman, who talks about using digital tools such as Instagram for inspiration and discussion.
GSAPP Conversations
GSAPP Conversations investigates contemporary architectural practice interviews and discussions. Hosted by Amale Andraos, dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), the conversations take place between the school's noteworthy faculty and its students.
Scaffold
Scaffold offers an in-depth look into the minds of different architects and designers, uncovering details about their work that are often overlooked. Hosted by Matthew Blunderfield, the long-form interviews are released on a fortnightly basis and include names such as writer and curator Jack Self, and architects Charles Holland and Mary Duggan.