Article abstracts and citations for journals on architecture, city planning, interior design, and landscape architecture. Avery can help you search for articles in journals and magazines found in the library.
13,000+ full text e-books in over 18 subjects, including art, history, and technology.
Search all of the journals and magazines in Academic Search Premier, Art Source, and OmniFile Full Text Select with only one search!
Working with Material ConneXion, the world's largest library of unique, innovative and sustainable materials, the AAU materials library provides a wide range of samples for students and faculty to explore, from textiles to building materials and more. Material ConneXion materials are cataloged in a comprehensive online database which includes thousands of material types. Search by material type, material name, manufacturer name, or country or origin.
Contains histories, photographs and maps for over 20,000 structures and places, and showcases the richness and diversity of architecture and landscapes throughout the U.S. Building entries include scholar-written, peer-reviewed narrative histories, photographs, precise geospatial coordinates using Google Maps/ OpenStreetMap, and structural and descriptive metadata that includes semantic tags for architects and firms, periods, styles, materials and types.
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries. The Academy of Art University subscribes to a subset of available films on the Kanopy platform focused on Art, Design, and Film studies.
Search over 330,000 images, including over 114,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums, universities and archives. Architectural photographs, gardens and landscapes, political Americana, historical maps, fashion plate collections and much more.
An online encyclopedia of world art and art history, spanning from prehistoric to modern art. Contains artist biographies, information about art movements, timelines of world art, definitions of art terms, and links to image collections.
13,000+ full text e-books in over 18 subjects, including art, history, and technology.
EBSCO eBooks offers a small collection of e-book titles that are required or recommended in Academy of Art University courses.
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free electronic books, or eBooks. Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute literary works. The mission of Project Gutenberg is: To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks
Open Library is a non-profit, open source, digital public library, hosted by the Internet Archive, which lends millions of ebooks to millions of patrons each year.
Flowers in the World's Most Beautiful Gardens by 
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture by 
Mastering AutoCAD 2018 and AutoCAD LT 2018 by 
The Innovative Use of Materials in Architecture and Landscape Architecture by Note: When selecting e-book, please right click title, and open link in new tab to access e-book details.
Access magazines online from the Exact Editions Fashion and Culture Collection and the Architecture Collection.
Access Art and Design magazines online from a computer or download them to a smartphone or tablet using the Flipster mobile app for offline reading.
Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards by 
The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture by Step 1. Types of Information
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