This site chronicles the development of the twentieth century art deco movement in architecture. It provides history, architects, example buildings, societies, and related links.

Each achievement is presented with a brief introduction, timeline, and historical essay. The "top 20" are: electrification, automobile, airplane, water supply and distribution, electronics, radio and television, agricultural mechanization, computers, telephone, air conditioning and refrigeration, highways, spacecraft, Internet, imaging, household appliances, health technologies, petroleum and petrochemical technologies, laser and fiber optics, nuclear technologies, and high-performance materials. From the National Academy of Engineering.

Popular inventions from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, including aspirin, blue jeans, electric batteries, refrigerators, and zippers. Navigating the site can be confusing, but the site map helps. Topics link to related sites and recommended books. There is also an interactive section that allows browsers to learn through games, puzzles, facts, and trivia. A Thinkquest site.

A guide to Frank Lloyd Wright's built work (with over 400 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in more than 35 states/locations), as well as other pages concerning this important architect, such as biographical material and quotations. In addition, this site links you to a plethora of Web resources devoted to America's most original architect.

A beautifully designed companion to the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about the great American architect. Life & Work is an overview of Wright's most famous buildings. You can see drawings, photos, and video clips, including an interview with Mike Wallace. Legacy includes reviews and essays. Locator allows you to search for Wright buildings. The last two sections are profiles of the filmmakers and resources, including classroom materials, a bibliography, and Web links.

"This exhibit focuses on these five projects - a prototypical suburb, resorts, an automobile objective, a desert retreat. Although none was ever realized, they embody Wright's changing views of the fundamental relationship between building and land." An overview, sketches, plans, elevations, perspectives, and models of each project are provided. From the Library of Congress.

A growing display of buildings that were either never built, or else no longer exist. Some have only simple line drawings, while others are more fully rendered. There is an exhibit of precedents of virtual architecture that include photographs of fifteen examples. They are also beginning to mount images of Philadelphia’s architecture including buildings by Frank Furness, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, Lois Khan, Venturi and Rauch, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others.

This is a collection of images of significant buildings in American architectural history from 1850-99. Included are buildings by H.H. Richardson, Frank Furness, Frederick Law Olmsted's plans for Central Park, houses by McKim, Mead and White, as well as their building for the Boston Public Library. Additionally, there are significant buildings in Chicago by Adler and Sullivan, Burnam and Root, Frank Lloyd Wright's own house, and others.

An overview of the Arts and Crafts movement dating back to the late 19th century and the following Craftsman style of architecture. In addition, there is a detailed guide, with drawings, to identifying a Craftsman home. Also included is information about architects who developed this style--Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene, and Bernard Maybeck. There is a resource directory "dedicated to Craftsman Era antiques, Bungalow style houses and historic house renovation products."

An online, searchable collection that "document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as windmills, one-room schoolhouses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright." Also browsable by geographic location or subject. It contains thousands of photographs, written histories, field notes, and measured drawings for more than 35,000 recorded historic structures and sites. Part of the American Memory Project.

An overview of the history of American architecture with many images, beginning with the earliest colonial structures of the 17th century including houses, churches, and industrial buildings. It continues with the 18th century adding public buildings to the categories as well as descriptions and visual examples of both Georgian and Federal styles. The 19th century adds mills and skyscrapers to the building types and expands the description of representative styles. The 20th century adds universities. There is extensive coverage of the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes alphabetical lists of architects and styles with brief definitions and related links.

"Where can you find Mary Todd Lincoln's mourning brooch, a 1920s Zenith radio, an urn designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mahalia Jackson's choir robe? Just the Arti-Facts!" While the focus is on Chicago’s past, this site also represents areas of more general historical interest, such as the "Wild West," the arts, and toys. The apple icon on each page leads to suggested classroom resources and activities. From The Chicago Historical Society.

The official home page for the county north of San Francisco. Includes government, cultural, and business information, and links to libraries, local media, and sites about Frank Lloyd Wright, architect of the Marin County Civic Center.

This site contains biographical information; images of works of the prairie school architect; a bibliography; interviews with scholars; and information on Frank Lloyd Wright, "The 18" of Chicago, Marion Mahony Griffin (his wife and "the first licensed female architect in history"), and Griffin's projects in Mason City, Iowa and Canberra, Australia. Online companion to PBS documentary of same title.

A searchable collection of over 54,000 architectural images (pre-history through the 20th century). From the Architecture and Visual Resources Library, University of California, Berkeley.

This searchable site has descriptions, photographs, and three-dimensional models of buildings, bridges, skyscrapers, and other architectural constructions. The New York City section includes images of the former World Trade Center and proposals for its rebuilding. There are also sections on haunted and odd architecture, images from The American Institute of Architects, sandcastle competitions, an e-mail newsletter, and architectural quotations, poetry, and humor.

An excellent international and historical directory for built architecture. Over 800 buildings and their architects are available, complete with brief biographical information, sometimes the designers words, descriptions of the buildings, and a short resource list. Each building has construction date, location, building type, and other fields. Many buildings have photos. The "architectural types" page includes lists within timelines, building types, climate, locales, architectural styles, contexts, and building elements. There are 3-D models, with technical information about viewing, as well as links to the free software required. Searchable by building name, architect, or place. Includes the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Information about environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture and natural building, using renewable energy, local and recycled materials, and incorporating principles of conservation. Includes resource links and book and video recommendations.

Covering Islamic architecture around the world, this site has an excellent collection of images and Web links. Images of important structures are provided, listed geographically, alphabetically, or by architectural component, such as domes and minarets.

This is a large collection of architectural photographs from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe.

This gateway "contains over 700 [annotated] links to websites, books and news stories, organised by theme." Categories include architecture, arts and culture, construction, architectural conservation, housing, landscape, planning, sustainability, transportation, and regeneration. Each category contains news, organizations, resources, research, books, and companies. Additionally, the site has a message board and real-time chat. Searchable.

A good overview and a few images of Finnish architecture during the 20th century. There are related resources.

Searchable catalogue of over 2500 Internet resources covering a broad range of topics including fine art, design, architecture, applied arts, media arts, art theory, museum studies, conservation, and professional practices. It's also browsable by subject, historical period, resource type, and location and geographic form. The sites have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians in Great Britain.

This searchable or browsable "collection of approximately 2800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920." It includes the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park. It also contains "views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System." There are images of plans, maps, and models. From the Library of Congress' American Memory Project.

List of resources focused on reference information, collections, images, specific architects, and texts. There is also a section of resources by Subjects and Places. From the Society of Architectural Historians.

A directory of categorized (some with annotations) Internet resources on architecture.

A collection of "over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida." It includes the homes of several presidents and other notable Americans and color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. From the Library of Congress, American Memory project.

"The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global."

This site offers an informative and visually fascinating look at mid-20th century American roadside architecture, including motels, coffee shops, skating rinks, and drive-in theatres. Architectural styles profiled include Googie, Tiki, and Roadside Vernacular. Route 66 landmarks are given special coverage. Site is searchable and links to newsletters and specific landmarks are provided.

Links to specific Web sites on women prominent in architecture and design as well as brief biographies on those less well-known.

Subtitled Gargoyles & Architectural Details in NYC, this site provides walks and photos of the sculptural type of monsters and other details found on buildings in New York City.

From 1919-1933, the Bauhaus was a driving force in the synthesis of technology with architecture, design, and art. The heart of the Web site for the Bauhaus Archive/Museum, in Berlin, is "Bauhaus 1919-1933," an illustrated chronicle and analysis of this major movement. Key resources include the Manifesto, a Chronology, and profiles of major figures, such as Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Mies van der Rohe.

Feature-rich exhibition that explores the entirety of the architect's work. Includes drawings, scale models, video and digital displays, new photographs, selected bibliography, and biography.

Take tours of Prairie style, art deco, terra cotta, and other buildings, including some interiors. Browse alphabetically or by map, style, tour, or architect. Each site includes a description, address, architect, date built, and photograph(s). There are also descriptions of each architectural style.

A collection of geographically-based materials, including maps, images, and text-based documents relating to Chicago. Ongoing projects include Downtown, the "Loop," Lawndale, Bridgeport, Armour Square, and the Near and Lower West Sides. It also consists of images from Elisha Robinson’s Atlas of the City of Chicago of fire insurance maps from 1886 as well as other historical maps and buildings, aerial photos, and images. There is an index of photographs by architect and building.

A history of Chicago and an overview of life as it existed there in 1900. Topics include architecture, crime, family economics, geography, health, transportation, commerce, education, government, population, and amusement. Each subject is accompanied by a bibliography. From the Chicago Public Library.

A large, searchable collection of photographs of buildings, cities, and towns from over fifty countries. Included are the Taj Mahal in India, the Sydney Opera house in Australia, China's Imperial Palace, several Egyptian pyramids, France's Notre Dame and Chartre cathedrals, the Alhambra in Spain, the Acropolis in Greece, Tikal in Guatemala, Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan in Mexico, and the Hagia Sophia in Turkey. The site's search software also provides access to other photo collections at the University of Washington (use "preferences" button).

This resource "explores the meanings and forms of American urbanism in New York and Chicago in the modern period." The essays explore the architecture, leisure, space, and race for various areas of both cities. Each essay contains numerous photos. Included is an extensive bibliography. Requires the Flash plug-in. From the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, UK.

A fascinating site with mathematical and geometrical facts as well as formulas, history, and diagrams. There are methods of constructing golden sections in two or three dimensions and information about the golden section (or mean or rectangle) in architecture, art, and music. There is a discussion of Fibonacci numbers in nature and lists of the numbers and puzzles involving them. There are also references and related links.