Art History 494 Paris: Architecture & Urbanism

prepared by
Alan Michelson, Head
Architecture & Urban Planning Library
alanmich@u.washington.edu
AND
Anne Zald, Head
Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services
zald@u.washington.edu

Resources marked UW restricted can be accessed by UW-students, staff and faculty from off-campus - see Connecting From Home.

Find Books

WorldCat Local

Find books, videos, journals, and other materials available from libraries worldwide, along with a limited selection of articles. UW items will be first in your results, followed by items held in Summit Libraries (WA-OR academic libraries). Links to request forms provided for materials not available at UW. Search the UW-only catalog if you prefer. Try one or more of these subject terms.

Names, Dates, Definitions

Oxford Art Online UW restricted

Includes Grove Online Dictionary of Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes an art image database.

Oxford Reference Online UW restricted

See the section Art & Architecture for definitions of art terms, artists, styles, movements, etc.

Find Articles

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals UW restricted

Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture; covers material published 1934 to the present.

Art Index Retrospective UW restricted

Covers journals published 1929-1984.

Art Abstracts UW restricted

Covers journals published 1984-present.

Bibliography of the History of Art UW restricted

This database covers visual arts in all media including traditional fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture); decorative and applied arts; material culture; photography and contemporary new media; visual arts aspects of performing arts. BHA includes European art from late Antiquity to the present; American art from the European arrival to the present and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia, and Australia. BHA includes references to both print and electronic journal articles, monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogues. Bilingual in French and English. Articles published 1973 to present.

RIBA Online Catalogue

The Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library (RIBA Library) is the largest and most comprehensive resource in the United Kingdom for research and information on all aspects of architecture. Their website provides access to their online catalogue (which includes references to articles in 300 architectural periodicals held in the RIBA Library), links to web resources, etc.

Historical Abstracts UW restricted

Search articles from approximately 2000 journals, dissertations, and selected books of interest to historians of all world regions (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for the period 1450-present . Material published 1954-present.

Film Literature Index

Find film and television articles from hundreds of journals published around the world between 1976 and 2001.

FIAF international filmarchive database UW restricted

Contains: International index to film periodicals, International index to television periodicals, List of periodicals indexed; Treasures from the film archives, a directory of film and TV documentation collections, and a bibliography of FIAF members' publications.

MLA International Bibliography UW restricted

Find articles, dissertations, book chapters about to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore; includes coverage from 1963 to the present.

Expanded Academic ASAP UW restricted

Search articles in 1,500 scholarly journals and general interest magazines, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Full text for articles in 700 of the publications are included in the database.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) UW restricted

Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

Web Sites

Image Databases

Cities & Buildings Database

Developed by Meredith Clausen.

UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library Image Sources for the Built Environment

Probably the best for Architecture.

Finding and Using Digital Images

A guide to using digital images and locating images in UW collections, general collections, advertising, architecture, art, history, maps, medicine, photography, and science. Also includes links to visual resource centers at UW.

The Bluffton College Digital Image Project

Excellent for architecture

Catholic Encyclopedia

Medieval Architecture in France

French 19th Century Architecture

Archiseek

ArchiDoc

In French, but a bibliographic database of scholarly sources on 19th and 20th century French architecture. For those who cannot read French, try the translation service provided by BabelFish or Google to get a clue.

Ali Kriscenski, “Anti Smog Architecture: A Catalyst for Cleaner Air in Paris,”

Inhabitat, http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/28/anti-smog-architecture-a-catalyst-for-cleaner-air-in-paris/

“Architecture: Paris anger as planners reach for the skyline,”

The Guardian, 7/9/2008  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/09/france.architecture

Cité Architecture et Patrimoine 

http://www.citechaillot.fr/

David Thomson, Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth 1475–1600, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985)

http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft0x0n99zf&brand=eschol

Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette

http://www.paris-lavillette.archi.fr/

Eiffel Tower

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/

Haussman 

http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/architecture/Haussman.html

Hector Guimard (Good private party web site on the Art Nouveau architect)

http://www.geocities.com/hectorguimard/

Karen Bowie, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 140-142

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-9808(200303)62%3A1%3C140%3AHL1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

Katherine Fischer Taylor, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 239-242  (book reviews) 

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-9808(199406)53%3A2%3C239%3ADPTAOD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

Louvre

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en

“A Treasury of World’s Fair Art & Architecture,” (University of Maryland Libraries)

http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/worldsfairs/

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Metropolitain Subway Gate 

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=2393

Paris 2054 Renaissance

http://www.renaissance-lefilm.com/accueil.htm

Paris at the Time of Philippe Auguste

http://www.philippe-auguste.com/uk/index.html

Postcards of Paris

http://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/

Richard P. Woodward, “At These Parisian Landmarks, Shhh Is the Word,” New York Times, 3/5/2006 

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/travel/05journeys.html

Robert W. Berger, “Charles Le Brun and the Louvre Colonnade,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 394-403

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3079(197012)52%3A4%3C394%3ACLBATL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Robert W. Berger and Christopher Tadgell, “The Louvre Colonnade,” The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 123, No. 934, Special Issue Devoted to Sculpture (Jan., 1981), pp. 33-35

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-6287(198101)123%3A934%3C33%3ATLC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

French History Timeline

French Studies Web: History

French History 1500-present Bibliography

Web Links: French History

History of France: Primary Documents

French Medieval History & Culture

French History

France.com

Journal: French History

Starting Points for Historical Research

prepared by Theresa Mudrock, History Librarian, this lists both resources and search strategies for finding primary and secondary resources to support historical research.

European History on the Web

Review categories for both "General European" and "France". Browse to find useful gems such as these 18th & 19th Century maps of Paris, maintained by art history professor Barry Berdoll at Columbia University.

The Perry-Castaneda Map Library, Univ of Texas, Austin provides many public domain map images.

Maps of France, both modern and historical.

The Library of Congress Geography & Map Division

Provides digital images of selected maps from their enormous collection.

David Rumsey Map Collection

This private collector has digitized and made available maps from his extensive collection. Searchable.

Mappy.com

Provides street maps and aerial photographs of modern Paris. Easy to navigate through the city.