Architecture
Building Big
Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston. Some features: Wonders of the World Databank - Explore our databank of big structures. Local Wonders - Investigate big structures near you. Educators' Guide - hands-on activities.
Structurae
This site offers you information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world. Our documentation begins at the time of the pyramids in Egypt and Roman construction, continues to Romanesque and Gothic churches and through to the Industrial Revolution all the way to today and beyond.
The Skyscraper Page
cool site good for modern buildings
World Heritage
UNESCO. Listed alphabetically by country. (Example: Machu Picchu)
The Great Buildings Collection
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the leading architecture magazine online.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
CNN - The clickable map doe not work, but the links toward the bottom of the page DO work.
Architecture Links on the World Wide Web
Jeffery Howe, Boston College (email: howej@bc.edu) - List of links - Good for ancient buildings
US World Heritage Sites
National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. List of sites - alphabetically by state. (Includes: Statue of Liberty)
Glass Steel and Stone - Global Architecture Encyclopedia
good for less famous modern buildings
Teaching Tools - Great Engineering Feats
low level information, but easy access (Example: Roman Aqueducts)
http://papertoys.com/
build paper models of famous buildings
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
homepage of Pritzker Prize for architecture
Nova Online - Fall of the Leaning Tower, Pyramids
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright
PBS
Architect Studio 3D
Design a house with Frank Lloyd Wright. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
Art & Culture - Architects
Includes a list of architects with information about each
British Castles and Architecture
Architectural Styles Across Britian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/gallery_buildingstyles.shtml
Welsh Castle Index
some good information - but you need to know the name of your castle to use this site.
castles-of-britain.com
good as long as you know the name of the castle
Castles Abbeys Medieval Buildings
This page does not have information itself - it is a list of links
Renaissance
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/renaissance/generalfiles/map.html
Medici - Godfathers of the Renaissance
PBS
Greece/Acropolis
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization
PBS
American Architecture
A Digital Archive of American Architecture
Boston College
Inca/Machu Picchu
Ancient Inca
KidsKonnect
Mayan
Ancient Mayan Civilization
KidsKonnect
Mayan Architecture
ThinkQuest site -
good for Mayan architecture
The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
created and designed by Janet Haven for the University of Virginia American Studies Program andthe 1930's Project.
Lady Liberty Gets an Oil Change (Statue of Liberty)
sci4kids -Sci4Kids is a series of stories about what scientists do at the ARS (Agricultural Research Service). Geared to kids about 8 to 13 years old, it is produced by the ARS Information Staff in Beltsville, Maryland.
Pyramids of Egypt
Nova Online - Pyramids
