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Design and Society: Freshman Inquiry


Design Links | Magazines | Museums | |Design Resources| Design Exhibitions & Shows | Other Randomness and Inspiration
| Patent Resources Finding Books

LIBRARY RESOURCE GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE

FINDING ARTICLES

Academic SearchPremier
Humanities, social scienes, news and events, sciences, policy -- mutli-disciplinary coverage of journals. Includes many full text articles.

Art Full Text
"Art Full Text provides indexing and abstracting of art periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals."

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
"The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage reaches from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, with more than 229,000 records, is updated daily."

Urban Studies, Sage Fulltext
Full text of Sage Press social science journals of interest in urban studies. Anthropology, economic development, economics, education, planning theory, political science, public administration, urban policy. Coverage varies per title with most journals covered from the 1990s to the present; some date back to the 1980s.


F
INDING BOOKS:


PSU Library Online Catalog Vikat: http://vikat.pdx.edu/

Some possible Keyword searches:

Brunelleschi = 29 items. Send Brunelleschi search to Summit = 120 items.

history architecture renaissance = 80 items . Send search to Summit = 269 items.

FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Oxford Art Online:
The online version of a 34-volume print encyclopedia, this database contains 45,000 articles by more than 6,800 scholars on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. HM756.E53 2003 (4 vols.)

Oxford Reference Online: Searchable database of full text dictionaries, reference works, and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press. Subject coverage includes Art & Architecture, Classics, Economics & Business, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Religion & Philosophy, Science, Social Sciences. Check for included titles by broad subject area.

Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering and Construction. NA31.E59 1988 (5 vols.) Reference shelves.

Encyclpedia of the Renaissance: CB361 .E52 1999 6 volumes. Reference shelves.

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. NA208.E53 1997 (3 vols.) Reference shelves.

Encyclopedia of Interior Design. Nk1165.E48 1997 (2 vols.) Reference shelves.

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. HT108.5.E53 2002 (4vols.) Reference shelves.

Design Links: Prominent Designers - Individuals / Groups

Magazines (The LC call number is listed for those journals the library holds.)

Abitare (Italy) NK1700.A23
Communication Arts NC997.A1.C2
Ad Busters Core77 Graphis N8.G73 Print Z119.P8985
American Craft NK1.C73 Design Boom ID Magazine TS1.I515 Sculpture NB1.S37
Axis (Japan)
Design Boom
Machine Design TJ1.M15 Surface
Big Design News (electronic version only) Metropolis HT166.A1 M4 (1976-1993) Wallpaper
Colors Domus (Italy) N1.D6 (1980-1994) Popular Mechanics T1.P77 Wired TK5105.5.W5

Museums

Blackhawk Museum (Danville, CA)

Design Museum (London) SF Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco)

Centre Pompidou (Paris)

Exploratorium (San Franscisco) Vitra Design Museum (Berlin)

The Chicago Athenaeum (Chicago)

Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao) Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (NY

The Museum of Modern Art (NYC)  

Design Resources

Center for SustainableDesign MatWeb.com Thomas Register
Coroflot One Media Tribu-Design
firstVIEW.com Pantone World Furniture Online

Design Exhibitions & Shows

Chicago Design Show International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Fine Furnishings Providence Show Sculptural Objects & Functional Art (SOFA) Show

Other Randomness and Inspiration

Cool Products Expo
Core77.com
The Crucible
Design-Engine.com

The Furniture Society

Half Bakery
Transparent New York

Patent Resources

Patent Resources from Stanford site

Delphion - IBM's patent search engine.
USPTO - US Patent and Trademark Office
European Patent Office
About.com - Good overview portal. Nolo Press
Carr-Ferrell - Local Intellectual Property firm. Talk to John Ferrell.
Patent Cafe
Copyright Office - The Library of Congress Copyright Office Yahoo Intellectual Property Directory


 


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