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Owl and Mouse: Build a Medieval Castle
Use this site to create and print the parts of a castle. Includes instructions for putting it together as well as a link to more detailed information on castles in medieval times.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: The Amazing Middle Ages
History for Kids presents a website with learning modules on the Early, Late and High Middle Ages, including topics such as medieval literature, architecture, and daily life. Offers elementary level format with pictures, and links to...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Real? Virtual: Representing Architectural Time and Space
Learn about the history of architecture from this college-level introduction to the subject, which uses visually rich interactive panoramas and floor plans of important buildings to communicate the essential qualities of the architecture...
Boston College
Boston College: Styles in American Architecture
Access university course materials consisting of a short introduction to the architectural concept of style and an inventory of images of different styles of architecture seen in American architecture from the 17th century forward.
McGill University
Canadian Architecture 101
Canada Council for the Arts supports Architecture in Canada; this website helps younger students explore uniquely Canadian architecture. There are direct links to famous buildings in all ten provinces and eight different types of...
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St. Louis Public Library: Elements of Architecture
Page through an online exhibition, with details and zoomable examples of major architectural styles and monuments of Western architecture, that showcases elements of architectural design, structure, and aesthetics.
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Canadian Centre for Architecture
This site looks at the history and present day status of architecture in Canada. Includes many interesting articles.
Virginia Tech
International Archive of Women in Architecture
The IAWA was established in 1985 at Virginia Tech to document the history of women's involvement in architecture. Check out the Online Inventory and other links associated with this site.
Other
The Stoa: The Ancient City of Athens
"The Ancient City of Athens" is a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece), produced by university-level classics professor Kevin T. Glowacki. Includes many helpful resources besides...
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Dwellings: The Message of Houses and Their Contents, 1780 1820
Architectural styles of the times reflected the economic status and taste of the individuals who owned the houses. As this turn of the century proceeded from 1780 to 1820, many changes occurred in communication, transportation,...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Getty Exhibitions: Shaping the Great City
Cities in Central Europe were required to expand their infrastructure due to industrialization and an increase in the need for workers. This exhibit details and illustrates the shift and growth through modern architecture of the era.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Japanese Art and Architecture
This Ibiblio.org site is a thorough description of Japanese art and architecture. There are no pictures, but the writing makes up for this in its extensive history and descriptions.
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The Collection: Chicago Architects Oral History Project
Choose from an extensive list of Chicago area architects and learn information about their lives and their work. Includes links to interviews and biographies.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History Gothic Art
Explore the history of Gothic art through amazing images and links to vast amounts of information.
United Nations
Unesco: Ancient City of Damascus
Damascus in Syria was founded in the third millennium BC. Its long history reveals the influences of many ancient civilizations, most particularly the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations. This World Heritage website...
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Musei Capitolini: Museum History
This museum is one of many under the umbrella of Rome City Council. It is also the oldest public museum in the world, having been established in 1471. Throughout the site, there is extensive information about its history and collections,...
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Tudor History: The Tudor Monarchs From 1485 1603
A history of the Tudor Kings and Queens who ruled England from 1485-1603. The site contains biographies, cultural, and historical data.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Late Medieval Period: History
A solid introduction to Islamic art of the late medieval period (approximately A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1450) that relates historical events to the art production of the time. With informative descriptions and wonderful reproductions that...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Artifacts and Fiction: Workshop in American Literature
This workshop, which is divided into eight segments, teaches how to use primary source artifacts from a variety of genres to support the teaching and learning of specific pieces of literature. The genres include visual arts, political...
National Library of France
National Library of France: Heaven and Earth
Learn how art through the ages has been influenced by the Earth and the heavens. See paintings that attempted to explain the Earth's creation from a scientific standpoint, sacred architecture that provided a place to worship the heavens,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware
Robert Venturi's New Castle County House offers a modest but instructive example of the Post-Modern style set. Even though he never liked the stylistic term Post Modern, his buildings and critical writings helped propel late 20th-century...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
The Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building in Chicago is an important example of early Chicago skyscraper architecture, and can also be seen as a fascinating indicator of the relationship between architecture and commerce. View pictures...
Vroma Project
V Roma: Roman Baths and Bathing
This site describes in detail the activities in ancient Roman baths. This resource was created by Barbara F. McManus of The College of New Rochelle.
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In Arch: Functionalism and the City of Viipuri
This site contains a discussion of Functionalist Modernism using the city of Viipuri as an example. Architects of the time are also discussed.