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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I (ARC 1301)

LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding information in books and articles on architectural design.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG AND JOURNALS
 

• For books, select "Catalog" under "Quick Links" and go to the "Advanced Search" screen and choose "Keyword(s) Anywhere." Type in your keywords.  (Example:  architectural design and case studies.)
   

• For lists of journals, select "Electronic Journals" under "Quick Links" and search by the subject category "Art, Architecture & Applied Arts."

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Research Resources" or "Quick Links" and then "Indexes/Databases". When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the link for the "EZproxy" server.

• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  This electronic resource provides access to journal articles on architecture and design in over 1,000 U.S. and foreign architectural publications.
   

• Art Index Full Text
  Provides access to articles on topics dealing with architecture, architectural design, architectural history, landscape architecture, and other subject areas.  Coverage is from 1984 to the present, with full text articles beginning in 1997.
   

• Art Index Retrospective
  This is a good resource for references to articles in older publications from 1929 through 1984.  Subjects indexed include architecture, architectural design, architectural history, landscape architecture, and others. 

• ARTstor 
  Contains 8,000 digital images, from the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 
   

• Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Indexes articles from design and applied arts publications.  Some of the subject areas covered include architecture, computer aided design, industrial design, garden design and landscape architecture.

• JSTOR
  This is a collection of full text articles that includes several journals  dealing with architecture and architectural history.  Articles can be located by keyword searching or browsing contents of journals.
   

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the "Electronic Databases" listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of information?

2. How accurate is the information?

3. How reliable is the information?

4. How current is the information?

5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

• REF LB2369 .G53 2003   Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2003.

• MLA Style Electronic Formats  (by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey)
  This "quick" guide to citing sources found on the Internet provides the important components of a citation, with examples.

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