Buildings
Here are entered general works on structures or edifices. Works on the design and style of structures are entered under Architecture. Works on the process of construction are entered under Building.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Related term:Narrower terms:- Buildings -- Aerodynamics
- Buildings -- Earthquake effects
- Buildings -- Energy conservation
- Buildings -- England
- Buildings -- Environmental engineering
- Buildings -- France
- Buildings -- Georgia
- Buildings -- Germany
- Buildings -- Greece
- Buildings -- Ireland
- Buildings -- Italy
- Buildings -- Juvenile literature
- Buildings -- Massachusetts
- Buildings -- Mexico
- Buildings -- Natural disaster effects
- Buildings -- Netherlands
- Buildings -- New York (State)
- Buildings -- Pennsylvania
- Buildings -- Pest control
- Buildings -- Poland
- Buildings -- Protection
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction
- Buildings -- Russia (Federation)
- Buildings -- Security measures
- Buildings -- Spain
- Buildings -- Sweden
- Buildings -- Texas
- Buildings -- Virginia
- Buildings -- War damage
- Buildings -- Washington (D.C.)
- Air conditioning
- Architectural models
- Architecture
- Architecture -- Conservation and restoration
- Architecture -- Details
- Building
- Building inspection
- Building materials
- Buildings, Prefabricated
- Exterior walls
- Fire extinction
- Fire prevention
- Fires
- Plumbing
- Ventilation
- California Institute of Technology -- Buildings
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Buildings
- Freemasons -- Buildings
- Library of Congress -- Buildings
- Princeton University -- Buildings
- University of Chicago -- Buildings
- University of Michigan. Department of Law -- Buildings
- University of Virginia -- Buildings
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings
- Edifices
- Halls
- Structures
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Heating and Ventilating (full serial archives)
- Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Theory and Design of Steam and Gas Turbines (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by John F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, Frederick A. Webster, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; Also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1932), by John Ripley Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
- Energy Efficiency of Buildings in Cities (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
- Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
- Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications (1995), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948), by Richard C. Jordan and Gayle B. Priester (page images at HathiTrust)
- Structural Models for Architectural and Engineering Education (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963), by Peter Jan Pahl and Keto Soosaar (page images at HathiTrust)
- Architecture at Rice University (partial serial archives)
- In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- The Active Eye in Architecture (1977), by George Trevelyan (illustrated HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
- Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
- The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (Rochester, NY: Manas Press, 1910), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (1922), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (Gutenberg text)
- Cyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Typographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical (Home Cyclopedia #7, 2 volumes in 1; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1905), by Martin A. Buckmaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Six Lectures on Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1917), by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings, and Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Trattato di Architettura Civile e Militare (in Italian; Turin: Tip. Chirio e Mina, 1841), by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, ed. by Carlo Promis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth (London: Percival and Co., 1892), by Ch. Letourneau (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
- Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
- The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, or, The Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture (London: S. Harding, 1756), by Batty Langley (page images at Wisconsin)
- Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage (London: B. Quaritch, reprinted 1886), by James Page
- Interiors Beautiful, and the Decoration of the Home (6th revised edition; Minneapolis: M.L. Keith, ca. 1922)
- The Modern Builder's Guide (New York: Paine and Burgess, 1846), by Minard Lafever
- Second Livre d'Architecture par Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant Plusieurs et Diverses Ordonances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis, et Pavillons, Pour Enrichir Tant le Dedans que le Dehors de Tous Edifices (in French; Paris: A. Wechel, 1561), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images with commentary at Architectura)
- New England Georgian Architecture: 55 Measured Drawings With Full Size Details (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1913), by Ralph Clarke Kingman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor (London: William Pain, 1792), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
- Fragments d'Architecture Antique, d'Après les Relevés & Restaurations des Anciens Pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome (2 volumes in French; Paris: Lib. Generale de l'Architecture et de Travaux Publics, n.d.), ed. by H. d' Espouy
- The Mechanic's Companion (Philadelphia: P. Bell, 1853), by Peter Nicholson (multiple formats at Google)
- La Higiene Aplicada en las Construcciones (Alcantarillado, Agua Potable, Saneamiento, Calefacción, Ventilación, etc.) (3 volumes in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: Impr. Cervantes, 1909-1910), by Ricardo Larraín Bravo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Bungalow Book (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles E. White (page images at HathiTrust)
- Inspection and Other Strategies for Assuring Quality in Government Construction (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Materials of Engineering Construction: Civil Engineering 8 (UC extension correspondence course in 30 assignments; 1922), by Clement T. Wiskocil
- Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: A Proceedings (1997), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)
- Caltech's Throop Hall (c1981), by Judith R. Goodstein and Alice Stone (PDF at Caltech)
- A Selection of Masonic Treasures at "The House of the Temple", Home of the Supreme Council 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington, D.C. (Washington: Masonic Service Association, 1954), by Masonic Service Association of the United States (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)
- The Gargoyles of Princeton University: A Grotesque Tour of the Campus, by Laurel Masten Cantor
- The William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, by University of Chicago (page images at Chicago)
- Address by Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, and Poem by D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., on the Dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of Michigan University, by Thomas McIntyre Cooley and D. Bethune Duffield (page images at MOA)
- Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by W. A. Lambeth and Warren H. Manning
- The Ho-o-den (Phoenix Hall): An Illustrated Description of the Buildings Erected by the Japanese Government at the World's Columbian Exposition, Jackson Park, Chicago (Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1893), by Kakuzō Okakura
More items available under narrower terms.