Subject headings to search architectural images in Find@HKUL:
archINFORM, database for international architecture including over 12000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database. Search projects by architect, town or keyword. For most entries, you will get the name, address, keywords and information about further literature. |
Alexander Street video brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street video titles, including VAST: Academic Video Online, along with individual discipline collections in history, art and architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, opera, theatre, musical performance, anthropology, health and rehabilitation, opera, nursing, science, women's studies, black studies, LGBT studies, and more. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage becoming a collection of 22,000 full-length videos by 2013. Videos in many languages, with the majority in English; those not in English have subtitles in English. |
e-Video is a project by HKU Libraries which is to send digitized streaming video to the desktop. Permission from the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and Asia Television Ltd. (ATV) has been granted to digitize their programmes within HKU campus. Various HKU departments, faculties, units and centres have kindly permitted HKU Libraries to video-take and to digitize their lectures, seminars and conferences through this website. |
Pidgeon digital is the online version of the Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes. Started in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon. |
Artstor, a searchable database of more than 2 million digital images covers many periods and cultures, in the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images. |
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Asian Historical Architecture includes over 48,000 photos of 1,670 sites in 23 countries, with extensive background information. This website is a collection of 100% original photos, descriptions, and historical information from many contributors. |
The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. |
Flickr Commons offers a vast collection of digital images showcasing buildings and architecture. With numerous participating institutions, including the Getty Research Institute, the British Library, and the Library of Congress, it serves as a valuable resource for exploring architectural history and heritage. |
Masters of architecture is the digital online website that includes over 7,000 images from Pidgeon Audiovisual and World Microfilms. |
Oxford Art Online provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists. |
Photo collection (via MMIS, Hong Kong Public Libraries) includes old photos of Hong Kong covering historic buildings and street scenes dating back to the mid-19th century. |
The Luke Him Sau Architectural Collection chiefly consists of architectural drawings created by Hong Kong architect Mr. Luke Him Sau and his various business and personal records. There are some 950 pieces of architectural drawings, dated approximately from 1948 to 1968, of building projects in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Macau and Taiwan. For business and personal records, they include work diaries, professional certificates issued by authorities in China, Hong Kong and other countries, lecture notes, office records and over 1,730 poems of Luke’s experience in Hong Kong and New York. |
The Palmer and Turner (P&T Group) Collection is composed of visual and textual material related to over 500 design projects proposed, designed, and/or completed by the P&T Group, one of the oldest continuously operating architectural practices in the world. The collection includes more than 15,000 individual documents and objects, mainly architectural drawings, dated between 1932 and 2012, for individual architectural and urban planning projects in Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. |