Architectural Technology: Video and Images

•  Spatial and Numeric Data Services, 4th floor of Taylor Family Library, University of Calgary
  • Visit the department to access Calgary airphotos, fire insurance plans, city files, and historical maps.
• Architecture and interior design for 20th century America
  • Photographs by Samuel Gottscho & William Schleisner 1935-1955
• Cities/Buildings Database
• Great Buildings Collection
• Norbert Schoenauer Digital Case Studies Collection
  • Norbert Schoenauer, 1923-2001,  was a Canadian architect, educator and planner on faculty at the McGill School of Architecture from 1960 to 2001
• RIBApix
  • Images from the collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the world’s most extensive visual archive devoted to architecture.
  • Low resolution copies of the images may be downloaded free of charge for personal use and teaching purposes.
• Visual collections: images of art, history and culture: Architecture
  • Provides access to digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)
• Ontario Architecture Website

The Library's subscription to Films On Demand is a great source of videos on all sorts topics. Search using the drop-down subjects menu, or do a keyword search. All videos are broken up into segments and cleared for classroom viewing, so they're great for showing during presentations!

Example videos available from the Library:

• Pritzker Prize-Winning Architects (2001)
• Architecture: A Performing Art (2015)
• Architecture and Construction (2004)
• The Rise of Iron- and Steel- Framed Buildings (2015)
• Disrupting Design, CBC production