Historical Surveys of American Architecture

A good place to start looking for web resources on American Architecture is Jeffery Howe’s Digital Archive of American Architecture , “1,500 digitized images of American architecture (280 buildings) plus explanatory material” ordered chronologically from the 17th century to the present and subdivided into various categories (houses, public buildings, commercial buildings, churches, skyscrapers, universities).

A timeline offers expandable thumbnail pictures of representative buildings. The archive can be searched by Location, Architect, Building Types, and Style. Thus the F.L. Wright page offers 38 of his buildings, including the famous Fallingwater. The very extensive section Architecture Links offers access to related sites.

The site has individual pages for the following important American Architects:

Alvar Aalto (1898- )
Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844)
A.J. Davis (1803-1892)
Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
Peter Harrison (1716-1776)
Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895)
Helmut Jahn
Philip Johnson (b. 1906)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Louis Kahn (1901-74)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I.M. Pei (b. 1917)
H.H. Richardson (1838-1886)
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
Richard Upjohn (1802-1878)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

American Architecture: illustrated historical survey developed by Sandra Pollock