Research Guides: Architectural History I: Chapter 10

Books & Videos

Indigenous African Architecture by René Gardi; Sigrid MacRae
Call Number: GT377.W4 G3713
ISBN: 0442225741
Publication Date: 1974
Pre-Columbian Architecture of Mesoamerica by Paul Gendrop; Doris Heyden
Call Number: F1219.3.A6 H4913
ISBN: 0810910187
Publication Date: 1976
Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica by Julie Nehammer Knub; Christophe Helmke; Jesper Nielsen
Call Number: F1435.3.D84 P35 2014
ISBN: 9781784910501
Publication Date: 2015
Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania by Dora P. Crouch; June G. Johnson
Call Number: NA208 .C76 2001
ISBN: 0195088905
Publication Date: 2000
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (3 vols.) by Paul Oliver
Call Number: NA208 .E53 1997
ISBN: 0521564220
Publication Date: 1997

Film: Aboriginal Architecture, Living Architecture, by the National Film Board of Canada. This film (viewable online) shows architecture of the Crow, Inuit, Pueblo, Mohawk, Navajo, Coast Salish, and Haida people of North America.

See a list of the Auraria Library's books, ebooks, and videos on indigenous architecture.

See a list of the Auraria Library's books, ebooks, and videos on Inca architecture.

Article Databases

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Online This link opens in a new window
Index to top-tier scholarly and professional American and international journal articles on architecture and design. Covers subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Seventy-five percent of the journals indexed here are not indexed in any other source.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of indigenous North American culture, history, and life. Includes citations to books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. The complete collection also includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources provide access to a full-text collection of more than 2.5 million articles from over 340 publications, including articles from major scholarly journals on ethnic studies.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text plus abstracts/indexing of international peer-reviewed journals, exhibition reviews, trade publications, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Covers American, Latin American, Canadian, Asian. and other non-Western art. Good source of information on new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, feminist criticism, advertising art, archaeology, architecture, art history, film, humanities, industrial design, landscape architecture, marketing, motion pictures, photography, pottery, and sculpture. Search Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective at the same time.
Areas covered include advertising art, archaeology, architecture, art history, film, humanities, industrial design, landscape architecture, marketing, motion pictures, photography, pottery, sculpture and more.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
An index to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on North American historical topics from prehistory to the present. See Historical Abstracts for historical coverage beyond the US and Canada.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 - present. Updated monthly. For US and Canadian history, see America: History and Life.

Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor offers high-resolution images of architecture and art. It also provides details on history, materials, and more related to each image.

Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
View images, commentary, and chronologies related to art through the millennia.

Websites

National Museum of the American Indian Collections
NMAI has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world, representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. It is an active part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Uxmal and Puuc
Includes images and descriptions of multiple Mayan architectural sites in the Puuc region in the Yucatán peninsula of southern Mexico.
Chan Chan Archaeological Zone
Describes the World Heritage site containing the capital of the pre-Columbian Chinu/Chimor Kingdom in what is now Peru. Includes images, maps, and video.