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Architecture Images Collection

The Visual Resources Collection offers more than 60,000 digital images in the Architecture Images Collection in the Digital Media Repository and more than 100,000 35mm slides.

Architecture Images Collection

  • Search by keyword or Selected Fields (title, designer, geographic location, building or site type, and other fields listed in the drop-down menus).
  • Images may be used in class presentations and other projects.
  • For assistance finding and using images, contact Cindy Turner, Visual Resources Curator, 765-285-5865.
PowerPoint Generator for the DMR
  • Rapidly downloads images from any DMR collection including the Architecture Images Collection.
  • To use the PowerPoint Generator for the DMR:
    • Add images to the "My Favorites" folder in the DMR.
    • View the "My Favorites" folder.
    • Click on the "Create" button in the "Save as PowerPoint Slides" section in the lower left-hand corner.
    • Login with your BSU username and password.
    • Choose your PPT slide format (image only, image with title, or image with metadata).
    • Open or Save your PPT presentation once it has been generated.
  • System requirements and detailed instructions.

Slides
  • In CardCat, choose Advanced Search and in the Locations drop-down menu select "Visual Resources Collection, Architecture Building, Rm. 117." Enter keywords in the Words or phrase search box.
  • For assistance finding and using slides, contact Cindy Turner, Visual Resources Curator, 765-285-5865.

VRC Guide to Image Resources

  • Additional online resources for images in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and historic preservation.
Images for CAP Courses
  • Course pages are available for selected College of Architecture and Planning courses:
Donating Images to the Collection

Picture credits from left to right:

Puente y Viaducto del Alamillo, Seville, Spain, photo by Bram Barth; Colosseum, Rome, Italy, photo by Zach Hilleson; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, photo by Bram Barth; Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building, photo by Carol Flores; Ciang Kai-shek Memorial, Taipei, Taiwan, photo by Lindsay Bacurin; and Atheneum, New Harmony, Indiana, photo by David R. Hermansen. All images are in the Architecture Images Collection in the DMR.

Page updated:
8/20/09 aet