Hola, arlistas. I have a professor and many architectural students who are
asking me about locating blueprints and building drawings. I've given them
the usual line about blueprints being proprietary, and certain books on
famous architects/buildings possibly having floor plans, but they still hope
against hope that such items can be found online.
Can anyone who's dealt extensively with architecture students and their
needs advise? Are there sources of which I'm unaware which might help out?
In local cases, they can try and contact the architects, but in other cases
a different professor has assigned students to go and find the plans for a
new civic center in ___________, an assignment which strikes me as totally
unrealistic. Students are also having trouble getting license to include
building photographs in their theses.
Any advice, please?
Peter Stern, Ph.D.
Bibliographer for Romance Languages, Fine Arts, and Area Studies
Adjunct Assoc. Professor, History Department
1967 Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts
154 Hicks Way
Amherst MA 01003-9275
413-545-3967
413 577-2565 (fax)
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