I often help students find plans so that they can build architectural
models. I agree that the blueprints are not so easy but many plans can
be found through the Avery Index and often the students can even get a
full text link right through Avery. Of course, the building and/or
architect has to be important enough to have been written about in an
architectural journal...
Karen Bouchard
Brown University
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Building plans and blueprints
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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