Books & eBooks
TMU Library Architectural Science Collection
The NA1-TH9428 range on the 7th floor, reserve books are located on the 2nd floor and media can be located on the 5th floor.
Call Numbers and Library Stack Floors
Architecture Call Numbers [Source: Clemson University]
E-Books
BASICs Architecture eBooks covers subjects of architectural design, presentation, construction, building technology, professional practice, landscape architecture and urbanism.
ebrary provides access to over 18,000 titles in a wide variety of subject areas.
Scholars Portal eBooks provides access to over 40,000 titles from Springer, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge and Oxford.
Springer Books includes Architecture & Design E-Books
Knovel includes Structural Engineering titles
EngNetBase includes Civil Engineering/HVAC titles
Toronto History Resources
Toronto Research
Discover significant architectural landmarks and view pictures of old buildings, interactive maps, plans and historical newspaper collections. Download property data, building height, zoning shape files, contours and aerial photography.
Researching Historic Buildings in Toronto Neighbourhoods
Architects in Canada (Biographical Dictionary)
3D Massing Data [Every Building in the Greater Toronto Area]
Property Data Maps - City of Toronto (DWG & PDF Files)
TOBuilt: A Database of Buildings in Toronto, Canada
Toronto Star Newspaper (1894-2012)
Toronto Architecture by
Toronto has been hailed as "the city that works," "the livable city," and a "world-class city." But just what does Toronto look like? And what can the changing image of the city tell us about Toronto's past -- and its future? Twenty-two self-contained walking tours -- each with an easy-to-follow map -- range over 175 years of Toronto buildings. More than 900 buildings are catalogued- fanciful Victorian houses, graceful spired churches, lush Edwardian factories and warehouses, Art Deco apartments, and new landmarks. Illustrated with over 300 photographs, the guide examines well-known and important buildings as well as the more modest structures in between that form Toronto's cityscape. The original edition of Toronto Architecture- A City Guide by Patricia McHugh is fully revised and expanded by architecture critic Alex Bozikovic. Complete with an illustrated description of Toronto styles, a glossary of architectural terms, and a biographical index of architects, this is the definitive reference to Toronto's buildings -- old and new.
Call Number: FC3097.7 M26 2017ISBN: 9780771059896Publication Date: 2017-06-27
Making Toronto Modern: Architecture & Design, 1895-1975 by
In the final years of the nineteenth century, Toronto architects started to consider how their city, through progressive architecture and urban planning, could be made "modern." Making Toronto Modern constructs Toronto's architectural past to create a compelling narrative of how new ideas about modernism were debated, received, and embodied in new buildings. Through a close examination of political debates, architectural journals, and home design magazines, Christopher Armstrong describes the competing motivations and ideals that influenced the ways in which the city was built. He shows how radical architectural ideas from Europe began to influence Toronto architects and planners in the 1920s, but that the city's residents proved cautiously conservative about modernism. It was not until the prosperous 1950s that the Modern Movement gained wider acceptance through the work of a new generation of practitioners and by the time Viljo Revell's dramatic New City Hall opened in 1965, it was clear that popular attitudes had undergone significant change. The book profiles major public buildings, university commissions, commercial buildings, and a range of residential architecture - from the homes of the city's richest businessmen in the early twentieth century to modernist works such as the Betel, Horne, and Fraser residences sixty years later. Extensively illustrated with period photographs, many previously unpublished, this broad overview fills a major gap in Toronto's architectural history. A reminder of what is at stake in the reception of new architecture and the factors that shape the development of contemporary architecture, Making Toronto Modern is critical to understanding how Torontonians came to see themselves as living in a world-class city attuned to the avant-garde.
Call Number: NA747.T6 A75 2014ISBN: 9780773543492Publication Date: 2014-04-01
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Architecture Journal & Databases
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes periodicals published worldwide on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage reaches from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. - Building Green This link opens in a new window
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BuildingGreen.com includes articles, news, reviews, product listings, and case studies and is organized into a hierarchy of topics related to green design and construction. These topics include Policy and Context, Process, Land Use and Community, Site and Water, Energy, Resources and Materials, Indoor Environmental Quality.
The database includes Environmental Building News, a monthly newsletter published since 1992 featuring comprehensive, practical information on a range of topics related to sustainable design in the built environment. - Building Types Online This link opens in a new window
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Building Types Online is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design. It is based on Birkhäuser's high international standing in professional architecture books, on the knowledge of the authors and editors who are leading experts in their fields, as well as on the technical quality of the illustrations. The database offers exclusive and unparalleled, highly flexible and detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser program on building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design. - Detail Inspiration This link opens in a new window
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Detail Inspiration, which appears in German and English, devotes every issue to specific topics in construction and building details in architecture. Current international architecture projects are documented with beautiful photographs and comparable drawings at a scale of 1:20. Twice a year, the magazine features the special supplement GREEN and two issues of DETAIL interior. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections. - ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. - SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to over 381 electronic journals published by Sage Publications.
- US Modernist: Architecture Magazine ArchiveThe USModernist Library is the largest open digital collection of major US 20th-century architecture magazines with approximately 2.5 million downloadable pages - all free to access.
- The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's JournalsProduced from 1924 through 1973, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)'s Journals offer a crucial documentary history of the development of architecture and of architectural practices in Canada. This history is of broad relevance to Canadian culture, most obviously to architectural historians and heritage practitioners.
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Scholars Portal Journals is a digital repository of over 22 million scholarly articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline. - Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus offers access to more that 14,000 scholarly titles including approximately 750 conference proceedings, all journals in Medline, 400 trade publications and also approximately 500 Open Access Journals. In development for more than two years with the collaborative efforts of 300 librarians and researchers, Scopus covers the content of over 4,000 international scientific, technical, medical and social science publishers.
For information on Scopus APIs, go Elsevier website - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science is the online version of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Users can search 8,500 international research journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. The Web of Science also provides cited reference searching
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