Books & Course Readings
TMU Library Architecture Collection
Browse 7th floor stacks via architecture call number range: NA31-NA9428
Note: Reserve books are located on the main floor (2nd).
If you need help identifying scholarly/peer-reviewed articles, see this tutorial.
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Architecture Journals/Magazines @ TMU Library
Architecture Classics and New Books Available @ TMU Library
E-Books
BASICs Architecture eBooks covers subjects of architectural design, presentation, construction, building technology, professional practice, landscape architecture and urbanism.
Project Muse includes Art & Architecture Titles
Springer Books includes Architecture & Design E-Books
Knovel includes Structural Engineering Titles
EngNetBase includes Civil Engineering/HVAC Titles
ARCHIZINES
Showcase of recent architecture fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative to the established architectural press.
Journal and Magazine Articles
- 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. - Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Art Full Text provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. - 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.
- Colossus: Architecture Magazine ArchiveColossus is the first vast open searchable digital archive of major 20th century architecture publications. Colossus collects and shares architecture magazines from architects and offices and basements and libraries across the country. Titles include Progressive Architect, AIA Journal, House+Home, Architectural Forum, AIA North Carolina, Metro Magazine and Design Life.
- 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.
- GA DocumentGA Document presents the finest in international design, focusing on architecture that expresses our time and striving to record the history of contemporary architecture.
- GA HousesGA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world
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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. - Material ConneXion This link opens in a new window
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Material ConneXion offers a knowledge base with an eclectic collection of innovative materials and processes. The database is updated regularly and frequently with materials juried by a panel of material specialists. It is a resource for all disciplines of design development, including: Architecture, Interior Design, Packaging Design, Retail Design, Industrial Design, Fashion, Apparel & Footwear, Exhibition Design, Textile Design, Landscape Architecture, and Transportation Design and includes the largest selection of sustainable materials and the only Cradle to Cradle materials library in the world: Polymers, Ceramics, Glass, Metals, Cement-based materials, Natural Materials, Carbon-based materials, and Processes.
To access Material ConneXions Insights, please use this link: Material Insights - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse provides online access to the full text of over 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and many others.
Toronto Metropolitan now has access to the following 2022 collections: African Studies, Gender Studies, History, Language and Linguistics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health and Health Policy, Russian and East European Studies
Toronto Buildings Research
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
Historic Buildings - Toronto (Library Catalogue)
Architects in Canada (Biographical Dictionary)
Open Data Catalogue [3D Massing Data]
Property Data Maps - City of Toronto (DWG & PDF Files)
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [Search Canadian Architect, Canadian Interiors, RAIC]
RAIC Journal 1924-1973 [Sexton Digital Initiative]
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
Finding Theses
TMU Theses (Research Papers)
- TMU Library Digital Repository (Online)
- MArch Architecture Theses
- Building Science Theses
- Undergraduate Research Papers
More Theses (Research Papers)
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Proquest Dissertations and Theses provides access to the full-text of over 400,000 Masters and PhD theses from 1997 onwards.
Theses Canada Portal
Provides electronic access to the full text of Canadian theses digitized between 1998 and 2002 and provides a record of all other theses in the National Library of Canada's collection (1965-).
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