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Interior Design Webliography

American Society of Interior Designers - http://www.asid.org/

ASID's Web site includes information about the organization, member services, continuing education, job opportunities, upcoming conferences, and more.

Texas Board of Architectural Examiners - http://www.tbae.state.tx.us/

The TBAE site has information about Texas state law governing interior designers and information and scheduling about the licensing examination.

Information Sources for Building Construction - http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/afa/subjects/bcn.html

The University of Florida Architecture & Fine Arts Library lists reference books on building construction, many with electronic equivalents available on the Web, and links to other sites in the field, including dozens of links to associations, institutions, and organizations of interest to interior designers.

Royal Institute of British Architects - http://www.architecture.com

This Web site from one of the oldest professional associations of architects boasts access to over 250,000 pages on architecture and architects. FIBA's library has a online, searchable catalog, and there are sections on membership information, galleries, great buildings, and many, many links to related Web sites.

ArtSource - http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/

This site is an annotated directory of links to art and architecture Web sites, including image databases and online journals.

Great Buildings Online - http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html

More than 750 buildings and their architects are described in this superb directory. It includes biographical information, descriptions of buildings, and 3D models.

Architectural Net Resources - http://www.sah.org/netresources.html

Resources included are reference sources, collections, images, architects, and texts. The site is maintained by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Architecture (Virtual Library) - http://www.clr.toronto.edu/virtuallib/arch.html

A very good comprehensive section in the Virtual Library program.

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/
vocabulary/aat/

This site contains a vocabulary of almost 120,000 terms defining objects, materials, styles, and material culture.

Cities/Buildings Images Database - http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/

A searchable image database maintained by the University of Washington. It includes images of buildings and cities from more than fifty countries from antiquity to modern times.

Blue Book of Building and Construction - http://www.thebluebook.com/

A database of general contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, suppliers, equipment, and materials.

AIA Online - http://www.aiaonline.com/

The American Institute of Architects site includes information on career planning, scholarships & fellowships, internships, a database of jobs, and a directory of architects and architectural design firms.

Architecture and Interior Design for Twentieth Century America - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/
gotthome.html

Part of the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, this site presents over 29,000 images from the Gittscho-Schleisner Collection. It includes architectural interiors and exteriors of home, stores, offices, historic buildings, etc., chiefly from the northeastern United States.

Art Deco Architecture - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1925/

Concentrating on the Art Deco movement, this site looks at the movement's history, architecture, and architects.

Women in Architecture and Interior Design - http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/
subject/architec.html

This site is a directory of links to Web sites covering women who are leaders in the architecture and interior design fields.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - http://www.thomasregister.com/

The register lists 160,000 U.S. and Canadian companies and their products. The database is searchable by company, product type, and brand name. The Web site also includes their Food Industry Register.

Sweet's - http://www.sweets.com/

Sweet's lists nearly 54,000 products and more than 10,000 manufacturers in the construction fields.

FabricLink - http://www.FabricLink.com/home.html

An extensive Web site on fabrics, including a history of fibers, descriptions of various fibers and the fabrics made from them, and care information, including stain removal.

Textile Museum - http://www.textilemuseum.org/

The Textile Museum located in Washington, D.C., covers 5,000 years of non-Western textiles. It provides examples from the museum's holdings as well as information about exhibits, information on the Textile Learning Center, and further links to Web sites concerning textiles.

Textile Society of America - http://textilesociety.org/

Maintained by the Curator of the Costume and Textile Collection at Cornell University, this site explains the purpose and activities of the society, including a job posting section.

Texas Accessability Standards - http://www.license.state.tx.us/ab/tas/abtas.htm

Provides the text of the Architectural Barriers Act, Article 9102, Texas Civil Statutes, April 1994.

See also "Copyright" in General Education -