Librarian for Architecture

Tom McNulty
Librarian for Art, Architecture, Design, and Museum Studies
New York University
Bobst Library, Mezzanine
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2519
E-mail: tom.mcnulty@nyu.edu 

NYU Links

• NYU Department of Art and Arts Professions
• NYU Department of Fine Arts (CAS)
• NYU Grey Art Gallery
• Institute of Fine Arts
• Collection Development Policy for Art

Related Subject Guides

• Finding Art Reproductions, Illustrations, & Pictures
  
• Fine and Decorative Arts
• Museum Studies
• Photography
• Arts Grants
  

Internet Links

Consortium and Other Art Libraries

As members of the NYU community, you can use the following art/architecture/design libraries; their holdings are included in BobCat:

• Cooper Union
• Parsons School of Design
• New York School of Interior Design

Other New York City Art, Architecture and Design Libraries Available to NYU Researchers:

• Frick Art Reference Library [Library catalog]
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art [Library catalog]
  
• Museum of Modern Art Library [Library catalog]
  
• New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library [Library catalog]
  
  

NYU is a member of the METRO, a consortium of 270 local and regional libraries. Researchers may consult the holdings of METRO libraries by requesting a METRO Referral Card at any Bobst Library Reference Desk (1st, 6th, 9th floors). Consult METRO’s Directory for a complete list of participating libraries.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks and Directories

• Architects in Practice New York City 1860-1900. Francis, Dennis Steadman. New York: the Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1980.
  Bobst REF1 NA55.N5 F72
• Architects in Practice New York City 1900-1940. Ward, James. Union, NJ: J. & D. Associates, 1989.
  Bobst REF1 NA55.N5 W38 1989
  These directories provide a listing of architects active in New York city from 1860 through 1940. Entries, arranged alphabetically, indicate the architects' addresses and dates of practice as well as representative works arranged geographically and by building type.
• Ching, Francis D.K. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.
  Bobst REF1 NA31 .c44 1995
  Includes fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. Most entries are illustrated.
• Cowan, Henry J. and Peter R. Smith. Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology. New York: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, 1986.
  Bobst REF1 NA31 .C63 1986
  An informative source on the technical terminology of modern architecture and related disciplines.
• Guedes, Pedro, ed. Encyclopedia of Architectural Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1979.
  Bobst REF1 NA31 .E58
  Provides basic information about architectural styles, building types, structures, mechanical and environmental systems, building materials, tools and techniques.
• Lampugnani, Vittorio Magnago, ed. Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture. (Hatje-Lexikon der Architektur des 20 Jahrhunderts). New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1985.
  Bobst NA680 .H3913 1985
  Presents architecture and urban planning of the 20th century through biographies of individual architects, surveys of architectural developments in individual countries, descriptions of monuments and trends in architecture.
• Morrone, Francis. The Architectural Guidebook to New York City. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2002.
  Bobst REF1 NA735.N5 M64 2002
  Includes approximately six hundred buildings in Manhattan. Entries includes name, address, date, architect and special features of each site.
• Packard, Robert T. Encyclopedia of American Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1995.
  Bobst REF1 NA705 .P3 1995
  Provides information about architectural terms, movements, as well as individual architects and firms.
• Van Vynckt, Randall, ed. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. Detroit: St. James Press, c1993. 2 vols.
  Bobst REF1 NA40 .I48 1993 v.1 & v.2
  The second volume, Architecture, provides good description of 464 major architectural works dating from the Middle Ages to the present.
• Walker, John Albert. Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design Since 1945. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1992.
  Bobst REF1 N34 .W34 1992
  This comprehensive glossary includes 700 entries on art, architecture, and design. Included are movements, styles, techniques, schools, and organizations. Entries provide concise, up-to-date, informative definitions.
• Wilkes, Joseph A. and Robert T. Packard, eds. Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering & Construction. New York: John Wiley & Sons, c1988. 5 vols.
  Bobst REF1 NA31 .E59 1988
  A substantial source of information about individual architects, firms, building styles and materials, historical influences, philosophical aspects and various other issues relating to architecture and construction. Includes illustrations and tables.

Indexes

• Architectural Periodicals Index. Royal Institute of British Architects. London: Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1974 to date.
  Bobst REF1 Z5941 .A725n
  A subject index to architectural periodicals located in the British Architectural Library of the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA). Indexes some 300 of the world's architectural periodicals, with an emphasis on British titles.
• Art Full Text, 1984-Present. New York: H. W. Wilson.
  Art Index Retrospective, 1929-1984. New York: H. W. Wilson.
  URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  Provides citations to articles and book reviews published in more than 450 periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in all fields related to the arts including archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, industrial design, interior design, and landscape design. International coverage.
• ArtBibliographies Modern, 1974-Present.
  URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  Indexes and abstracts books, periodical articles, theses, and exhibition catalogs related to art, architecture and design of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, 1977-Present.
  URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  This comprehensive index covers over 1,000 periodicals in Western languages, including major architectural journals published in the United States, Great Britain, South America, Europe and Japan.
• Bibliography of the History of Art, 1973-Present.
  URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  BHA abstracts books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs and dissertations relating to post-classical European and Post Columbian American art.
• Index to Italian Architecture: A Guide to Key Monuments and Reproduction Sources. Teague, Edward H. comp. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
  Bobst REF1 NA111 .T4 1992
  Provides citations to illustrations of some 1,800 works of Italian architecture reproduced in books. Indexing is detailed, access points include site, architect, date, type and name.
• World Architecture Index: A Guide to Illustrations. Teague, Edward H. comp. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
  Bobst REF1 NA202 .T4 1991
  This source provides some 7,000 citations to illustrations of buildings and plans collected from 108 important books. Detailed indexes include site, architect, building type, and variant names of the structure depicted in the reproduction.

Histories

• Millon, Henry A., ed. Key Monuments of the History of Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams inc. 1965.
  Bobst NA202 .M5 1965
  Includes essays and illustrations for the architecture of the ancient world, Asia and the Americas, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
• Musgrove, John et Al. Sir Banister Fletcher's History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987.
  Bobst NA200 .F63 1987
  Covers architectural styles and features of various historical periods in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America from the pre-colonial period to the present.
• Yarwood, Doreen. A Chronology of Western Architecture. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1987.
  Bobst NA200 .Y37 1987
  Presents the history of Western European and North American architecture from approximately 2,000 b.c. to modern times.

Biographies

• Colvin, Howard. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
  Bobst REF1 NA996 .C6 1995
  Provides information about individual architects who practiced in England, Scotland or Wales. Entries include lists of buildings, with indication of their dates of construction, demolition, or alteration.
• Morgan, Ann Lee and Colin Naylor, eds. Contemporary Architects. Chicago: St. James Press, 1987.
  Bobst REF1 NA40 .C6 1987
  Presents short biographies of 575 of the greatest contemporary architects, landscape architects, and structural engineers, along with coverage of the masters from the earlier part of this century.
• Placzek, Adolf K., ed. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. New York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1982. 4 v.
  Bobst REF1 NA40 .M25 1982
  A biographical encyclopedia of 2,400 prominent architects from all geographic areas and time periods. Emphasis on Western Europe, but major Islamic, Asian and American architects are included.
• Richards, J. M. ed. Who's Who in Architecture from 1400 to the Present. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 1977.
  Bobst REF1 NA40. W48
  A source of information on 600 architects, engineers, town planners, and landscape architects from the time of the Italian Renaissance to the present.
• Van Vynckt, Randall, ed. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. Detroit: St. James Press, c1993. 2 v.
  Bobst REF 1 NA40 .I48 1993
  Volume 1, Architects, describes the lives and careers of 525 master architects. Volume 2, Architecture, describes 467 prominent buildings and sites in the western world.