Born into slavery, Frank McWorter would become "Free" Frank McWorter when he purchased his freedom in 1819. While living with his family in Kentucky in the 1820s, McWorter decided to move to a free state as soon as possible, and he left for Illinois in 1830. In 1831, he arrived at his new plot of land about twenty miles east of the Mississippi River. In 1836, the founded New Philadelphia, and it...

The Nexus Network Journal is a peer-reviewed research journal on studies in architecture and mathematics. The publication, which comes out twice yearly, is divided into the following sections: Research Articles, Didactics, Geometer's Angle, Book and Article Reviews, Conference and Exhibit Reports, Virtual Library, Submission Guidelines, and Readers' Queries. Research articles address broad topics...

Kendall B. Waitt, Dave Dickinson, and Hill C. Linthicum are just a few of the notable architects profiled in this biographical dictionary created by the North Carolina State University Libraries. The site serves as a digital companion to the 1990 book "Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practices of Building". As a whole, this site is a "growing reference work that...

Started in 1970, the Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota brings together the records of architects, engineers, contractors, landscape architects, and interior designers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Many of these primary documents have been placed into digital collections, and visitors can use this page to navigate through these delightful and useful...

Bruce Graham, architect behind nation's tallest building, dies at 84 http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/midwest/view/20100309bruce_graham_architect_behind_nations_tallest_building_dies_at_84/srvc=home&position=recent Legendary Architect Bruce J. Graham Dies http://www.som.com/content.cfm/030810_legendary_architect_bruce_j_graham_dies Chicago Tribune Profile: Bruce Graham...

NPR: Da Rocha Receives Pritzker Prize for Architecture [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5331826 Humaniser of the modern megalopolis http://news.ft.com/cms/s/46c2c0e6-c97c-11da-94ca-0000779e2340.html The Pritzker Architecture Prize [pdf] http://www.pritzkerprize.com/ International Architecture Database http://www.archinform.net Chicago Architects...

The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is designed to support the work and activities of its members and also provide information about their profession to the general public. On the home page, visitors can learn about upcoming events, case studies on sustainable design, and information about members and their respective firms. Most visitors should shuttle on over to the Public Resources...

Using a wide variety of materials culled from archival collections, primarily the Getty Research Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Overdrive, an exhibition of Los Angeles's urban landscape, presented in a way that would be almost impossible to recreate from ground level in L.A. Drawings, photographs, models, films, animations, oral histories, and ephemera provide a view of L.A.'s...

Architecture aficionados will delight in the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD). Alan Michelson, head of the Built Environments Library at the University of Washington-Seattle, first launched the site in 2002 as "CAD" (California Architecture Database). In 2005, a career move to the University of Washington allowed him to expand the project to include Oregon and Washington. PCAD documents...

The worlds of theater, tourism, and urban development all come together in this delightful and intriguing digital collection. Created by staff members at the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection group, the collection includes pamphlets, books, and theater programs that cover tourism in Washington State, urban development in Seattle, the world of theatrical amusements in the area,...