- Canadian Centre for Architecture - http://cca.qc.ca/
A museum and study centre devoted to international architecture past and present. The collection includes 42,000 prints and drawings from the late 15th century to the present and 50,000 architectural photographs. French and English language options.
- Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html
Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner in the Library of Congress of the architecture and interior design of 20th-century America. Can be browsed or searched.
- Architecture of Wales - http://www.llgc.org.uk/ardd/pensaeri/architect.htm
Collection of architectural drawings, mostly of Welsh structures, held at The National Library of Wales.
- Irish Architectural Archive - http://www.iol.ie/bizpark/i/iaa1/
The archive was established in 1976 to collect, preserve and make available to the public records of every kind relating to the architecture of Ireland.
- Carnegie Mellon Architecture Archives - http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/ArchArch/
Aims to document the architects and architecture of Pittsburgh and the tri-state region of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia.
- Norman Morrison Isham Collection - http://home.sprynet.com/~awb02/ham1.htm
Collection of notebooks, manuscripts, photographs,letters, deeds, inventories and measured drawings pertaining to Isham's study of early New England architecture, held by the Rhode Island Historical Society.
- The Southeastern Architectural Archive - http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/SEAAHome.html
This archive at Tulane University is New Orleans' major repository for architectural records. Has cataloged records of more than 120 firms. Opening hours, architects represented, resources.
- The Parkinson Architectural Archives - http://www.parkives.com
Privately-held collection featuring the work of English-born US architect John Parkinson and the successor firms in Los Angeles and Austin (1889-current.) Online queries.
- Avery Library Drawings and Archives - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/avery/
A collection of 500,000 items, including original drawings, blueprints, photographs, correspondence, and other architectural records at Columbia University, New York.
- Lambeth Palace Library - http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/
Includes the archive of the Incorporated Church Building Society (1818-1984), the single largest source of plans and drawings of new and rebuilt churches in the UK. Library holdings, services, news.
- Environmental Design Archives - http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/
A repository of historical architecture and landscape architecture records at the College of Environmental Design, University of California. Collections, programs and services.
- The National Monuments Record - http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?WCI=WebItem&WCE=2131
The records made and gathered by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. Access and search aids for the public; online photo gallery.
- British Architectural Library - http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Library_898.html
Descriptions and online catalogue of the collections including over 500,000 architectural drawings by mainly British architects, over 700,000 manuscripts and archives and more than 650,000 photographs of architecture worldwide. Contact details, opening hours, information services, guidance for researchers, publications on the collection and extensive list of architectural links.
- The International Archive of Women in Architecture - http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/
At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University documents the history of women's professional involvement in the field of architecture before the 1950s. Biographical dictionary.
- Ball State University - http://www.bsu.edu/cap/facilities/archives/
The College of Architecture and Planning’s Drawings and Documents Archive preserves and makes available records concerning Indiana’s historic sites and structures and the careers of Hoosier designers.
- Barragan Foundation - http://www.barragan-foundation.org/
This foundation in Switzerland houses the professional archives of Luis Barragán.
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