Welcome to the Architecture & Interior Design Research Guide

This Guide contains some of the most used resources for architecture & interior design research.
More Design, Architecture, Art and Planning databases can be found in the A-Z List of Databases.

New Resources

Pidgeon Digital
Pidgeon Digital is the online version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes which will become of priceless value to future generations. The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) so as to be able to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas

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Changes to Off Campus Access
Learn about how the methods of accessing library resources from off campus have changed due to changes to the UC VPN.