Interior Architecture & Design

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Interior Architecture & Design

This section lists resources for specific purposes.

Find more resources from the Visual Culture subject page.

• Archigram 

Online access to the work of this seminal group of architects.


• Artstor 

A database of almost 3 million images related to visual arts and culture. You can create, save and share groups of images and make presentations too. If you want to search for academic articles and images simultaneously, follow the link via the "J" JSTOR icon to the top left of the page.


Culture Grid provides access to UK arts, culture and heritage collections. You can also access European collections through Europeana. Results draw on image, audio and video artefacts.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Detail Inspiration is an image and reference database with more than 3000 projects from the last 30 years of DETAIL Magazine (UK and German editions and Detail Green). Each project is accompanied by DETAIL project documents, which can be downloaded as PDFs. Please note that off campus access is via VPN only.


• Digimap 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Digimap is a collection of EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain. We subscribe to the complete collection which provides access to modern and historic Ordnance Survey mapping, geological mapping, aerial photography, Lidar data, demographic data and more.


• Hantsphere 

Hantsphere is an online local heritage resource relating to the geographic county of Hampshire. You can search and explore digitised local studies collections from across Hampshire, including Southampton and Portsmouth. These collections comprise a selection of photographs, postcards, prints, books, newspaper articles, documents and images of artefacts from local libraries, archives and museums. The vast majority of digitised items originated in the Local Studies collections of Hampshire's and Portsmouth City's libraries.


Includes, photographs and drawings of England's archaeology, historic buildings and social history.


Collections include images of textiles, wallpapers, books and magazines.


Creating exhibitions, events, collaborations, research and debates on the meaning of home.


• RIBA Pix 

Online image collections from the RIBA and, therefore, focus on architecture and interior design. Images are watermarked, but they are of good quality and can be used for educational purposes.


Search millions of objects in the V&A collections.

 

Your Subject Team

 Greta Friggens

Faculty Librarian

email greta.friggens@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3456