Print Periodicals Indexes in the Field of Architecture

American House Designs: An Index to Popular and Trade Periodicals, 1850 - 1915
compiled by Margaret Culbertson, Greenwood Press, 1994 ARCH REF NA7207 .C85 1994

• indexes over 6,500 house designs.
• includes the works of over 2,000 architects and designers.
• periodicals indexed include women's, agricultural, and house & garden magazines.
• does not index professional architectural periodicals.

Architectural Index Editor & Publisher, Ervin J. Bell ARCH Z5941 .A66 (Index Area)

• library has 1950 - 1994.
• indexes several journals most often subscribed to by architectural firms.
• "Architect or Designer" heading section provides access to citations about individual architects and architectural firms.

Architecture Periodicals Index (API )
sponsors: The British Architectural Library, Sir Banister Fletcher Library, and Royal Institute of British Architects ARCH REF Z5941 .A69

• library has v.1, 1972/73 - .
• international in scope with a British flavor.
• indexes some 300 architectural periodicals.
• also includes details on architecture books.
• search aid: use Architectural Keywords (ARCH REF Z695.1 .A68x A7) in order to get the most out of API.

Art Index H. W. Wilson Co,. ARCH REF Z5937 .A78

• library has 1929 - 1991 (continued by Art Abstracts in the FirstSearch on-line databases).
• international in scope.
• subject areas indexed include architecture, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and graphic arts.
• also includes a section of citations to book reviews.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals by Avery Library G. K. Hall, 1973, 2nd ed.; plus supplements
ARCH REF Z5945 .C653 1973

• international in scope.
• full coverage of major U.S. architecture periodicals.
• some foreign publications indexed back to the late 1800s.
• also includes citations to pertinent articles from periodicals in the fields of art history, archaeology, and urban planning.
• library has holdings through 1994.
• use Avery Index on-line for later dates.

Burnham Index to Architectural Literature
by Ryerson& Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989 ARCH REF NA705 .B85x

• a 10 volume set.
• primarily covers 1919 to mid-1960s.
• some pre-1919 journals indexed retrospectively.
• indexes many periodicals not indexed elsewhere.
• includes citations to books as well as journals.

Canadian Architectural Periodicals Index: 1940 - 1980 by Claude Bergeron Les Presses De L'Universite Laval, 1986 ARCH REF Z5944 .C3 B47x

• complete coverage of Canadian architectural journals.

Index to Historic Preservation Periodicals by National Trust for Historic Preservation Library, U. of Maryland G. K. Hall & Co., 1988 & 1992 ARCH Z1251 .A2 N3x 1988 ARCH Z1251 .A2 N3x 1987/90 (first supplement)

• covers time period 1979 - 1990.
• includes popular and scholarly periodicals.
• contains over 10,000 citations to articles from more than 300 periodicals.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians: Index to Volumes I - XX, 1941 - 1961
by Shirley Prager Branner The Society, 1974 ARCH REF NA11 .S63 B73x 1974

• provides access to all the information contained in the first 20 years of the Journal.

Landscape Architecture Magazine, Cumulative Index, 1910-1987
by Bruce K. Ferguson PDA Publishers Corp., 1988 ARCH INDEX (shelved at beginning of the Index Area)

Search editor/indexer, Don Colangelo Search Publishing, Inc. ARCH REF Z5941 .S4x

• library has 1988-1992, 1994 - .
• contains citations with very brief abstracts to articles from about 25 leading architecture and interior design magazines.