Kappe Library Study Guides

The Kappe Library Guides identify general resources on broad topics to help researchers begin their work. Individual projects and practitioners are avoided; guides, indexes and general introductions are preferred to specialized works. Book citations that include a call number can be found at the Kappe Library; other books are identified by author, title and date. Magazine articles are selected from the Avery Index, Art Full Text and JStor databases. Where full-text articles are available online, the article title is hyperlinked to the full text.

Periods & Places in Architecture

How to find out about the Architecture of Prehistory

How to find out about Architecture in Africa

How to find out about Architecture in Australia and the Pacific Islands

How to find out about Architecture in China, Japan, and Korea From Prehistory to the 1800s

How to find out about Architecture in China, Japan, and Korea: Colonial to Contemporary

How to find out about Architecture in India and Southeast Asia

How to find out about Architecture in Pre-Columbian America

How to find out about Architecture in Latin America: Colonial to Contemporary

How to find out about Architecture in the Middle East: Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Persia

How to find out about Architecture in the Middle East: Islamic Traditions from the 7th Century to Now

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: Ancient Greece & Rome

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: the Byzantine East & the Early Christian West

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: the Middle Ages

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: the Renaissance

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: the Baroque & Rococo

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: 18th Century Classicisms & Romanticisms

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: 19th Century Revolutions & Revivals

How to find out about Architecture in Europe: Modernisms 1880s-1980s

How to find out about Modernism in Theory

How to find out about Architecture in North America: 15th century to 20th century

Architecture: Building types & other special topics

How to find out about Architecture in general

How to find out about Big Buildings

How to find out about Building & Zoning Codes

How to find out about Correctional, Judicial & Police Buildings

How to find out about Architectural Details

How to find out about Educational Buildings

How to find out about Farm Buildings

How to find out about Food Service Buildings

How to find out about Functionless Buildings & Structures

How to find out about Green Design

How to find out about Hotel, Motel & Resort Buildings

How to find out about Infrastructure

How to find out about Intelligent Buildings

How to find out about Library Buildings

How to find out about Manufacturing & Mining Buildings

How to find out about Media & Communications Buildings

How to find out about Medical Buildings

How to find out about Memorials & Monuments

How to find out about Military Buildings

How to find out about Movie Theaters & Movies

How to find out about Museum Buildings

How to find out about Office Buildings

How to find out about Recreation Buildings

How to find out about Religious Buildings

How to find out about Research & Science Buildings

How to find out about Residential Buildings: general issues

How to find out about Residential Buildings: multiple-unit

How to find out about Residential Buildings: single-unit

How to find out about Retail Buildings

How to find out about Sound & Acoustics

How to find out about Sports Buildings

How to find out about Theater Buildings

How to find out about Transportation Buildings

Other Arts

How to find out about Communication Design (including graphic design, diagrams, illustration)

How to find out about Furniture Design

How to find out about Landscape Architecture

How to find out about Literature: periods, traditions, forms

How to find out about Modernism in the Visual Arts

How to find out about Music

How to find out about Personal Design (including apparel and other design for the body)

Science & Technology

How to find out about Biology: properties of organisms

How to find out about Chemistry: properties of matter

How to find out about Earth Sciences: natural systems

How to find out about Geography, Cartography & GIS

How to find out about Materials

How to find out about Mathematics: pattern & calculation

How to find out about Physics: fundamental properties

Society

How to find out about Cities

How to find out about Globalization

How to find out about Los Angeles

How to find out about Marketing

How to find out about New Communities

Research tools & methods

At the Kappe Library

Credit Your Sources (citing references & protecting yourself from plagiarism)

Find Articles in Magazines

Find Books in the Library Catalog

Find Documents on the Web

How to Learn Independently

The Organization of Books (Library of Congress system)

Other Library Collections in Southern California

Researching Architects

Researching Buildings

Researching Concepts

Researching Sites