LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Middle Eastern &amp; Islamic Architecture

Middle Eastern & Islamic Architecture

360 Cities
Panoramic images of architecture worldwide.
Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East
Includes over 70,000 images and maps, principal focus is Jordan.
Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection
Documenting the life and culture of Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s. From University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.
Aga Khan Visual Archive
Architecture, urbanism and the built environment of the Islamic World. From MIT Libraries.
Alhambra y Generalife
Official website for the palace and gardens.
Al Mashriq -- Palestine
Archived site from the American University of Beirut. Includes links to sites about art and architecture.
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive: Asia and Middle East
Collection includes over 28,000 images and is still under development. From University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.
ArchDaily: Middle East
Section of website about contemporary architecture focusing on projects in the Middle East.
Archnet
An online community for architects and scholars with a special focus on the Islamic world, based at MIT, features a virtual library of digitized books, journals, reference tools, as well as thousands of images of architecture in the Islamic world.
Archnet Pedagogy Project
Resources for people teaching Islamic art and architecture.
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur: Syrien
Documentation photographs of destroyed and endangered cultural artifacts of Syria. Site is in German.
Detweiler Collection
The collection consists of photographs of various sites produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. From the American Academy in Rome via JSTOR.
Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection
Over 3300 photographs of traditional architecture. From Notre Dame University-Louaize, via JSTOR.
Islamic Landmarks
Historic Islamic sites and monuments compiled with a Muslim viewpoint.
Kirkuk's Great Sufi Mosque
Includes short films of activities taking place at the mosque. From UCLA.
Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
Comprises over 5,000 original photographs, primarily of Jerusalem and Palestine taken from 1850 to 1937. From UPenn via JSTOR.
Louis Dupree and Nancy Dupree Collection
Photographs taken by archaeologists of life in Afghanistan from the 1950s to early 2000s. From UCLA.
Mahmud Ghul Collection
Middle Eastern art and architecture. From SUNY Binghamton via JSTOR.
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World
Full text articles available online at Archnet.
Nicholas V. Artamanoff Collection
Photographs taken in Istanbul and of five archaeological sites in Turkey from 1935 to 1945. Dumbarton Oaks Exhibition.
One Place, Many Stories: Madaba, Jordan
3-d tour of site, created by CyArk.
Palestine: traveling in the Holy Land through the stereoscope
An accompaniment to Jesse Lyman Hurlbut’s 1900 text “Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope." From Brown Digital Repository.
The Secret Cities of Yemen
Blog post displaying spectacular photos of the stunning and largely unknown architecture of Yemen.
Sites in 3D
Panoramic views of buildings in many different countries, including many Islamic sites.
Structurae
International database and gallery of structures, with an engineering focus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
Over 4000 color slides and black and white photographs taken by Eugene Casselman.
Vitruvio
International architectural site covering all time periods. In Italian.

Unknown builder. Traditional house with wind tower. Al Jazirah Al Hamra, United Arab Emirates. Photo by Slywire via Creative Commons license 4.0.