Scope
Spanning thousands of years of the world’s built heritage, the content ranges from ancient monuments and primitive rock dwellings to hotels, shops, factories, civic buildings and social housing. From everyday street scenes through to some of the world’s most iconic buildings, structures of every type and style feature in the collections, which are as much social documentation as architectural history. The collections are as much social documentation as architectural history. Allied subjects such as interior design, landscape, topography, planning, construction and the decorative arts are also well-represented.
The work of thousands of architects, engineers, artists and designers from across the globe is featured, along with that of some of the world’s leading photographers, including John Maltby, Edwin Smith, Henk Snoek, John Donat , Dell & Wainwright, Martin Charles and Tony Ray-Jones. And if you’re looking for portraits of the architects, or people connected with architecture, then we can help with that too.