Architecture Guides
LAR 601: Landscape Architecture Design
Familiar landforms: etymology, meaning, symbolic content, images
Databases
Searching in periodical databases will retrieve the most recent scholarship on the subject.� Remember to tailor your search to your choice of database.
Oxford English Dictionary
Use this to find word definitions, etymological meanings, and usage
VIRGO:
| Quick search: | keyword subject | landform
landforms landforms and landscape |
| keyword title | landscape architecture dictionary | |
| Advanced search: | subject | landscape architecture and landscape design |
Avery Index:
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery Index is updated daily.
| Basic search as Subject Word: | topography
topography symbol? |
| topograph? and symbol? |
BHA:
| Basic Search as Subject Word: | topography and landscape |
| landscape and symbolism
landscape painting representation |
Grove Art Online:
Similar to a survey text, Grove Art Online provides encyclopedia style information on most topics and artists relevant to the art world. This is not a place to go to find specific articles, but rather general information about your work of art that might point you in a direction for your later research.
| Advanced search (full text): | landscape architecture and symbolism
landscape architecture and design and symbolism topography and landscape and symbolism |
Maps
Scholar's Lab at UVA
Online Resources and Web Sites
Google Scholar: landscape architecture design
Fine Arts Library Image Collection
ASLA-American Society of Landscape Architects
Catena Digital Archive of Historic Gardens + Landscapes
Library of Congress American Memory Database
- Search across all collections: landform, landscape
Landscape Architecture Image Resource
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