Images and streaming videos
Visual media helps make learning clearer and more engaging by turning ideas into memorable visuals. This page includes examples and collections to help you use visual media effectively in learning.
Image collections
The following image databases contain images of buildings, architectural plans and artworks.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of not only articles and books but millions of quality images of architecture, art, the humanities and social sciences.
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Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new windowArtstor on JSTOR is a digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
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Detail InspirationDetail Inspiration is an image and reference database uses relevant visual inspirations to support architects in their search for construction solutions.
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Google Arts & CultureGoogle has partnered with hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives to host the world's cultural treasures online. Here you can find artworks, landmarks and world heritage sites, as well as digital exhibitions that tell the stories behind the archives of cultural institutions across the globe.
Collins Street by Steffi Pereira
Melbourne Buildings by Sharon Mathews
Melbourne Central Dome by Matt Briney
Online video collections
Search these streaming video platforms for documentaries on architects, architecture and art.
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Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for films and documentaries.
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Informit EduTV This link opens in a new windowAustralian broadcast television content from 2006 onward - including TV shows, feature films and documentaries.
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Pidgeon DigitalPidgeon Digital is a web-based digital collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) and lectures are continually added.
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OnArchitectureOnArchitecture is an audiovisual archive of architecture online, it provides a series of videos of buildings and interviews with architects, artists and curators from around the world since 2007. OnArchitecture provides focused and detailed high-quality content on contemporary architecture with a global perspective.
Where Architects Live (Kanopy)
Biomimicry: Design to Heal the Planet (Pidgeon D)
Greek Art and Architecture (Kanopy)