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Online Architecture & Landscape Books and Journals to Access During Lockdown

Here are some options for accessing texts to support your study while we can't access the hard copy collection. The Interlibrary Loan service is available for online articles and even some book chapters during lockdown - more info here

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Books: search the catalogue and use the filter in the left-hand column, Full Text Online. These ebooks are curated by the Library and should be fully accessible to you.
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Arch Daily list of 25 architecture books available online
Digitised books covering a range of topics, includes 1905 ed of Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture, Vitruvius, Ruskin, Case Study Houses and more. Quality of reproduction varies across the titles but it's better than not being able to access them.
MIT Press Open Access books
Ranging across architecture and landscape topics, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Alberti among others.
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Kia ora, welcome. This guide is for Architecture staff and and students - it brings resources related to architecture together to help you locate information for study and research.

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