Architecture and Planning Guide: Other Resources

American Institute of Architects

The leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners since 1857.

American Architectural Foundation

AAF assembles design teams of diverse expertise; connects them with government officials, educators, business leaders, and others whose daily decisions help determine the design of our cities; and engages them all in a collaborative design process that responds to some of the most critical challenges facing our nation.

American Society of Landscape Architects

The society's mission is to lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.

National Organization of Minority Architects

NOMA's mission is to champion diversity within the design professions by promoting the excellence, community engagement, and professional development of its members.

Society of Architectural Historians

This society's mission is to advance the knowledge and understanding of the history of architecture, design, landscape, and urbanism among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning), and the interested general public.

American Institute of Architects (Baltimore)

Founded in 1871, the Baltimore Chapter of The American Institute of Architects is the third oldest in the country.

American Institute of Architects (Maryland)

Mission is "to improve the practice of architecture in Maryland through legislative and governmental action." Our perspective is mostly at the State level, although we maintain close ties with both state and local legislators. We promote architects and architecture through political activism, legislative activities and grassroots efforts and we guard the interests of architects with regard to regulations and law.

Baltimore Architecture Foundation

The Foundation today focuses its attention and energies on helping to promote an understanding of and an appreciation for Baltimore's built environment -- it does this through walking tours, lectures, public programs, and an architecture-in-the-schools program.

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• Baltimore Architecture Foundation

  The Foundation provides a bibliography and biographies of Baltimore architects.
• Baltimore Architecture: Then and Now. Maryland Historical Society

  Images and historical discriptions of notable Baltimore City buildings.
• Built in America: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record 1933-Present.

  Documents architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and it territories. Includes drawings, photographs, and written histories of structures. Note: Baltimore structures may be found under Maryland -- Independent City -- Baltimore.
• Preservation Maryland

  Founded in 1931, Preservation Maryland is the state's oldest historic preservation organization. It is dedicated to preserving Maryland's historic buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes and archaeological sites through outreach, funding, and advocacy.
• My Baltimore: The Baltimore Architecture Project

  The Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries have launched a collaborative effort that will bring together on-line documents relating to Baltimore’s rich architectural history that are now scattered among libraries, churches, hospitals, and museu
• Passano Historic Structure Index

  This index is located at the Maryland Historical Society. The index of over 100,000 3x5 cards provides references for thousands of historic buildings in Baltimore City and throughout Maryland. Street addresses are followed forward and backward in time.
• Baltimore Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation

  The mission of CHAP is to enhance and promote the culture and economy of Baltimore through the preservation of buildings, structures, sites and neighborhoods that have have aesthetic, historic and architectural value.
• National Register of Historic Places

  Part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect our historic and archeological resources. Properties listed include districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects.

• Getty Images 
• Library Of Congress 

  Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections
• Luna Commons 

  Source for finding valuable, educational content from digital collections
• Pictorial architecture of Los Angeles