Building Types Online - a new database in architecture
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The new Building Types Online database give you access to the content from 12 published Birkhäuser books about building typology (2002-2016).
The database provides an online documentation about a large international collection of contemporary buildings (e. g. housing, office buildings, museums, schools, libraries, industrial complexes), comprising more than 850 international case studies from mostly the past 30 years.
Each building is presented with technical drawings, professional plans, photographs and articles.
The Building Types Online content can be downloaded and used for personal use and as part of education. They are of course subject to copyright and any reproduction in a document circulated outside EPFL must be applied to the editor. Refer to page Right & permissions on the publisher's website.
By opening a personal account on De Gruyter publisher site, it is possible to save searches, make a selection of articles, add notes and get the correct citation for each item.
Ex : Wong, L. Central Library. In Building Types Online (2016). Berlin, Basel: Birkhäuser. Retrieved 12 Apr. 2016, from http://www.degruyter.com/view/BDT/BDT_17_044
Find more information about the content and the search options in the user guide.