The Archivision Digital Archive is a unique and growing core research collection of high quality images, photographed by a professional photographer, architect and past VR curator. The archive is intended for in-depth research & analysis by students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, archaeology, art and art history. It is also a great resource for teaching the history of architecture and art.
The visual site documentations are extensive. Most image sources, such as magazines, books, or other image vendors, provide only a few relevant images for any given architectural site or topic. However, this archive includes extensive photographic documentations of each site visited. These extensive documentations are primarily for use in research in the design studio or the study of architecture and art history. Complementing the site documentations are drawings of the site (from copyright free sources) where ever possible.
The scope of what is photographed is also extensive. Beyond specific site documentations, there is coverage of the broader built environment. This includes overviews of towns or cities via streetscape and cityscape sets, aerial and skyline view sets, and sets by topic, such as our architectural element series, or our door and window series, etc. Drawings have also been photographed from out-of-print and copyright-free portfolios from the mid 1800's to accompany our architectural sites. Also photographed are the decorative arts, gardens and parks, the natural landscape, scenic city scenes, architectural textures, construction details, etc.