Research Guides: Architectural Studies: Find OER

Recommended Open Educational Resources for Architectural Studies

Books:

Digitally Enhanced Design: Breakthrough Tools, Processes, and Expressive Potentials "The book explores evolving perspectives on furniture, interior, spatial and architectural design, providing a multifaceted view of how the design discipline and practice deal with the complex and ever-evolving interplay between the physical and the digital realms. It explores the new frontiers of digitally enhanced design, investigating how computation capabilities impact the design discipline and designers’ thinking and practice."
Open Humanities Press (OHP) "OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory. We have operated as a independent volunteer initiative since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication."
Pressbooks Architectural Studies "Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 5,432 open access books published by 152 organizations and networks using Pressbooks."

Journals:

Open Humanities Press (OHP) "OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory. We have operated as a independent volunteer initiative since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication."
SAGE Open "Sage Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from Sage that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. View full journal description."

Other:

4.401 Introduction to Building Technology | Architecture "The course aims at providing a fundamental understanding of the physics related to buildings and to propose an overview of the various issues that have to be adequately combined to offer the occupants a physical, functional and psychological well-being."
ARCHNET "Welcome to ARCHNET NEXT, the latest iteration of Archnet, an Open Access, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, conservation issues, visual and material cultures, and other topics related to the built environment."
Canvas Commons Canvas Commons provides OER resources for undergradute and graduate architecture courses.
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) Click the above link for Full-Text Open Educational Resources for Architectural Studies and Design.
MERLOT Search MERLOT to find OER Architectural Studies resources.
OER Commons Use OER Commons to search for open educational resources in architecture.