1275/1281 English for
Architects + Civil Engineers
Campus: Kurt-Schumacher-Ring

This course has now ended.
The exam results have been e-mailed to you
and the grade slips have been delivered
to your department's office.

Thanks for a great semester -
I enjoyed working with you all!

July 9, 2003

Excellent Internet portal for civil engineers: http://www.icivilengineer.com/ (You need a paid license to use this site - 11/03)

Here's an online dictionary for technical terms (German <---> English): http://www.tecnologix.de/laixicon/ (11/02)

If you'd like to see a lot of different CVs/resumés written by people working in the field of architecture, have a look at: http://www.e-architect.com/ Look at Career Resources and then click on one of the Resumé categories. (The "Intern" category is interesting, because these resumés were written by students like you.) If you click on Job Boards, you'll see there are currently 76 positions open for interns. (This is a US site.)

Glossary of Engineering Terms (from the book: Building Big)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/glossary_head.html

http://www.buildingtradesdir.com
This is an interesting website. It's mainly a really good databank and therefore a good resource for architects, contractors and other professionals in the building industry. It lists and shows the home pages e.g. of the "who is who" in the field of architecture. The web page includes a kind of yellow pages for all kind of professionals in the building industry, not only restricted to the North American continent. It's good for searching for adresses if you plan to do an internship for a special architect. This main web page includes some other subpages e. g. volume 5.com This page emphasizes architecture and construction. It even has its own chatroom! There's also a gallery with students' work from all over the world. (Simone Mueller, 7/01)

It is very important for an architect to know about history. The most important architect was and still is Le Corbusier; his rules about size, his theories about urbanism and urban development and the furniture he designed are still popular. At this web-site http://www.le-corbusier.com (click on "anglais") you can find out all about him: prints, sketches, his projects, his biography, furniture, a list of his books and so on. (Katja Jung, 4/01)

I found a website which is called: http://www.a-matter.com, which could be interesting for architects or civil engineers because it contains a lot of different information about architecture. It´s divided into 6 parts: 1) projects; (different projects, designs and concepts), 2) related, 3) positions (theoretical positions on architecture, planning and design;), 4) affairs (books, exhibitions and events), 5) education, 6) contacts (archive and more about a-matter). I think this is an unusual website, because especially young architects, projects and planning are important. The website is interesting for us, because it contains publications of diploma theses and it gives us information about new exhibitions and events. (Anja Tannigel, 5/01)

I want to tell you something about the website called http://www.archINFORM.de. This website was created to inform students and give interesting examples of architecture. Now this project is the worldwide largest online architecture database. archINFORM includes more than 9500 built and not-realised projects of famous architects, most of them are from the 20th century. You can search for projects by entering names of persons, cities and keywords. Beneath the information there are links about literature, links to other websites on this theme and comments. Projects which are illustrated are signed by a "mediaball". (Helena Lopatsch, 6/01)

http://www.detail.de - In the lower righthand corner of the page, there is a link to the international version, where you can read everything about this German magazine in....ENGLISH!!!! (Of course you could also choose French or Italian.) You can also find a lot of articles out of past editions and also a lot of details concerning completed houses, which one can use for one's own drawings (very helpful if you are a lazy student with a good computer). (Jeanine Erler, 12/01)

http://www.aisc.com.au - This is the Australian Institute of Steel Construction's site and there are a lot of texts covering steel construction and research in that area. It might even be interesting to architects, since some articles are about the architectural design of steel buildings. (Chris Rüdiger, 1/02)

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html - This is a site with information and pictures about Renaissance and Baroque Architecture. (Taner Ülger, 1/02)

http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hst/hist.html - This is about the history of western architecture - includes Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Gothic, Meso-American (Mayan), and Baroque architecture. (Taner Ülger, 1/02)

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Archit/Archit.html - Here is a site about Indian architecture with great pictures and information about Indian buildings like the Taj Mahal. (Taner Ülger, 1/02)

http://www.greatbuildings.com - Here you can find a lot of buildings and places in the whole world and interesting information about the architects. (Carsten Schick, 6/02)

http://www.skyscrapers.com - This site is the world leader in building information. Here you will find 38,549 skyscrapers, tens of thousands of companies and facts. You can search for a city you like and get all information about interesting buildings there. (Eileen Jablonski, 6/02)

http://www.riba.org/library/rlinks.htm - Here's a really interesting homepage for our architecture studies. It´s a homepage with many links to the homepages of the leading architects in the world. (Tina Frischauf, 6/02)