How to research architects: Search by time period

Brillembourg, Carolos, Latin American architecture, 1929-1960: contemporary reflections, Monacelli Press, NA702.5.L38 2004

Culbertson, Margaret, American house designs: an index to periodicals 1850-1915, Greenwood Press, NA7207.C85 1994

Curtis, William J. R., Modern architecture since 1900, Phaidon, NA680.C87 1996

Emanuel, Muriel & Dennis Sharp, Contemporary architects, St. Martin’s Press, NA680.C625 1994

Ferguson, Russell, et al., At the end of the century: one hundred years of architecture, Abrams, NA680.A9 1998

Frampton, Kenneth, Modern architecture: a critical history, Thames & Hudson, NA500.F75 2007

Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the sun: Los Angeles modernism, 1900-1970, Rizzoli, NA735.L55 H56 2010

Kaplan, Wendy, et al., Living in a modern way: California design, 1930-1965, MIT Press, NK835.C3C35 2011 (Survey of all design arts)

Placzek, Adolf K., Macmillan encyclopedia of architects, Collier Macmillan, NA40.M25 1982 Vols.1-4

Reynolds, Jonathan M., Maekawa Kunio and the emergence of Japanese modernist architecture, University of California Press, NA1555.R49 2001

Risebero, Bill, Modern architecture and design: an alternative history, MIT Press, NA642.R57 1983

Tigerman, Bobbye, et al., A Handbook of California design, 1930-1965: craftspeople, designers, manufacturers, MIT Press, NK835 .C3C35 2011

Withey, Henry F. & Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical dictionary of American architects (deceased), New Age Publishing Company, Reference NA​40.W77 (covers American practitioners 1740-1952. Brief entries with vital data and bibliographies)

Addis, William, Building: 3000 years of design engineering and construction, Phaidon, TH15.A33 2007

Ching, Francis D. K., et al., A Global history of architecture, John Wiley & Sons, NA200.C493 2011

Colvin, Howard, A Biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, Yale University Press, NA996.C6 1995

Conant, Kenneth John, Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200, Penguin Books, NA365.C6 1973

Drexler, Arthur, et al., The Architecture of the École des beaux-arts, NA1047.5.E34 A69

Ettinghausen, Richard, The Art and architecture of Islam 650-1250, Yale University Press, N6260.E79 2001

Fletcher, Banister, et al., History of Architecture, 20^th ed., NA200.F63 1998

Frampton, Kenneth, Modern architecture: a critical history, Thames & Hudson, NA500.F75 2007

Frankl, Paul & Paul Crossley, Gothic architecture, Yale University Press, NA5453.C77 2001

Guo, Qinghua, Chinese architecture and planning: ideas, methods, techniques, Edition Axel Menges,  NA1540.G857 2005

Harle, James C., The Art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent, Yale University Press, N7301.H23 1994

Krautheimer, Richard, et al., Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, Yale University Press, NA4817.K4 1986

Lawrence, A. W. & R. A. Tomlinson, Greek architecture, Penguin Books, NA270.L36 1996

Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HABS, et al. have been documenting U.S. structures (photos, drawings and texts) since the 1930s. See L.A. County prints & photographs in HABS.)

Meyers, Eric M., et al., The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East, Oxford University Press, DS56.O9 1996 volumes 1-5

Middleton, Robin & David Watkin, Neoclassical and 19th century architecture, Abrams, NA600.M513 1987 Vols.1&2

Moffett, Marian, et al., Buildings across time: an introduction to world architecture, McGraw Hill, NA200.M575 2014

Ward-Perkins, J. B., Roman imperial architecture, Penguin Books, NA310.W34

Withey, Henry F. & Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical dictionary of American architects (deceased), New Age Publishing Company, Reference NA​40.W77 (covers American practitioners 1740-1952. Brief entries with vital data and bibliographies)

Wittkower, Rudolf, et al., Art and architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Yale University Press, N6916.W5 1999 volumes 1-3