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Architecture & Allied Arts Library

Paul Bunyan, Portland

  • Location: 200 Lawrence Hall
  • Mail: 1299 University of Oregon
  • Eugene, OR 97403-1299
  • (541) 346-3637
  • aaares@uoregon.edu

The Architecture & Allied Arts Library is a major center for art and architectural information in the Pacific Northwest. Occupying three floors of Lawrence Hall, the library's unique spaces and seating arrangements provide a welcoming environment for its users. A hallmark of AAA Library is a two-story reading room named after Marion Dean Ross, whose bequest has enabled the development of a rich collection of rare architectural history books.

The AAA Library's collections primarily support the diverse academic programs associated with the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. In addition to the library's 84,000 bound volumes, holdings include architectural drawings, photographs, electronic resources, and theses and terminal project reports. The Library also holds about 2,700 periodical titles including approximately 350 current subscriptions. Complementing the AAA Library collection are more than 23,000 art and architecture volumes in Knight Library and approximately 12,000 volumes in the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons.   Important collections of architectural archives and drawings are housed in the UO Libraries' Special Collections & University Archives.

Administratively, the AAA Library is a department consisting of two units, the AAA library proper and the Visual Resources Collection (VRC).  The VRC creates art and architectural digital images for instructional support and manages the resource, Art & Architecture Images, a database of 88,000 images.

Illustration: The historic Paul Bunyan sculpture, Portland, Oregon, from Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest,  a database of approximately 17,000 images and data.

Maintained by Edward H. Teague, edteague@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 01/17/2010