The Library has created two online resources highlighting the Steedman collection. You can view either collection by following the links below:
Steedman Architectural Library Digital Collection
This digital collection provides over 400 images from key titles in the library.
This interactive and informative exhibit showcases many of the treasures of the collection.
Many of the classic books on architecture have been digitized by various institutions around the world. Below, we have listed a number of links to complete versions of some of the more popular works.
1. All volumes of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Opere
2. Owen Jones's The Grammar of Ornament
3. Fischer von Erlach's Entwurff einer historischen Architectur in Abbildung
4. Sebastiano Serlio's Reigles generales de l'architecture
5. Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture
6. Vitruvius Pollio's Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De architectura libri dece
7. Augustus Pugin's True principles of pointed or Christian architecture
8. David Loggan's Oxonia illustrata
9. John Pennethorne's Geometry and optics of ancient architecture
10. Eugene Viollet-le Duc's Histoire de l'habitation humaine depuis les temps prehistoriques jusqu'a nos jours