The Library of the CCA is an international research collection devoted to the literature of architecture in its broadest sense, including its professional history, its formal and theoretical elements and its relationship to the main currents of intellectual history. The collection comprises materials relating to the history of architectural theory, practice, and publishing from the fifteenth century to the present.
Collection strengths: Renaissance treatises, fortification treatises, festival books, architectural toys and games, architectural trade catalogues and materials relating to international expositions.
Special collections include: the Trissino Collection of early books on Italy, the Harris Collection of British Country House Guides, the Edward Craig Theatre Collection and Historic Theatres' Trust Collection, the C. Donald Cook Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, the Hoffman Collection of souvenir buildings, the NormanD. Stevens Collection of Library Architecture, the Robert Biggetr Collection of Architectural Ephemera.
Searchable holdings (9/2010): approximately 185,500 bibliographic records may be searched, including scholarly monographs, rare books, exhibition catalogues, microforms, audiovisual materials and electronic resources, ephemera files, three-dimensional objects, as well as 5,500 serial records.
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