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.
Searchable holdings (11/2007):
Approximately 173,000 bibliographic records may be searched, including
scholarly monographs, rare books, exhibition catalogues, microforms,
audiovisual materials and electronic resources, ephemera files,
three-dimensional objects, and over 5,000 serial titles (ca. 760 current).
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