RESOURCES OVERVIEW
The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture is presently distributed across five locations on the University’s Point Grey Campus: the Frederic Lasserre building, the H.R. Macmillan building, the Landscape Architecture Annex, the Centre for Interactive Research in Sustainability [CIRS] and the Ponderosa Office Annex B.
Architecture Administrative Offices and Reception Area
Located on the fourth floor of the Lasserre Building the administration offices provide a front-line location for enquiries and making contact with the School. School staff members Rachael Oye, Trish Poehnell, Theresa Juba and Hanne Bartlett respectively administer the daily life of the School, admissions, student records and finances. The School’s Director’s office is also included in this area.
Design Studios
Students in the MArch program will be assigned a studio work-space, allocated in groups according to design studio placements. The entire third floor of the Lasserre Building encompasses the majority of space, with auxiliary studios in the basement of Lasserre. Studio provisions include drawing and layout tables, and a secure, twenty-four-hour-accessible environment with wireless and internet connections and localised clusters of computer workstations. The collective, collegial atmosphere of the School’s design studios requires that students treat their own workspaces and allied common areas with appropriate, professional respect.
Research Offices
Each student in the MASA program is assigned a space in the School’s Studio floor. These spaces are accessible twenty-four hours a day and are located within easy access to the University’s primary library resources and also enjoy security provisions and internet access.
Lecture Rooms
Primary lecture halls are located on the ground level of the Lasserre Building, with smaller class and seminar rooms distributed at different levels of the Lasserre building.
UBC Library
UBC Library is the second-largest research library in Canada and a high-ranking member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). UBC Library has more than 20 branches and divisions, including on- and off-campus locations and UBC Okanagan Library. The collections are large and diverse, and include 5.4 million volumes, 5.2 million microforms, more than 808,000 maps, audio, video and graphic materials and nearly 56,000 serial subscriptions. The Library's online services and electronic resources complement the more traditional formats and are growing tremendously. Many Library services can now be accessed online and thousands of full-text e-journals, e-books, indexes and databases are available. –Peter Ward, Professor of History and University Librarian pro tem
Art + Architecture + Planning, UBC Library
Staff members at Art + Architecture + Planning, UBC Library [AArP] collect and provide resources and services for the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory; the School of Community and Regional Planning; and the general public. Located on the third and fourth floors of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the collection—numbering over 220,000 items, including over 38,000 books and 180 journals (in print and online) on or related to architecture—continues to grow. (To generate an RSS fed list of new architecture books, click on the “architecture” link)
The collection includes reference books like the Mies van der Rohe Archive, the Walter Gropius Archive, the Burnham Index to Architectural Literature, the Louis I. Kahn Archive, and the Le Corbusier Archive, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. The collection also includes multitudes of items on individual architects and architectural firms. Although many items can be borrowed, journals, reference materials, and rare books in the AArP, UBC Library collection are for Library use only.
The AArP collection also includes cabinets of vertical files with an emphasis on Canadian artists and architects, and community and regional planning in Vancouver and beyond, and several picture collections. The vertical files are non-circulating. Access is during AArP reference hours. Please ask at the reference desk for assistance.
UBC Library also provides its users with access to major architecture journal indexes and databases such as the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Design and Applied Arts Index, Art Index and Art Retrospective, the Bibliography of the History of Art, and the image database ARTstor.
For more information, please contact Vanessa Kam, Art History/Visual Art and Architecture Librarian at d.vanessa.kam@ubc.ca (email and IM), phone 604-827-3549, or visit her at her office, room 314 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.