SALA Materials Lab is an evolving collection of material samples used in building and landscape construction including wood, metals, concrete, masonry, exterior claddings, various membranes, windows and interior finishes. These materials can be signed out by SALA students for use in their design studio projects or in their coursework. The goal is to foreground healthier materials that address the ongoing urgency of climate change, and the health of people and planet. An online catalogue is currently under development.
Locations
Lasserre Room 9
MacMillan Room 281
Contact
Joanne Gates / jgates@sala.ubc.ca
The UBC Library is the second-largest research library in Canada. The Music, Art, and Architecture Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre houses the core architecture and landscape architecture collection. The more than 220,000 items in the collection include over 40,000 books or eBooks and 180 active print and digital journal subscriptions.
The library also provides access to major architecture journal indexes and databases, including:
- The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, indexing over 1,000 periodicals published worldwide.
- Art Full Text, featuring full-text, indexing, and abstracting of an international array of publications
- ARTstor, a digital image library with more than 1.6 million images
- The Archivision Digital Research Library, a database of 53,000 high-quality, professionally photographed images of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, archaeology, and design.
The UBC Library also has curated Research Guides to help students find which journals and databases to access, as well as direct links to Graduate Projects:
Contact Paula Farrar for research appointments, library workshops, and collection development.