Look but don't touch. (Browser).

One theory says that architects like looking at pictures of buildings in the same way that submariners like looking at gatefolds. Well not exactly the same reason. Architects do it partly because that's the way they have operated since the Renaissance when printing made it possible. On the other hand maybe they don't: the RIBA's vast drawings collection, for example, is visited by scholars but almost never by architects. Whatever, last month I mentioned the link http://www.links2go.com/topic/Picture_ Collections which, as it says is a list of image collection urls. You have to be very precise with the underscore towards the end of the address to avoid a pot pourri of architecture, art and really tiresome soft core. In the traditions of the internet this list has a wild mix but includes just-possibly interesting sites such as image banks to do with Chicago, Venice, Salisbury, Oxford and New York. There is the Digital Archive of American Architecture (started by Boston College fine arts department and currently under construction) and, although it looks a tad like a converted holiday snap show, a Monash university guide to eight Italian gardens including Caparola and the Villa d'Este.