Architecture
Research
Center

Welcome to the Architecture Research Center (ARC)

The Architecture Research Center (ARC) is home to the Paul Buisson Architecture Library (PBAL) which support the research and information needs of the University of Miami School of Architecture at the undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, and post-professional levels.

The Paul Buisson Architecture book collections are housed in several locations: the ARC, the Otto G. Richter Library, and in the University Libraries off-site storage facility. In addition, we host the Rome Program Library in Rome, Italy. The PBAL maintains a circulating core collection of monographs on architecture, urban design and planning, landscape architecture, technology, social and environmental responsibility in the built environment, plus over 80 current, international architecture and design related journals.

The ARC is a unique center for information about South Florida architecture reflected in the School’s programs and ongoing engagement in urban resilience and sustainability, urban design and urban planning, tropical and sub-tropical architecture, classical architecture, and historic preservation. The collections are robust in the architecture and urbanism of Latin America and the Caribbean basin, all periods of Italian architecture and urbanism, and global architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. The ARC houses growing print and electronic archival collections that include the Center for Urban and Community Design Archives (CUCD), the Archive of the New Urbanism, and the School of Architecture archives.