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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in…" Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, 1923


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Hello! Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

An important note for everyone to remember: This project develops ideas about how we might organise data in articles about architecture. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we simply invite you to write articles!

WikiProject Architecture Bulletin  

A new Historic houses task force has been created.

Please join if you are interested!

Announcements - please add your Project announcements  


Articles at Peer Review - edit list
Machu Picchu
Manor House, Sleaford
Endeavour House
Taliesin (studio)
New article announcements - add new architecture article to list
Articles related to architecture over the past two weeks are listed automatically by AlexNewArtBot.

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-06-10 19:11 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.


DYK announcements - add new architecture article to list
New participants (add me)
Jpboudin, Mayarrow, Nwhysel, Cassianto, Jtmorgan
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Scope

This WikiProject aims to

  1. Thoroughly explore Architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
  2. Improve Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
  3. Provide a place to discuss common issues on Architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
  4. Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Architecture
  5. Ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
  6. Develop standards and templates for Architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
  7. Manage editing of the Architecture WikiPortal

Daughter projects

Similar WikiProjects

Forums

    1. WikiProject Construction
    2. WikiProject Civil and Structural engineering
    3. WikiProject Landscape architecture
    4. WikiProject Architectural heritage
    5. WikiProject Interior architecture and design
    6. WikiProject Interior decorating



How to contribute

How you can help depends on your time, resources and interest:

Expand articles

  • Add Infoboxes to articles about architects, architecture or building and structures.
  • Upload images to the WikiMedia:Commons and add images to all architecture pages.
  • Add external links to websites with additional information about the subject of an article and respect the rules regarding copyright violations.
  • Check references and cite sources for architecture, buildings, construction articles.
  • Expand architecture stub articles and architect stubs into full articles.
  • Nominate and vote for the Selected Article and Selected Picture on the Architecture Portal which is now updated each week, with the goal of updating the page on a daily basis.

Improve articles

  • Check for spelling and factual errors and correct wikilinks.
  • Help organise and Check categorisation of existing articles.
  • Revert Vandalism on this portal and on articles.

Communicate


Help for authors

Create new articles

Using starter templates

The starter templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings and infoboxes in your article. To use them follow this procedure:

  1. Create a blank article having first considered the the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
  2. Copy the following text and paste it into the blank article:
    1. {{subst:Architect}} for articles about architects
    2. {{subst:Modern building}} for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
    3. {{subst:Historic building}} for articles about buildings begun before 1900
  3. Save the article
  4. Edit the article again, and add the text for your article under the headings that are created.

Infoboxes

The starter templates above are embedded with the following infoboxes than can be inserted separately into an article:

Templates to organise a series of articles

Use these series box templates for articles about:


WikiProject iconArchitecture NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Expand stub articles

If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

Selecting the right category

Main topics are listed in Category:Architecture. Please place your article in the appropriate sub-category, not in the main architecture category, to reduce clutter

Useful resources

Pictures, drawings and media files

Please use pictures and drawings in the article! Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded to the Commons, not to any national Wiki. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the image files, see: Commons:CommonsProject Architecture#Naming_of_Files.

Free image sources for the United States
Source License Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States) Various N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1]) P.D. {{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2]) P.D. {{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey P.D {{PD-USGov}}
National Park Service ([3] and [4]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([5]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6]) P.D. {{LOC-image}}
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7]) P.D. (not all) {{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8]) P.D. {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9]) P.D. {{PD-USGov}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10]) C.C. {{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11]) P.D. {{PD-USGov}}

Information databases

Terminology

  • aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms


WikiProject Tasks

Collaboration of the month

  • Collaboration of the Month candidate: - Nominate a new article or discuss the current candidates.

WikiProject Improvement drive nominations

Collaboration

Current nominations


Architecture Peer Review

WikiProject Architecture has its own peer review process for articles:

Machu Picchu
Manor House, Sleaford
Endeavour House
Taliesin (studio)

Featured Article Candidates

Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
Current Featured article nominations :

Nominate articles here.


Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Wikipedia:Featured image candidates.
Current Featured Image nominations :Current Featured image candidates:

Monitor articles for deletion

It is important to monitor and add your feedback to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Architecture. This is a special page for incomplete articles about Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space articles that may be removed, which needs to be maintained, updated.

Pages needing attention

Refer to: Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Architecture Categories and articles for cleanup, expansion needed, expert attention, Wikification, neutrality in question and articles to be merged or split (updated by bot)

Marquette Building (Chicago) (under GA review)

Article assessment

WikiProject: Assessment Department - Instructions and FAQ

Architecture articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 6 22 58 85 171
FL 12 20 63 95
FM 290 290
A 1 1
GA 9 53 219 889 26 1,196
B 125 248 626 1,546 1,019 3,564
C 136 462 1,484 7,350 3,421 12,853
Start 78 749 3,374 25,821 9,227 39,249
Stub 66 849 17,992 6,172 25,079
List 8 47 194 5,338 383 5,970
Category 57,391 57,391
Disambig 162 162
File 1,350 1,350
Portal 8 8
Project 127 127
Template 2,315 2,315
NA 2 1,893 1,895
Other 1 262 263
Assessed 362 1,659 6,825 59,087 63,798 20,248 151,979
Unassessed 9 91 100
Total 362 1,659 6,825 59,096 63,798 20,339 152,079
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 411,218 Ω = 5.01

See also: {{Template:Architecture}}, above.

New articles

Please feel free to add new architecture related articles to the list (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles, or articles with more than 1000 characters of editing, that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page.



Participants

New participants, simply add your name at the bottom of this list using the template: Template:Col-begin Template:Col-1-of-2

Template:Col-2-of-2

Template:Col-end 29 June 2007 - 70 participants

WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use:

Code Result Usage
Template:Tl Template:User WP Architecture WikiProject Architecture userbox
Template:Tlu User:Evan C/Userboxes/User Architecture Userbox for those interested in architecture
Template:Tlu User:Feureau/Userboxes/User Loves Architecture For those who does not work in the field of architecture but loves those stuff.
Template:Tl Template:User architect Userbox for architects



Featured content

Current Featured articles:- Portal:Architecture/Featured articles

Good articles

Portal:Architecture/Good articles

Did you know (DYK)s

Featured pictures

Portal:Architecture/Featured pictures

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