Architecture at Musagetes Library  

Not sure where to begin? 

This guide brings together all of the major Architecture related information resources available in Musagetes Architecture Library and beyond. 

Remember to:

1. Connect from off-campus to authenticate you're a uWaterloo community member and get access to subscription-based online resources such as databases, journals, and books
2. Login to your RefWorks account to save and organize the citations and web resources you find

MVRDV is in hot water with their proposed skycraper that looks like the World Trade Center towers exploding.

• Choose an appropriate resource
  • Books
  • Articles
    • Research Databases
    • Specific Journals
  • Primary Sources
• Break down your topic
  • imagine the title of the ideal book or magazine article
  • identify the key concepts
  • think of synonyms or alternate words for each of the key concepts
• Use appropriate searching techniques
  • boolean operators (and, or, not)
  • phrase searching
  • truncation/wildcard symbols
  • field searching
  • setting limits
  • refining your search (using subject headings/descriptors and other terminology)