Architectuul is an online architecture catalog that uses

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to build content. It was founded in 2010 by a team of

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graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for publishe ...

s and software engineers. All of the text and many of the images uploaded to the site use a

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license, making the process similar to

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. Architectuul has buildings from various era's with a large range from the 20th Century and rare

Constructivist architecture Constructivist architecture was a constructivist style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Abstract and austere, the movement aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space, whil ...

. Architectuul is utilised as a source by several publications and Universities, including ''

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''.

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External links

Architectuul
Online databases Architecture databases