The Visual Resources Collection of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning consists of approximately 130,000 circulating 35mm slides and 67,000 digital images. The digital image database is accessible over the internet; please contact the Director for a password to use the digital image database.

Annual new accessions to the Collection number around 8,000 images, which include commercial purchases, images requested by faculty from printed materials, on-site photography, donations of original images from faculty, and retrocataloged images from uncataloged sections of the Collection.

The Collection is staffed by one full-time professional director, two half-time graduate assistants, and two work/study students; located in Gould Hall 330, the VRC is open between 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday.

Image of the Month: May 2008

UW Nuclear Reactor

The controversial, decommissioned nuclear reactor (now called More Hall Annex) on the UW Campus is a building with a story. Built in 1961 - a contemporary of the Space Needle - by architects from the UW, it was designed to showcase the promise of nuclear energy. You can read about this building on the VRC blog (click the link at the top left of the VRC webpage), or on the blog created by Abby Martin, an Architecture graduate student petitioning to save the historic building. Walk to see the building by heading towards Drumheller Fountain, veering to the left and crossing Stevens Way.