- Visit the Architecture & Art website
- See the Architecture Library in Google Maps
- 608 East Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign, Room 208
- (217) 333-0224
- Email: rickerlibrary@library.illinois.edu
The collection includes information on the history of art, monographs on artists, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, crafts, museology, art education, graphic design, industrial design, and prints and printmaking.
Special collections include portfolios of Frank Lloyd Wright and rare nineteenth-century architecture and art journals.
The foundation for the Library's architecture and art collections was laid by the country's first college graduate of architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Nathan Clifford Ricker (1843-1924), who in 1873 purchased several important architectural treatises and folios.
Today, the collections of the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art include more than 120,000 volumes and 33,000 serials (some housed in the Library's main book stacks) 35,000 microforms, and more.
