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Florida Architecture and Landscape Design is a collection of resources describing and illustrating architecture, architectural practice, landscape design, and landscaping in Florida. The core of this collection is the publications of the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects. Continuing additions to this core form a documentary library of Florida's architecture and landscape design. Historic collections illustrate the "Cracker style" of northern Florida, the Caribbean designs of southern Florida, and the architecture and landscaping of tourist destinations across the state.

The collection includes journals and monographs and a growing number of archival, promotional and planning documents. Among archival materials are the photographs and letters of Florida architects and landscape designers. Promotional materials include postcards and pamphlets illustrating architecture and landscaping. And, planning documents include plans, maps, and technical drawings.

Florida Architecture and Landscape Design began as means of making available scarce early issues of the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects publications. The Project, proposed in 2000 by the University of Florida's Architecture and Fine Arts Library in partnership with the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects and the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA), intends to build an openly-accessible collection of digital materials documenting architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture throughout Florida. Digital collections will represent all of Florida's regional styles together with influences from outside of Florida.

The Project is supported, largely, by the University of Florida and, in part, through a central fund created by the university library directors of the Florida Board of Education's Division of Colleges and Universities (DCU). Image storage, retrieval and website maintenance are provided by FCLA.

Ongoing project oversight is provided by the University of Florida's Digital Library Center and the Digitization Services Planning Committee, a standing committee of the DCU libraries.

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