The `Digitale Diathek´ has been initialised by the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and the Faculty of Philosophy/Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). It is an international collaborative project with the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the `Freie Universität Berlin´ (Germany), the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte / Bildarchiv Foto Marburg at the University of Marburg (Germany), and the UNIDAM Project at the University of Vienna (Austria).

The establishment and positioning of the network have been made possible through the generous support of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zurich and the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich.