Architecture Media Library

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The Eames Library / APT Building Technology Heritage Library

Esoteric Modernist Magazines 1890-1939 / Smithsonian Design Museum (aka Cooper Hewitt)

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The US Modernist Library provides an invaluable service for the teaching and student communities, allowing ease of access to a wealth of materials on contemporary architecture that should aid all scholars of the built environment.  Its comprehensive catalog of publications rivals or exceeds that of most universities, and including ACSA publications will help to deepen its fundamental holdings.  --Robert Ivy FAIA, Design Advocate/Architect/Educator

The Neutra Institute for Survival through Design applauds this important effort to use digital means to retain images and thoughts of our architectural past for multiple audiences.  --Raymond Richard Neutra MD, President, Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design

By assembling well-known publications into one location, the USModernist Library serves as a comprehensive, one-stop source for modernist design literature. Historians, researchers, practitioners, and students will find it of great value for generations to come. --Mark Hoversten, PhD, Dean of the NCSU College of Design.

Please consider joining this effort to support the USModernist Library. This impressive archive offers the opportunity to bring library collections in remote locations to the students and interested scholars regardless of location. --Dean Jose Gamez, UNC Charlotte College of Arts+Architecture

 USModernist Library is an indispensable tool for me with source material on projects from all eras and geographies. The easily searchable, digital archive is a one stop-shop for research into interconnected themes across works that might otherwise disintegrate from the frustration of navigating confusing library search systems. Further, while those are valuable for our students, the USModernist Library is accessible to anyone on the internet. I am personally grateful to them for the resource, but also inspired as a fellow traveler seeking to open the books, so to say, to a broad audience compelling anyone who’s interested to dive in. --Stewart Hicks, Assistant Professor, Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago

 The USModernist Library is an extraordinary resource that not only preserves our architectural heritage but also makes it freely accessible to the public. Donating periodicals helps institutions reclaim valuable library space while ensuring these vital materials live on in a searchable, digital archive that will benefit students, faculty, and the wider design community for generations. --Steve Glenn, Founder/CEO, Plant Prefab

As a marketing professional at a small architecture firm, I rely on the USModernist Library regularly for archival research that supports our current projects, conference presentations, and editorial content. It’s an indispensable resource—well organized, easily searchable, and rich with material that would be nearly impossible to find elsewhere. The USModernist Library is a vital resource that preserves architectural history—making it accessible, searchable, and useful to the entire design community.  –Halsey Smith, Flavin Architects

 The US Modernist Archive is the most comprehensive source for published articles about Modernist architecture in the US. I think of it as the Library of Congress for modern architecture.  Why not free up your shelf space to make periodicals available to a worldwide audience?  --Frank Harmon FAIA, Author, Native Places

It seems to us at the Richard Meier-designed Douglas House in Harbor Springs Michigan that it would be smart cost saving for colleges and universities that have costly to store and difficult to access books and periodicals to gift excess or beyond school policy retention guidelines architectural books and design periodicals to USModernist where the information can be digitized and made searchable for those of us that serve the broader architectural community.  --Michael McCarthy and Marcia Myers

The USModernist Library’s digital collection is and will continue to be one of the most valuable contributions to the architectural profession and scholarship. It puts our vast architectural heritage at the fingertips of students, architects, and the public as never before. --Alan Hess, Architect and Author

Without doubt, the greatest boon to research in Architecture, Urbanism, Interiors, and Construction, since the advent of search engines, is the USModernist Library.  Architectural journals, even more than books, embody the living development of the architectural world, conveying the adventure of how our built environments evolved. Moreover, the USModernist Library solves the access problems of geography, travel time, building opening time, and the increasing barriers to institutional resources.  --Seth Joseph Weine, Fellow, The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art