September 4, 2020

Does your library have design magazines that no one has touched for decades, yet you can’t bear to throw them away?  Our team at the nonprofit US Modernist Library can give them a new life online.  We have scanned over 3 million pages of 20^th century architecture magazines and made theme available to the public at no charge.

See what issues we need, and we’ll arrange free shipping via FedEx Ground or reimburse shipping via USPS Media Mail.  Your library can rest assured this valuable content will be preserved, in keyword-searchable form, online – and always free to access.

Among others titles, we are particularly looking for:

• Progressive Architecture: May 1946 and April 1994
• Architecture Record: 1928-1936
• Residential Architect:  all of 1997, Jan 1998, Nov 2003, July 2009
• Architecture Plus:  all of 1975 (til it folded)
• AIA Journal/Architecture/Architect:  Sep 1947, all of 1950-56, Jan and April 1957, Nov 1958, May and October 1959, Aug 1961, Nov 1977, Nov 1979, April 1980, and April 2008

Many thanks to Suzanne Cheverie-Pugh for donating the entire run of ECHOES Magazine, a 1990’s predecessor to DWELL in the rediscovery of Modernism.

Major donors to this ongoing project include: Smithsonian Institution, University of Hawai'i Manoa, Atomic Ranch, Philip Kennedy-Grant, AIA New York, AIA Texas, AIA Virginia, AIA Chicago, AIA North Carolina, AIA National, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Robert Keil, Julie Taylor, Michael Raso, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Cranbrook, Baltimore Museum of Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Ben Taylor, Christine Madrid French, and Bill Ruggieri.

Thanks so much and everyone stay safe.

Kind regards,

George

George Smart | Executive Director

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