Architecture Media Library
Welcome to the USModernist® Library, the world's largest open digital collection of major US architecture magazines with over 5 million downloadable pages representing over 25,000 issues. Access to legacy publications has never been more critical for preservation, and now architects, realtors, owners, sellers, and buyers have an easy way to research 20th-century architecture magazine coverage. All across America, old architecture magazines are left rotting in attics, basements, libraries, and offices - if they haven't already been thrown away. We scan US architecture magazines and make them freely available to the public - in text- searchable, printable, and downloadable pdfs. We also archive abandoned architecture website and podcasts.
At 5 million pages, stacking them would reach a height of 1640 feet. That's higher than the Central Park Tower in New York, aka the Nordstrom Tower, at 1550 feet. If you put the pages end to end, it would reach 3300 miles, or the distance from New York to the UK.
Major donors include: Pei Cobb Freed, Pei Partners, Madhu Beriwal, Smithsonian Institution, UNC-Greensboro, Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, University of Hawai'i Manoa, Atomic Ranch, AIA National, Savannah College of Art and Design, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Cranbrook, Baltimore Museum of Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Robert Keil, Julie Taylor, Michael Raso, and IIT Architecture.
Do you have old architecture and design magazines in your attic, basement, office, storage unit, or library? We pay for shipping! Details here.
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