USModernist® Magazine Library

Access to legacy publications has never been more critical for preservation, and architects, realtors, sellers, buyers, and the design-loving public need an easier way to research architecture and design magazines. Be part of this breakthrough documentation project by contacting us to donate missing magazines or donate funds to acquire more magazines. USModernist is a 501C3 nonprofit and donations are tax-deductible.

Call 919.740.8407 or email george@usmodernist.org to verify needed issues before sending. If requested, we provide boxes and free ground FedEx shipping (or reimbursement) from anywhere in the continental US.

Major donors include: AIA National / Nancy Hadley, UNC Greensboro Library, Pratt, Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation / Kelvin Dickinson, Smithsonian Institution, University of Hawai'i Manoa, Catherine Marken Boyle, Philip Kennedy-Grant, 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.

See list below for what we're missing from national design magazines. For AIA state/city magazines, check against AIA holdings on the main library page.

AIA National Magazine 1932: 1  1947: 9              
American Home 1932: 1-3 1935: 1 2 3  1940: 8 1955: 1          
Architecture and Urbanism 1971-2007 2008: 1-7 2009: 2, 4-8, 10-12 2010-2012 2013: 1-4, 9, 12 2014: 2, 4, 6, 8-12 2015-2021    
AIA Journal 1947: 9 1960: 2, 4, 6, 12 1961: Aug-2 1963: 4, 9          
ARCADE 1982-1996 1997: fall, win 1998-1999 2000: fall 2001-2003 2005: sum spr 2010-2020    
Architecture California 1981 1989-1999 2000: 3, 4 2005: 4 2011-2020        
Architectural Digest 1920-1924 1926: 4-12 1927-1933 1935-1964 1969: winter 1971: 9   2020: 10  
Architect and Engineer 1905: 5-8 1959: 7-12 1960-1962
American Architect 1879-1882 1883: 7-12 1884: 1-6 1890-1904 1907-1918 1919: 7-12 1922: 7-12 1923 1924: 7-12
  1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1935: 2-7      
Architectural Forum 1924: 7-12 1925: 1-6 1926 1927 1929: Mar-2 1930:  4-2, 5-2, 7-2, 8-2, 10-1, 10-2, 12-2 1931: 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2 1932: 7-12 1933: 7-12  
Architectural Index 2006 2009-2012              
Architectural Review (UK) all until 1954 1968:  10 1969: 5 7-12  
Architecture Plus 1975
Better Homes and Gardens 1922-1951 1955: 1-6 1972: 7-12 1975-2022        
California Arts & Architecture 1920-1944    
Faith and Form 1994: spring winter 1995-winter 1996-winter 2002-four 2019-1        
Frank Lloyd Wright Newsletter (Heinz) 1978: 4                
Florida Architect 1945-1953 1954: 1-6 1961: 3 1977-1982 1992-1996 2004 2006-2018
Echoes 1994: summer
               
GA-Houses by issue number 1,4,7,8,10,12 41,45,48,51,
55,59,60
61-81,85,
86,88,89,
92, 98,101,
103,109
115-121,123-139 141-160  
House+Home/ Housing Anything before 1953 1962: 8 1978: 4 1979: 6
1980: 1 2 3 5 6 8 9 12
1981: 4 6 7 11 12 1982: 1 2 9
House and Garden 1901: 1-5 1902- 1903 1904: 7-12 1905: 1-6 1906: 7-12 1907: 7-12 1908: 7-12 1909: 7-12 1910
  1915: 1-6 1924: 3
1926: 10
1932: 7 8 1938: 5-7
1943: 1-6 1946:10   1948: 1 2 7-12 1962: 6
  1966: 7-12 1967: 7-12 1971: 1 5-9 11 12 1972: 1 4 1973: 3 1974: 7 8 10 11 1975-1988    
  1991: 2 1992: 4 1993-2010            
Inland Architect 1883 to 1969 1969: 2-10, 12 1970: 1-4, 6-9 1971-1979 1980: 3 4 6 7 8 1981: 3, 7-10 1982-1983 1984: 1-6, 9 1985: 1 5 7 9
  1987: 3 5 9 1988:  9 11 1989: 1 7 9 1990:  7 11 1991: 1 7 9 11 1993: 9 11 1994: 3 5 7 1995: 3 10 1996: 1 9 11
  1997-close                
Metropolis 1981: 1-7, 12 1983: 4 5 1984: 1 2 3 10 1989: 6 7 8 12  1990: 12 1991: 1-4, 11 1995: 4
 
Metropolitan Home 1974-1986 1987: 1 3 4 6 1989 1990: 4 6 1991: 1 9 11 12 1992: 2 1998:  5 2003: 5 2006: 1
Modern 2008-2014 2015: sp win 2016: fall win 2017; sum win 2019: fall sum        
Modernism (originally Modernist) 2001-fall                
NEST all issues
New Old House inception to 2006 2007: summer winter 2008: fall summer 2010-2020          
Old House Interiors 1994-1995
2002-2011              
Old House Journal 1973-1976                
  1978: 1 3 4 5 1979: 1 5 7 9 12 1980: 5 1982: 1 1983: 8 9 1985: 9 1986: 1 7 1987: 2 3 1988: 7-8
  1992: 9-10 1995: 9-10 2007: 10 2009: 2 2010: 1 3 2019: 12      
Perfect Home all issues                
Period Homes 1999-winter 2000-spring 2001-winter 2005: 7 2011: 3 5 7 11 2012: 9 2012: 9 2013: 3 7 2014: 5 7
  2015: 5 7 11 2016: 3 2017: 3 7 2018: 1 7 11 2019-2020    
Residential Architect 1997 1998: 1 2003: 11  
Oppositions 24, 25, 26                
SAH Southern CA Chapter 2000: 7-8                
Sunset 1905: 1-4 1921-1949 1984: 12   1992: 3 5 1993: 4 7  1996: 5 1997: 10 11 12  
  1998:1 2 3 4 5 7 9 11 1999: 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2000: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 2001: 1 2 4 5 7 12 2002 2003: 1-4, 6-10 2004: 6-8 2007: 12  
2008: 1 3-7 2009: 11 2010: 4 2011: 3, 11, 12 2012: 2-8, 11, 12 2013-2020    
SNAP 2009-2013 2014: 1 3 5 11              
Traditional Building 1977 1989: 1
1990: 3
1992: 1 5 7 9 11 1993: 1 3 9 11
1994: 1 3 11
1995 1996
1997: 1
2001: 3 5 9 11
2002
2003-2005   2006: 10  
  2010 2011: 4 6 8 12 2012: 2 6 8 9 10 12 2013: 8 9 10 12 2014: 8 9 10 2015: 6 2016: 2 10 12    
UK Society of Arch Historians 1950-1958 1959: 1 1960-1966 1984 2006 2010
Wallpaper inception to 1997 2005:  3 12 2006: 2 2012: 3 2014        
  2018: 5 6 7 8 9 11 2019: 10     2022      
Western Architect all except 1915