USModernist® Magazine Library

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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 Journal 1961: Aug, part 2    
American Architect 1879: 7-12 1880-1882 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
American Bungalow TBD              
American Home 1932: 1, 2 1940: 8              
Apartment Life 1974-1980 1981: 1-3            
ARCADE 1982: Jun/Jul 1985: 4-12 1986-1995 1996: spring, summer, fall 1997: fall, winter 1998: winter 1999 2000: fall 2001-2003
2005: summer, spring 2011: spring 2012: winter 2013: winter 2014: winter, summer 2015: summer 2016: summer 2017: spring, summer 2018: winter, summer
2019: spring, summer 2020: winter, spring, fall 2021 2022: fall, spring 2023-2024
Architect and Engineer 1905: 5-8 1959: 7-12 1960-1962
Architectural Digest 1920-1921 1922: Northern California Edition 1923: Southern California Business Edition 1925: v. 5 1926: v. 6, no. 2 1929: v. 7, no. 2-3 around 1932: v. 8, no. 4 around 1933: v. 9, no. 1
1938-1964 1969: winter 1971: 9
Architectural Forum 1930: 4-2, 10-1, 10-2 1931: 3-1, 3-2 1933: 7-12 1937: 8, 9, 11        
Architectural Index 2006 2009-2012              
Architectural Review (UK) 1896-1954 1968: 10 1969: 5, 7-12  
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  
Architecture California 1981 1989-1999              
Better Homes & Gardens 1922-19241925: 1, 4-8, 10-12 1926: 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11 1927: 2, 4-12 1928: 2-12 1929: 1-6, 8-12 1930: 1-7; 10-12 1931: 1-9, 11, 12 1932: 2-7, 10-12
1933: 1-5, 7-121934 1935: 1, 3-5, 7-9, 11, 12 1936: 1, 2, 4-8, 10-12 1937: 1, 3-7, 9-12 1938: 1, 3-5, 7-12 1939: 1, 2, 4-8, 10-12 1940 1941: 1-3, 5-12
1942: 1, 2, 4-10, 12 1943: 1, 3-8, 10-12 1944-1945 1946: 2-7, 9-12 1947-1948 1949: 1-6, 8, 10-12 1950-1951 1975-1976 1977: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12
1978: 1, 3-8, 11, 12 1979: 1-8, 10-12 1980: 1, 2, 4-6, 8-12 1981: 1-10, 12 1982 1983: 1-10, 12 1984-1985 1986: 1-9, 12 1987: 1, 2, 5-7, 10-12
1988-19891990: 1-5, 7-12 1991-1994 1995: 1, 2, 4-12 1996: 1-8, 11 1997-2014 2015: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 2016: 2-12 2017: 1-3, 5-11
2018: 1-3, 6-8, 12 2019: 2 2020: 5, 11, 12 2021-2022
California Arts & Architecture 1929-1944  
Contract 1960-1961, 1969-1973 1974: 1-7 1975-1976 1980: 7-12 1981: 1-8 1985 1986: 4-6
1988 1989: 1-6 1990 1993: 10, 12 1994: 2 1995: 2 1996: 8
1998-2002 2003: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,11 2004-2006 2007: 1-6, 10 2008-2020  
Faith and Form 1994: spring, winter 1995: winter 1996: winter 2002: 4 2019: 1      
Florida Architect 1945-1953 1954: 1-6 1961: 3 1977: 3-12 1978-1981 1993: fall 1994: winter 1995: summer, fall, winter 1996: spring, summer, winter
1998: winter 2001: spring 2004 2005: winter 2006: fall 2007-2011 2012: summer, fall, winter 2013 2014: spring, summer, winter
Frank Lloyd Wright Newsletter (Heinz) 1978: 4                
GA-Houses by issue number 1, 4, 7, 8 10, 12, 41 45, 48, 51, 55 59-81, 85, 86 88, 89, 92 98, 101, 103 109, 115-121 123-139 141-160
House Beautiful 1906-1997 1998: 10, 12 1999-2024            
House+Home/ Housing 1955: 5 1962: 8 1975: 2 1978: 4 1979: 6 1980: 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12 1981: 4, 6, 7, 11, 12 1982: 1, 2, 9
House & Garden 1993: 8-12 1994-1995 1996: 1-11 1997: 1, 8 1998: 6 1999: 6, 10, 11 2000: 5, 6, 11 2001: 1, 7, 9-12 2002: 1, 2, 4-7, 10-12
2003: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 2004: 1-3, 6, 9-11 2005: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10 2006: 2, 3, 5, 7-11 2007: 1-4, 8 2008: 1-4, 6-12 2009: 1-4, 6-12 2010  
Inland Architect 1883-1956 1957: 1-8 1958: 7, 8 1962-1965 1966: 1-8, 10 1967: 1, 3 1968: 6, 8, 10 1971: 1-8, 10 1973: 3
 1979: 2-4, 9 1982: 11/12 1984: 1-6, 9/10 1985: 7 1993: 9-12 1994: 3-8 1995: 3, 10 1996: 1/2, 9-12 1997: 3-6, 9-12
 1998: 1-8, 11/12 1999-close            
Metropolis 1981: 1-6, 12 1984: 1-3, 10 1989: 12 1991: 1-4 1995: 4        
Metropolitan Home 1981: 4-91982: 5-7, 9, 10, 12 1983: 3-5, 10-12 1984: 1-4, 7-10 1985: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10-12 1986: 1, 3, 4, 7-9, 11, 12 1987: 4 1989: 1-4, 8 1990: 4
  1991: 11, 121992: 2 1998: 5 2003: 5 2006: 1       
Modern 2009 2010: summer, fall 2011: winter, summer, fall 2014 2016: fall 2017: winter, summer 2019: fall, summer    
NEST 1997: fall 1998: fall, winter 1999-2003 2004: spring, summer, fall
New Old House 2004: fall 2005-2006 2007: winter 2008: fall, summer 2011: spring, summer 2012: spring, summer 2013 2014: spring, summer, winter 2015: spring, winter
  2016: spring, fall 2017-2018 2019: spring, summer, fall 2020: spring, summer, fall       
Old House Interiors 2011: 6              
Oppositions 24, 25, 26              
Perfect Home all issues              
Period Homes 1999: winter 2000: spring 2005: 7 2011: 3, 5, 7, 11 2012: 9 2013: 7 2014: 5, 7 2015: 5, 7, 11 2016: 3
  2017: 3, 72018: 1, 7, 11 2019-2020     
Residential Architect 1997: 1-5, 7-12 1998: 1 2003: 11
SAH Southern CA Chapter 2000: 7, 8              
SNAP 2009-2013 2014: 1, 3, 5, 11              
Sunset 1928: 1-7, 9-12 1929: 1-8, 10-12 1930: 1-4, 6-12 1931: 1, 3-8, 10, 12 1932: 3, 4, 6-12 1933: 1, 2, 4-11 1934: 2, 3, 5-7, 9, 11 1935: 1-7, 9, 12 1936: 1-9, 11
 1937: 2-4, 10, 12 1938: 3-6, 9-11 1939: 1-5, 7-9, 11, 12 1940: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12 1941: 1-11 1942 1943 1944: 1-11 1945: 1, 2, 4-11
 1946: 1, 2, 4-12 1947 1948: 2-7, 10, 11 1949: 3, 6-10, 12 1984: 12 1992: 3 1993: 7 1996: 5 1997: 10-12 1998: 1-3, 11
 1999: 2, 5, 6, 8-11 2000: 2,3,4,9,10 2001: 2 2002: 6, 8 2003: 3, 6, 82008: 1, 4 2009: 11 2010: 4 2012: 2, 3, 5-7, 12 2014: 6
  2015: 6
2016: 5, 8, 10-12
2017: 12
2018: 5
2020: 5-12 2021-2024          
Texas Architect 2000: all issues              
Traditional Building 1988: 11-12 1990: 3-4 1992: 1, 5, 7, 9, 11 1993: 1, 3, 9, 11 1994: 1, 3, 11 1995-1996 1997: 1-2 2001: 3, 5, 9, 11 2002
  2003: 1, 5-122004 2005: 1, 3-12 2006: 10-11 2010: 2-12 2011: 4, 6, 8, 12 2012: 2, 6, 8-10, 12 2013: 8-10, 12 2014: 8-10
  2015: 62016: 2, 10, 12             
UK Society of Arch Historians 1950-1958 1959: 1 1960-1966 1984 2006 2010
Wallpaper 1996: 9-12 1997: 1-12 2006: 2 2021: 5, 11, 12 2022: 1, 3-10, 12 2023: 2-6, 8, 10, 12    
Western Architect 1904: 9-12 1909 1910: 1-11 1911: 1-4, 6-12 1913-1914 1916: 1-6 1917: 1-4, 7-9 1918: 3-12 1919: 1-7, 9-12
  1920-1922 1923: 1, 5-12 1924: 1-7, 9-12 1925: 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 1928: 1, 4-7, 9-12 1930-1931