USModernist Resources


Films


2014 - Little Boxes: The Legacy of Henry Doelger, by Rob Keil and Monique Lombardelli Anton, courtesy of Monique Lombardelli Anton
 
2013 - People in Glass Houses, The Legacy of Joseph Eichler: by Monique Lombardelli Anton, courtesy of Monique Lombardelli Anton
 
2002 - Elizabeth Smith and the last living Case Study architects: Beverly Thorne, Don Knorr, Pierre Koenig, Ed Killingsworth, Don Hensman, and photographer Julius Shulman, courtesy of Elizabeth Smith
 
1989 - Home: Parody by Sandy Perlbinder, Madeline Warren, and Bruce Feirstein, courtesy of Sandy Perlbinder

Books

2022 The Radical Practice of James H. Garrott, by Anthony Fontenot
2014 Searching for a Voice, autobiography by Henry Sanoff
2014 Benjamin Forrest Williams, by Jillian Goldberg
2007 NCSU School of Design: The Kamphoefner Years, by Roger Clark
2006 The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill NC 1795-1975 by Ruth Little
2001 GSA Modernism
1998 History of the NC American Institute of Architects
1993 Keck and Keck, by Robert Boyce
1991 Frank Lloyd Wright Guide, by William Allin Storrer
1990 Architects and Builders in North Carolina
1984 John Erwin Ramsay FAIA: Portrait of an Architect
1982 MOMA's International Style Exhibition of 1932 by Richard Guy Wilson
1960 The South Builds, by Terry Waugh, Elizabeth Waugh, and Henry Kamphoefner
1960's Douglas Fir Second Homes for Leisure Living
1957 Rossmoor in Long Beach CA
1954 Quality Budget Houses by Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas Creighton
1954 Treasury of Contemporary Houses
1952 Living Spaces by George Nelson
1951 The American House Today by Katherine Morrow Ford
1950's Modernist Mail-Order Houses
1950's Architectural Record Mid-Century Houses Technical Guide
1946 MOMA If You Want to Build a House by Elizabeth B. Mock
1945 Tomorrow's House by George Nelson and Henry Wright
1940 The Modern House in America, by James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford
1940 Houses by Coffey Raleigh NC

Useful Databases

AIA Historical Directory of American Architects
Beverly Willis Foundation Women Architects
Building Technology Heritage Library
DOCOMOMO-MN Modernist Registry
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Los Angeles County Building Permits
Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory
Malibu CA Public Records
Museum of Modern Art Image Database
Virtual Globetrotting
Mid Century Modern in Palm Desert CA
Palm Springs CA City Directories 1964 1966 More

Media

1970's Charles Kahn audio interviews of architects and engineers
1970's Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive - also on YouTube
1990's Charlie Rose interviews
1968 Charles Vaseff filmed the Boston Government Center - plus a video on Wright

Reports/Surveys

2024 Southampton ARB Modernist Landmarking Survey
2022 2023 2024 Hamptons 20th Century Modern House Tours
2023 Make It Right Houses in New Orleans
2023 Case Study Houses Wikipedia Summary
2021 Living at Richard Meier's Smith House
2020 Chicago Architecture Oral Histories Index
2019 Florida Mid Century Modern Survey
2018 Palm Springs CA Historical Survey
2010 Richard Neutra's Cyclorama
2009 New Canaan Modernist Survey + Appendices.
1965 AIA Guide to Washington DC