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The Arts Library is located on the northeast side of campus on the first floor of the Luskin School of Public Affairs building. Structure 3 is the closest parking lot.
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Arts Library Collections
The Arts Library has over 350,000 volumes in the fields of architecture, architectural history, art, art history, design, fashion and costume, film, television, photography, theater and urban design.
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On Display: Architecture Manifestos
On display at the Arts Library from March 12, 2024 to May 5, 2024.
Movements to revolutionize design and building have often produced documents that outline their ideals. We begin from a perspective broadly defining the concept of a manifesto to include the practice of building itself. Included in this exhibit is a small selection of architecture manifestos and statements by influential architects. Our collections, while broad, represent a historic focus on European and American design and Architecture. Notable twentieth-century design movements from these traditions include Arts & Crafts, Wiener Werkstätte, Bauhaus, De Stijl and the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM). Global modernisms and their successors have also produced more recent interventions such as metabolism, and the Matrix Collective. More recent manifestos have focused on decolonial praxis and the role of the building industry in climate change.
Download the exhibit bibliography and description(opens in a new tab).
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The Arts Library has more than 300,000 volumes in the fields of architecture, architectural history, art, art history, design, fashion and costume, film, television, photography, theater, urban design and allied disciplines. More than one-third of these holdings are stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility.
Detailed research guides are available online for architecture and urban design; art and art history; design media arts; film, television, and theater; fashion and costume; and image resources.
For more about our history, read our detailed timeline(opens in a new tab).