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Lighting Design

Find Periodicals

To locate a specific periodical, search the 'Books & More' tab on the library website.  On the results page, use the menu to refine to 'Journals.'

  • Look under 'Online Access' to find links to electronic periodicals. 
  • Physical periodicals do not circulate but can be scanned or photographed.
    • Recently-published physical periodicals are kept onsite in the library. 
    • Older issues are bound together and kept offsite; request using the library catalog.
  • Additional electronic and print periodicals can be accessed at Consortium Libraries (NYU, Cooper Union, New York School of Interior Design).

View our FAQ on how to find a journal article. 

Learn how to request physical periodicals or scans from our offsite facility.

Request articles that we don't have in library collections using InterLibrary Loan.

Lighting Design Associations

IES (Illuminating Engineering Society) membership comes with privileges including access to publications.  See the IES website and consult the Parsons Lighting Design department for details.  The New School Libraries subscribe to LD+A, Lighting Design + Application.

The Society of Light and Lighting, part of the CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), is based in the UK.  Their website includes several publications.

Architecture, Interiors, and Lighting Periodicals

Current issues of print periodicals are shelved in the Periodicals Collection at the University Center, 6th floor. We subscribe to:

A+U Architecture and Urbanism
Abitare
​AD: Architectural Design 
AN Interior
Architect
Architectural Digest
Architectural Record
Architectural Review
Arquitectura Viva
Azure
Casabella
El Croquis
​Domus
Dwell
Elle Decor
Form: Magazine for Nordic Architecture & Design
Frame: International Review of Interior Architecture
GA Document
GA Houses
GA Japan

HA: Icelandic design and architecture
i+D: the magazine of the American Society of Interior Designers (formerly ASID Icon)
JA: Japan Architect
Journal of Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
Log
Lotus International
MD: Moebel Interior Design
Objekt International
Perspecta
The Plan: Architecture and Technologies in Details
The Site
Preservation
RIBA Journal
Thresholds
VMSD: Visual Merchandising & Store Design
Volume
Wallpaper
World of Interiors                                        

Also check out our periodicals on design!

Older issues are bound and can be requested from offsite. Request physical delivery of an entire issue, or a scan of an article.

Abitare (1970-present)
American Ceramics (1982-2002)
American Ceramic Circle Journal (1970-2005)
American Craft (1979-2011)
Architectural Digest (1971-present)
Architectural Lighting (1986-2017)
Architectural Record (1938-present)
Architectural Review (1960-present)
Arts & Decoration (1928-9, 1934-6)
ASID Icon (2001--2017; succeeded by i+D)
Bloom (2006-14)
Blueprint (1994-present) 
Casabella (1964-present)
Casa Vogue (1989-1995) (now Italian Vogue Supplement) 
Ceramics Monthly (1975-present) 
Country Life (1905-1925)
Craft Horizons (1956-1978)
Crafts (1979-present)
Craftsman (1901-1904) (CD-ROM Special Collections) 
Decorator's Digest (1934-1935) 
Design (London) (1974-1994)
Design Quarterly (1967-1996)
Design Issues (2001-present)
Designweek (1989-2011)
Disegno etc.! (1996-1999)
Domus (1952-present)
Dwell (2003-present)
​Elle Decor (2003-present)
Form - Nordic Architecture & Design (1998-present)
Frame (2005-present)
Glass (1988-present)
House and Garden (1969-2007) 

Interior Architecture and Decoration (1931) 
Interior Decorator (1934-1939)
Interior Design (1953, 1955-present) 
Interior Design and Decoration (1936, 1950, 1951) 
Interiors (1945-2001) 
Journal of Decorative and Propoganda Arts (2002-2005)
Journal of Design History (2000-present) 
Journal of Interior Design (2005-2017) 
LD+A: Lighting Design and Application (1998-current) 
Lighting Dimensions (1987-2005)
Mark - Another Architecture (2011-2018)
MD: Moebel, Interior, Design (2003-present) 
Metropolis (1981-present)
Metropolitan Home (2003-9)
Modernism (2003-2012)
Nest (1997-2004)
New Glass Review (1993-present)
Objekt International (2008-present)
Places (1983-2009)
Preservation (1997-present) and Historic Preservation (1970-96)
Professional Lighting Design (2007-2017) 
Rassegna (1981-1993) 
ReadyMade (2002-11)
Residential Interiors (1976-1980) 
Scandinavian Journal of Design History (1991-2005) 
Studies in the Decorative Arts (1993-present) 
Surface Design Journal (1990-present) 
Textile: Journal of Cloth & Culture (2006-present) 
Textile Museum Journal (1962-2004)
Textile View (VIEW) (1993-present) 
The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator (1934-1939) (see no. 37) 
View on Colour (1994-2005) 
Wallpaper (1998-present) 
World of Interiors (2009-present)