Notre Dame School of Architecture Carnegie Library Project

Professor David Mayernik led the studio’s dozen first-year graduate students, who traveled to Washington DC twice and produced outstanding designs for an addition to—and renovation of—the Carnegie Library and its site, Mount Vernon Square. The students’ plans focused on how to create an addition which would bring Washington DC’s main library back to its original home, as well as to reinvent its site as an urban hub.

The students’ goal was to provide Washington DC with options for its 1902 beaux-arts Carnegie Library building. The District of Columbia’s downtown central library from 1903 to 1972, the 60,000 square-foot facility most recently has served as The City Museum of Washington DC.