This modern regionalist library is defined by its sweeping, truncated, double-pitched hipped roof and the clean contrast of its lava-rock veneer and smooth, white concrete surfaces. The slotlike floor-to-ceiling front windows give a sense of symmetry to the facade, which the off-center entrance betrays.
Don J. Hibbard, "Makawao Public Library", [Makawao, Hawaii], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/HI-01-MA65.
Buildings of Hawaii, Don J. Hibbard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, 221-221.
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