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[[Image:Boullee_Etienne-Louis_1784_Cenotaphe_a_Newton_interior.jpg|thumb|258px|Étienne-Louis Boullée, proposal for the ''Cénotaphe à Newton'' [Newton Memorial], interior, 1784.]] | [[Image:Boullee_Etienne-Louis_1784_Cenotaphe_a_Newton_interior.jpg|thumb|258px|Étienne-Louis Boullée, proposal for the ''Cénotaphe à Newton'' [Newton Memorial], interior, 1784.]] | ||
[[Image:Punin_Nikolay_Pamyatnik_III_internatsionala.jpg|thumb|258px|Nikolay Punin, ''[[#Punin1920|The Monument to the Third International: A Project of the Artist Tatlin]]'', 1920.]] | [[Image:Punin_Nikolay_Pamyatnik_III_internatsionala.jpg|thumb|258px|Nikolay Punin, ''[[#Punin1920|The Monument to the Third International: A Project of the Artist Tatlin]]'', 1920.]] | ||
− | [[Image:Rossi_Aldo_1976_La_citta_analoga.jpg|thumb|258px|Aldo Rossi, et al., ''The Analogous City'', 1976.]] | + | [[Image:Rossi_Aldo_1976_La_citta_analoga.jpg|thumb|258px|Aldo Rossi, et al., ''[[#Rossi1976|The Analogous City]]'', 1976.]] |
A collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of architecture. | A collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of architecture. | ||
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** ''La mécanisation au pouvoir: contribution à l'histoire anonyme'', trans. Paule Guivarch, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980, 592 pp. {{fr}} | ** ''La mécanisation au pouvoir: contribution à l'histoire anonyme'', trans. Paule Guivarch, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980, 592 pp. {{fr}} | ||
** ''Die Herrschaft der Mechanisierung: ein Beitrag zur anonymen Geschichte'', afterw. Stanislaus von Moos, Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1982, 843 pp. {{de}} | ** ''Die Herrschaft der Mechanisierung: ein Beitrag zur anonymen Geschichte'', afterw. Stanislaus von Moos, Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1982, 843 pp. {{de}} | ||
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===Bauhaus=== | ===Bauhaus=== | ||
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** ''The New Vision: From Material to Architecture'', trans. Daphne M. Hoffman, New York: Breuer Warren and Putnam, 1930; exp.rev.ed. as ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8788 The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist]'', New York: George Wittenborn, 1947, 92 pp. {{en}} | ** ''The New Vision: From Material to Architecture'', trans. Daphne M. Hoffman, New York: Breuer Warren and Putnam, 1930; exp.rev.ed. as ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8788 The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist]'', New York: George Wittenborn, 1947, 92 pp. {{en}} | ||
** [[Moholy-Nagy#Moholy1929|more translations]] | ** [[Moholy-Nagy#Moholy1929|more translations]] | ||
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===Urban theory, the city=== | ===Urban theory, the city=== | ||
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* Pier Vittorio Aureli, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E319E22A878E39EE9646055BC9ADAA5B The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture]'', MIT Press, 2011, 251 pp. {{en}} Reconsiders architectural form in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. Reviews: [http://www.peggydeamer.com/images/aureli_hays.pdf Deamer] (2011), [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10464883.2012.713537 Leach] (JAE 2012), [http://www.reviewsinculture.com/?r=76 Diamanti] (RCT 2012), [http://www.domusweb.it/en/reviews/2011/05/13/the-possibility-of-an-absolute-architecture.html Rumpfhuber] (Domus 2011), [http://www.bdonline.co.uk/the-possibility-of-an-absolute-architecture-by-pier-vittorio-aureli/5019153.article Mooradian] (BD 2011). | * Pier Vittorio Aureli, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E319E22A878E39EE9646055BC9ADAA5B The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture]'', MIT Press, 2011, 251 pp. {{en}} Reconsiders architectural form in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. Reviews: [http://www.peggydeamer.com/images/aureli_hays.pdf Deamer] (2011), [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10464883.2012.713537 Leach] (JAE 2012), [http://www.reviewsinculture.com/?r=76 Diamanti] (RCT 2012), [http://www.domusweb.it/en/reviews/2011/05/13/the-possibility-of-an-absolute-architecture.html Rumpfhuber] (Domus 2011), [http://www.bdonline.co.uk/the-possibility-of-an-absolute-architecture-by-pier-vittorio-aureli/5019153.article Mooradian] (BD 2011). | ||
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===History=== | ===History=== | ||
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** ''La arquitectura moderna desde 1900'', trans. Jorge Sainz Avia, Madrid: Blume, 1986, 416 pp. {{es}} | ** ''La arquitectura moderna desde 1900'', trans. Jorge Sainz Avia, Madrid: Blume, 1986, 416 pp. {{es}} | ||
** ''L'architettura moderna del Novecento'', ed. & trans. Anna Barbara and Chiara Rodriquez, Milan: Mondadori, 1999, 739 pp. {{it}} | ** ''L'architettura moderna del Novecento'', ed. & trans. Anna Barbara and Chiara Rodriquez, Milan: Mondadori, 1999, 739 pp. {{it}} | ||
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====Marxist critique==== | ====Marxist critique==== | ||
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** [[Tafuri#Tafuri1973|more translations]] | ** [[Tafuri#Tafuri1973|more translations]] | ||
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[[Image:Bachelard_Gaston_The_Poetics_of_Space.jpg|thumb|200px|Gaston Bachelard, ''The Poetics of Space'' [1958], 1964, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11442 Log].]] | [[Image:Bachelard_Gaston_The_Poetics_of_Space.jpg|thumb|200px|Gaston Bachelard, ''The Poetics of Space'' [1958], 1964, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11442 Log].]] | ||
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* Gaston Bachelard, ''[http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/bachelard_gaston/poetique_de_espace_3e_edition/poetique_de_espace.html La Poétique de l'espace]'', Paris: PUF, 1957, 214 pp; 3rd ed., 1961, 215 pp. {{fr}} | * Gaston Bachelard, ''[http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/bachelard_gaston/poetique_de_espace_3e_edition/poetique_de_espace.html La Poétique de l'espace]'', Paris: PUF, 1957, 214 pp; 3rd ed., 1961, 215 pp. {{fr}} | ||
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11442 Poetik des Raumes]'', trans. Kurt Leonhard, Munich: Hanser, 1960, 284 pp. {{de}} | ** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11442 Poetik des Raumes]'', trans. Kurt Leonhard, Munich: Hanser, 1960, 284 pp. {{de}} | ||
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** ''[[Media:Bachelard_Gaston_La_poetica_dello_spazio.pdf|La poetica dello spazio]]'', trans. Ettore Catalano, Bari: Dedalo, 1975. {{it}} | ** ''[[Media:Bachelard_Gaston_La_poetica_dello_spazio.pdf|La poetica dello spazio]]'', trans. Ettore Catalano, Bari: Dedalo, 1975. {{it}} | ||
** [[Bachelard#Bachelard1957|more translations]] | ** [[Bachelard#Bachelard1957|more translations]] | ||
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===Gestalt theory=== | ===Gestalt theory=== | ||
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See also [[#RoweKoetter1978|Rowe & Koetter 1978]]. | See also [[#RoweKoetter1978|Rowe & Koetter 1978]]. | ||
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===Gender=== | ===Gender=== | ||
* Beatriz Colomina (ed.), ''Sexuality and Space'', Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, 389 pp. {{en}} Based on a symposium held at Princeton U in 1990. Reviews: [http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/1/sexuality-and-space-edited-by-beatriz-colomina Wilson] (HDM 1997), [http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.club/stable/29544180 Lahiji & Friedman] (AA Files 1999). Commentary: [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/81660 Jacobson] (2013). | * Beatriz Colomina (ed.), ''Sexuality and Space'', Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, 389 pp. {{en}} Based on a symposium held at Princeton U in 1990. Reviews: [http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/1/sexuality-and-space-edited-by-beatriz-colomina Wilson] (HDM 1997), [http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.club/stable/29544180 Lahiji & Friedman] (AA Files 1999). Commentary: [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/81660 Jacobson] (2013). | ||
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===Computational architecture=== | ===Computational architecture=== | ||
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* Luciana Parisi, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13711 Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space]'', MIT Press, 2013, 392 pp. {{en}} | * Luciana Parisi, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13711 Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space]'', MIT Press, 2013, 392 pp. {{en}} | ||
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===Criticism=== | ===Criticism=== | ||
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** ''El complejo arte-arquitectura'', trans. José Adrián Vitier, Madrid: Turner, 2013, 346 pp. {{es}} | ** ''El complejo arte-arquitectura'', trans. José Adrián Vitier, Madrid: Turner, 2013, 346 pp. {{es}} | ||
** [[Hal_Foster#Foster2011|more translations]] | ** [[Hal_Foster#Foster2011|more translations]] | ||
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==Anthologies, Readers== | ==Anthologies, Readers== | ||
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''This section focuses on edited monographs and journal issues published in English. For canonical works see [[#Key monographs|key monographs]]; for anthologies and readers compiling historical texts see [[#Anthologies, Readers|anthologies]].'' | ''This section focuses on edited monographs and journal issues published in English. For canonical works see [[#Key monographs|key monographs]]; for anthologies and readers compiling historical texts see [[#Anthologies, Readers|anthologies]].'' | ||
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+ | Wright_Frank_Lloyd_Modern_Architecture.jpg|Frank Lloyd Wright, ''[[#Wright1931|Modern Architecture]]'', 1931 | ||
Martin_Nicholson_Gabo_eds_Circle_International_Survey_of_Constructive_Art.jpg|''[[#Circle1937|Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art]]'', 1937 | Martin_Nicholson_Gabo_eds_Circle_International_Survey_of_Constructive_Art.jpg|''[[#Circle1937|Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art]]'', 1937 | ||
Banham_Reyner_The_New_Brutalism.jpg|Reyner Banham, ''[[#Banham1966|The New Brutalism]]'', 1966 | Banham_Reyner_The_New_Brutalism.jpg|Reyner Banham, ''[[#Banham1966|The New Brutalism]]'', 1966 | ||
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Vostell_Wolf_Higgins_Dick_eds_Fantastic_Architecture.jpg|Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), ''[[#Fluxus1971|Fantastic Architecture]]'' [1969], 1971 | Vostell_Wolf_Higgins_Dick_eds_Fantastic_Architecture.jpg|Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), ''[[#Fluxus1971|Fantastic Architecture]]'' [1969], 1971 | ||
Five_Architects_1972.jpg|''[[#5Architects|Five Architects]]'', 1972 | Five_Architects_1972.jpg|''[[#5Architects|Five Architects]]'', 1972 | ||
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* Giorgio Grassi, ''La costruzione logica dell'architettura'', Padova: Marsilio, 1967, 160 pp. {{it}} | * Giorgio Grassi, ''La costruzione logica dell'architettura'', Padova: Marsilio, 1967, 160 pp. {{it}} | ||
* Aldo Rossi, et al., ''Architettura razionale'', Milan: F. Angeli, 1973, 267 pp. {{it}} Exhibition catalogue of the XV Triennale di Milano, 1973, of which Rossi was principal curator. Review: [http://ffmaam.it/GALLERY/0/0/1178727987.pdf Moschini] (1973). | * Aldo Rossi, et al., ''Architettura razionale'', Milan: F. Angeli, 1973, 267 pp. {{it}} Exhibition catalogue of the XV Triennale di Milano, 1973, of which Rossi was principal curator. Review: [http://ffmaam.it/GALLERY/0/0/1178727987.pdf Moschini] (1973). | ||
− | * Aldo Rossi, et al., [[Media:Rossi_Aldo_1976_The_Analogous_City_Panel.pdf|"La città analoga: tavola / The Analogous City: Panel"]], ''Lotus'' 13 (1976), pp 4-9. {{it}}/{{en}} A radical pedagogical experiment proposing a theory in the form of a single, collectively produced image. Commentary: [http://radical-pedagogies.com/search-cases/e08-eth-zurich/ Szacka] (Radical Pedagogies c2010). | + | * {{a|Rossi1976}} Aldo Rossi, et al., [[Media:Rossi_Aldo_1976_The_Analogous_City_Panel.pdf|"La città analoga: tavola / The Analogous City: Panel"]], ''Lotus'' 13 (1976), pp 4-9. {{it}}/{{en}} A radical pedagogical experiment proposing a theory in the form of a single, collectively produced image. Commentary: [http://radical-pedagogies.com/search-cases/e08-eth-zurich/ Szacka] (Radical Pedagogies c2010). |
* ''[[Media:Roma_interrotta_1978.pdf|Roma interrotta]]'', Rome: Incontri internazionali d'arte, 1978, 208 pp. {{it}} In 1978, 12 international architects gathered around the project ''Roma interrotta'': based on the map of Rome drawn in 1784 by Gian Battista Nolli, the last architectural planning for the Eternal City, the architects reinterpreted the city with a critical view towards what had been built and destroyed throughout the centuries. The projects were exhibited in Rome in 1978 and then travelled around the world. | * ''[[Media:Roma_interrotta_1978.pdf|Roma interrotta]]'', Rome: Incontri internazionali d'arte, 1978, 208 pp. {{it}} In 1978, 12 international architects gathered around the project ''Roma interrotta'': based on the map of Rome drawn in 1784 by Gian Battista Nolli, the last architectural planning for the Eternal City, the architects reinterpreted the city with a critical view towards what had been built and destroyed throughout the centuries. The projects were exhibited in Rome in 1978 and then travelled around the world. | ||
Revision as of 20:06, 18 July 2015
A collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of architecture.
The page is designed for both the novice in the field and the more experienced researcher. It brings together the elements of library classification and data visualisation. The table of contents provides a general structure of sections, most of which are further divided into thematic subsections. Another way of reading the page is to search for a specific name, keyword or book title and explore neighboring elements.
Contents
- 1 Architects, theorists, historians, initiatives
- 2 Key monographs
- 3 Anthologies, Readers
- 4 Periodicals
- 5 Monographs and journal issues
- 5.1 Introductions
- 5.2 Neoclassicism
- 5.3 Historicism, eclecticism
- 5.4 Modern Movement, Modernism
- 5.5 Constructivism
- 5.6 Bauhaus
- 5.7 International Style
- 5.8 Urban theory, the city
- 5.9 Vernacular architecture
- 5.10 New Brutalism
- 5.11 Tendenza, Neo-Rationalism
- 5.12 Fluxus
- 5.13 Phenomenology
- 5.14 Neo-Avant-Garde
- 5.15 Postmodernism
- 5.16 Deconstructivism
- 5.17 Digital & computational architecture
- 5.18 History
- 5.19 Historical examinations of specific schools and groups
- 5.20 Criticism
- 5.21 Philosophy
- 5.22 Gender
- 5.23 Capitalism, labour
- 5.24 Photography
- 5.25 Film
- 6 Research initiatives and resources
- 7 See also
Architects, theorists, historians, initiatives
- Vitruvius (c80/70-c15 BCE), Roman author, architect, civil engineer
- Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), neoclassical architect
- Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), Neoclassical architect
- Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), draughtsman, architect
- Peter Behrens (1868-1940), architect, industrial designer, artist
- Vesnin brothers (Leonid 1880-1933, Viktor 1882-1950, Alexander 1883-1959), Constructivist architects
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), architect, pioneer of modern architecture
- Le Corbusier (1887-1965), architect, designer, painter, urban planner, pioneer of modern architecture
- Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), architectural historian and critic
- Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974), painter, architect
- Emil Kaufmann (1891-1953), architecture scholar
- Jean Badovici (1893-1956), architect and architecture critic
- Bauhaus, art school, Weimar (1919-25), Dessau (1925-32), Berlin (1932-33)
- VKhUTEMAS, art and technical school, Moscow (1920-30)
- CIAM, congress of international modernism (1928-59)
- Stefan Sebök (1901-42), architect
- Bruno Zevi (1918-2000), architect, historian, professor, curator
- Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005), painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author, musician, architect, co-founder of CoBrA and Situationist International
- EXAT 51, Croatian artist group (1950-56), incl. Vjenceslav Richter (1917-2003)
- Oskar Hansen (1922-2005), architect, designer, painter, sculptor, proponent of Open Form
- Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), composer, music theorist, architect-engineer
- Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003), sociologist, economist, theorist of architecture and design, founder of strollology
- Archigram, London collective (1961-74)
- Aldo Rossi (1931-97), architect, designer, artist, theorist, teacher, author
- Manfredo Tafuri (1935-94), architect, historian, theorist, critic
- Mario Carpo (1958), architectural historian and critic
Key monographs
This section contains a selection of canonical books on architecture, loosely grouped into themes. Each volume is accompanied with its published translations into five languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish), a short annotation and a list of reviews and commentaries available online. For more books see Monographs; for more writings by individual authors see their respective Pages.
Antiquity
- Vitruvius, De Architectura, c15 BCE; ed. Valentin Rose, Leipzig: Teubner, 1899, HTML, WS-LA. (Latin)
- Los diez libros de Arquitectura, trans. & notes Joseph Ortiz i Sanz, Madrid, 1787. (Spanish)
- Dell'architettura, trans. Carlo Amati, Milan, 1829-30, vol. 2. (Italian) Previous translations.
- L'Architecture, trans. Ch.-L. de Maufras, Paris: Panckoucke, 1847. (French) Previous translations.
- Zehn Bücher über Architektur, trans. & notes Franz Reber, Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1865. (German) Previous translations.
- The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris H. Morgan, Harvard UP, 1914, 331 pp, IA. (English) Previous translations.
- On Architecture, 1 [Book I-V], ed. & trans. Frank Granger, London: Heinemann, and New York: Putnam, Loeb Classical Library, 1931, 317 pp. (English)
Modernism
- Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. (French)
- Kommende Baukunst, trans. & ed. Hans Hildebrandt, Berlin/Stuttgart/Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags, 1926, xv+253 pp; new ed. as Ausblick auf eine Architektur, rev. Eva Gärtner, Berlin: Ullstein, 1963, 215 pp. (German)
- Towards a New Architecture, London: John Rodker, 1927, xix+289 pp; London: Architectural Press, 1946, OL; Praeger, 1970, OL; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp. (English)
- Hacia una arquitectura, trans. Luis A. Romero, Buenos Aires: El Distribuidor Americano, 1939, 208 pp. (Spanish)
- Verso una architettura, trans. Pierluigi Cerri, Pierluigi Nicolin and Carlo Fioroni, Milan: Longanesi, 1973, xlii+246 pp. (Italian)
- Toward an Architecture, intro. Jean-Louis Cohen, trans. John Goodman, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007, xiii+341 pp. [1] (English)
- more translations
- Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Harvard UP, 1941, 16+601 pp; 3th ed., enl., 1954, 778 pp; 5th ed., 2003. Based on his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1938-39. (English)
- Spazio, tempo ed architettura: lo sviluppo di una nuova tradizione, Milan: U. Hoepli, 1954, xxiv+755 pp. (Italian)
- Espacio, tiempo y arquitectura: el futuro de una nueva tradición, trans. Isidro Puig Boada, Barcelona: Científico-Médica, 1958, 808 pp. (Spanish)
- Raum, Zeit, Architektur: die Entstehung einer neuen Tradition, Ravensburg: Maier, 1964, 536 pp. (German)
- Espace, temps, architecture. La naissance d'une nouvelle tradition, trans. Irmeline Lebeer and Franc̨oise-Marie Rosset, Brussels: La Connaissance, 1968, 552 pp. (French)
- Sigfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History, Oxford UP, 1948, xiv+743 pp; University of Minnesota Press, 2013. [2] (English)
- L èra della meccanizzazione, trans. Maria Labò, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1967, 674 pp. (Italian)
- La mecanización toma el mando, trans. Esteve Riambau i Suarí, Barcelona: Gili, 1978, 731 pp. (Spanish)
- La mécanisation au pouvoir: contribution à l'histoire anonyme, trans. Paule Guivarch, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980, 592 pp. (French)
- Die Herrschaft der Mechanisierung: ein Beitrag zur anonymen Geschichte, afterw. Stanislaus von Moos, Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1982, 843 pp. (German)
Bauhaus
- Walter Gropius (ed.), Internationale Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 1, 1925, 111 pp. (German)
- Walter Gropius, Bauhausbauten Dessau, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 12, 1930, 221 pp. (German)
- [The Bauhaus at Dessau], trans. Dennis Sharp, U Kansas, 19xx, 73 leaves. Unpublished typescript. [3] (English)
- László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 14, 1929, 241 pp; facsimile repr., Mainz and Berlin: Florian Kupferberg, 1968, 251 pp. (German)
- The New Vision: From Material to Architecture, trans. Daphne M. Hoffman, New York: Breuer Warren and Putnam, 1930; exp.rev.ed. as The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, New York: George Wittenborn, 1947, 92 pp. (English)
- more translations
Urban theory, the city
- Ludwig Hilberseimer, Grossstadtarchitektur, Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1927, 108 pp. (German)
- La Arquitectura de la gran ciudad: la gran ciudad, urbanismo, edificios de vivienda, trans. Pedro Madrigal Devesa, Barcelona: Gili, 1979, 106 pp. (Spanish)
- Groszstadt Architektur: l'architettura della grande città, trans. Bianca Spagnuolo Vigorita, Naples: Clean, 1981, 107 pp. (Italian)
- "Metropolisarchitecture", trans. Richard Anderson, in Hilberseimer, Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays, ed. Richard Anderson, Columbia U/GSAPP Books, 2012, pp 83-280. (English)
- Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, Padova: Marsilio, 1966; Torino: CittàStudi, 2006, 235 pp; new ed., Macerata: Quodlibet, 2011. (Italian)
- La arquitectura de la ciudad, intro. Salvador Tarragó Cid, trans. María Ferrer Ferrer, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1971, 239+13 pp. (Spanish)
- Die Architektur der Stadt, trans. Arianna Giachi, Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann, 1973; new ed., Munich: Technische Universität, 1998, 117 pp. Of 2nd ed. (German)
- L'architecture de la ville, trans. Françoise Brun, Paris: L'Equerre, 1981, 295 pp. (French)
- The Architecture of the City, intro. Peter Eisenman, trans. Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman, MIT Press, Oppositions Books series, 1982, 208 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Oswald Mathias Ungers, et al., Die Stadt in der Stadt: Berlin das grüne Stadtarchipel, Cologne: Studioverlag für Architektur, 1977. (German)
- "Cities within the City: Berlin as Green Archipelago", Lotus international 19 (1978), pp 82-97. (English)
- Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Collage City, MIT Press, 1978, 186 pp. (English) Examines urban structure of selected cities as found, revealing it to be the end product of a ceaseless process of fragmentation, the collision, superimposition, contamination of many diverse ideas imposed on it by successive generations, each with its own idea; introduces the concept of bricolage to urban theory. Commentary: Somol, et al. (ANY 1994), Hays (1998), Ockman (JSAH 1998), Vidler (2011). Review: Cutler (2010).
- Collage city, trans. Chiara Dazzi, Milan: Saggiatore, 1981, 285 pp. (Italian)
- Collage City, trans. Bernhard Hoesli, Basel: Birkhäuser, 1984, 286 pp. (German)
- Collage City, trans. Kenneth Hylton, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993, 271 pp. Preface. (French)
- Ciudad collage, trans. Esteve Riambau Sauri, Barcelona: Gili, 1998. (Spanish)
- Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, Thames & Hudson, 1978; Monacelli Press, 1994, 317 pp. (English) Reviews: Muschamp (NYT 1994), Watson (2010). Commentary: Crary (Any 1994), Foster (LRB 2001).
- Delirious New York: ein retroaktives Manifest für Manhattan, trans. Fritz Schneider, Aachen: Arch+, 1978, 327 pp. (German)
- New York délire: un manifeste retroactif pour Manhattan, trans. Catherine Collet, Paris: Chêne, 1978, 264 pp. (French)
- Delirious New York: un manifesto retroattivo per Manhattan, trans. Ruggero Baldasso and Marco Biraghi, Milan: Electa, 2001, 305 pp. (Italian)
- Delirio de Nueva York: un manifiesto retroactivo para Manhattan, trans. Jorge Sainz, Barcelona: Gili, 2004, 318 pp. (Spanish)
- Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, MIT Press, 2011, 251 pp. (English) Reconsiders architectural form in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. Reviews: Deamer (2011), Leach (JAE 2012), Diamanti (RCT 2012), Rumpfhuber (Domus 2011), Mooradian (BD 2011).
History
- Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura: saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino: Einaudi, 1948. (Italian)
- Architecture as Space. How to look at Architecture, New York: Horizon Press, 1957; Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. Excerpt. (English)
- Apprendre à voir l'architecture, trans. Lucien Trichaud, Paris: Minuit, 1959, 134 pp. (French)
- Saber ver la arquitectura: Ensayo sobre la interpretación espacial de la arquitectura, trans. Cino Calcaprina and Jesús Bermejo Goday, Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1976; 1981. (Spanish)
- more translations
- Emil Kaufmann, Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952, 564 pp. (English)
- Tre architetti rivoluzionari: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, intro. Georges Teyssot, trans. Maurizio Grandi and Vittorio Saredi, Milan: Angeli, 1976, 412 pp. (Italian)
- Trois architectes révolutionnaires: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, intro. & notes Gilbert Erouart et Georges Teyssot, trans. Françoise Revers, Paris: SADG, 1978, 318 pp. (French)
- Tres arquitectos revolucionarios: Boullé, Ledoux y Lequeu, intro. & notes Gilbert Érouart and Georges Teyssot, Barcelona: Gili, 1980, 324 pp. (Spanish)
- Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, London: Architectural Press, 1960; New York: Praeger, 1960, 338 pp; 2nd ed., 1967, 338 pp. (English) Reviews: Gardner-Medwin (TPR 1961), Hilberry (JSAH 1963), Young, Fontenas (Critique d'art 2010), Lebar (2012).
- Die Revolution der Architektur. Theorie und Gestaltung im Ersten Maschinenzeitalter, trans. Wolfram Wagmuth, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1964, 296 pp. (German)
- Teoría y diseño arquitectónico en la era de la máquina, trans. Luis Fabricant, Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1965, 316+64 pp. (Spanish)
- Architettura della prima eta della macchina, trans. Marco Biraghi, Bologna: Calderini, 1970, 355+42 pp. (Italian)
- Théorie et design à l'ère industrielle, trans. Christelle Bécant, intro. Frédéric Migayrou, Orléans: HYX, 2009, 415 pp. (French)
- Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Oxford UP, 1980, 324 pp; rev.ed., 1985. (English) Review: Curtis (JSAH 1981).
- William J.R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1982; Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982, 416 pp; 2nd ed., 1987; 3rd ed., Phaidon, 1996. (English) Reviews: Curtis (JSAH 1982), Moos (Art Journal 1983).
- La arquitectura moderna desde 1900, trans. Jorge Sainz Avia, Madrid: Blume, 1986, 416 pp. (Spanish)
- L'architettura moderna del Novecento, ed. & trans. Anna Barbara and Chiara Rodriquez, Milan: Mondadori, 1999, 739 pp. (Italian)
Marxist critique
- Manfredo Tafuri, Progetto e utopia: architettura e sviluppo capitalistico, Bari: Laterza & Figli, 1973. (Italian) Retraces the development of architecture from the late 18th C to the early 1970s, he concludes by discounting any possibility of utopia for the architecture of the era of late capitalism. Expanded from his "Per una critica dell'ideologia architettonica" (1969; EN: "Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology", 1998). See also Tafuri 1980 and Ockman 1985.
- "Para una crítica de la ideología arquitectónica", in Tafuri, Cacciari, Dal Co, De la vanguardia a la metropolis. Crítica radical a la arquitectura, Barcelona: Gili, 1972, pp 13-78. (Spanish) Published in conjunction with the 1972 Seminar on Urbanism II at ETS de Arquitectura, Barcelona.
- Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, trans. Barbara Luigia La Penta, MIT Press, 1976, xi+184 pp. (English) Commentary: Jameson 1985, Ockman 1995, Jameson 2001. Review: Puglisi (JAE 2013).
- Kapitalismus und Architektur. Von Corbusier's 'Utopia' zur Trabantenstadt, trans. Thomas Bandholtz, Nikolaus Kuhnert and Juan Rodriguez-Lores, Hamburg and West Berlin: VSA, 1977. (German)
- Projet et utopie. De l'avant-garde à la métropole, trans. Françoise Brun, ed. Ligia Ravé-Emy, Paris: Dunod, 1979. (French)
- more translations
Philosophy
- Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l'espace, Paris: PUF, 1957, 214 pp; 3rd ed., 1961, 215 pp. (French)
- Poetik des Raumes, trans. Kurt Leonhard, Munich: Hanser, 1960, 284 pp. (German)
- The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas, New York: Orion Press, 1964; Boston: Beacon Press, 1969; 1994. (English) Review: Ockman (HDM 1998).
- La poética del espacio, trans. Ernestina de Champourcin, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1965. (Spanish)
- La poetica dello spazio, trans. Ettore Catalano, Bari: Dedalo, 1975. (Italian)
- more translations
Gestalt theory
- Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky, Transparency [1963, 1971], comm. Bernhard Hoesli, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983; new ed., intro. Werner Oechslin, Basel: Birkhäuser, 1997, 120 pp. (English) Makes the distinction between literal and phenomenal transparency, taking cubist painting and Gestalt psychology as the bases for a new theory of visual perception in architecture. Written 1955-56 while teaching at U Texas in Austin (as part of the group of educators later called the "Texas Rangers"); a two-part essay that belatedly appeared in Perspecta in 1963 and 1971 after being rejected by Pevsner at AR. Commentary: Ockman (JSAH 1998).
- Transparenz, trans. & comm. Bernhard Hoesli, Basel: Birkhäuser, 1968, 71 pp; 3rd ed., exp., 1989, 107 pp; 4th ed., exp., intro. Werner Oechslin, 1997, 119 pp. (German) First edition contains only the first essay, amplified by Hoesli's extensive commentary as well as previously unpublished notes by the authors in English.
- Transparence: réelle et virtuelle, trans. Marianne Brausch and Sylvain Malfroy, pref. Werner Oechslin, Paris: Demi-Cercle, 1992, 143 pp.
Postmodernism
- Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, intro. Vincent Scully, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966; 2nd ed., 1977, 131 pp. Implies that Modernist buildings are without meaning, as their puritanical design lack the irony and complexity that enrich historical architecture. Developed out of a course Venturi began teaching at U Penn in 1957. (English) Reviews: Rowe (NYT 1967), Finkelpearl (JSAH 1979).
- De l'ambiguïté en architecture, trans. Maurin Schlumberger and Jean-Louis Vénard, Paris: Dunod, 1971, 135 pp. (French)
- Complejidad y contradicción en la arquitectura, trans. Antón Aguirregoitia Arechavaleta and Eduardo de Felipe Alonso, Barcelona: Gili, 1972, 234 pp. (Spanish)
- Komplexität und Widerspruch in der Architektur, trans. Heinz Schollwöck, ed. Heinrich Klotz, 1978, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 232 pp. (German)
- Complessità e contraddizioni nell' architettura, trans. Raffaele Gorjux and Margherita Rossi Paulis, Bari: Dedalo, 1980, 163 pp. (Italian)
- Hans Hollein, et al., "Alles ist Architektur", a special issue of Bau, 23:1/2, Vienna, 1968, 35 pp. Lead essay (HTML). (German) Calls for expanding the concept of architecture to embrace other media and to transcend its own physicality into a comprehensive and invisible technical environment.
- Hans Hollein, "Everything is Architecture", in Hollein, Chicago: Richard Feigen Gallery, 1969; repr. in Architecture Culture, 1943-1968, ed. Joan Ockman, Rizzoli, 1993, pp 460-462. (English)
- Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Learning From Las Vegas, MIT Press, 1972, xvi+188 pp; rev.ed. as Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, MIT Press, 1977, xvii+192 pp. (English) Studies of the Las Vegas Strip, undertaken with students in a research studio Scott Brown taught with Venturi in 1968-70 at Yale's School of Architecture and Planning. 2009 retrospective brochure. Reviews: Wolf (JSAH 1973), Unruh (JCE 1979), Finkelpearl (JSAH 1979). Commentary: Stierli (Radical Pedagogies c2010), Colomina (Radical Pedagogies c2010), Marshall (Guardian 2015).
- Aprendiendo de todas las cosas, trans. Xavier Sust and Beatriz de Moura, Barcelona: Tusquets, 1971, 104 pp. (Spanish)
- L'enseignement de Las Vegas, ou, Le symbolisme oublié de la forme architecturale, Brussels: Mardaga, 1977, 190 pp. (French)
- Lernen von Las Vegas. Zur Ikonographie und Architektursymbolik der Geschäftsstadt, trans. Heinz Schollwöck, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1979, 220 pp; 2nd ed., 1997, 213 pp. (German)
- Imparando da Las Vegas: il simbolismo dimenticato della forma architettonica, intro. Alessandro Mendini and Stefano Casciani, trans. Maurizio Sabini, Venice: Culva, 1985, 122 pp. (Italian)
See also Rowe & Koetter 1978.
Gender
- Beatriz Colomina (ed.), Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, 389 pp. (English) Based on a symposium held at Princeton U in 1990. Reviews: Wilson (HDM 1997), Lahiji & Friedman (AA Files 1999). Commentary: Jacobson (2013).
Computational architecture
- Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, MIT Press, 2011, 190 pp. (English)
- Luciana Parisi, Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space, MIT Press, 2013, 392 pp. (English)
Criticism
- Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press, 1994, 278 pp. [4] [5] (English)
- Architecture et disjonction, trans. Jean-Marc Grimaldi, Orléans: HYX, 2014, 188 pp. (French)
- Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture Complex, London: Verso, 2011, 316 pp. (English) Argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture; identifies a "global style" of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. Reviews: Moore (Guardian 2011), Long (Icon 2012), Cava (Arcade 2012), Home (Menlo Park 2013), Petts (Marx & Philosophy 2014).
- El complejo arte-arquitectura, trans. José Adrián Vitier, Madrid: Turner, 2013, 346 pp. (Spanish)
- more translations
Anthologies, Readers
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture [1964], 1970, Log
Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, 1997, Log
Architecture Theory Since 1968, 1998, PDF
- Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture [1964], ed. Ulrich Conrads, trans. Michael Bullock, MIT Press, 1970, 192 pp. (English)
- Antologia dell'architettura moderna. Testi, manifesti, utopie, eds. Mara De Benedetti and Attilio Pracchi, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1988, 850 pp. (Italian)
- Architecture Culture, 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology, ed. Joan Ockman with Edward Eigen, forew. Bernard Tschumi, Columbia Books of Architecture/Rizzoli, 1993, 464 pp. TOC (English) See also Hays 1998.
- Textos de arquitectura de la modernidad, eds. & intro. Josep Maria Montaner, Jordi Oliveras and Pere Hereu, Madrid: Nerea, 1994, 492 pp; 2nd ed., 1999; 3rd ed., 2012. [6] (Spanish)
- Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory, 1965-1995, ed. Kate Nesbitt, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. TOC & Introduction. (English)
- Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, eds. Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf, Chichester: Academy Editions, 1997, 312 pp. (English)
- Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Critical Theory, ed. Neil Leach, Routledge, 1997. (English)
- Classic Readings in Architecture, eds. Jay M. Stein and Kent F. Spreckelmeyer, Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999. (English)
- Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays, MIT Press, 1998. (English) See also Ockman 1993.
- Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 & An Anthology from 1871 to 2005, 2 vols., eds. Harry Francis Mallgrave and Christina Contandriopoulos, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006 & 2008. (English)
- Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, eds. William W Braham and Jonathan A Hale, Routledge, 2006, 488 pp. (English)
- Architectural Theory: From the Renaissance to the Present, ed. Bernd Evers, intro. Christoph Thoenes, Taschen, 2002, 845 pp; 2 vols., 2011. (English)
- Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000, eds. Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. Rowe, Wiley, 2006, 544 pp. [7] (English)
- Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory, 1993-2009, ed. A. Krista Sykes, afterw. K. Michael Hays, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. TOC & Introduction. (English)
Periodicals
By default sorted chronologically according to the first issue published. No longer active journals are included as well. The 'Online' column lists freely accessible digitized versions of each magazine. Some columns are sortable. Monoskop also maintains a section with avant-garde and modernist magazines.
ABC, Basel, 1924-28
bauhaus, Dessau, 1926-31
Sovremennaya architektura, Moscow, 1926-30
Praesens, Warsaw, 1926/30
Casabella, Milan, 1928-
Domus, Milan, 1928-
L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, Paris, 1930-
AD, London, 1930-
Nueva visión, Buenos Aires, 1951-57
Perspecta, New Haven, 1952-
Le carré bleu, Paris, 1958-
Archigram, London, 1961-74
Bau, Vienna, 1965-67
Form, Cambridge UK, 1966-68
Utopie, Paris, 1967-78
Oppositions, New York, 1973-84
Global Tools, Milan, 1974-75
OASE, Rotterdam, 1981-
ANY, New York, 1993-2000
Scapegoat, Toronto, 2010-
Title | Dates | Editors | Publisher | Text | Nos. | Online | Notes |
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L'Émulation | 1874-1939 | Valère Dumortier | Brussels: Société centrale d'architecture de Belgique | FR | WP-FR | ||
American Architect and Architecture | 1876-1938 | New York: Hearst | EN | JPG, PDF (1886-99) | Merged with Architectural Record. | ||
L'Architecture | 1888-1939 | Paris: Société centrale des architectes | FR | weekly | JPG, PDF | ||
Architectural Record | 1891- | Cathleen McGuigan | New York: Dodge Data & Analytics (until 2014 McGraw-Hill Construction) | EN | monthly | JPG, PDF (1891-1921) | Home page, WP |
Architectural Forum | 1892-1974 | Boston: Rogers and Manson | EN | JPG, PDF (1892-1916), JPG, PDF (1917-22) | Formerly titled The Brickbuilder (1892-1916) and The Magazine of Building (1952-54); absorbed Architect's World in 1938. WP. | ||
Architectura: orgaan van het Genootschap Architectura et Amicitia | 1893-1926 | Amsterdam: J. van der Endt & Zoon | NL | ||||
The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art | 1893-1964 | Charles Holme (1895-1919), Geoffrey Holme (1919-?) | London: The Studio | EN | 853; monthly | JPG, PDF, TXT (1893-1925) | Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Modernism, Good Design. The American edition was titled The International Studio (1897-1931). From 1906 also published an annual, The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art. In 1964 absorbed into Studio International. Info, WP. |
RIBA Journal | 1893- | Malcolm MacEwen (1964-71), Monica Pidgeon (1975-79), Amanda Baillieu (1999-2006), Hugh Pearman (since 2006) | London: Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) | EN | monthly | Home page, History, WP | |
Architects' Journal (AJ) | 1895- | Colin Boyne (1949-70), Christine Murray (2010-15), Rory Olcayto (since 2015) | London: Emap (until 1986 Architectural Press) | EN | weekly | Formerly The Builder's Journal (until 1919). Home page, WP. | |
Architectural Review (AR) | 1896- | H. de Cronin Hastings (1927-73), Nikolaus Pevsner (1943-45), Peter Davey (1982-2005), Catherine Slessor (2010-15), Christine Murray (since 2015) | London: Emap (until 1986 Architectural Press) | EN | monthly | Formerly Architectural Review for the Artist and Craftsman. E-shop, History, WP. | |
Moderne Bauformen: Monatshefte für Architektur und Raumkunst | 1902-44 | Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann | DE | monthly | JPG, PDF, TXT (1906) | WP-DE | |
L'Architecte | 1906-35 | Paris: Société des architectes diplômés par le gouvernement (SADG) | FR | weekly | JPG, PDF | See also SADG. | |
Arhitectura. Revista Uniunii Arhitecţilor din România | 1906- | Bucharest: Romanian Architects Society | RO | Home page | |||
Das Werk | 1914-76 | Zurich: Bund Schweizer Architekten (BSA) | DE | JPG, PDF | Preceded by Die Schweizerische Baukunst (1909-20); followed by Werk - Antithese (1977-79) and WBW (1980-). | ||
De Stijl: Maandblad voor de moderne beeldende vakken (en kultuur) | 1917-20, 1921-32 | Theo van Doesburg | Delft (1917-18), Leiden (1918-21), Meudon: Theo van Doesburg | NL | 90; started monthly | JPG, PDF, JPG, PDF (1917-20), TXT (1917-20), TXT (1921-32) | art, architecture, design |
Wendingen | 1918-31 | Hendrik Wijdeveld | Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug | NL | 144; monthly | ||
Arkitektur N: The Norwegian Review of Architecture | 1919- | Ingerid Helsing Almaas | Oslo: National Association of Norwegian Architects (NAL) | NO | 8/year | Formerly Byggekunst. Home page. See also AN. | |
La Cité: urbanisme, architecture, art public | 1919-35 | Brussels: Lamertin | FR | 147; monthly; later irregular | JPG, PDF, TXT | ||
L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale illustrée de l'activité contemporaine | 1920-25 | Paul Dermée and Michel Seuphor, later Charles-Edouard Jeanneret and Amédée Ozenfant | Paris: Éditions de l'Esprit Nouveau | FR | 28; bimonthly | JPG, PDF | art, literature, architecture |
Architettura e arti decorative: organo del Sindacato Nazionale Architetti | 1921-31 | Gustavo Giovannoni (1921-27), Alberto Calza Bini (1927-31) | Milan: Bestetti & Tuminelli | IT | JPG (1921-31), PDF (1926-31) | Turned into Architettura. | |
7 Arts: tous les arts | 1922-28 | Pierre Bourgeois, Victor Bourgeois | Brussels: L'Equerre | FR | 156 | constructivist arts | |
Die Form: Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit | 1922, 1925-35 | Walter Curt Behrendt (-1926), Walter Riezler (1926-) | Berlin | DE | JPG, PDF, TXT | architecture, design | |
Stavba: měsíčník pro stavební umění | 1922-38 | Karel Teige (1923-28), Oldřich Starý (1928-37), Jan E. Koula (1928-37), et al. | Prague: Klub architektů | CZ | monthly | ||
L'Architecture vivante | 1923-33 | Jean Badovici | Paris: A. Morancé | FR | 21; biannual | JPG, PDF | |
G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung | 1923-26 | Hans Richter | Berlin | DE | 5 | JPG (1), PDF (1) | architecture, industrial design, photography, art, film |
Blok: czasopismo awangardy artystycznej | 1924-26 | Blok | Warsaw: Blok | PL | 11 | PDF, JDL | constructivist art, architecture, theatre |
ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen | 1924-28 | Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, El Lissitzky, Emil Roth | Basel | DE | 10 | constructivist architecture | |
Shinkenchiku [New Architecture] | 1925- | Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha | JP | Home page | |||
ASNOVA: Izvestiya assotsiatsii novykh arkhitektorov | 1926 | El Lissitzky, Nikolai Ladovsky | Moscow: ASNOVA | RU | 1 | JPG, PDF, JPG, PDF | rationalist architecture |
bauhaus: zeitschrift für gestaltung | 1926-31 | Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1926-28), Ernst Kallai (1928-30) | Dessau | DE | 15 | PDF (3 issues), PDF (5 issues), JPG (1 issue) | art, craft, design, architecture |
Kritisk Revy | 1926-28 | Poul Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, et al. | Copenhagen: Poul Henningsen | DK | 7 | JPG, TXT | architecture, politics |
Das neue Frankfurt | 1926-31 | Ernst May | Frankfurt a.M.: Englert und Schlosser | DE | 55; monthly | JPG, PDF, TXT | urbanism, architecture |
Praesens: revue moderne | 1926, 1930 | Szymon Syrkus | Warsaw | PL, FR | 2 | architecture, painting, photography, theatre, film, poetry | |
Sovremennaya architektura | 1926-30 | Moisei Ginzburg (1926-28), Vesnin brothers (1926-28), Roman Khiger (1928-30) | Moscow: OSA | RU | 30; bimonthly | PDF (incomplete issues, some missing) | constructivist architecture |
Horizont: revue současné kultury v Československu | 1927-32 | Jiří Kroha, Jaroslav B. Svrček | Brno: Václav Roštlapil | CZ | 38 | PDF (1927) | architecture, art, theatre |
Casabella: rivista internazionale di architettura | 1928- | Guido Marangoni (1928-30), Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1953-65), Alessandro Mendini (1970-76), Tomás Maldonado (1977-82), Vittorio Gregotti (1982-96), Francesco Dal Co (since 1996) | Milan: Domus, then Milan: Mondadori | IT, EN | monthly | PDF (1928-31), PDF (1933-37), PDF (1938-41) | Formerly La Casa Bella (1928-33), Casabella-Costruzioni and Costruzioni-Casabella (1938-43), Casabella-Continuità (1954-65). Home page, History, Commentary, SBN, WP. Commentary. |
Domus | 1928- | Gio Ponti (1928-40 & 48-79), Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1946-47), Alessandro Mendini (1979-86), Mario Bellini (1986-91), François Burkhardt (1996-2000), Stefano Boeri (2004-07), Nicola Di Battista (since 2013) | Milan: Domus | IT, EN, CN | monthly | PDF (1929-33) | architecture, design; Archive, WP. |
Urbanistica: rivista dell'Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica | 1928- | Pietro Betta (1932), Armando Melis (1932-44) | Turin, later Rome | IT | bimonthly | PDF (1934-37) | |
Edilizia moderna: periodico tecnico trimestrale | 1929-43, 1948-63 | Ernesto Giorgi | Milan: Modiano | IT | quarterly | PDF (1933-42) | |
Rassegna di architettura: rivista mensile di architettura e decorazione | 1929-40 | Giovanni Rocco | Milan: Istituto grafico Bertieri | IT | 108 | JPG, PDF | Merged with Architettura. |
L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (AA) | 1930- | Pierre Vago (1932-47), André Bloc and Alexandre Persitz (1947-74), Marc Emery (1967-72 & 1974-87), Bernard Huet (1974-77), François Chaslin (1987-94), Axel Sowa (2000-07), Antoine Vernholes (since 2011) | Paris: Groupe Expansion (1975-2000), Paris: Jean-Michel Place (2000-09), Paris: Archipress & Associates (since 2009) | FR, EN | bimonthly | JPG, PDF (1930-40) | Home page, Interview (FR), WP-FR. See also Aujourd'hui. |
Architectural Design (AD) | 1930- | Monica Pidgeon (1946-75), Theo Crosby (tech editor 1953-62), Kenneth Frampton (tech editor 1962-64), Robin Middleton (tech editor 1965-72), Maggie Toy (1993-2001), Helen Castle (since 2001) | London: Academy Editions (1977-91), VCH (1991-97), John Wiley & Sons (since 1997) | EN | bimonthly | Formerly Architect’s Standard Catalogue (1930-32), AD&C (1932-46). Subscription access (Wiley), History, WP. | |
Architettura | 1931-43 | Marcello Piacentini | Milan: Treves-Treccani-Tuminelli (1932-33), Fratelli Treves (1934-38), Aldo Garzanti (1939-43) | IT | PDF (1932-38) | Commentary. | |
Die neue Stadt | 1932-33 | Joseph Gantner | Frankfurt a.M.: Philipp L. Fink | DE | 13; monthly | JPG, PDF, TXT | urbanism, architecture |
PLAN: tidsskrift for bolig- og byggespørsmål | 1933-36 | Oslo: Socialist Architects' Society | NO | 4 | |||
Quadrante: mensile di arte, lettere e vita | 1933-36 | Massimo Bontempelli, Pier Maria Bardi | Massimo Bontempelli | IT | JPG | WP-IT | |
Plus: orientations of contemporary architecture | 1938-39 | Wallace K. Harrison, William Lescaze, et al. | New York: Time | EN | 3; bimonthly | architecture, design | |
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) | 1941- | Patricia Morton | Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians | EN | Home page. Commentary. | ||
Architecture | 1944-2006 | Washington, DC: American Institute of Architects | EN | monthly | Formerly titled Journal of the American Institute of Architects (1944-51) and The American Institute of Architects Journal (1951-76). WP, archINFORM. | ||
Cuadernos de arquitectura | 1944-70 | Barcelona: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Catalunya | ES, CA | In 1971-80 as Cuadernos de arquitectura y urbanismo, since 1981 as Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme. | |||
Metron: rivista internazionale d'architettura | 1945-54 | Luigi Piccinato, Mario Ridolfi | Rome: Sandron (1947-48), Milan: Comunità (1951-54) | IT | From 1955 continued as L'architettura: cronache e storia. | ||
Progressive Architecture | 1945-95 | New York: Reinhold | EN | Subsumed by Architecture. archINFORM. | |||
Design Quarterly | 1946- | Peter Seitz (1964-68) | Minneapolis: Walker Art Center | EN | Until 1954 as Everyday Art Quarterly. Info. | ||
Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) | 1947- | Marc Neveu | Washington, DC: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | EN | HTML | ||
Nueva Visión (New Vision): revista de cultura visual | 1951-57 | Tomás Maldonado (1951-54), Carlos Méndez Mosquera, Alfredo Hlito | Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión Editorial | ES | 9 | art, architecture, industrial design, typography; Info. | |
SADG: bulletin mensuel d'informations de la Société des architectes diplômés par le gouvernement | 1951-67 | Paris: Société française des architectes | FR | Turned into AMC. See also L'Architecte. | |||
Der Architekt | 1952- | Andreas Denk | Berlin: Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) | DE | bimonthly (since 2007) | Home page, WP-DE. | |
Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal | 1952- | New Haven: Yale School of Architecture | EN | annual | Subscription access (MIT), Home page | ||
Čovjek i prostor [Man and Space] | 1954- | Dominko Blažević | Zagreb: Croatian Architects' Association | CR | Home page | ||
L'architettura: cronache e storia | 1955-2005 | Bruno Zevi (1955-2000), Furio Colombo (2000-05) | Rome: Fabbri, later Rome: Poligrafico dello Stato (1995-98), Venice: Canal & Stamperia (1998-2000), Rome: Mancosu (1999-2005) | IT | monthly | Continuation of Metron. WP. | |
Aujourd'hui: art et architecture | 1955-? | André Bloc | Paris | FR | See also L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui. Info. | ||
Ekistics: The Problems and Science of Human Settlements | 1955-? | Athens | EN | During first two years titled Tropical Housing and Planning Monthly Bulletin. Info, Info, Info. | |||
Hogar y arquitectura: revista bimestral de la obra sindical del hogar (HyA) | 1955-77 | Madrid: Ediciones y Publicaciones Populares | ES | 122; bimonthly | Info, Info. | ||
JA [Japan Architect] | 1956- | Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha | EN, JP | quarterly | Info. | ||
Polygon | 1956-? | John Outram, Wilfred Marden, Andrew Rabeneck, Peter Britton, Paul Power, John Spence | London: Regent Street Polytechnic | EN | An "underground architectural protest magazine" (Banham 1966). Info, Interview. | ||
Architectural History | 1958- | David Hemsoll | London: Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) | EN | annual | Subscription access (JStor). Home page. | |
Le Carré bleu: feuille internationale d'architecture | 1958- | André Schimmerling (1958-2003), Massimo Pica Ciamarra (since 2006) | Helsinki (until 1962), Paris (since 1963): les amis du Carré Bleu | EN, FR, IT | quarterly | PDF, JPG, PDF (1958-2001) | Home page, Old home page, History. 1988 book (FR). |
Internationale situationniste | 1958-69 | G.-E. Debord | Paris | FR | 12 | PDF, PDF, Flash | |
Arquitectura | 1959- | Madrid: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) | ES | quarterly | Home page, [8] | ||
Forum | 1959- | Jurriaan van Stigt | Amsterdam: Architectura et Amicitia | NL | Formerly Forum voor architectuur en daarmee verbonden kunsten. Publisher, Info, WP. | ||
Melpomène | 1959-66 | Paris: La Grande Masse | FR | 24 | Published by the student association of the École des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA). Numbers 22 and 23/24 (1966) entitled Melp!. Commentary, Commentary (FR), Info. See also Utopie. | ||
Abitare: International Design Magazine | 1961- | Piera Peroni (1961-74), Franca Santi Gualteri (1974-92), Italo Lupi (1992-2007), Stefano Boeri (2007-11), Silvia Botti (since 2014) | Milan: Abitare Segesta (1976-2005), Milan: RCS (since 2005) | IT | Formerly Casa Novità (until number 5). Home page, WP. | ||
Archigram | 1961-74 | Archigram | London: Archigram | EN | 10 | JPG | Interview, Interview. |
Detail. Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail | 1961- | Christian Schittich | Munich: Institut für internationale Architektur-Dokumentation | DE, EN, CN, FR, IT | monthly | Home page, WP. | |
A: fritt forum for alle som er interessert i arkitektur | 1962-64 | Lars Fasting, Svein Hatløy | Trondheim: Norwegian Institute of Technology | NO | A student magazine. Info. | ||
Lotus international | 1963- | Bruno Alfieri (1963-77), Pierluigi Nicolin (since 1977) | Venice (1963-70), Milan: Industrie Grafiche, then Electa (1974-94), Milan: Mondadori (1994-2001), Milan: Lotus (since 2002) | IT, EN | 157+ | Formerly Lotus (until 1974). E-shop, History. | |
Summa: revista de arquitectura, tecnologia, y diseño | 1963-92 | Carlos Méndez Mosquera (first 3 issues), Lala Mosquera (from issue 4) | Buenos Aires | ES | Info, Info, WP-ES. See also Cuadernos Summa-Nueva Visión and Summa+. | ||
ACC: Action Communications Centre / Symbols | 1964-65 | Grahame Shane, Jasper Vaughan, Justin de Syllas | London | EN | Student-run newssheets. Info, Info, Info, Info, Interview. | ||
Klub | 1964-68 | Günther Feuerstein | Vienna | DE | 10 | Info, Interview. | |
Op. cit.: selezione della critica d’arte contemporanea | 1964- | Renato De Fusco | Naples: Il Centro (1964-96), Electa (1997-2014), Grafica Elettronica (from 2015) | IT | 153+ | TXT (selections) | Info. |
Bau: Schrift für Architektur und Städtebau | 1965-67 | Günther Feuerstein, Hans Hollein, Gustav Peichl, Sokratis Dimitriou, Walter Pichler | Vienna | DE | Info, Info, Interview. | ||
Architecture principe | 1966 | Claude Parent, Paul Virilio | Paris: Groupe architecture principe | FR | 9 | CCindex | |
Form | 1966-68 | Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann | Cambridge, UK | EN | 10 | ||
Nueva forma: arquitectura, urbanismo, diseño, ambiente, arte | 1966-75 | Madrid: Nueva forma | ES | Info. | |||
AMC: Architecture, mouvement, continuité | 1967- | Philippe Boudon and Alain Sarfati (1967-69), Patrice Noviant (1973-81), Jacques Lucan (1978-88), Gilles Davoine (current) | Paris: Société française des architectes (1967-83), Paris: Groupe Moniteur (since 1983) | FR | monthly (since 1989) | Replaced SADG. AMC added to the title in 1973. Home page, History, WP-FR. | |
Cuadernos Summa-Nueva Visión | 1967-70 | Leonardo Aizenberg, Ernesto Katzenstein | Buenos Aires | ES | 51 | A collaboration between Summa and ediciones Nueva Visión. | |
Utopie: sociologie de l'urbain | 1967-78 | Hubert Tonka | Paris: Anthropos (issues 1-3), then Paris: Imprimerie Quotidienne | FR | 17 | urban sociology. 2011 book (Introduction), 2006 book of Baudrillard's essays, Commentary. See also Melp! and Archigram. | |
ARCH+ | 1968- | Sabine Kraft, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Anh-Linh Ngo | Aachen & Berlin (since 1987): ARCH+ | DE | 219+; quarterly | Home page, History, WP-DE. | |
AAQ: Architectural Association Quarterly | 1969-82 | Dennis Sharp | London | EN | quarterly | Interview. | |
Controspazio | 1969- | Paolo Portoghesi (1969-83), Massimo Solari (1969-73), Ezio Bonfanti, Marcello Fabbri (1988-2006, 2012-) | Bari: Dedalo (until 1985), Rome: Gangemi (since 1988) | IT | Neo-Rationalism, Tendenza. Info, WP-IT. | ||
ArchiteXt | 1970-72 | Takefumi Aida, Takamitsu Azuma, Mayumi Miyawaki, Makoto Suzuki, Minoru Takeyama | Tokyo | JP | 5 | Info, Info. | |
Espaces et sociétés: revue critique internationale de l'aménagement, de l'architecture et de l'urbanisation | 1970- | Henri Lefebvre and Anatole Kopp (1970-78), Raymond Ledrut (1979-87), Maurice Blanc (current) | Paris: Anthropos, now Harmattan | FR | 162+ | urban sociology. JPG, PDF (1970-2003) | Home page |
Transparent: Manuskripte für Architektur, Theorie, Kritik, Polemik, Umraum | 1970-88 | Günther Feuerstein | Vienna | DE | monthly | Interview. | |
Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst | 1971- | Dorothée Sack, Johannes Cramer | Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag | DE, EN | biannual | Subscription access. | |
Archithese: internationale Zeitschrift und Schriftenreihe für Architektur | 1971- | Stanislaus von Moos (1971-80), Hans Reinhard, Jørg Himmelreich (current) | Zurich | DE, EN, FR | bimonthly | Home page, E-shop, History. | |
a+u: Architecture and Urbanism | 1971-c2012 | Tokyo: A+U Publishing | JP, EN | monthly | Publisher. Merged into ja+u. | ||
In | 1971-72 | Pierpaolo Saporito | Milan | IT, EN | 9; bimonthly | Info. | |
2c: construcción de la ciudad | 1972-85 | Barcelona: Novographos | ES | 23 | |||
On Site | 1972-76 | Alison Sky (1972-74) | New York: SITE | EN | 7 | Interview, List of issues | |
Oppositions: A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture | 1973-84 | Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler (from issue 6), Kurt Forster (from issue 12), Diana Agrest (issue 26) | New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) | EN | 26 | 1998 Reader, History. See also Skyline and Assemblage. See also titles in Oppositions book series: Colquhoun 1981, Rossi 1981, Rossi 1982, Loos 1982, Ginzburg 1982. | |
Arquitecturas bis: información gráfica de actualidad | 1974-85 | Oriol Bohigas | Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia | ES | 52; bimonthly | Index, [9] | |
Global Tools | 1974-75 | Milan | IT, EN | 2 | 2015 book | ||
Carrer de la ciutat: revista de arquitectura | 1977-80 | Beatriz Colomina, et al. | Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura (ETSAB) | ES | 13 | Interview, Commentary. | |
Hinterland: disegno e contesto dell'architettura per la gestione degli interveni sul territorio | 1977-85 | Guido Canella | Milan | IT | 32; quarterly | ||
Summarios | 1977-90 | Marina Waisman | ES | bimonthly | |||
Skyline: The New York Architecture and Design Review | 1978-83 | Andrew MacNair (1978-80), Craig Owens (1978-80), Suzanne Stephens (1981-83) | New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) | EN | monthly | Info, Skyline Calendar. See also Oppositions. | |
Archetype: The Magazine of Architecture and Other Arts | 1979-83 | Andrew Batey, Henry Bowles, Kurt Forster, Diane Ghirardo, Mark Mack | San Francisco | EN | |||
Werk, Bauen + Wohnen (WBW) | 1980- | Daniel Kurz (since 2012) | Zurich: Werk / Bund Schweizer Architekten (BSA) | DE | monthly | JPG, PDF | architecture, urban planning. Home page. Preceded by Das Werk and other titles. |
AA Files | 1981- | Mary Wall (1981-2000), Mark Rappolt (2000-04), David Terrien (2004-07), Thomas Weaver (since 2007) | London: Architectural Association School of Architecture | EN | 70+; biannual | Publisher, History, Interview. | |
Cornell Journal of Architecture | 1981- | Ithaca, NY: Cornell University | EN | Open access. | |||
Daidalos | 1981-2001 | Ulrich Conrads (until 1992), Gerrit Confurius (from 1992) | Berlin: Bertelsmann | EN, DE | 75 | ||
OASE Journal for Architecture | 1981- | Rotterdam: NAi Publishers | EN, NL | Open access. | |||
El Croquis | 1982- | Fernando Márquez, Richard Levene | Madrid: El Croquis | ES, EN | bimonthly | PDF (several issues) | E-shop |
Arcade | 1983- | Kelly Rodriguez | Seattle: Arcade | EN | HTML (2010-) | Open access. | |
Eupalino | 1983-90 | Paolo Portoghesi | Rome | IT, EN | 12 | ||
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World | 1983- | Gülru Necipoğlu | Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U | EN | annual | Subscription access (Brill). | |
AV Monografías / AV Monographs | 1985- | Luis Fernández-Galiano, José Jaime S. Yuste | Madrid: Arquitectura Viva | ES, EN | 177+ | E-shop, Info. | |
Pratt Journal of Architecture | 1985- | New York: Pratt Institute | EN | 3+ | Open access. | ||
Skala: Nordic Magazine of Architecture and Art | 1985-95 | Copenhagen: Henning Larsen | DK, EN | 30 | |||
Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture | 1986-2000 | K. Michael Hays, Alicia Kennedy | EN | 41; triannual | Subscription access (JStor), WP. Commentary. See also Oppositions. | ||
Phalaris | 1987-91 | Luciano Semerani | Venice | IT | 9+20 | Until 1988 as Giornale della Fondazione Masieri (9 numbers). Covers. | |
Arquitectura Viva | 1988- | Luis Fernández-Galiano, José Yuste | Madrid: Arquitectura Viva | ES, EN | 175+; monthly | E-shop. | |
Zodiac | 1989-99 | Guido Canella, Enrico Bordogna | Milan | IT | 21; biannual | ||
Architectural Heritage | 1990- | Mark Cousins, Dawn McDowell | Edinburgh: Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland | EN | annual | Subscription access (Edinburgh UP). | |
Arhitext | 1990- | Arpad Zachi | Bucharest: Arhitext | RO | Home page | ||
Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts | 1990- | Ross Jenner, Andrew Douglas | Auckland | EN | 15+ | Open access. | |
Summa+ | 1992- | Martha Magis (1992-94), Fernando Diez (since 1994) | Buenos Aires | ES | 143+ | Home page. See also Summa. | |
Piranesi | 1992- | Vojteh Ravnikar (1992-2010), Robert Potokar | Ljubljana | SL, EN | Home page | ||
Thresholds: Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture | 1992- | Cambridge, MA: SA+P Press | EN | 43+; biannual | Open access. | ||
Zlatý řez | 1992- | Jana Tichá | Prague: Zlatý řez | CZ | annual, until 2000 quarterly | Home page, Info. | |
3ZU: revista d'arquitectura | 1993-95 | Santiago Roqueta | Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura | ES | 4 | ||
ANY (Architecture New York) | 1993-2000 | Cynthia C. Davidson | New York: Anyone Corporation | EN | 27 | PDF (7-8), PDF (23) | WP. See also Log. |
Prostor: a Scholarly Journal of Architecture and Urban Planning | 1993- | Zlatko Karac | Zagreb: Faculty of Architecture U Zagreb | CR | 49+; biannual | Open access. Info. | |
Arhitektura i urbanizam | 1994- | Mila Pucar | Belgrade: Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia | SR | 39+ | SCIndeks | |
ARCH: o architektúre a inej kultúre | 1995- | Andrea Bacová | Bratislava: Eurostav | SK | monthly | Home page. | |
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly | 1995- | Adam Sharr, Richard Weston | Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP | EN | quarterly | Subscription access (Cambridge) | |
eaV: Enseignement Architecture Ville | 1995-2010 | Anne-Marie Châtelet and Michel Denès | Versailles: École d'Architecture | FR, EN | 15; annual | Architecture history. Issues. | |
The Journal of Architecture | 1995- | Peter Gibbs-Kennet, Charles Rice | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | EN | bimonthly | Subscription access (Taylor & Francis). | |
Le Visiteur: revue critique d'architecture | 1995- | Sébastien Marot (1995-2003), Françoise Fromonot (1999-2003), Karim Basbous (since 2007) | Paris: Société Française des Architectes (SFA) | FR, EN | 20+; annual | Home page. | |
Cloud Cuckoo Land | 1996- | Eduard Heinrich Führ | Cottbus: Brandenburg University of Technology | EN, DE, RU | 19+; biannual | Open access. | |
UME | 1996- | Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper | Brisbane: Haig Beck | EN | 22+ | JPG, PDF | Open access. |
Revista 180: arquitectura, arte, diseño | 1997- | Marcelo Vizcaíno | Santiago de Chile: Facultad de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño UDP | ES | 33+ | Open access. | |
Frame | 1997- | Amsterdam: Frame Publishers | EN, CN, KO, TR | 105+; bimonthly | interior design, architecture, product design, exhibition design; E-shop | ||
Harvard Design Magazine | 1997- | Jennifer Sigler | Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design | EN | HTML (selected articles) | ||
RA: revista de arquitectura | 1997- | Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra | ES, EN | 15+; annual | Home page, Info. | ||
Space and Culture | 1997- | Joost van Loon, Justine Lloyd, Michael Schillmeier, Rob Shields | EN | quarterly | Subscription access (Sage). | ||
Oris magazine for architecture and culture of living | 1998- | Zagreb: Oris - House of Architecture | CR, EN | 93+; bimonthly | Home page, WP. | ||
Hunch: the Berlage Institute Report | 1999- | Rotterdam: NAI Publishers | EN | 14+ | Home page | ||
Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building | 1999- | Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ashley Schafer | Boston | EN | 14+; biannual | Home page | |
Grey Room | 2000- | EN | 59+; quarterly | Subscription access (MIT). | |||
On Site review: Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Infrastructure, Culture, Construction | 2000- | Alberta: Architectural Fieldwork | EN | 32+ | Home page | ||
306090: a Journal of Emergent Architecture and Design | 2001- | New York: Princeton Architectural Press | EN | 15+ | Publisher | ||
An Architektur: Production and Use of the Built Environment | 2002-2010 | Oliver Clemens, Jesko Fezer, Kim Förster, Anke Hagemann, Sabine Horlitz, Anita Kaspar, Andreas Müller | Berlin: An Architektur | EN, DE | 23; biannual | Home page (archived), Issues, History. | |
Log | 2003- | Cynthia Davidson | New York: Anyone Corporation | EN | 34+ | Subscription access. See also ANY. | |
A10: new European architecture | 2004- | Indira van 't Klooster | Amsterdam | EN | 64+; bimonthly | Home page, WP. | |
Era 21 | 2004- | Zuzana Morávková | Brno: ERA Média | CZ | bimonthly | Home page, Info. | |
Project Baikal | 2004- | Elena Grigoryeva | Irkutsk: Vostoksibacademcenter of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences | RU, EN | 43+; quarterly | Open access. | |
Mark | 2005- | Amsterdam: Archis | EN | 56+; bimonthly | E-shop. | ||
Volume | 2005- | Arjen Oosterman | Amsterdam: Archis | EN | 44+; quarterly | Home page. | |
Architecture Norway: An Online Review of Architecture | 2008- | Ingerid Helsing Almaas | Oslo: National Association of Norwegian Architects (NAL) | EN | monthly | HTML | Open access. Based on projects and articles published in Arkitektur N. |
Bracket: Architecture, Environment, Digital Culture | 2008- | New York: Altar | EN | 4+; annual | Home page. | ||
ACE: Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno / Architecture, City and Environment | 2006- | Josep Roca Cladera | Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | EN, ES, CA | 28+ | PDF, PDF | Open access. |
Footprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal | 2007- | Delft: Delft University of Technology | EN | 16+ | Open access. | ||
Manifold | 2007-10 | Izabel Gass | Houston, TX: Rice University | EN | 4 | Open access. | |
Criticat: revue semestrielle de critique d’architecture | 2008- | Pierre Chabard, Valéry Didelon, Françoise Fromonot, et al. | Paris: Association Criticat | FR | 15+; biannual | Home page, History. | |
Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge | 2009- | Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler, Anne Kockelkorn | Berlin: Hatje Cantz | EN, DE | 8+ | ||
The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space | 2010-11 | Joseph Grima, Kazys Varnelis | New York | EN | 7 | JPG | Open access. |
Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy | 2010- | Toronto | EN | 9+ | Open access. | ||
Soiled: a periodical of architectural stories | 2011- | Joseph Altshuler | Chicago: Cartogram | EN | 5+ | Home page | |
Architecture_MPS (Amps) | 2012- | Graham Cairns | EN | monthly | Open access. | ||
ja+u | 2012- | Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha | EN | Home page. See also a+u. |
Monographs and journal issues
This section focuses on edited monographs and journal issues published in English. For canonical works see key monographs; for anthologies and readers compiling historical texts see anthologies.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture, 1931
Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism, 1966
Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Fantastic Architecture [1969], 1971
Five Architects, 1972
Alan Colquhoun, Essays in Architectural Criticism, 1981
O.M.A., Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL, 1995
Introductions
- Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, MIT Press, 1959, 245 pp, OL, OL. [10]
- Francis D.K. Ching, Architectural Graphics, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975; 4th ed., Wiley, 2002; 6th ed., Wiley, 2015.
- Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form Space and Order, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979; 3rd ed., Wiley, 2007; 4th ed., 2014.
- Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries, MIT Press, 1995, 456 pp. [11]
Neoclassicism
- Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations [1780], intro. Robin Middleton, trans. David Britt, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 1992, 224 pp.
- Étienne-Louis Boullée, "Architecture, Essay on Art" [1794], trans. Sheila de Vallée, in Boullée & Visionary Architecture, ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Academy Editions & New York: Harmony Books, 1976, pp 81-116. more translations.
Historicism, eclecticism
- Heinrich Hübsch, et al., In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style [1828], intro. & trans. Wolfgang Herrmann, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 1992, 216 pp.
Modern Movement, Modernism
- Otto Wagner, Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art [1896], intro. & trans. Harry Francis Mallgrave, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 1988, 200 pp.
- Adolf Loos, Spoken into the Void: Collected Essays, 1897-1900 [1921], intro. Aldo Rossi, trans. Jane O. Newman and John H. Smith, MIT Press, Oppositions Books series, 1982. Excerpt.
- Hermann Muthesius, Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition [1902], intro. & trans. Stanford Anderson, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 1994, 144 pp.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930, pref. E. Baldwin Smith, Princeton UP, 1931, 114 pp; repr. in Wright, The Future of Architecture, 1953, pp 67-182. The six lectures include "Machine, Materials and Men", "Style in Industry", "The Passing of the Cornice", "The Cardboard House", "The Tyranny of the Skyscraper", "The City". 2008 introduction. Review: Jardine (Leonardo 2009).
- Machine-Age Exposition, New York, 1927, 44 pp. Catalogue of a large-scale international NY exhibition advertised as the first event bringing together "architecture, engineering, industrial arts and modern art."
- Karel Teige, The Minimum Dwelling [1932], trans. Eric Dluhosch, MIT Press, 2002.
- Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of the Modern Movement, London: Faber and Faber, 1936; 2nd ed. as Pioneers of Modern Design, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949; new ed., rev., Penguin, 1960. Views Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, the 19th-century engineers, and Art Nouveau. Review: Payne (HDM 2002).
See also Key monographs.
Constructivism
- Nikolay Punin, The Monument to the Third International [1920], trans. Christina Lodder, in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992, pp 311-315.
- Mosei Ginzburg, Style and Epoch [1924], intro. & trans. Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., foreword Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press, Oppositions Books series, 1982, 160 pp.
- Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, eds. Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, London, 1937; New York: Praeger, 1971, viii+291 pp.
Bauhaus
- J.J.P. Oud, Holländische Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 10, 1929, 107 pp. (German)
- Walter Gropius, Scope of Total Architecture, Harper, 1956; Collier Books, 1962, 158 pp.
- Walter Gropius, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, trans. P. Morton Shand, London: Faber and Faber, 1935; MIT Press, 1965, 112 pp.
See also Key monographs.
International Style
- Henry Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson, The International Style, 1932; new ed., foreword Philip Johnson, W.W. Norton, 1997, 272 pp. Excerpts: [12], [13], [14]. A catalogue to accompany a 1932 MoMA show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America.
Urban theory, the city
- Townscape
- "Outrage", a Special Issue of Architectural Review, ed. Ian Nairn, London: Architectural Press, Jun 1955; repr. as Nairn, Outrage, 1956. Nairn's impassioned response to the spoliation of the English landscape: "this death by slow decay we have called Subtopia, a compound word formed from suburb and utopia, i.e. making an ideal of suburbia."
- "Counter-Attack Against Subtopia", a Special Issue of Architectural Review, ed. Ian Nairn, London: Architectural Press, Dec 1956; repr. as Nairn, Counter-Attack, 1957. Shows how towns, villages and the countryside could be improved with good design.
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage, 1961. (English) Criticizes the destruction of urban coherence wrought by the presence of Modernist buildings.
See also Key monographs.
Vernacular architecture
- Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, New York: Doubleday, 1964, 156 pp. (English)
New Brutalism
- Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, London: Architectural Press, 1966, 196 pp. The essay was first published in The Architectural Review in Dec 1955 [15]. Reviews: Rowe (NYT 1967), Curcic (JAE 1969).
- October 136: "New Brutalism", eds. Alex Kitnick and Hal Foster, MIT Press, Spring 2011.
Tendenza, Neo-Rationalism
- Vittorio Gregotti, Il territorio dell'architettura, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1966, 183 pp. (Italian)
- Giorgio Grassi, La costruzione logica dell'architettura, Padova: Marsilio, 1967, 160 pp. (Italian)
- Aldo Rossi, et al., Architettura razionale, Milan: F. Angeli, 1973, 267 pp. (Italian) Exhibition catalogue of the XV Triennale di Milano, 1973, of which Rossi was principal curator. Review: Moschini (1973).
- Aldo Rossi, et al., "La città analoga: tavola / The Analogous City: Panel", Lotus 13 (1976), pp 4-9. (Italian)/(English) A radical pedagogical experiment proposing a theory in the form of a single, collectively produced image. Commentary: Szacka (Radical Pedagogies c2010).
- Roma interrotta, Rome: Incontri internazionali d'arte, 1978, 208 pp. (Italian) In 1978, 12 international architects gathered around the project Roma interrotta: based on the map of Rome drawn in 1784 by Gian Battista Nolli, the last architectural planning for the Eternal City, the architects reinterpreted the city with a critical view towards what had been built and destroyed throughout the centuries. The projects were exhibited in Rome in 1978 and then travelled around the world.
See also Rossi 1966, Controspazio, and Ungers 1977.
Fluxus
- Fantastic Architecture [1969], eds. Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, New York: Something Else Press, 1971.
Phenomenology
- Christian Norberg-Schulz, Intentions in Architecture, MIT Press, 1968. Commentary: Møystad (AN 2012).
- Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, New York: Rizzoli, 1979, 212 pp.
- Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, 6 vols., eds. Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell, Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1994-2011, PDFs/1-4. [16]
Neo-Avant-Garde
- Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier, preface Arthur Drexler, intro. Colin Rowe, critique Kenneth Frampton, postcript Philip Johnson, New York: Wittenborn, 1972, 137 pp; repr., New York: Oxford UP, 1975. Introduction. Based on a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held at the MoMA in 1969 at the time of an exhibition organised by Arthur Drexler and Colin Rowe and featuring works by the five NYC architects. Response: Goldberger (AR 1974), Tafuri (Oppositions 1976), Stern (AA 1976), Bletter (JSAH 1979).
Postmodernism
- Charles Jencks, Language of Post-Modern Architecture, London: Academy Editions, 1977; New York: Rizzoli, 1977. Excerpt.
- "Beyond the Modern Movement", the inaugural issue of Harvard Architecture Review, Spring 1980.
See also Key monographs.
Deconstructivism
- Deconstructivist Architecture, eds. Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, New York: MoMA, 1988, 104 pp. Preface & Lead essay. A catalogue to accompany a 1988 MoMA show of seven architects: Gehry, Libeskind, Koolhaas, Eisenman, Hadid, Tschumi, and Coop Himmelblau; curated by Wigley and Johnson. Press material, 25th anniversary debate (video; report).
Digital & computational architecture
- ARCH+ 111: "Vilém Flusser: Virtuelle Räume - Simultane Welten", 1992, 94 pp. Introduction. [17] (German)
- AD 63(3-4): "Folding in Architecture", ed. Greg Lynn, London, Mar-Apr 1993. Excerpts.
- AD: "Architects in Cyberspace", ed. Neil Spiller, London, 1996, 113 pp. Excerpt
- AD: "Hypersurface Architecture", ed. Stephen Perella, London, Sep 1998, 112 pp.
- Architektura v informačním věku. Texty o moderní a současné architektuře, 2 vols., ed. Jana Tichá, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2001 & 2006, 131 & 129 pp, vol. 2. A reader. (Czech)
- The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992-2012. AD Reader, ed. Mario Carpo, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 264 pp.
See also Key monographs.
History
- Edward Robert de Zurko, Origins of Functionalist Theory, Columbia UP, 1957, 265 pp.
- Bruno Zevi, The Modern Language of Architecture [1973], U Washington Press, 1978, 256 pp; New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. Review: C Jameson (JSAH 1981).
- Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s [1980], trans. Pellegrino d'Acierno and Robert Connolly, MIT Press, 1987, 383 pp. Unlike in Tafuri 1973, here discusses his contemporaries - the American neo-avantgarde and the Italian experiments of Rossi and others. Expanded from his "L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language" (1974), first presented as a lecture at Princeton U. Review: McIntyre (AA Files 1989).
- Kenneth Frampton, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, MIT Press, 1995.
- Historia de la arquitectura: antología crítica, ed. Luciano Patetta, Madrid: Celeste, 1997. (Spanish)
- Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism, MIT Press, 2008.
See also Key monographs.
Historical examinations of specific schools and groups
See sections with writings on De Stijl, Bauhaus, VKhUTEMAS, CIAM, Situationists, Archigram.
Criticism
- Colin Rowe, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, MIT Press, 1976. Lead essay.
- Alan Colquhoun, Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change, pref. Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press, Oppositions Books series, 1981, 215 pp. Review: Schallenberg (JSAH 1982).
- Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, ed. & postscript Joan Ockman, intro. Mary McLeod, Princeton Architectural Press, 1985, 191 pp. TOC. Essays by Porphyrios, Llorens, Jameson, Karahan, Schwarting, Colquhoun, and Tafuri examining the role of ideology in architectural criticism and politics. The collection was to sketch out a 'reading programme' for a community in New York concerned with the Marxist critique of architecture, loosely attached to IAUS. See also Tafuri 1973 and Colquhoun 1981.
- Diana Agrest, Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice, MIT Press, 1991, 203 pp. A collection of essays incl. her "Architecture from without: Body, Logic, and Sex" (1988).
- O.M.A., Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL, New York: Monacelli, 1995, 1376 pp. A compendium of 20 years of OMA's projects accompanied by Koolhaas's texts including Whatever Happened to Urbanism? and The Generic City.
- Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture [1995], ed. Sarah Whiting, trans. Graham Thompson, MIT Press, 1997, 172 pp. [18] Review: Ballantyne (ARQ 1997).
- Vincent Scully, Jr., Modern Architecture and Other Essays, ed. & intro. Neil Levine, Princeton UP, 2003, 400 pp. [19] (English) Reviews: Massey (CAA 2004), Scalbert (AA Files 2005).
- The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, eds. Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng, Monacelli Press, 2004, 135 pp.
- Svetlana Boym, Architecture of the Off-Modern, Buell Center / FORuM Project, and New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, 80 pp.
- Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism, London: Zero Books, 2009, 146 pp.
See also Key monographs.
Philosophy
- Kojin Karatani, Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money [1983], trans. Sabu Kohso, MIT Press, 1995. Commentary: Ameri (Semiotica 1998).
- John Rajchman, Constructions, foreword Paul Virilio, MIT Press, 1998, 143 pp.
See also Key monographs.
Gender
- Architecture and Feminism, eds. Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze and Carole Henderson, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, 255 pp. Review: Lahiji & Friedman (AA Files 1999).
- The Sex of Architecture, eds. Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Weisman, Harry N. Abrams, 1996, 320 pp. Reviews: Lahiji & Friedman (AA Files 1999), Crout (JAPR 2000).
- The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice, ed. Francesca Hughes, MIT Press, 1996. Review: Lahiji & Friedman (AA Files 1999).
- Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History, ed. Alice T. Friedman, Harry N. Abrams, 1998, 240 pp. Review: Lahiji & Friedman (AA Files 1999).
- Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, eds. Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Routledge, 2002.
See also Key monographs.
Capitalism, labour
- Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present, ed. Peggy Deamer, Routledge, 2014, xxxii+229 pp. Reviews: Wolfe (2013), Hagberg (Arch Record 2014).
- The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design, ed. Peggy Deamer, Bloomsbury, 2015.
See also Key monographs.
Photography
- Robert Elwall, Building with Light: The International History of Architectural Photography, New York: Merrell, 2004, 240 pp.
- Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005, 226 pp.
Film
- Architecture and Film, ed. Mark Lamster, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000.
- Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, Verso, 2002.
Research initiatives and resources
- Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education in a Time of Disciplinary Instability, a research project by Beatriz Colomina with the PhD students at Princeton U School of Architecture.
- Spatial Agency, a database of collaborative projects in architecture. Edited by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till at U Sheffield.
- Archipool, a search engine for architectural magazines.
- Quondam, a bibliographical resource on architecture
- Open Collection: Theory of Architecture, a repository of texts maintained by Cloud Cuckoo Land.
- The Charnel House, a blog by Ross Wolfe.
- The City as a Project, a research collective, 2010-14.
- Theory of architecture, a digital library. (Russian)
- John Peter and Edward A. Hamilton interview architects about their major influences and the future of architecture, with 1?, 2&4 Walter Gropius, 3&5 Richard J. Neutra, Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, and Mies Van Der Rohe, 1956.
- Publications on architecture at Monoskop Log
See also