Architecture

A collection of monographs and periodicals focusing on the 20th-century architecture.

Pages

• ABC
• Emilio Ambasz
• Archigram
• L'Architecture vivante
• Jean Badovici
• Bauhaus
• Peter Behrens
• Étienne-Louis Boullée
• Marcel Breuer
• Lucius Burckhardt
• Mario Carpo
• Iakov Chernikhov
• CIAM
• Beatriz Colomina
• Constant Nieuwenhuys
• Le Corbusier
• EXAT 51
• Form (magazine)
• Die Form
• Forum (magazine)
• Ulrich Franzen
• G
• Sigfried Giedion
• Moisei Ginzburg
• Oskar Hansen
• Horizont
• Grigore Ionescu
• Pavel Janák
• Emil Kaufmann
• Anatole Kopp
• Kritisk Revy
• Georgy Krutikov
• Andres Kurg
• Landscape Architecture
• Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
• Ivan Leonidov
• Jean-Jacques Lequeu
• Machine-Age Exposition
• Richard Meier
• Konstantin Melnikov
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Das neue Frankfurt
• Isamu Noguchi
• Marcos Novak
• Oppositions
• Andrea Palladio
• PLAN
• Plus
• Praesens
• Vjenceslav Richter
• Aldo Rossi
• Antonio Sant'Elia
• Stefan Sebök
• Dubravka Sekulić
• Sovremennaya arkhitektura
• Stavba
• Endre Steiner
• Endre Szőnyi
• Manfredo Tafuri
• Bruno Taut
• Vesnin brothers
• Vitruvius
• VKhUTEMAS
• Lebbeus Woods
• Iannis Xenakis
• Bruno Zevi

Publications

Avant-garde and modernist periodicals

Listed are only titles primarily focused on architecture; for more see Magazines section.

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  Die Form, 1922, 1925-35

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  ABC, 1924-28

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  Sovremennaya architektura, 1926-30

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  bauhaus, 1926-31

• Wendingen, monthly, 144 numbers, ed. Hendrik Wijdeveld, Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug, 1918-21, 1923-25, 1927-31. (Dutch)
• La Cité: urbanisme, architecture, art public, monthly, 147 numbers, Brussels: Lamertin, 1919-35. (French)
• Die Form: Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit, eds. Walter Curt Behrendt (-1926) and Walter Riezler (1926-), Berlin, 1922, 1925-35. (German)
• Stavba: měsíčník pro stavební umění, monthly, eds. Karel Teige (1923-28), Oldřich Starý (1928-37), Jan E. Koula (1928-37), et al., Prague: Klub architektů, 1922-38. (Czech)
• G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung, 5 numbers, ed. Hans Richter, Berlin, 1923-26. (German)
• L'Architecture vivante, 21 numbers, ed. Jean Badovici, Paris: A. Morancé, 1923-33. (French)
• Blok: czasopismo awangardy artystycznej, 11 numbers, Warsaw: Blok, 1924-26. (Polish)
• ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen, 10 numbers, eds. Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, El Lissitzky, and Emil Roth, Basel, 1924-28. (German)
• Kritisk Revy, 7 numbers, eds. Poul Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, et al., Copenhagen: Poul Henningsen, 1926-28. (Danish)
• Praesens: revue moderne, 2 numbers, ed. Szymon Syrkus, Warsaw, 1926, 1930. (Polish),(French)
• Sovremennaya architektura, bimonthly, 30 numbers, eds. Moisei Ginzburg (1926-28), Vesnin brothers (1926-28), Roman Khiger (1928-30), Moscow: OSA, 1926-30. (Russian)
• bauhaus: zeitschrift für gestaltung, 15 numbers, eds. Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1926-28), Ernst Kallai (1928-30), Dessau, 1926-31. (German)
• Das neue Frankfurt, monthly, 55 numbers, ed. Ernst May, Frankfurt a.M.: Englert und Schlosser, 1926-31. (German)
• Horizont: revue současné kultury v Československu, 38 numbers, eds. Jiří Kroha and Jaroslav B. Svrček, Brno: Václav Roštlapil, 1927-32. (Czech)
• Die neue Stadt, monthly, 13 numbers, ed. Joseph Gantner, Frankfurt a.M.: Philipp L. Fink, 1932-33. (German)
• PLAN: tidsskrift for bolig- og byggespørsmål, 4 numbers, Oslo: Socialist Architects' Society, 1933-36. (Norwegian)
• Plus: orientations of contemporary architecture, bimonthly, 3 numbers, eds. Wallace K. Harrison, William Lescaze, et al., New York: Time, 1938-39. (English)

Anthologies, Readers

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  Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture [1964], 1970, Log

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  Architecture Culture, 1943-1968, 1993

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  Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, 1997, Log

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  Architecture Theory since 1968, 1998, PDF

• Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Programme und Manifeste zur Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt/M and Berlin: Ullstein, 1964. (German)
  • Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture, trans. Michael Bullock, MIT Press, 1970, 192 pp. (English)
• Joan Ockman, Edward Eigen (eds.), Architecture Culture, 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology, Columbia Books of Architecture/Rizzoli, 1993, 464 pp. TOC (English)
• Kate Nesbitt (ed.), Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory, 1965-1995, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. TOC & Introduction. (English)
• Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf (eds.), Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, Chichester: Academy Editions, 1997, 312 pp. (English)
• Neil Leach (ed.), Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Critical Theory, Routledge, 1997. (English)
• K. Michael Hays (ed.), Architecture Theory since 1968, MIT Press, 1998. (English)
• Bernard Tschumi, Irene Cheng (eds.), The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Monacelli Press, 2004, 135 pp. (English)
• William W Braham, Jonathan A Hale (eds.), Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, Routledge, 2006, 488 pp. (English)
• A. Krista Sykes (ed.), Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory, 1993-2009, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. TOC & Introduction. (English)

Selected monographs

See authors' pages linked above for more.

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  Nikolay Punin, Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina, 1920, Log

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  Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture [1923], 1931, Log

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  Walter Gropius (ed.), Internationale Architektur, 1925, PDF

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  László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, 1929, Log

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  Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, 1937/1971, Log

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  Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time & Architecture, 1941, Log

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  Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space [1958], 1964, Log

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  Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 1960/1967, Log

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  Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City [1966], 1982, Log

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  Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 1966/1977, PDF

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  Venturi, Brown, Izenour, Learning From Las Vegas, 1972/1977, ARG/1, ARG/2

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  Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Collage City, 1978, PDF

Antiquity

• Vitruvius, De Architectura, c15 BCE; ed. Valentin Rose, Leipzig: Teubner, 1899. (Latin)
  • The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris H. Morgan, Harvard University Press, 1914, 331 pp, IA. (English)
  • On Architecture, 1 [Book I-V], ed. & trans. Frank Granger, London: Heinemann, and New York: Putnam, Loeb Classical Library, 1931, 317 pp. (English)

Neoclassicism

• Étienne-Louis Boullée, Architecture. Essai sur l'art, manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1794. (French)
  • Boullée's Treatise on Architecture, ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Alec Tiranti, 1953. (English)
  • "Architecture, Essay on Art", trans. Sheila de Vallée, in Boullée & Visionary Architecture, ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Academy Editions & New York: Harmony Books, 1976, pp 81-116. (English)
  • other translations

Constructivism

• Nikolay Punin, Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina [Памятник III интернационала. Проект худ. Е. Татлина], St. Petersburg [Петроград]: Otdel IZO Narkompros [Отд. изобразительных искусств Н.К.П; Department of Visual Arts of Narkompros], 1920, 7 pp. Text, [1], [2] (Russian)
  • "The Monument to the Third International", trans. Christina Lodder, in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992, pp 311-315. (English)
• Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo (eds.), Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, London, 1937; New York: Praeger, 1971, viii+291 pp. (English)

Modernism

• Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. (French)
  • Towards a New Architecture, London: John Rodker, 1931; London: Architectural Press, 1946, OL; Praeger, 1970, OL; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp. (English)
  • other translations
• Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Harvard University Press, 1941, 16+601 pp; 3th ed., enl., 1954, 778 pp; 5th ed., 2003. Based on his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1938-39. (English)
  • other translations
• Sigfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History, Oxford University Press, 1948, xiv+743 pp; University of Minnesota Press, 2013. [3] (English)
  • other translations

Bauhaus

• Walter Gropius (ed.), Internationale Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 1, 1925, 111 pp. (German)
• J.J.P. Oud, Holländische Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 10, 1929, 107 pp. (German)
• Walter Gropius, Bauhausbauten Dessau, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 12, 1930, 221 pp. (German)
• 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)
• Walter Gropius, Scope of Total Architecture, Harper, 1956; Collier Books, 1962, 158 pp. (English)

Architecture and the city

• Ludwig Hilberseimer, Grossstadtarchitektur, Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1927, 108 pp. (German)
  • Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays, ed. & trans. Richard Anderson, Columbia University Press, 2012. (English)
• Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, Padova: Marsilio, 1966; Torino: CittàStudi, 2006, 235 pp; new ed., Macerata: Quodlibet, 2011. (Italian)
  • The Architecture of the City, intro. Peter Eisenman, trans. Diane Ghirardo and John Ockman, Chicago: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and MIT Press, 1982, 208 pp. (English)
  • other translations
• Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Collage City, MIT Press, 1978. ARG. (English)
• Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, Thames & Hudson, 1978; Monacelli Press, 1994, 317 pp. (English)
• Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, MIT Press, 2011, 251 pp. (English) Reviews: Leach, Mooradian, Diamanti, Rumpfhuber.

History

• Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l’architettura: saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1948. (Italian)
  • Architecture as Space. How to look at Architecture, New York: Horizon Press, 1957; Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. Excerpt. (English)
  • other translations
• Emil Kaufmann, Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1952, 564 pp. (English)
• Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, New York: Praeger, 1960; 2nd ed., 1967, 338 pp. (English)
• Edward Robert de Zurko, Origins of Functionalist Theory, Columbia University Press, 1957, 265 pp. (English)
• Bruno Zevi, Il linguaggio moderno dell'architettura. Guida al codice anticlassico, Torino: Einaudi, 1973. (Italian)
  • The Modern Language of Architecture, New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. (English)
  • other translations
• Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Thames & Hudson, 1980; rev.ed., 1985. (English)
• Manfredo Tafuri, La sfera e il labirinto: Avanguardie e architettura da Piranesi agli anni '70, Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1980. (Italian)
  • The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s, trans. Pellegrino d'Acierno and Robert Connolly, MIT Press, 1987, 383 pp. (English)
• Diana Agrest, Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice, MIT Press, 1991, 203 pp. (English)
• Kenneth Frampton, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, MIT Press, 1995. (English)
• Mario Carpo, L’architettura dell’età della stampa. Oralità, scrittura, libro stampato e riproduzione meccanica dell’immagine nella storia delle teorie architettoniche, Milan: Jaca Book, 1998. (Italian)
  • Architecture in the Age of Printing. Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory, trans. Sarah Benson, MIT Press, 2001, 246 pp. (English)

Historical examinations of specific schools and groups

• Het Nieuwe Bouwen: De Stijl: Neo Plasticism in Architecture, eds. Cees Boekraad, Flip Bool and Herbert Henkels, intro. Cees Boekraad, Delft: Delft University Press, and The Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1983, 179 pp. (English)/(Dutch)
• Catherine de Zegher, Mark Wigley (eds.), The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond, New York: Drawing Center, and MIT Press, 2001. Incl. Wigley, "Paper, Scisors, Blur", pp 26-68. (English)
• A.P. Kudryavtsev, N.O. Dushkina (eds.), From VKhUTEMAS to MARKhI, 1920-1936: Architectural projects from the collection of the MARKhI Museum, Moscow: A-Fond Publishers, 2005. (English)/(Russian)
• Simon Sadler, Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, MIT Press, 2005, 242 pp. (English)

Philosophy

• Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l'espace, Paris: PUF, 1958; 3rd ed., 1961, 215 pp, PDF, RTF. (French)
  • The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas, New York: Orion Press, 1964; Boston: Beacon Press, 1969; 1994, Log, ARG. (English)
• Kojin Karatani, 隠喩としての建築, Kōdansha, 1983. (Japanese)
  • Architecture as Metaphor; Language, Number, Money, trans. Sabu Kohso, MIT Press, 1995. (English)
• John Rajchman, Constructions, foreword Paul Virilio, MIT Press, 1998, 143 pp. (English)

Vernacular architecture

• Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, New York: Doubleday, 1964, 156 pp. (English)

Art and architecture

• Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Pop Architektur: Concept Art, Ideen, Manifeste, Pläne, Gedankenarchitektur, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1969. (German)
  • Fantastic Architecture, New York: Something Else Press, 1971. (English)
• Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors, Cologne: Walther König, 1982. [4] (English)/(German)

Postmodernism

• Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, intro. Vincent Scully, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966; 2nd ed., 1977. (English)
• Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Learning From Las Vegas, MIT Press, 1972; rev.ed. as Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, MIT Press, 1977. Part 1, Part 2. (English)

Criticism

• Colin Rowe, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, MIT Press, 1976. Lead essay. (English)
• Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press, 1994, 278 pp. [5] [6] (English)
• Svetlana Boym, Architecture of the Off-Modern, Buell Center / FORuM Project, and New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, 80 pp. (English)
• Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism, London: Zero Books, 2009, 146 pp. (English)
• Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture Complex, Verso, 2011, 316 pp. (English)
  • other translations

Computational architecture

• Jana Tichá (ed.), Architektura v informačním věku. Texty o moderní a současné architektuře, 2 vols., Prague: Zlatý řez, 2001 & 2006, 131 & 129 pp, v2. (Czech)
• Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, MIT Press, 2011, 190 pp. (English)
• Mario Carpo (ed.), The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992-2012. AD Reader, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 264 pp. (English)
• Luciana Parisi, Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space, MIT Press, 2013, 392 pp. (English)

Architecture and labour

• Peggy Deamer (ed.), Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present, Routledge, 2014, xxxii+229 pp. (English) Reviews: Hagberg, Wolfe.
• Peggy Deamer (ed.), The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design, Bloomsbury, 2015. (English)

Journals and magazines

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  Oppositions, 1973-84

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  OASE, since 1981

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  ANY, 1993-2000

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  Scapegoat, since 2010

In chronological order according to the first issue published; no longer active journals are included as well.

• Casabella: rivista di architettura, since 1928. [7] (Italian)
• L'Architecture d'aujourd’hui, since 1930. [8] (French)
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), ed. Patricia Morton, Society of Architectural Historians, since 1941. [9] (English)
• Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), ed. Marc Neveu, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, since 1947. (English)
• Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, annual, Yale School of Architecture, since 1952. Subscription access (MIT). [10] (English)
• Architectural History, annual, ed. Alistair Fair, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, since 1958. Subscription access (JStor). [11] (English)
• Le Carré Bleu: feuille internationale d'architecture, quarterly, since 1958. [12] (English),(French),(Italian)
• Lotus international, ed. Pierluigi Nicolin, Milan: Lotus, since 1963. [13] (Italian),(English)
• Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst, biannual, eds. Dorothée Sack and Johannes Cramer, Deutscher Kunstverlag, since 1971. Subscription access. (German),(English)
• Oppositions, 26 issues, eds. Peter Eisenman, Mario Gandelsonas and Anthony Vidler, New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1973-84. [14] [15] (English) See also Assemblage.
• OASE Journal for Architecture, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, since 1981. Open access. (English)/(Dutch)
• Cornell Journal of Architecture, Cornell University, since 1981. Open access. (English)
• AA Files, London: Architectural Association School of Architecture, since 1981. [16] (English)
• El Croquis, bimonthly, eds. Fernando Márquez and Richard Levene, Madrid: El Croquis, since 1982. [17] (Spanish),(English)
• Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World, annual, ed. Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U, since 1983. Subscription access (Brill). (English)
• Skala: Nordic Magazine of Architecture and Art, 30 issues, Copenhagen: Henning Larsen, 1985-95. (Danish),(English)
• Pratt Journal of Architecture, New York: Pratt Institute, since 1985. Open access. (English)
• Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture, triannual, 41 numbers, eds. K. Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, 1986-2000. Subscription access (JStor). (English) See also Oppositions.
• Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, eds. Ross Jenner and Andrew Douglas, Auckland, since 1990. Open access. (English)
• Architectural Heritage, annual, eds. Mark Cousins and Dawn McDowell, Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, since 1990. Subscription access (Edinburgh UP). (English)
• ANY, ed. Cynthia C. Davidson, Anyone Corporation, 1993-2000. #7-8, #23. (English) See also Log.
• The Journal of Architecture, bimonthly, eds. Peter Gibbs-Kennet and Charles Rice, Royal Institute of British Architects, since 1995. Subscription access (Taylor & Francis). (English)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land, biannual, ed. Eduard Heinrich Führ, Brandenburg University of Technology, since 1996. Open access. (English),(German),(Russian)
• Space and Culture, quarterly, eds. Joost van Loon, Justine Lloyd, Michael Schillmeier and Rob Shields, since 1997. Subscription access (Sage). (English)
• Praxis: journal of writing + building, biannual, eds. Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ashley Schafer, since 1999. [18] (English)
• Hunch: the Berlage Institute Report, Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, since 1999. [19] (English)
• Grey Room, quarterly, since 2000. Subscription access (MIT). (English)
• 306090: a Journal of Emergent Architecture and Design, Princeton Architectural Press, since 2001. [20] (English)
• Log, ed. Cynthia Davidson, Anyone Corporation, since 2003. Subscription access. (English) See also ANY.
• Project Baikal, quarterly, ed. Elena Grigoryeva, Vostoksibacademcenter of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, since 2004. Open access. (Russian),(English)
• Footprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal, Delft, since 2007. Open access. (English)
• Manifold, 4 issues, ed. Izabel Gass, Rice University, 2007-10. Open access. (English)
• Candide — Journal for Architectural Knowledge, eds. Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler, and Anne Kockelkorn, Hatje Cantz, since 2009. Open access. (English)/(German)
• Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy, Toronto, since 2010. Open access. (English)
• The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space, 7 issues, eds. Joseph Grima and Kazys Varnelis, New York, 2010-11. Open access. (English)
• Architecture_MPS (Amps), monthly, ed. Graham Cairns, since 2012. Open access. (English)

Blogs

• The Charnel House by Ross Wolfe.
• The City as a Project, a research collective, 2010-14.

More

• Open Collection: Theory of Architecture, maintained by Cloud Cuckoo Land.
• Publications on architecture on Monoskop Log

Resources

• Spatial Agency, a database of collaborative projects in architecture. Edited by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till at U Sheffield
• Quondam, a bibliographical resource on architecture
• Soviet architecture

See also

• Land art