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

Architects, theorists, historians, periodicals

Anthologies, Readers

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture [1923], 1931, Log.
Walter Gropius (ed.), Internationale Architektur, 1925, PDF.
László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, 1929, Log.
Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time & Architecture, 1941, Log.
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space [1958], 1964, Log.
Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 1960/1967, Log.
Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City [1966], 1982, Log.
Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Collage City, 1978, PDF.

Key monographs

This section contains a selection of canonical books on architecture, loosely grouped into themes. For more books see Themes; for more writings by individual authors see Pages.

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)

Modernism

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)
  • 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)

City, public space

History

Philosophy

Vernacular architecture

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)

Capitalism, labour

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. [3] [4] (English)
  • Vincent Scully, Jr., Modern Architecture and Other Essays, ed. & intro. Neil Levine, Princeton University Press, 2003, 400 pp. [5] (English) Review: Scalbert (AA Files).
  • Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture Complex, London: Verso, 2011, 316 pp. (English)

Gender

  • Beatriz Colomina (ed.), Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, 389 pp. (English) Reviews: Wilson (1997), Lahiji & Friedman (1999), Jacobson (2013).

Computational architecture

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.

Title Dates Editors Publisher Text Nos. Online Note
Architectural Review (ar) 1896- Catherine Slessor London: Emap EN monthly E-shop, WP
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-).
Wendingen 1918-21, 1923-25, 1927-31 Hendrik Wijdeveld Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug NL 144; monthly PDF
La Cité: urbanisme, architecture, art public 1919-35 Brussels: Lamertin FR 147; monthly; later irregular JPG, PDF, TXT architecture, art
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
G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung 1923-26 Hans Richter Berlin DE 5 JPG (1), PDF (1) architecture, industrial design, photography, art, film
L'Architecture vivante 1923-33 Jean Badovici Paris: A. Morancé FR 21
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 PDF constructivist architecture
Shinkenchiku [New Architecture] 1925- Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha JP Home page
Kritisk Revy 1926-28 Poul Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, et al. Copenhagen: Poul Henningsen DK 7 JPG, TXT architecture, politics
Praesens: revue moderne 1926, 1930 Szymon Syrkus Warsaw PL, FR 2 PDF 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)
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
Das neue Frankfurt 1926-31 Ernst May Frankfurt a.M.: Englert und Schlosser DE 55; monthly JPG, PDF, TXT urbanism, 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 di architettura 1928- Alessandro Mendini (1970-76) IT Home page
Architectural Design (AD) 1930- Helen Castle (since 2001) John Wiley & Sons EN bimonthly Subscription access (Wiley), WP
L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (AA) 1930- Paris FR bimonthly Home page, WP-FR; see also Aujourd'hui
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 architecture
Plus: orientations of contemporary architecture 1938-39 Wallace K. Harrison, William Lescaze, et al. New York: Time EN 3; bimonthly PDF architecture, design
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) 1941- Patricia Morton Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians EN Home page
Cuadernos de arquitectura 1944-70 Barcelona: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Catalunya ES, CA PDF In 1971-80 as Cuadernos de arquitectura y urbanismo, since 1981 as Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme.
Design Quarterly 1946- Peter Seitz (1964-68) Minneapolis: Walker Art Center EN Until 1954 as Everyday Art Quarterly. [6]
Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) 1947- Marc Neveu Washington, DC: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture EN HTML
Nueva Visión (New Vision) 1951-53 Carlos Méndez Mosquera, Tomás Maldonado, Alfredo Hlito Buenos Aires ES
Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal 1952- New Haven: Yale School of Architecture EN annual Subscription access (MIT), Home page
Hogar y arquitectura: revista bimestral de la obra sindical del hogar (HyA) 1955-77 Madrid: Ediciones y Publicaciones Populares ES 122; bimonthly [7] [8]
Aujourd'hui: art et architecture 1955-? André Bloc Paris FR See also L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui. [9]
Ekistics: The Problems and Science of Human Settlements 1955-? Athens EN During first two years titled Tropical Housing and Planning Monthly Bulletin. [10] [11]
JA [Japan Architect] 1956- Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha EN, JP quarterly Home page
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). [12] [13]
Architectural History 1958- Alistair Fair London: Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain EN annual Subscription access (JStor). Home page
Le carré bleu: feuille internationale d'architecture 1958- Paris EN, FR, IT quarterly PDF
Arquitectura 1959- Madrid: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) ES quarterly Home page, [14]
Forum 1959- Jurriaan van Stigt Amsterdam: Architectura et Amicitia NL Formerly Forum voor architectuur en daarmee verbonden kunsten. Publisher, [15], WP
Archigram 1961-74 Archigram London: Archigram EN 10 JPG [16] [17]
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. [18] (Norwegian)
Lotus international 1963- Pierluigi Nicolin Milan: Lotus IT, EN Home page
Summa: revista de arquitectura, tecnologia, y diseño 1963-92 Carlos Méndez Mosquera (first 3 issues), Lala Mosquera (from issue 4) Buenos Aires ES [19], [20], WP-ES. See also Cuadernos Summa-Nueva Visión and Summa+.
ACC: Action Communications Centre / Symbols 1964-65 Grahame Shane, Jasper Vaughan, Justin de Syllas EN Student-run newssheets. [21] [22] [23]
Klub 1964-68 Günther Feuerstein Vienna DE 10 [24] [25]
Bau: Schrift für Architektur und Städtebau 1965-67 Günther Feuerstein, Hans Hollein, Gustav Peichl, Sokratis Dimitriou, Walter Pichler Vienna DE [26] [27]
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 [28]
Cuadernos Summa-Nueva Visión 1967-70 Leonardo Aizenberg, Ernesto Katzenstein Buenos Aires ES 51 A collaboration between Summa and ediciones Nueva Visión.
ARCH+ 1968- Sabine Kraft, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Günther Uhlig Aachen & Berlin: ARCH+ DE Home page
AAQ: Architectural Association Quarterly 1969-82 Dennis Sharp London EN quarterly [29]
Transparent: Manuskripte für Architektur, Theorie, Kritik, Polemik, Umraum 1970-88 Günther Feuerstein Vienna DE monthly [30]
Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst 1971- Dorothée Sack, Johannes Cramer Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag DE, EN biannual Subscription access.
2c: construcción de la ciudad 1972-85 Barcelona: Novographos ES 23 PDF
Oppositions 1973-84 Peter Eisenman, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler, Kenneth Frampton New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies EN 26 See also Assemblage.
Arquitecturas bis: información gráfica de actualidad 1974-85 Oriol Bohigas Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia ES 52; bimonthly Index, [31]
Carrer de la ciutat: revista de arquitectura 1977-80 Beatriz Colomina Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ES 13 PDF [32]
Summarios 1977-90 Marina Waisman ES bimonthly
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.
OASE Journal for Architecture 1981- Rotterdam: NAi Publishers EN, NL PDF Open access.
Cornell Journal of Architecture 1981- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University EN PDF Open access.
AA Files 1981- London: Architectural Association School of Architecture EN Publisher
Daidalos 1981-2001 Ulrich Conrads (until 1992), Gerrit Confurius (from 1992) Berlin: Bertelsmann EN, DE 75
El Croquis 1982- Fernando Márquez, Richard Levene Madrid: El Croquis ES, EN bimonthly PDF (several issues) E-shop
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).
Skala: Nordic Magazine of Architecture and Art 1985-95 Copenhagen: Henning Larsen DK, EN 30
Pratt Journal of Architecture 1985- New York: Pratt Institute EN 3+ PDF Open access.
Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture 1986-2000 K. Michael Hays, Alicia Kennedy EN 41; triannual Subscription access (JStor). See also Oppositions.
Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts 1990- Ross Jenner, Andrew Douglas Auckland EN 15+ PDF Open access.
Architectural Heritage 1990- Mark Cousins, Dawn McDowell Edinburgh: Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland EN annual Subscription access (Edinburgh UP).
Summa+ 1992- Martha Magis (1992-94), Fernando Diez (since 1994) Buenos Aires ES 143+ Home page. See also Summa.
Thresholds: Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture 1992- Cambridge, MA: SA+P Press EN 43+; biannual PDF Open access.
3ZU: revista d'arquitectura 1993-95 Santiago Roqueta Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura ES 4 PDF
ANY (Architecture New York) 1993-2000 Cynthia C. Davidson New York: Anyone Corporation EN 27 PDF (7-8), PDF (23) WP. See also Log.
The Journal of Architecture 1995- Peter Gibbs-Kennet, Charles Rice London: Royal Institute of British Architects EN bimonthly Subscription access (Taylor & Francis).
Cloud Cuckoo Land 1996- Eduard Heinrich Führ Cottbus: Brandenburg University of Technology EN, DE, RU 19+; biannual PDF Open access.
Harvard Design Magazine 1997- Jennifer Sigler Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design EN HTML (selected articles)
Space and Culture 1997- Joost van Loon, Justine Lloyd, Michael Schillmeier, Rob Shields EN quarterly Subscription access (Sage).
Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building 1999- Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ashley Schafer Boston EN 14+; biannual Home page
Hunch: the Berlage Institute Report 1999- Rotterdam: NAI Publishers EN 14+ Home page
Grey Room 2000- EN 59+; quarterly Subscription access (MIT).
306090: a Journal of Emergent Architecture and Design 2001- New York: Princeton Architectural Press EN 15+ Publisher
Log 2003- Cynthia Davidson New York: Anyone Corporation EN 34+ Subscription access. See also ANY.
Project Baikal 2004- Elena Grigoryeva Irkutsk: Vostoksibacademcenter of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences RU, EN 43+; quarterly PDF Open access.
ACE: Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno / Architecture, City and Environment 2006- Josep Roca Cladera Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya EN, ES, CA 28+ PDF Open access. [33]
Footprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal 2007- Delft: Delft University of Technology EN 16+ PDF Open access.
Manifold 2007-10 Izabel Gass Houston, TX: Rice University EN 4 PDF Open access.
Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge 2009- Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler, Anne Kockelkorn Berlin: Hatje Cantz EN, DE PDF Open access.
Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy 2010- Toronto EN 9+ PDF Open access.
The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space 2010-11 Joseph Grima, Kazys Varnelis New York EN 7 JPG Open access.
ja+u 2012- Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha EN Home page
Architecture_MPS (Amps) 2012- Graham Cairns EN monthly PDF Open access.

Monographs

This section focuses on edited monographs. For canonical works see key monographs; for anthologies and readers compiling historical texts see anthologies.

Introductions

  • Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, MIT Press, 1959, 245 pp, OL, OL. [34] (English)
  • Francis D.K. Ching, Architectural Graphics, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975; 4th ed., Wiley, 2002; 6th ed., Wiley, 2015. (English)
  • Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form Space and Order, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979; 3rd ed., Wiley, 2007; 4th ed., 2014. (English)
  • Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries, MIT Press, 1995, 456 pp. [35] (English)

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. (English)
  • 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

Historicism, eclecticism

Modernism

Constructivism

Bauhaus

Art

  • Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Pop Architektur: Concept Art, Ideen, Manifeste, Pläne, Gedankenarchitektur, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1969. (German)

Phenomenology

Criticism

  • Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, ed. Joan Ockman, Princeton Architectural Press, 1985, 191 pp. (English)
  • Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Diferencias: topografía de l'arquitectura contemporánea, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1995, 185 pp. [39] (Spanish)
    • Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture, ed. Sarah Whiting, trans. Graham Thompson, MIT Press, 1997, 172 pp. [40] (English) Review: Ballantyne (ARQ).
  • The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, eds. Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng, Monacelli Press, 2004, 135 pp. (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)

History

Historical examinations of specific schools and groups

See sections with writings on De Stijl, Bauhaus, VKhUTEMAS, CIAM, Situationists, Archigram.

Gender

  • Architecture and Feminism, eds. Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze and Carole Henderson, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, 255 pp. (English) Review: Lahiji & Friedman.
  • The Sex of Architecture, eds. Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway and Leslie Kanes Weisman, Harry N. Abrams, 1996, 320 pp. (English) Review: Lahiji & Friedman.
  • The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice, ed. Francesca Hughes, MIT Press, 1996. (English) Review: Lahiji & Friedman.
  • Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History, ed. Alice T. Friedman, Harry N. Abrams, 1998, 240 pp. (English) Review: Lahiji & Friedman.
  • Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, eds. Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Routledge, 2002. (English)

Capitalism, labour

Acoustics

Film

  • Architecture and Film, ed Mark Lamster, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. (English)
  • Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, Verso, 2002. (English)

Photography

Computational architecture

Resources

See also