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

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

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  Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, 1997, Log

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  Architecture Theory since 1968, 1998, PDF

• Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo (eds.), Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, London, 1937; New York: Praeger, 1971, viii+291 pp. (English)
• 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. (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)
• 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 and catalogues

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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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  Walter Gropius, Bauhausbauten Dessau, 1930, PDF

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  László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, 1929, 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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  Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Fantastic Architecture [1969], 1971, Log

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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

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

Russian 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)

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)

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)
• 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)

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)

Architecture and the city

• 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.

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, 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)

Historical examinations of 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)
• Simon Sadler, Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, MIT Press, 2005, 242 pp. (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)

Criticism

• Colin Rowe, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, MIT Press, 1976. Lead essay. (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)

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)

Journals and magazines

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

• L'Architecture d'aujourd’hui, since 1930. [5] (French)
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), ed. Patricia Morton, Society of Architectural Historians, since 1941. [6] (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). [7] (English)
• Architectural History, annual, ed. Alistair Fair, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, since 1958. Subscription access (JStor). [8] (English)
• Le Carré Bleu: feuille internationale d'architecture, quarterly, since 1958. [9] (English),(French),(Italian)
• Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst, biannual, eds. Dorothée Sack and Johannes Cramer, Deutscher Kunstverlag, since 1971. Subscription access. (German),(English)
• Oppositions, 26 issues, ed. Peter Eisenman, New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1973-84. [10] [11] (English)
• OASE Journal for Architecture, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, since 1981. Open access. (English)/(Dutch)
• Cornell Journal of Architecture, Cornell University, since 1981. Open access. (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)
• Assemblage, triannual, 41 numbers, eds. K. Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, 1986-2000. Subscription access (JStor). (English)
• 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)
• 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)
• Grey Room, quarterly, since 2000. Subscription access (MIT). (English)
• Log, ed. Cynthia Davidson, Anyone Corporation, since 2003. Subscription access. (English)
• 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
• http://www.quondam.com
• Soviet architecture