Architecture
A collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture.
Introduction
- For a flat library of architecture
Building a digital library of writings on architecture offers itself also as an opportunity to rethink the architecture of digital library itself and ask how it can open up to new methods of research and discovery. In the experiment, primary function of the library is kept – it firstly exists to serve as a resource for architectural research. But does it? Digital libraries are composed of numerous screens linked to each other by the complex logic of database design and bibliographic data. They are tremendously useful when we know what we are looking for, but not so great when we are interested in learning and discovering things closely related to those we are already familiar with. Neither advanced search options nor long lists of results are very helpful here. Digital libraries can be great in content but usually lack in form.
How can they be designed differently? As opposed to physical libraries, digital libraries are two-dimensional, they are screen-based. What if we take advantage of this two-dimensional spatiality more fully and view it as planar linearity, linearity so familiar from reading and navigating inside books? What if our collection of books is organised in a way texts are organised in books? We can take several organizational elements of the book and turn them into architectural features of our library, namely: bibliography, anthology, and one from ancient history – scroll.
As a bibliography, it may offer an enumerative list of publications relevant for partial themes, while it may also give a glimpse of their transmission and reception in the forms of translations and reviews, all directly linked to their digital versions (we can call this aspect the “annotated source bibliography”).
As an anthology, it may bring together texts informing a given discourse, while it may also give in to its incoherent nature that can described as a range of mutually conditioning discursive fields, the interactions of which in turn serve as starting points for the selection of publications for inclusion in the library (we can call this aspect the “knot-anthology”).
As a scroll (or roll), instead of organising texts as a database with multiple entries, its interface may consist of a single page that can be searched using the function of a web browser (CTRL+F or Apple+F) and navigated through internal links (we can call this aspect the “flat library”).
This page is one such an architectural library. It gathers some of the writings on history, theory and criticism that have shaped the discourse of architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is designed for both the novice in the field and the more experienced researcher. The table of contents provides a general structure. Another way of navigation is to search for a specific name, keyword or publication and explore neighboring elements.
The page is divided into five main sections.
The first three contain a selection of books, catalogues and magazine issues. The first is dedicated to canonical books, loosely grouped into themes. The citation of a volume is followed by its published translations into five languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish), short annotation and list of reviews and commentaries available online. This selection is further expanded in the next section listing some one hundred, primarily English-language volumes grouped into 25 themes. The third section contains anthologies and readers compiling historical texts in several languages, some sourced from the volumes listed above but their scope is much wider, with each book following its own selection criteria.
The contents of five English-language anthologies is listed in a separate table that can be sorted by name of the author, year of the publication, title of the text, and collection it is included in. More than 270 programs, manifestos, statements, theoretical and critical essays are included along with editors' introductions.
The last main section consists of an extensive listing of 180 architectural periodicals in multiple languages, about one half of which is available online. The journals can be sorted by title, year of the first publication, city of the first publisher, and primary language. Many are accompanied in the rightmost column by interviews and commentaries situating the journal in its historical context. Interestingly, among the magazines accessible online are, with some significant exceptions, mostly those published until the 1930s and those launched in the 2000s or later.
Note that this is a work in progress, comments and further suggestions are welcome.
First published on 23 July 2015. Updated on 5 May 2017 on the occasion of Public Library / Javna knjižnica exhibition in Novi Sad. Also available in Serbo-Croatian translation.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key monographs
- 3 Monographs, catalogues and journal issues
- 3.1 Introductions
- 3.2 Antiquity
- 3.3 Renaissance
- 3.4 Neoclassicism
- 3.5 Historicism, eclecticism
- 3.6 Modern Movement, Modernism
- 3.7 Constructivism
- 3.8 Bauhaus
- 3.9 International Style
- 3.10 Urban theory, public space, the city
- 3.11 Metabolism
- 3.12 Vernacular architecture
- 3.13 New Brutalism
- 3.14 Tendenza, Neo-Rationalism
- 3.15 Fluxus
- 3.16 Phenomenology
- 3.17 Neo-Avant-Garde
- 3.18 Postmodernism
- 3.19 Deconstructivism
- 3.20 Digital & computational architecture
- 3.21 History
- 3.22 Criticism
- 3.23 Philosophy
- 3.24 Gender
- 3.25 Capitalism, labour
- 3.26 Photography
- 3.27 Film
- 3.28 Infrastructure, governance, globalisation
- 4 Anthologies, readers
- 5 Anthologised texts
- 6 Periodicals
- 7 Research initiatives and resources
- 8 See also
Key monographs
This section contains a selection of canonical books on architecture, loosely grouped into themes. The citation of a volume is followed by 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 volumes see Monographs, catalogues and journal issues; for more writings by individual authors see their respective Pages.
Modernism
- Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. A collection of articles written for the avant-garde magazine L'Esprit Nouveau he co-edited. Dismisses the then contemporary trends of eclecticism and art deco, replacing them with architecture that was meant to be more than a stylistic experiment; rather, an architecture that would fundamentally change how humans interacted with buildings. This new mode of living derived from a new spirit defining the industrial age, demanding a rebirth of architecture based on function and a new aesthetic based on pure form. (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)
- Hacia una arquitectura, trans. Josefina Martinez Alinari, Barcelona: Apostrofe, 1977. (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. A defense of Gropius, the Bauhaus, and modernism. Based on his 1938-39 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. Reviews: Redman (Saturday Review 1954), Molella (Tech & Culture 2002), Williams (Art Book Review 2013). (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, Log; U Minnesota Press, 2013. Examines mechanization and its effects on everyday life. Reviews: Sawyer (JEH 1949), Bames (AJS 1949), Ogburn (AHR 1948), Guerlac (AQ 1949), Horton (ASR 1948), Zucker (JAAC 1949), Molella (Tech & Culture 2002), Vanderbilt (Bookforum 2010). (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. [2] (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, public space, the city
- Ludwig Hilberseimer, Grossstadtarchitektur, Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1927, 108 pp. Expanded from Grossstadtarchitektur, Hannover: Merzverlag, 1926, 28 pp, KHZ. (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. Review: Zimmerman (JSAH 2014). (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. Reviews & comm.: Vogt & Donnell (JSAH 1983), Lobsinger (JAE 2006), Nilufar (Protibesh 2004). (English)
- more translations
- Oswald Mathias Ungers, et al., Die Stadt in der Stadt: Berlin das grüne Stadtarchipel, Cologne: Studioverlag für Architektur, 1977; critical ed., eds. Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot, Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2013. (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. 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. Manuscript in circulation already from 1973. Commentary: Somol, et al. (ANY 1994), Hays (1998), Ockman (JSAH 1998), Vidler (2011). Review: Cutler (2010). (English)
- 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. 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). (English)
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. Reviews: Gardner-Medwin (TPR 1961), Hilberry (JSAH 1963), Young, Fontenas (Critique d'art 2010), Lebar (2012). (English)
- 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. Review: Curtis (JSAH 1981).(English)
- 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. Reviews: Curtis (JSAH 1982), Moos (Art Journal 1983). (English)
- 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. Retraces the development of architecture from the late 18th C to the early 1970s; 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. (Italian)
- "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. Published in conjunction with the 1972 Seminar on Urbanism II at ETS de Arquitectura, Barcelona. (Spanish)
- Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, trans. Barbara Luigia La Penta, MIT Press, 1976, xi+184 pp. Commentary: Jameson 1985, Ockman 1995, Jameson 2001. Review: Puglisi (JAE 2013). (English)
- 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. Review: Ockman (HDM 1998). (English)
- 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. 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). (English)
- 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. First edition contains only the first essay, amplified by Hoesli's extensive commentary as well as previously unpublished notes by the authors in English. (German)
- Transparence: réelle et virtuelle, trans. Marianne Brausch and Sylvain Malfroy, pref. Werner Oechslin, Paris: Demi-Cercle, 1992, 143 pp. (French)
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. Reviews: Rowe (NYT 1967), Finkelpearl (JSAH 1979). (English)
- 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). Calls for expanding the concept of architecture to embrace other media and to transcend its own physicality into a comprehensive and invisible technical environment. Commentary: Lefaivre (HDM 2003). (German)
- 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. 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). (English)
- 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 & Space, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992, 389 pp, PDF. Based on a symposium held at Princeton U in 1990. Reviews: Wilson (HDM 1997), Lahiji & Friedman (AA Files 1999). Commentary: Jacobson (2013). (English)
Computational architecture
- Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, MIT Press, 2011, 190 pp. Charting the rise and fall of the paradigm of identicality, Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial, digital craftsmanship to traditional hand-making, and to the cultures and technologies of variations that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Reviews: Aureli (AR 2011), Djajali (2011), Abrahamson (2011), Diamanti (2012), Allen (RCT 2014). (English)
- Luciana Parisi, Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space, MIT Press, 2013, 392 pp.A philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design; Parisi's thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. Reviews: Lecomte (Mute 2013), Ikoniadou (Computational Culture 2014). (English)
Criticism
- Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press, 1994, 278 pp. Collects 13 articles from 1975-1991. Publisher. Reviews: Hine (NYT 1994), La Marche (JAE 1995). (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, EPUB. 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. Publisher. Reviews: Moore (Guardian 2011), Long (Icon 2012), Cava (Arcade 2012), Home (Menlo Park 2013), Petts (Marx & Philosophy 2014). (English)
- El complejo arte-arquitectura, trans. José Adrián Vitier, Madrid: Turner, 2013, 346 pp. (Spanish)
- more translations
Monographs, catalogues and journal issues
This section expands the one on canonical works. The focus is primarily on volumes published in English. For more writings by individual authors see their respective pages; 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; 2nd ed., 1962, OL, OL. [3]
- 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. Publisher.
Antiquity
- Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture [c15], trans. Morris H. Morgan, Harvard UP, 1914, 331 pp, IA. Review: Wetmore (Classical Weekly 1916). Previous translations.
- On Architecture, 1 [Book I-V], ed. & trans. Frank Granger, London: Heinemann, and New York: Putnam, Loeb Classical Library, 1931, 317 pp.
- Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Ingrid D. Rowland, comm. & illustr. Thomas Noble Howe, add. comm. Ingrid D. Rowland and Michael J. Dewar, Cambridge UP, 1999, xvi+333 pp.
- more translations
Renaissance
- Andrea Palladio, The Four Books on Architecture [1570], trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield, MIT Press, 1997, 472 pp; repr., Dover, 2013. First EN trans. since Isaac Ware's 1738. Publisher.
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.
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Thoughts on Style, 1886–1909, intro. Iain Boyd Whyte, trans. Iain Boyd Whyte and Wim de Wit, Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1996, 331 pp.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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).
- 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). Analysis: Hoekstra (Getty RJ 2016).
- Ricardo Camacho, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Sara Saragoça Soares, Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018: The History of Architectural Practice in The Middle East, Barcelona: Actar, 2021, 542 pp. Publisher.
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., forew. Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press (Oppositions Books), 1982, 159 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: Architecture Since 1922, New York: W.W. Norton, 1932, 240 pp; new ed., foreword Philip Johnson, New York: W.W. Norton, 1997, 272 pp. Excerpts: [4], [5], [6]. A book to accompany a 1932 MoMA show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America.
- trans. into Italian (1982), Spanish (1984), German (1985), French (2001).
Urban theory, public space, 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. Criticizes the destruction of urban coherence wrought by the presence of Modernist buildings.
See also Key monographs.
Metabolism
- Noboru Kawazoe, et al., Metabolism 1960: The Proposals for a New Urbanism, Bitjsutu Shuppan Sha, 1960, 89 pp. (Japanese)/(English)
- Kisho Kurokawa, Metabolism in Architecture, London: Studio Vista, 1977, 208 pp.
Vernacular architecture
- Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, New York: Doubleday, 1964, 156 pp.
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 [7]. 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. Exhibition catalogue of the XV Triennale di Milano, 1973, of which Rossi was principal curator. Review: Moschini (1973). (Italian)
- Aldo Rossi, et al., "La città analoga: tavola / The Analogous City: Panel", Lotus 13 (1976), pp 4-9. A radical pedagogical experiment proposing a theory in the form of a single, collectively produced image. Commentary: Szacka (Radical Pedagogies c2010). (Italian)/(English)
- Roma interrotta, Rome: Incontri internazionali d'arte, 1978, 208 pp. 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. (Italian)
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. [8]
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, Excerpt. 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.
- Andres Kurg, Mari Laanemets, Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders, 1960s to 1980s, Tallinn: Lugemik, and Tallinn: Estonian Museum of Architecture, 2023, 400 pp. Publisher. Publisher. Exh. review: Lähteenmäki (Drawing Matter).
See also Key monographs.
Deconstructivism
- Architectural Design 58(3/4): "Deconstruction in Architecture", 1988, viii+80 pp. Special issue.
- Philip Johnson, Mark Wigley, Deconstructivist Architecture, New York: MoMA, 1988, 104 pp. 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. 25th anniversary debate (video; report).
- Deconstruction: Omnibus Volume, eds. Andreas Papadakis, Catherine Cooke and Andrew Benjamin, London: Academy Editions, 1989, 264 pp.
- Mark Wigley, The Architecture of Deconstruction Derridas Haunt, MIT Press, 1993, 278 pp.
Digital & computational architecture
- ARCH+ 111: "Vilém Flusser: Virtuelle Räume - Simultane Welten", 1992, 94 pp. Introduction. [9] (German)
- AD 63(3-4): "Folding in Architecture", ed. Greg Lynn, London, Mar-Apr 1993. Excerpts.
- AD 118: "Architects in Cyberspace", ed. Neil Spiller, London, 1996, 113 pp.
- AD: "Hypersurface Architecture", ed. Stephen Perella, London, Sep 1998, 112 pp. Excerpt.
- The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992-2012. AD Reader, ed. Mario Carpo, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 264 pp.
- Molly Wright Steenson, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape, MIT Press, 2017, 328 pp. Publisher.
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).
- Storia dell'architettura: antologia critica, ed. Luciano Patetta, Milan: Etas, 1975, 252 pp. Historiographic collection. (Italian)
- Historia de la arquitectura: antología crítica, Madrid: Celeste, 1997. (Spanish)
- 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.
- Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism, MIT Press, 2008.
- Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister (eds.), Radical Pedagogies, MIT Press, 2022, 416 pp. Project website. [10]
See also Key monographs.
For historical examinations of specific schools and groups see separate entries 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; "Chicago Frame"; "La Tourette".
- 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), Grignon (Racar 1986 FR).
- 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. Publisher. Review: Ballantyne (ARQ 1997).
- Vincent Scully, Jr., Modern Architecture and Other Essays, ed. & intro. Neil Levine, Princeton UP, 2003, 400 pp. Publisher. 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
- Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, MIT Press, 1981, 367 pp.
- Matrix, Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment, London: Pluto Press, 1984, ix+148 pp; new ed., London: Verso, 2022, 176 pp. Publisher.
- 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. Reviews: Torre (HDM 1997), 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.
- Despina Stratigakos, Where Are the Women Architects?, Princeton University Press, 2016, 128 pp. [11] [12]
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.
Infrastructure, governance, globalisation
- Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades, MIT Press, 2005, vii+241 pp. Reviews: Rao (Constructs 2006), Yang (JAE 2007) Clancey (Technology & Culture 2007), Driever (Material Culture 2008).
- Aggregate (Architectural History Collaborative), Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, U Pittsburgh Press, 2012, xv+282 pp. Project website, TOC, Introduction, Key concepts. Disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization for the roots of how the built environment evolves. Reviews: Zimmerman (JSAH 2014), Smiley (TJA 2013), Nepa (PP 2013).
- Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth, ed. Forensic Architecture, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014, 744 pp. Project website. Essays by Eyal Weizman, et al. Reviews: Burton (TCS 2014), Gordillo (Society & Space 2015).
- Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, Verso, 2014, 252 pp. Examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. Project website. Reviews: Self (AR 2014), Wark (2014), Garrett (Antipode 2015), Chan (Art Papers 2015), Owens (Icon 2015), Coggan (Oculus 2015), Harwood (Artforum 2015).
- Felicity D. Scott, Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency, Zone Books, 2016, 560 pp. Retraces the relations of architecture and urbanism to the interdependent conditions of human unsettlement and territorial insecurity. Publisher.
- Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability, MIT Press, 2017, 368 pp. Uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources. Publisher.
Anthologies, readers
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture [1964], 1970, Log
German
- Programme und Manifeste zur Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Ulrich Conrads, Frankfurt/M and Berlin: Ullstein, 1964. TOC.
- Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie, ed. Fritz Neumeyer, Munich: Prestel, 2002. TOC. Review: Whyte (WBW 2003).
- architektur_theorie.doc. Texte seit 1960, eds. Gerd de Bruyn and Stephan Trüby, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2003, 351 pp. [13]
- Architekturtheorie. Von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart. 89 Beiträge zu 117 Traktaten, eds. Bernd Evers and Christof Thoenes, Cologne: Taschen, 2003, 845 pp; new ed., 2011, 845 pp. [14] Reviews: Tauber (FAZ 2003), Werner (Sehepunkte 2004).
- Architekturtheorie im 20. Jahrhundert. Eine kritische Anthologie, ed. Ákos Moravánszky, Vienna: Springer, 2003, viii+591 pp. [15] Review: Whyte (WBW 2003).
- Architekturtheorie 20. Jahrhundert. Positionen, Programme, Manifeste, eds. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Ruth Hanisch, Ulrich Maximilian Schumann and Wolfgang Son, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2004, 336 pp. TOC, [16].
- Einfühlung und phänomenologische Reduktion Grundlagentexte zu Architektur, Design und Kunst, eds. Thomas Friedrich and Jörg H. Gleiter, Münster: LIT, 2009, 344 pp. TOC, [17], [18].
- Architekturwissen. Grundlagentexte aus den Kulturwissenschaften, 2 vols., eds. Susanne Hauser, Christa Kamleithner and Roland Meyer, Bielefeld: transcript, 2011 & 2013. TOC/1, TOC/2, [19], [20].
- Architekturphilosophie. Grundlagentexte, ed. Christoph Baumberger, Münster: Mentis, 2013, 208 pp. TOC, Introduction, [21].
Italian
- Il codice dell'architettura. Antologia di trattatisti, ed. Renato De Fusco, Naples: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1968, xv+669 pp. [22]
- Manifesti e programmi per l'architettura del XX secolo, ed. Ulrich Conrads, Firenze: Vallecchi, 1970, 165 pp.
- Antologia dell'architettura moderna. Testi, manifesti, utopie, eds. Mara De Benedetti and Attilio Pracchi, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1988, 850 pp. Review: Gabetti (1990).
English
- Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture [1964], ed. Ulrich Conrads, trans. Michael Bullock, MIT Press, 1970, 192 pp, Log.
- America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, ed. Leland M. Roth, New York: Harper & Row, 1983, xi+675 pp.
- 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, Foreword & Introduction. See also Hays 1998.
- Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory, 1965-1995, ed. Kate Nesbitt, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. TOC & Introduction. See also Sykes2010.
- Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, eds. Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf, Chichester: Academy Editions, 1997, 312 pp.
- Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Critical Theory, ed. Neil Leach, Routledge, 1997.
- Classic Readings in Architecture, eds. Jay M. Stein and Kent F. Spreckelmeyer, Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999.
- Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays, MIT Press, 1998, Log. Builds on Ockman 1993.
- Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture, ed. Andrew Ballantyne, Continuum, 2005, x+310 pp. TOC, [23] [24].
- 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. TOC/2.
- Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, eds. William W Braham and Jonathan A Hale, Routledge, 2006, 488 pp.
- Architectural Theory: From the Renaissance to the Present, ed. Bernd Evers, intro. Christoph Thoenes, Taschen, 2002, 845 pp; 2 vols., 2011.
- Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000, eds. Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. Rowe, Wiley, 2006, 544 pp. [25]
- Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory, 1993-2009, ed. A. Krista Sykes, afterw. K. Michael Hays, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, HTML. Builds on Nesbitt 1996.
Spanish
- 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. [26]
Czech
- Architektura na prahu informačního věku, ed. Jana Tichá, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2001, 131 pp.
- Architektura v informačním věku, ed. Jana Tichá, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2006, 129 pp. [27]. Review: Svobodová (A2 2006).
- Architektura: tělo nebo obraz?, ed. Jana Tichá, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2009, 124 pp. [28]
- Architektura a veřejný prostor, ed. Petr Kratochvíl, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2012, 165 pp. [29]
- Česká a slovenská architektura 1971–2011. Texty, rozhovory, dokumenty, eds. Jiří Ševčík and Monika Mitášová, Prague: VVP AVU, 2013, 954 pp. [30]
- Architektura a globalizace, ed. Jana Tichá, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2015. Eight texts from 1993-2012. [31] Review: Doležal (CzechDesign 2015).
Anthologised texts
A collection of texts from selected English-language anthologies (Conrads 1970 = PMA, Ockman 1993 = AC, Nesbitt 1996 = TNA, Hays 1998 = ATS, and Sykes 2010 = CNA). These include programs, manifestos, statements, criticism, theory. Links in the fourth column lead to versions of the texts as they appear in the anthologies, together with editorial introductions. Each column is sortable.
Author | Yr | Title | Bk. |
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Velde | 1903 | Programme | PMA |
Poelzig | 1906 | Fermentation in Architecture | PMA |
Velde | 1907 | Credo | PMA |
Loos | 1908 | Ornament and Crime | PMA |
Wright | 1910 | Organic Architecture | PMA |
Hermann Muthesius | 1911 | Aims of the Werkbund | PMA |
Muthesius; Velde | 1914 | Werkbund Theses and Antitheses | PMA |
Scheerbart | 1914 | Glass Architecture | PMA |
Sant'Elia; Marinetti | 1914 | Futurist Architecture | PMA |
De Stijl | 1918 | Manifesto I | PMA |
Taut | 1918 | A Programme for Architecture | PMA |
Work Council for Art | 1919 | Under the Wing of a Great Architecture | PMA |
Gropius; Taut; Behne | 1919 | New Ideas on Architecture | PMA |
Gropius | 1919 | Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar | PMA |
Mendelsohn | 1919 | The Problem of a New Architecture | PMA |
Gabo; Pevsner | 1920 | Basic Principles of Constructivism | PMA |
Taut | 1920 | Down with Seriousism! | PMA |
Corbusier | 1920 | Towards a New Architecture: Guiding Principles | PMA |
Taut | 1921 | Frühlicht (Daybreak) | PMA |
De Stijl | 1922 | Creative Demands | PMA |
De Stijl | 1923 | Manifesto V | PMA |
Doesburg; Eesteren | 1923 | Towards Collective Building (Commentary on Manifesto V) | PMA |
Schlemmer | 1923 | Manifesto for the First Bauhaus Exhibition | PMA |
Graeff | 1923 | The New Engineer is Coming | PMA |
Mendelsohn | 1923 | Dynamics and Function | PMA |
Mies van der Rohe | 1923 | Working Theses | PMA |
Korn | 1923 | Analytical and Utopian Architecture | PMA |
Doesburg | 1924 | Towards a Plastic Architecture | PMA |
Mies van der Rohe | 1924 | Industrialized Building | PMA |
Finsterlin | 1924 | Casa Nova | PMA |
Malevich | 1924 | Suprematist Manifesto Unovis | PMA |
Corbusier | 1925 | Guiding Principles of Town Planning | PMA |
Gropius | 1926 | Principles of Bauhaus Production (Dessau) | PMA |
Kiesler | 1926 | Space City Architecture | PMA |
Corbusier; Jeanneret | 1926 | Five Points Towards a New Architecture | PMA |
Mies van der Rohe | 1927 | On Form in Architecture | PMA |
Häring | 1927 | Formulations Towards a Reorientation in the Applied Arts | PMA |
Mendelsohn; Hoetger | 1928 | Synthesis: World Architecture | PMA |
CIAM | 1928 | La Sarraz Declaration | PMA |
1928 | ABC Demands the Dictatorship of the Machine | PMA | |
Meyer | 1928 | Building | PMA |
Lissitzky | 1929 | Ideological Superstructure | PMA |
Mies van der Rohe | 1930 | The New Era | PMA |
Wright | 1931 | Young Architecture | PMA |
Häring | 1932 | The House as an Organic Structure | PMA |
Fuller | 1932 | Universal Architecture | PMA |
CIAM 4 | 1933 | Charter of Athens: Tenets | PMA |
Gropius; Wagner | 1943 | A Programme for City Reconstruction | PMA |
Sert; Leger; Giedion | 1943 | Nine Points on Monumentality | AC |
Wright | 1943 | In the Nature of Materials: A Philosophy | AC |
Backström | 1943 | A Swede Looks at Sweden | AC |
Kahn | 1944 | Monumentality | AC |
Moses | 1944 | Mr. Moses Dissects the 'Long-Haired Planners' | AC |
Corbusier | 1945 | Ineffable Space | AC |
APAO | 1945 | Constitution of the Association for Organic Architecture in Rome | AC |
Hudnut | 1945 | The Post-Modern House | AC |
Rogers | 1946 | Program: Domus, the House of Man | AC |
Lods | 1946 | Return from America | AC |
Fuller | 1946 | Designing a New Industry | AC |
Moholy-Nagy | 1946 | New Education - Organic Approach | AC |
1947 | A Post-War Appeal: Fundamental Demands | PMA | |
Kiesler | 1947 | Magical Architecture | PMA |
CIAM 6 | 1947 | Reaffirmation of the Aims of CIAM | AC |
Oud | 1947 | Mr. Oud Replies | AC |
Mumford | 1947 | The Skyline [Bay Region Style] | AC |
Bachelard | 1948 | The Oneiric House | AC |
Velde | 1949 | Forms | PMA |
Cronin Hastings | 1949 | Townscape: A Plea for an English Visual Philosophy | AC |
Syrkus | 1949 | Art Belongs to the People | AC |
Mies van der Rohe | 1950 | Technology and Architecture | PMA |
German Democratic Rep. | 1950 | Sixteen Principles for the Restructuring of Cities | AC |
Schwarz | 1951 | Concerning the Building Art | AC |
CIAM 8 | 1951 | Summary of Needs at the Core | AC |
Hitchcock | 1951 | The International Style Twenty Years After | AC |
Nowicki | 1951 | Origins and Trends in Modern Architecture | AC |
Bill | 1952 | Education and Design | AC |
Mies van der Rohe | 1953 | With Infinite Slowness Arises the Great Form | AC |
Ivain [Chtcheglov] | 1953 | Formulary for a New Urbanism | AC |
Fillon | 1954 | New Games! | PMA |
Jorn | 1954 | Arguments apropos of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, against an Imaginary Bauhaus, and Its Purpose Today | AC |
Gropius | 1954 | Eight Steps toward a Solid Architecture | AC |
Bakema; Eyck; Ginkel; Hovens-Greve; Smithson; Voelker | 1954 | Doorn Manifesto | AC |
Khrushchev | 1954 | Remove Shortcomings in Design, Improve Work of Architects | AC |
Johnson | 1955 | The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture | AC |
Gruen | 1955 | Cityscape and Landscape | AC |
Rogers | 1955 | Preexisting Conditions and Issues of Contemporary Building Practice | AC |
Rowe; Slutzky | 1956 | Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal (Part 2) | AC |
Summerson | 1957 | The Case for a Theory of Modern Architecture | AC |
McHale | 1957 | Machine Made America | AC |
Smithsons | 1957 | The New Brutalism | AC |
Stirling | 1957 | Regionalism and Modern Architecture | AC |
Aalto | 1957 | The Architect's Conscience | AC |
Argan | 1957 | Architecture and Ideology | AC |
Ponti | 1957 | The Architect, the Artist | AC |
Wachsmann | 1957 | Seven Theses | PMA |
Wachsmann | 1957 | On Building in Our Time | AC |
Kahn | 1957 | Architecture Is the Thoughtful Making of Spaces | AC |
Hundertwasser | 1958 | Mould Manifesto Against Rationalism in Architecture | PMA |
Constant; Debord | 1958 | Situationist Definitions | PMA |
Friedman | 1958 | Program of Mobile Urbanism | AC |
Neutra | 1958 | Human Setting in an Industrial Civilization | AC |
Maldonado | 1958 | New Developments in Industry and the Training of the Designer | AC |
Rogers | 1959 | The Evolution of Architecture: Reply to the Custodian of Frigidaires | AC |
Niemeyer | 1959 | Form and Function in Architecture | AC |
Constant | 1959 | The Great Game to Come | AC |
Katavolos | 1960 | Organics | PMA |
Gieselman; Ungers | 1960 | Towards a New Architecture | PMA |
GEAM | 1960 | Programme for a Mobile Architecture | PMA |
Kahn | 1960 | Order Is | PMA |
Ruhnau; Klein | 1960 | Project for an Aerial Architecture | PMA |
Situationists | 1960 | International Manifesto | PMA |
Schulze-Fielitz | 1960 | The Space City | PMA |
Constant | 1960 | New Babylon | PMA |
Maki; Ohtaka | 1960 | Toward Group Form | AC |
Fuller | 1961 | The Architecture as World Planner | PMA |
Tange | 1961 | A Plan for Tokyo, 1960: Toward a Structural Reorganization | AC |
Sentmenat | 1961 | It's Not Geniuses We Need Now | AC |
Jacobs | 1961 | The Death and Life of Great American Cities [excerpt] | AC |
Pichler; Hollein | 1962 | Absolute Architecture | PMA |
Friedman | 1962 | The Ten Principles of Space Town Planning | PMA |
Colquhoun | 1962 | The Modern Movement in Architecture | AC |
Eyck | 1962 | Steps toward a Configurative Discipline | AC |
1963 | We demand | PMA | |
Ungers | 1963 | The City as a Work of Art | AC |
Argan | 1963 | On the Typology of Architecture | TNA |
Cook | 1964 | Zoom and 'Real' Architecture | AC |
Banham | 1965 | A Home Is Not a House | AC |
Alexander | 1965 | A City Is Not a Tree (Part 2) | AC |
Venturi | 1965 | Nonstraightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto | AC |
Venturi | 1965 | Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: Selections from a Forthcoming Book | TNA |
Rossi | 1966 | The Architecture of the City [excerpt] | AC |
Gregotti | 1966 | Architecture, Environment, Nature | AC |
Isozaki | 1966 | Invisible City | AC |
Virilio | 1966 | The Oblique Function | AC |
Barthes | 1967 | Semiology and Urbanism | AC |
Foucault | 1967 | Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias | AC |
Lefebvre | 1967 | The Right to the City | AC |
Superstudio | 1967 | Invention Design and Evasion Design | AC |
Davidoff | 1967 | Democratic Planning | AC |
Colquhoun | 1967 | Typology and Design Method | TNA |
Scott Brown; Venturi | 1968 | On Ducks and Decoration | AC |
Scott Brown; Venturi | 1968 | A Significance for A&P Parking Lots or Learning from Las Vegas | TNA |
Tafuri | 1968 | Introduction to Theories and History of Architecture | AC |
Strike Committee, ENSBA | 1968 | Motion of May 15 | AC |
Hollein | 1968 | Everything Is Architecture | AC |
Tafuri | 1969 | Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology | ATS |
Baird | 1969 | 'La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture | ATS |
Scott Brown | 1971 | Learning from Pop | ATS |
Schumacher | 1971 | Contextualism: Urban Ideals and Deformations | TNA |
Rowe | 1972 | Introduction to Five Architects | ATS |
Gandelsonas | 1973 | Linguistics in Architecture | ATS |
Scolari | 1973 | The New Architecture and the Avant-Garde | ATS |
Agrest; Gandelsonas | 1973 | Semiotics and Architecture: Ideological Consumption or Theoretical Work | TNA |
Tafuri | 1974 | L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language | ATS |
Lefebvre | 1974 | from The Production of Space | ATS |
Frampton | 1974 | On Reading Heidegger | TNA |
Hollier | 1974 | Architectural Metaphors | ATS |
Tschumi | 1975 | The Architectural Paradox | ATS |
Rowe; Koetter | 1975 | Collage City | TNA |
Harries | 1975 | The Ethical Function of Architecture | TNA |
Agrest | 1976 | Design versus Non-Design | ATS |
Eisenman | 1976 | Post-Functionalism | TNA, ATS |
Stern | 1976 | Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy | ATS |
Steinmann | 1976 | Reality as History: Notes for a Discussion of Realism in Architecture | ATS |
Norberg-Schulz | 1976 | The Phenomenon of Place | TNA |
Rossi | 1976 | An Analogical Architecture | TNA |
Rossi | 1976 | Thoughts About My Recent Work | TNA |
Huet | 1977 | Formalism--Realism | ATS |
Silvetti | 1977 | The Beauty of Shadows | ATS |
Vidler | 1977 | The Third Typology | TNA, ATS |
Teyssot | 1977 | Heterotopias and the History of Spaces | ATS |
Jencks | 1977 | Post-Modern Architecture | ATS |
Koolhaas | 1977 | 'Life in the Metropolis', or 'The Culture of Congestion' | ATS |
Colquhoun | 1977 | From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again | ATS |
Stern | 1977 | New Directions in Modern American Architecture: Postscript at the Edge of Modernism | TNA |
Broadbent | 1977 | A Plain Man's Guide to the Theory of Signs in Architecture | TNA |
Tschumi | 1977 | The Pleasure of Architecture | TNA |
Rowe; Koetter | 1978 | from Collage City | ATS |
Culot; Krier | 1978 | The Only Path for Architecture | ATS |
Frampton | 1979 | The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition | ATS |
Quetglas | 1980 | Loss of Synthesis: Mies's Pavilion | ATS |
Cacciari | 1980 | Eupalinos or Architecture | ATS |
Tafuri | 1980 | Problems in the Form of a Conclusion | TNA |
Tschumi | 1980 | Architecture and Limits I | TNA |
Tschumi | 1981 | Architecture and Limits II | TNA |
Tschumi | 1981 | Architecture and Limits III | TNA |
Foucault | 1982 | Space, Knowledge, and Power | ATS |
Graves | 1982 | A Case for Figurative Architecture | TNA |
Abraham | 1982 | Negation and Reconciliation | TNA |
Perez-Gomez | 1983 | Introduction to Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science | ATS |
Frampton | 1983 | Prospects for a Critical Regionalism | TNA |
Gregotti | 1983 | The Exercise of Detailing | TNA |
Colquhoun | 1983 | Three Kinds of Historicism | TNA |
Norberg-Schulz | 1983 | Heidegger's Thinking on Architecture | TNA |
Evans | 1984 | In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind | ATS |
Anderson | 1984 | Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs | ATS |
Cohen | 1984 | The Italophiles at Work | ATS |
Eisenman | 1984 | The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End | TNA, ATS |
Frascari | 1984 | The Tell-the-Tale Detail | TNA |
Ghirardo | 1984 | The Architecture of Deceit | TNA |
Jameson | 1985 | Architecture and the Critique of Ideology | ATS |
Sola-Morales | 1985 | From Contrast to Analogy: Developments in the Concept of Architectural Intervention | TNA |
Gregotti | 1985 | Territory and Architecture | TNA |
Virilio | 1986 | The Overexposed City | ATS |
Segrest | 1986 | The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design | ATS |
Derrida | 1986 | Point de folie--Maintenant l'architecture | ATS |
Kwinter | 1986 | La Citta Nuova; Modernity and Continuity | ATS |
Derrida; Meyer | 1986 | Architecture Where Desire Can Live | TNA |
Pallasmaa | 1986 | The Geometry of Feeling: A Look at the Phenomenology of Architecture | TNA |
Eisenman | 1987 | Architecture and the Problem of the Rhetorical Figure | TNA |
Sola-Morales | 1988 | Weak Architecture | ATS |
Colomina | 1988 | L'Esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicite | ATS |
Tschumi | 1988 | Introduction: Notes Towards a Theory of Architectural Disjunction | TNA |
Mugerauer | 1988 | Derrida and Beyond | TNA |
Koolhaas | 1988 | Postscript: Introduction for New Research "the Contemporary City" | TNA |
Agrest | 1988 | Architecture from Without: Body, Logic, and Sex | TNA |
Eisenman | 1988 | En Terror Firma: In Trails of Grotextes | TNA |
Habermas | 1989 | Modern and Postmodern Architecture | ATS |
Koolhaas | 1989 | Toward the Contemporary City | TNA |
Porphyrios | 1989 | The Relevance of Classical Architecture | TNA |
Wigley | 1989 | The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel | ATS |
McLeod | 1989 | Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism | ATS |
Tzonis; Lefaivre | 1990 | Why Critical Regionalism Today? | TNA |
Frampton | 1990 | Rappel a l'ordre, the Case for the Tectonic | TNA |
Vidler | 1990 | Theorizing the Unhomely | TNA |
Kipnis | 1991 | /Twisting the Separatrix/ | ATS |
Ando | 1991 | Toward New Horizons in Architecture | TNA |
Ingraham | 1992 | The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism | ATS |
Vidler | 1992 | from The Architectual Uncanny: Essay in the Modern Unhomely | ATS |
Bloomer | 1992 | Abodes of Theory and Flesh: Tabbles of Bower | ATS |
Eisenman | 1992 | Visions' Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media | TNA |
McDonough | 1992 | The Hannover Principles | TNA |
McDonough | 1993 | Design, Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Things | TNA |
Bess | 1993 | Communitarianism and Emotivism: Two Rival Views of Ethics and Architecture | TNA |
Lynn | 1993 | Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant, and the Supple | CNA |
Koolhaas | 1993 | Beyond Delirious | TNA |
Somol | 1996 | One or Several Masters? | ATS |
Congress for the New Urbanism | 1996 | Charter of the New Urbanism | CNA |
Berke | 1997 | Thoughts on the Everyday | CNA |
Kwinter | 1997 | Mach 1 (and Other Mystic Vistations) | CNA |
Rajchman | 1998 | A New Pragmatism? | CNA |
Mockbee | 1998 | The Rural Studio | CNA |
Allen | 1999 | Field Conditions | CNA |
Koolhaas | 2000 | Junkspace | CNA |
Kipnis | 2000 | The Cunning of Cosmetics | CNA |
Foster; Kaplicky; Rogers; Yeang; Herzog | 2001 | Green Questionnaire | CNA |
Sassen | 2001 | Scale and Span in a Global Digital World | CNA |
Somol; Whiting | 2002 | Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods | CNA |
Speaks | 2002 | Design Intelligence | CNA |
McDonough; Braungart | 2003 | From Principles to Practices: Creating a Sustaining Architecture for the Twenty-first-Century | CNA |
Mitchell | 2003 | Boundaries/Networks | CNA |
Jameson | 2003 | Future City | CNA |
Picon | 2004 | Architecture and the Virtual: Towards a New Materiality | CNA |
Toorn | 2004/5 | No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture... and Its Limitations | CNA |
Vidler | 2005 | Architecture's Expanded Field | CNA |
Hays | 2005 | Architecture by Numbers | CNA |
Martin | 2005 | Critical of What? Toward a New Utopian Realism | CNA |
Moore | 2005 | Technology, Place and Nonmodern Regionalism | CNA |
Murcutt | 2005 | Raised to Observe: Glenn Murcutt | CNA |
Graafland | 2006 | On Criticality | CNA |
Chu | 2006 | Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation | CNA |
Reiser + Umemoto | 2006 | Introduction to Atlas of Novel Tectonics | CNA |
Lavin | 2006-7 | Practice Makes Perfect | CNA |
McMorrough | 2008 | Ru(m)inations: The Haunts of Contemporary Architecture | CNA |
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 page with avant-garde and modernist magazines.
ABC, Basel, 1924-28
bauhaus, Dessau, 1926-31
Sovremennaya arkhitektura, 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. | |
Arkitektur: The Swedish Review of Architecture | 1901- | Dan Hallemar | Stockholm: Arkitektur Förlag | SW | 8/year | Home page, E-shop. | |
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 | PDF, 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 arkhitektura | 1926-30 | Moisei Ginzburg (1926-28), Vesnin brothers (1926-28), Roman Khiger (1928-30) | Moscow: OSA | RU | 30; bimonthly | PDF (2 issues missing), HTML (1926-27) | 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) | |
Archis | 1929-c2005 | NL, EN (from 1993) | monthly (from 1986) | Formerly R.K. Bouwblad (1929-40s), Katholiek Bouwblad, TABK, Wonen-TABK (1972-86). History. Continues as Volume. | |||
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 |
Arkitektur och samhälle | 1932-40 | Sven Markelius (1932), Viking Göransson (1933), Josef Riwkin (1935-36), Gösta Verner Uhlén (1937), Axel Knut Robert Öhrström (1938-40) | Stockholm: Spektrum | SW | Emerged from Spektrum. Commentary. | ||
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. | ||
Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme | 1944- | José Zabala, Anna Puigjaner, Guillermo López, Ethel Baraona Pohl (all since 2011) | Barcelona: Association of Architects of Catalonia (COAC) | CAT, ES, EN | 265+ | PDF (1944-70), PDF (1971-80), PDF (1981-), HTML (2011-) | Open access. Formerly Cuadernos de arquitectura (1944-70) and Cuadernos de arquitectura y urbanismo (1971-80). Home page. |
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, [32] | ||
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, [33] | |
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). | |
Places | 1983- | Nancy Levinson | San Francisco | EN | PDF (1983-2009), HTML (2009-) | architecture, landscape, urbanism. Open access. | |
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 | CAT | 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). | |
Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture | 1995- | Cynthia Davidson | Melbourne: RMIT U School of Architecture and Design | EN | 23+; annual | Student-run. Home page. | |
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). | ||
Metalocus | 1998- | José Juan Barba, Pedro Navarro | Madrid | ES, EN | 27+ | Home page, Issues. | |
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- | Branden Joseph, Reinhold Martin, Felicity Scott (all three: 2000-13) | 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 | ||
Centropa: a Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts | 2001- | Dora Wiebenson | New York: Centropa | EN | 40+; 3/year | Issues | |
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- | Hans Ibelings, Indira van 't Klooster (since 2012) | Amsterdam: A10 Publishers | 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 Foundation | EN | 56+; bimonthly | E-shop. | ||
Volume | 2005- | Arjen Oosterman | Amsterdam: Archis Foundation | EN | 44+; quarterly | Continues Archis. Home page, WP. | |
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 | HTML | Open access. | |
ACE: Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno / Architecture, City and Environment | 2006- | Josep Roca Cladera | Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | CAT, ES, EN | 28+ | PDF, PDF | Open access. |
field: a free journal for architecture | 2007- | Doina Petrescu, Stephen Walker, a.o. | Sheffield: Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA) | EN | 7+ | 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 | post-critical arch. theory. Open access. Continued by Apeira. | |
ArchDaily | 2008- | David Basulto, David Assael | New York: Plataforma Arquitectura | EN | daily | HTML | News website. |
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+ | ||
Urban Omnibus | 2009- | Mariana Mogilevich, Joshua McWhirter | New York: Architectural League of New York | EN | HTML | Open access. | |
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. | ||
CriticalProductive | 2011-2013, 2023- | Milton S. F. Curry | Cambridge, MA: MIT Press | EN | [34] [35] | ||
Soiled: a periodical of architectural stories | 2011- | Joseph Altshuler | Chicago: Cartogram | EN | 5+ | Home page | |
Apeira | 2012- | Etien Santiago | EN | 1+ | Open access. Continues Manifold. | ||
Architecture_MPS (Amps) | 2012- | Graham Cairns | EN | monthly | Open access. | ||
ja+u | 2012- | Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha | EN | Home page. See also a+u. | |||
Uncube | 2012- | Sophie Lovell | Berlin: BauNetz | EN | 35+ | HTML | Open access. |
Aggregate | 2013- | Meredith TenHoor | Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative | EN | HTML | Online publishing platform. | |
The Avery Review | 2014- | James Graham | New York: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | EN | 16+ | HTML, PDFs | Open access. |
ARPA Journal | 2014- | Janette Kim | New York: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | EN | 4+ | HTML | Open access. |
Real Review: What It Means To Live Today | 2016- | London: Real Foundation | EN | 7+ | [36] |
Publications on architectural periodicals
- Rassegna 4(12): "Architettura nelle riviste d'avanguardia / Architecture in the Avant-Garde Magazines", Milan, Dec 1982. (Italian)/(English)
- Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919-1935, eds. Richard Anderson and Kristin Romberg, New York: Wallach Art Gallery, 2005. Catalogue. [37] (English)
- Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X, eds. Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley, Barcelona: Actar, 2010, 671 pp. Published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition. Excerpt. Project website (archived). Publisher. Info. Review: Neuman (JAE 2008). [38] (English)
- Archizines, ed. Elias Redstone, London: Bedford Press, 2011, 152 pp. On the occasion of an exhibition at the Architectural Association, London. [39] [40] [41] (English)
- Las revistas de arquitectura (1900-1975): crónicas, manifiestos, propaganda, Pamplona: T6) Ediciones, 2012. TOC. Proceedings from the Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna Española, Pamplona, 2012. (Spanish)
- Mediated Messages: Periodicals, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern Architecture, eds. Véronique Patteeuw and Léa-Catherine Szacka, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xix+256 pp. (English)
Research initiatives and resources
- Research initiatives and databases
- 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.
- The City as a Project, a research collective, 2010-14.
- Socialist Modernism, a platform mapping architecture built in the former Eastern Bloc from 1957-89; by Bureau for Art and Urban Research (BACU). Launched 2014.
- Blogs
- The Charnel House, a blog by Ross Wolfe.
- Aggregat456, a blog by Enrique Ramirez.
- Repositories
- Publications on architecture at Monoskop Log
- Collections on ARG: [42], [43], more.
- Collection on MemoryOfTheWorld.
- Open Collection: Theory of Architecture, a repository of texts maintained by Cloud Cuckoo Land.
- Theory of architecture, a digital library. (Russian)
- Fuentes para la Historia de la Construcción, maintained by Santiago Huerta. (Spanish)
- Bibliographies
- Archipool, a search engine for architectural magazines.
- Quondam, a bibliographical resource on architecture.
- Other
- dpr-bardelona, a Barcelona-based architectural research practice dealing with publishing, criticism and curating.
- John Peter and Edward A. Hamilton interview architects about their major influences and the future of architecture, with Walter Gropius, Richard J. Neutra, Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, and Mies Van Der Rohe, 1956.
See also
Architects, theorists, historians, initiatives
Each entry contains a short biography/description and select bibliography.
- 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
- Iakov Chernikhov (1889-1951), Constructivist architect and graphic artist
- 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
- Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), architect, artist
- Beatriz Colomina (1952), architectural historian and theorist
- Mario Carpo (1958), architectural historian and critic
Related fields