Architecture

A collection of writings on architecture.

The page is designed for both the novice in the field and the more experienced researcher. Bringing together elements of library organisation and data visualisation techniques it offers several ways of navigating. One is to use the table of contents providing a general structure of sections, most of which are further divided into thematic subsections. Another is to search for a specific name, keyword or book title and explore neighboring elements. Yet another is to switch to gallery view by clicking on any image and use arrows to navigate the slide show.

Architects, theorists, historians, initiatives

• Vitruvius (c80/70-c15 BCE), Roman author, architect, civil engineer
• Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), neoclassical architect
• Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), Neoclassical architect
• Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), draughtsman, architect
• Peter Behrens (1868-1940), architect, industrial designer, artist
• Vesnin brothers (Leonid 1880-1933, Viktor 1882-1950, Alexander 1883-1959), Constructivist architects
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), architect, pioneer of modern architecture
• Le Corbusier (1887-1965), architect, designer, painter, urban planner, pioneer of modern architecture
• Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), architectural historian and critic
• Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974), painter, architect
• Emil Kaufmann (1891-1953), architecture scholar
• Jean Badovici (1893-1956), architect and architecture critic
• Bauhaus, art school, Weimar (1919-25), Dessau (1925-32), Berlin (1932-33)
• VKhUTEMAS, art and technical school, Moscow (1920-30)
• CIAM, congress of international modernism (1928-59)
• Stefan Sebök (1901-42), architect
• Bruno Zevi (1918-2000), architect, historian, professor, curator
• Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005), painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author, musician, architect, co-founder of CoBrA and Situationist International
• EXAT 51, Croatian artist group (1950-56)
• 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
• Mario Carpo (1958), architectural historian and critic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Key monographs

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

Antiquity

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

Modernism

• Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1923, 230 pp. (French)
  • Towards a New Architecture, London: John Rodker, 1931; London: Architectural Press, 1946, OL; Praeger, 1970, OL; New York: Dover, 1986, 320 pp. (English)
  • other translations
• Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Harvard University Press, 1941, 16+601 pp; 3th ed., enl., 1954, 778 pp; 5th ed., 2003. Based on his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1938-39. (English)
  • other translations
• Sigfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History, Oxford University Press, 1948, xiv+743 pp; University of Minnesota Press, 2013. [1] (English)
  • other translations

Bauhaus

• Walter Gropius (ed.), Internationale Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 1, 1925, 111 pp. (German)
• Walter Gropius, Bauhausbauten Dessau, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 12, 1930, 221 pp. (German)
• László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 14, 1929, 241 pp; facsimile repr., Mainz and Berlin: Florian Kupferberg, 1968, 251 pp. (German)
  • The New Vision: From Material to Architecture, trans. Daphne M. Hoffman, New York: Breuer Warren and Putnam, 1930; exp.rev.ed. as The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, New York: George Wittenborn, 1947, 92 pp. (English)

City, public space

• Ludwig Hilberseimer, Grossstadtarchitektur, Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1927, 108 pp. (German)
  • Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays, ed. & trans. Richard Anderson, Columbia University Press, 2012. (English)
• Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, Padova: Marsilio, 1966; Torino: CittàStudi, 2006, 235 pp; new ed., Macerata: Quodlibet, 2011. (Italian)
  • The Architecture of the City, intro. Peter Eisenman, trans. Diane Ghirardo and John Ockman, Chicago: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and MIT Press, 1982, 208 pp. (English)
  • other translations
• Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Collage City, MIT Press, 1978. ARG. (English)
• Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, Thames & Hudson, 1978; Monacelli Press, 1994, 317 pp. (English)
• Diana Agrest, Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice, MIT Press, 1991, 203 pp. (English)
• Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, MIT Press, 2011, 251 pp. (English) Reviews: Leach, Mooradian, Diamanti, Rumpfhuber.

History

• Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l’architettura: saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1948. (Italian)
  • Architecture as Space. How to look at Architecture, New York: Horizon Press, 1957; Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. Excerpt. (English)
  • other translations
• Emil Kaufmann, Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1952, 564 pp. (English)
• Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, New York: Praeger, 1960; 2nd ed., 1967, 338 pp. (English)
• Edward Robert de Zurko, Origins of Functionalist Theory, Columbia University Press, 1957, 265 pp. (English)
• Bruno Zevi, Il linguaggio moderno dell'architettura. Guida al codice anticlassico, Torino: Einaudi, 1973. (Italian)
  • The Modern Language of Architecture, New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. (English)
  • other translations
• Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Thames & Hudson, 1980; rev.ed., 1985. (English)
• Manfredo Tafuri, La sfera e il labirinto: Avanguardie e architettura da Piranesi agli anni '70, Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1980. (Italian)
  • The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s, trans. Pellegrino d'Acierno and Robert Connolly, MIT Press, 1987, 383 pp. (English)
• William J.R. Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1982; Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982; 2nd ed., 1987; 3rd ed., Phaidon, 1996. (English)

Philosophy

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

Vernacular architecture

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

Postmodernism

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

Capitalism, labour

• Manfredo Tafuri, Progetto e utopia, Bari: Guis. Laterza & Figli, 1973. (Italian)
  • Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, trans. Barbara Luigia La Penta, MIT Press, 1976, xi+184 pp. (English) Review: Puglisi (2013).

Criticism

• Colin Rowe, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, MIT Press, 1976. Lead essay. (English)
• Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction, MIT Press, 1994, 278 pp. [2] [3] (English)
• Vincent Scully, Jr., Modern Architecture and Other Essays, ed. & intro. Neil Levine, Princeton University Press, 2003, 400 pp. [4] (English) Review: Scalbert (AA Files).
• Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture Complex, London: Verso, 2011, 316 pp. (English)
  • other translations

Gender

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

Computational architecture

• Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, MIT Press, 2011, 190 pp. (English)
• Luciana Parisi, Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space, MIT Press, 2013, 392 pp. (English)

Anthologies, Readers

• 

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

• 

  Architecture Culture, 1943-1968, 1993

• 

  Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, 1997, Log

• 

  Architecture Theory since 1968, 1998, PDF

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

Periodicals

By default sorted chronologically according to the first issue published. No longer active journals are included as well. The 'Online' column lists freely accessible digitized versions of each magazine. Some columns are sortable. Monoskop also maintains a section with avant-garde and modernist magazines.

• 

  ABC, Basel, 1924-28

• 

  bauhaus, Dessau, 1926-31

• 

  Sovremennaya architektura, Moscow, 1926-30

• 

  Praesens, Warsaw, 1926/30

• 

  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
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.
Architectural Review (ar)	1896-	Catherine Slessor	London: Emap	EN	monthly		E-shop, WP
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	1918-21, 1923-25, 1927-31	Hendrik Wijdeveld	Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug	NL	144; monthly	PDF
La Cité: urbanisme, architecture, art public	1919-35		Brussels: Lamertin	FR	147; monthly; later irregular	JPG, PDF, TXT	architecture, art
L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale illustrée de l'activité contemporaine: arts, lettres, sciences	1920-25	Paul Dermée and Michel Seuphor, later Charles-Edouard Jeanneret and Amédée Ozenfant	Paris: Éditions de l'Esprit Nouveau	FR	28		art, literature, architecture
Die Form: Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit	1922, 1925-35	Walter Curt Behrendt (-1926), Walter Riezler (1926-)	Berlin	DE		JPG, PDF, TXT	architecture, design
Stavba: měsíčník pro stavební umění	1922-38	Karel Teige (1923-28), Oldřich Starý (1928-37), Jan E. Koula (1928-37), et al.	Prague: Klub architektů	CZ	monthly
G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung	1923-26	Hans Richter	Berlin	DE	5	JPG (1), PDF (1)	architecture, industrial design, photography, art, film
L'Architecture vivante	1923-33	Jean Badovici	Paris: A. Morancé	FR	21
Blok: czasopismo awangardy artystycznej	1924-26	Blok	Warsaw: Blok	PL	11	PDF, JDL	constructivist art, architecture, theatre
ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen	1924-28	Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, El Lissitzky, Emil Roth	Basel	DE	10	PDF	constructivist architecture
Shinkenchiku [New Architecture]	1925-		Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha	JP			Home page
Kritisk Revy	1926-28	Poul Henningsen, Edvard Heiberg, et al.	Copenhagen: Poul Henningsen	DK	7	JPG, TXT	architecture, politics
Praesens: revue moderne	1926, 1930	Szymon Syrkus	Warsaw	PL, FR	2	PDF	architecture, painting, photography, theatre, film, poetry
Sovremennaya architektura	1926-30	Moisei Ginzburg (1926-28), Vesnin brothers (1926-28), Roman Khiger (1928-30)	Moscow: OSA	RU	30; bimonthly	PDF (incomplete issues, some missing)
bauhaus: zeitschrift für gestaltung	1926-31	Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1926-28), Ernst Kallai (1928-30)	Dessau	DE	15	PDF (3 issues), PDF (5 issues), JPG (1 issue)	art, craft, design, architecture
Das neue Frankfurt	1926-31	Ernst May	Frankfurt a.M.: Englert und Schlosser	DE	55; monthly	JPG, PDF, TXT	urbanism, architecture
Horizont: revue současné kultury v Československu	1927-32	Jiří Kroha, Jaroslav B. Svrček	Brno: Václav Roštlapil	CZ	38	PDF (1927)	architecture, art, theatre
Casabella: rivista di architettura	1928-	Alessandro Mendini (1970-76)		IT			Home page
Architectural Design (AD)	1930-	Helen Castle (since 2001)	John Wiley & Sons	EN	bimonthly		Subscription access (Wiley), WP
L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (AA)	1930-		Paris	FR	bimonthly		Home page, WP-FR; see also Aujourd'hui
Die neue Stadt	1932-33	Joseph Gantner	Frankfurt a.M.: Philipp L. Fink	DE	13; monthly	JPG, PDF, TXT	urbanism, architecture
PLAN: tidsskrift for bolig- og byggespørsmål	1933-36		Oslo: Socialist Architects' Society	NO	4		architecture
Plus: orientations of contemporary architecture	1938-39	Wallace K. Harrison, William Lescaze, et al.	New York: Time	EN	3; bimonthly	PDF	architecture, design
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH)	1941-	Patricia Morton	Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians	EN			Home page
Cuadernos de arquitectura	1944-70		Barcelona: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Catalunya	ES, CA		PDF	In 1971-80 as Cuadernos de arquitectura y urbanismo, since 1981 as Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme.
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.
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.
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
Hogar y arquitectura: revista bimestral de la obra sindical del hogar (HyA)	1955-77		Madrid: Ediciones y Publicaciones Populares	ES	122; bimonthly		Info, Info.
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.
JA [Japan Architect]	1956-		Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha	EN, JP	quarterly		Home page
Polygon	1956-?	John Outram, Wilfred Marden, Andrew Rabeneck, Peter Britton, Paul Power, John Spence	London: Regent Street Polytechnic	EN			An "underground architectural protest magazine" (Banham 1966). Info, Interview.
Architectural History	1958-	Alistair Fair	London: Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain	EN	annual		Subscription access (JStor). Home page
Melpomène	1959-66		Paris: La Grande Masse	FR	24		Published by the student association of the École des Beaux-Arts. Numbers 22 and 23/24 are entitled Melp!. Commentary, Info.
Le carré bleu: feuille internationale d'architecture	1958-		Paris	EN, FR, IT	quarterly	PDF
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, [6]
Forum	1959-	Jurriaan van Stigt	Amsterdam: Architectura et Amicitia	NL			Formerly Forum voor architectuur en daarmee verbonden kunsten. Publisher, Info, WP.
Archigram	1961-74	Archigram	London: Archigram	EN	10	JPG	Interview, Interview.
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-	Pierluigi Nicolin	Milan: Lotus	IT, EN			Home page
Summa: revista de arquitectura, tecnologia, y diseño	1963-92	Carlos Méndez Mosquera (first 3 issues), Lala Mosquera (from issue 4)	Buenos Aires	ES			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.
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	FR	17		2011 book (Introduction), 2006 book of Baudrillard's essays, Commentary.
ARCH+	1968-	Sabine Kraft, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Günther Uhlig	Aachen & Berlin: ARCH+	DE			Home page
AAQ: Architectural Association Quarterly	1969-82	Dennis Sharp	London	EN	quarterly		Interview.
Transparent: Manuskripte für Architektur, Theorie, Kritik, Polemik, Umraum	1970-88	Günther Feuerstein	Vienna	DE	monthly		Interview.
ArchiteXt	1970-72	Takefumi Aida, Takamitsu Azuma, Mayumi Miyawaki, Makoto Suzuki, Minoru Takeyama	Tokyo	JP	5		Info, Info.
Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst	1971-	Dorothée Sack, Johannes Cramer	Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag	DE, EN	biannual		Subscription access.
In	1971-72	Pierpaolo Saporito	Milan	IT, EN	9; bimonthly		Info.
On Site	1972-76	Alison Sky (1972-74)	New York: SITE	EN	7		Interview, List of issues
2c: construcción de la ciudad	1972-85		Barcelona: Novographos	ES	23	PDF
Oppositions	1973-84	Peter Eisenman, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler, Kenneth Frampton	New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies	EN	26		See also Assemblage.
Global Tools	1974-75		Milan	IT, EN	2		2015 book
Arquitecturas bis: información gráfica de actualidad	1974-85	Oriol Bohigas	Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia	ES	52; bimonthly		Index, [7]
Carrer de la ciutat: revista de arquitectura	1977-80	Beatriz Colomina	Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	ES	13	PDF	Interview.
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	EN	monthly		Info.
Werk, Bauen + Wohnen (WBW)	1980-	Daniel Kurz (since 2012)	Zurich: Werk / Bund Schweizer Architekten (BSA)	DE	monthly	JPG, PDF	architecture, urban planning. Home page. Preceded by Das Werk and other titles.
OASE Journal for Architecture	1981-		Rotterdam: NAi Publishers	EN, NL		PDF	Open access.
Cornell Journal of Architecture	1981-		Ithaca, NY: Cornell University	EN		PDF	Open access.
AA Files	1981-		London: Architectural Association School of Architecture	EN			Publisher
Daidalos	1981-2001	Ulrich Conrads (until 1992), Gerrit Confurius (from 1992)	Berlin: Bertelsmann	EN, DE	75
El Croquis	1982-	Fernando Márquez, Richard Levene	Madrid: El Croquis	ES, EN	bimonthly	PDF (several issues)	E-shop
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World	1983-	Gülru Necipoğlu	Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard U	EN	annual		Subscription access (Brill).
Skala: Nordic Magazine of Architecture and Art	1985-95		Copenhagen: Henning Larsen	DK, EN	30
Pratt Journal of Architecture	1985-		New York: Pratt Institute	EN	3+	PDF	Open access.
Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture	1986-2000	K. Michael Hays, Alicia Kennedy		EN	41; triannual		Subscription access (JStor). See also Oppositions.
Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts	1990-	Ross Jenner, Andrew Douglas	Auckland	EN	15+	PDF	Open access.
Arhitext	1990-	Arpad Zachi	Bucharest: Arhitext	RO			Home page
Architectural Heritage	1990-	Mark Cousins, Dawn McDowell	Edinburgh: Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland	EN	annual		Subscription access (Edinburgh UP).
Summa+	1992-	Martha Magis (1992-94), Fernando Diez (since 1994)	Buenos Aires	ES	143+		Home page. See also Summa.
Thresholds: Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture	1992-		Cambridge, MA: SA+P Press	EN	43+; biannual	PDF	Open access.
Piranesi	1992-	Vojteh Ravnikar (1992-2010), Robert Potokar	Ljubljana	SL, EN			Home page
3ZU: revista d'arquitectura	1993-95	Santiago Roqueta	Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura	ES	4	PDF
ANY (Architecture New York)	1993-2000	Cynthia C. Davidson	New York: Anyone Corporation	EN	27	PDF (7-8), PDF (23)	WP. See also Log.
Arhitektura i urbanizam	1994-	Mila Pucar	Belgrade: Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia	SR	39+	PDF	SCIndeks
The Journal of Architecture	1995-	Peter Gibbs-Kennet, Charles Rice	London: Royal Institute of British Architects	EN	bimonthly		Subscription access (Taylor & Francis).
Cloud Cuckoo Land	1996-	Eduard Heinrich Führ	Cottbus: Brandenburg University of Technology	EN, DE, RU	19+; biannual	PDF	Open access.
Harvard Design Magazine	1997-	Jennifer Sigler	Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design	EN		HTML (selected articles)
Space and Culture	1997-	Joost van Loon, Justine Lloyd, Michael Schillmeier, Rob Shields		EN	quarterly		Subscription access (Sage).
Oris magazine for architecture and culture of living	1998-		Zagreb: Oris - House of Architecture	CR, EN	93+; bimonthly		Home page, WP.
Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building	1999-	Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ashley Schafer	Boston	EN	14+; biannual		Home page
Hunch: the Berlage Institute Report	1999-		Rotterdam: NAI Publishers	EN	14+		Home page
On Site review: Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Infrastructure, Culture, Construction	2000-		Alberta: Architectural Fieldwork	EN	32+		Home page
Grey Room	2000-			EN	59+; quarterly		Subscription access (MIT).
306090: a Journal of Emergent Architecture and Design	2001-		New York: Princeton Architectural Press	EN	15+		Publisher
Log	2003-	Cynthia Davidson	New York: Anyone Corporation	EN	34+		Subscription access. See also ANY.
Project Baikal	2004-	Elena Grigoryeva	Irkutsk: Vostoksibacademcenter of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences	RU, EN	43+; quarterly	PDF	Open access.
ACE: Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno / Architecture, City and Environment	2006-	Josep Roca Cladera	Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	EN, ES, CA	28+	PDF, PDF	Open access.
Footprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal	2007-		Delft: Delft University of Technology	EN	16+	PDF	Open access.
Manifold	2007-10	Izabel Gass	Houston, TX: Rice University	EN	4	PDF	Open access.
Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge	2009-	Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler, Anne Kockelkorn	Berlin: Hatje Cantz	EN, DE		PDF	Open access.
Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy	2010-		Toronto	EN	9+	PDF	Open access.
Soiled: a periodical of architectural stories	2011-	Joseph Altshuler	Chicago: Cartogram	EN	5+		Home page
The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space	2010-11	Joseph Grima, Kazys Varnelis	New York	EN	7	JPG	Open access.
ja+u	2012-		Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha	EN			Home page
Architecture_MPS (Amps)	2012-	Graham Cairns		EN	monthly	PDF	Open access.

Monographs

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

• 

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

• 

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

• 

  Walter Gropius, Scope of Total Architecture, 1956/1962, Log

• 

  Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Fantastic Architecture [1969], 1971, Log

Introductions

• Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, MIT Press, 1959, 245 pp, OL, OL. [8] (English)
• Francis D.K. Ching, Architectural Graphics, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975; 4th ed., Wiley, 2002; 6th ed., Wiley, 2015. (English)
• Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form Space and Order, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979; 3rd ed., Wiley, 2007; 4th ed., 2014. (English)
• Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries, MIT Press, 1995, 456 pp. [9] (English)

Neoclassicism

• Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations [1780], intro. Robin Middleton, trans. David Britt, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 1992, 224 pp. (English)
• Étienne-Louis Boullée, Architecture. Essai sur l'art, manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1794. (French)
  • Boullée's Treatise on Architecture, ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Alec Tiranti, 1953. (English)
  • "Architecture, Essay on Art", trans. Sheila de Vallée, in Boullée & Visionary Architecture, ed. Helen Rosenau, London: Academy Editions & New York: Harmony Books, 1976, pp 81-116. (English)
  • other translations

Historicism, eclecticism

• 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. (English)

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. (English)
• 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. (English)
• Karel Teige, Nejmenší byt, Prague: Václav Petr, 1932. (Czech)
  • The Minimum Dwelling, trans. Eric Dluhosch, MIT Press, 2002. (English)

Constructivism

• Nikolay Punin, Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina [Памятник III интернационала. Проект худ. Е. Татлина], St. Petersburg [Петроград]: Otdel IZO Narkompros [Отд. изобразительных искусств Н.К.П; Department of Visual Arts of Narkompros], 1920, 7 pp. Text, [10], [11] (Russian)
  • "The Monument to the Third International", trans. Christina Lodder, in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992, pp 311-315. (English)
• Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo (eds.), Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, London, 1937; New York: Praeger, 1971, viii+291 pp. (English)

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. (English)

Art

• Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.), Pop Architektur: Concept Art, Ideen, Manifeste, Pläne, Gedankenarchitektur, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1969. (German)
  • Fantastic Architecture, New York: Something Else Press, 1971. (English)

Phenomenology

• Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, New York: Rizzoli, 1979, 212 pp. (English)
• Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, 6 vols., eds. Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994-2011, PDFs/1-4. [12] (English)

Criticism

• Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, ed. Joan Ockman, Princeton Architectural Press, 1985, 191 pp. (English)
• Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Diferencias: topografía de l'arquitectura contemporánea, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1995, 185 pp. [13] (Spanish)
  • Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture, ed. Sarah Whiting, trans. Graham Thompson, MIT Press, 1997, 172 pp. [14] (English) Review: Ballantyne (ARQ).
• The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, eds. Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng, Monacelli Press, 2004, 135 pp. (English)
• Svetlana Boym, Architecture of the Off-Modern, Buell Center / FORuM Project, and New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, 80 pp. (English)
• Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism, London: Zero Books, 2009, 146 pp. (English)

History

• Kenneth Frampton, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, MIT Press, 1995. (English)
• Historia de la arquitectura: antología crítica, ed. Luciano Patetta, Madrid: Celeste, 1997. (Spanish)

Historical examinations of specific schools and groups

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

Gender

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

Capitalism, labour

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

Acoustics

• Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933, MIT Press, 2002, 510 pp. (English)

Film

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

Photography

• Robert Elwall, Building with Light: The International History of Architectural Photography, New York: Merrell, 2004, 240 pp. (English)
• Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005, 226 pp.

Computational architecture

• Architektura v informačním věku. Texty o moderní a současné architektuře, 2 vols., ed. Jana Tichá, Prague: Zlatý řez, 2001 & 2006, 131 & 129 pp, vol. 2. A reader. (Czech)
• The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992-2012. AD Reader, ed. Mario Carpo, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 264 pp. (English)

Resources

• Spatial Agency, a database of collaborative projects in architecture. Edited by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till at U Sheffield.
• Quondam, a bibliographical resource on architecture
• Open Collection: Theory of Architecture, maintained by Cloud Cuckoo Land.
• The Charnel House, a blog by Ross Wolfe.
• The City as a Project, a research collective, 2010-14.
• Theory of architecture, a digital library. (Russian)
• Publications on architecture at Monoskop Log

See also

• Land art