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A collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of architecture.

The page is designed for both the novice in the field and the more experienced researcher. It brings together the elements of library classification and data visualisation. The table of contents provides a general structure of sections, most of which are further divided into thematic subsections. Another way of reading the page is to search for a specific name, keyword or book title and explore neighboring elements.

Architects, theorists, historians, initiatives

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture [1923], 1927, 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)

Modernism

Bauhaus

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

City, public space

History

Philosophy

Vernacular architecture

Postmodernism

  • Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, intro. Vincent Scully, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966; 2nd ed., 1977. Developed out of a course Venturi began teaching at U Penn in 1957. (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) Studies of the Las Vegas Strip, undertaken with students in a research studio Scott Brown taught with Venturi in 1970 at Yale's School of Architecture and Planning.

Capitalism, labour

Criticism

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

Gender

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

Computational architecture

Anthologies, Readers

Periodicals

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

Title Dates Editors Publisher Text Nos. Online Notes
American Architect and Architecture 1876-1938 New York: Hearst EN JPG, PDF (1886-99) Merged with Architectural Record.
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.
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.
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
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 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) constructivist architecture
ASNOVA: Izvestiya assotsiatsii novykh arkhitektorov 1926 El Lissitzky, Nikolai Ladovsky Moscow: ASNOVA RU 1 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
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 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: Mondadori IT, EN monthly Formerly La Casa Bella. Home page, History, 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) Rozzano: Editoriale Domus IT, EN, CN monthly architecture, design; Archive, WP.
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.
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. Commentary.
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- David Hemsoll London: Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) 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- 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 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, [7]
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.
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.
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, Anh-Linh Ngo Aachen & Berlin (since 1987): ARCH+ DE quarterly Home page, History, WP-DE.
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.
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+ JPG, PDF (1970-2003) Home page
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.
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: 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.
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, [8]
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 (IAUS) EN monthly Info, Skyline Calendar. See also Oppositions.
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), WP. Commentary. See also Oppositions.
Arquitectura Viva 1988- Luis Fernández-Galiano Madrid: Arquitectura Viva ES, EN 175+; monthly E-shop.
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).
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 1995- Adam Sharr, Richard Weston Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP EN quarterly Subscription access (Cambridge)
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).
Frame 1997- Amsterdam: Frame Publishers EN, CN, KO, TR 105+; bimonthly interior design, architecture, product design, exhibition design; E-shop
Revista 180: arquitectura, arte, diseño Marcelo Vizcaíno 1997- Santiago de Chile: Facultad de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño UDP ES 33+ PDF Open access.
RA: revista de arquitectura 1997- Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra ES, EN 15+; annual Home page, Info.
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
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- Indira van 't Klooster Amsterdam EN 64+; bimonthly Home page, WP.
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 and journal issues

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

Introductions

  • Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, MIT Press, 1959, 245 pp, OL, OL. [9]
  • 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. [10]

Neoclassicism

Historicism, eclecticism

Modern Movement, Modernism

See also Key monographs.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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; facsimile repr., intro. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Southern Illinois UP, 1987; new ed., intro. Neil Levine, Princeton UP, 2008, 208 pp. 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).

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., foreword Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press, Oppositions Books series, 1982, 160 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

See also Key monographs.

International Style

  • Henry Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson, The International Style, 1932; new ed., foreword Philip Johnson, W.W. Norton, 1997, 272 pp. Excerpts: [11], [12], [13]. A catalog to accompany a 1932 MoMA show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America.

New Brutalism

Fluxus

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. 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. Responses: Goldberger (AR 1974), Stern (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.

Phenomenology

Criticism

See also Key monographs.

  • "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.
  • 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).
  • Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, ed. Joan Ockman, Princeton Architectural Press, 1985, 191 pp.
  • Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture [1995], ed. Sarah Whiting, trans. Graham Thompson, MIT Press, 1997, 172 pp. [16] 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.
  • 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.

History

See also Key monographs.

Historical examinations of specific schools and groups

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

Gender

See also Key monographs.

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

Capitalism, labour

See also Key monographs.

Acoustics

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.

Photography

Digital & computational architecture

See also Key monographs.

Resources

See also