"This is surely the first systematic survey of architectural journals produced across Europe in that vital 20-year period following the war when modernism was in vexed transit from embattled cause to contested orthodoxy. Scholarly country-by-country coverage reveals how the medium of the professional journal functioned as both a mirror and a torch, reflecting while also guiding the inextricable narratives of practice and discourse. Journalism may be but the first rough draft of history, yet this fascinating study shows what a rich and compelling draft it can be."
John Allan, Architect and writer
"During the years between 1945 and 1968 professional journals were testing grounds for institutional debates where modernist discourse has been produced and disseminated. Grounded in extensive new research, the essays in this volume by eleven international architectural scholars propose a stimulating interpretation of a medium whose role has been hitherto underestimated. Examining the interferences between journals, design practice and the tasks of reconstruction, the book shows us how professional architecture journals, their owners, editors, contributors and designers shaped architectural culture in the postwar decades."
Įkos Moravįnszky, Professor Emeritus, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"The book Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal. Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham takes a different approach from [ other] publications [ on architecture journals]. Through the journals, the book provides an interesting insight into the history of European post-war architecture." Extract from https://www.archined.nl/2020/04/in-welke-stijl-te-bouwen-het-architectuurdeba t-in-europese-tijdschriften/
Otakar Mįel, Architecture historian, TU Delft "This is surely the first systematic survey of architectural journals produced across Europe in that vital 20-year period following the war when modernism was in vexed transit from embattled cause to contested orthodoxy. Scholarly country-by-country coverage reveals how the medium of the professional journal functioned as both a mirror and a torch, reflecting while also guiding the inextricable narratives of practice and discourse. Journalism may be but the first rough draft of history, yet this fascinating study shows what a rich and compelling draft it can be."
John Allan, Architect and writer
"During the years between 1945 and 1968 professional journals were testing grounds for institutional debates where modernist discourse has been produced and disseminated. Grounded in extensive new research, the essays in this volume by eleven international architectural scholars propose a stimulating interpretation of a medium whose role has been hitherto underestimated. Examining the interferences between journals, design practice and the tasks of reconstruction, the book shows us how professional architecture journals, their owners, editors, contributors and designers shaped architectural culture in the postwar decades."
Įkos Moravįnszky, Professor Emeritus, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"The book Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal. Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Post-War Europe edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham takes a different approach from [ other] publications [ on architecture journals]. Through the journals, the book provides an interesting insight into the history of European post-war architecture." Extract from https://www.archined.nl/2020/04/in-welke-stijl-te-bouwen-het-architectuurdeba t-in-europese-tijdschriften/
Otakar Mįel, Architecture historian, TU Delft
"The book is based on solid methodological foundations to analyse this genre of architectural journal."
Lucķa C. Pérez-Moreno (2020): Book, The Journal of Architecture, DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2020.1824387
"By exploring differences and commonalities between specific architectural journals, the contributions in this volume reveal how post-war architecture, its theories, debates and products, and in particular its response to modernism, were perceived and disseminated across Europe. through its geographical breadth the volume does offer us a greater understanding of the scope, ambition and content of the architectural journal in the period when modernism was a central issue."
Deborah Howard, Ben Tosland, Ian Campbell and Matthew James Wells., 2020. Reviews: Spring 2020. Architectural Histories, 8(1), p.7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.508
"The book offers a wealth of empirical research into the cultures and production of architectural journals, as well as details of the publishing landscapes of specific countries. This type of research can be hindered by a lack of archival material, the published magazine often the only consistently surviving source. However, the scholars in this volume have traced the networks of people editing and contributing to the journals to offer a helpful resource to fellow researchers."
Jessica Kelly, Architectural History , Volume 63 , 2020 , pp. 339 - 341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2020.23
