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A

  a+t: Revista de arquitectura + tecnologia = Magazine of architecture + technology
Contents listed from Issue 8.
Content : Magazine of architecture and technology produced in Spain.  Each issue has a theme (eg. Housing and flexibility; Sensitive materials; Low tech) and is free of advertising. 

a+u
Contents listed from 1999-2007.
Content : Online version of the Japanese-produced print magazine.

Abitare
Contents of current issue only. 
Content : Bilingual monthly magazine devoted to the world of interior design, architecture, town and city planning, and the international design scene in general.  A point of reference for architects, interior and industrial designers, students and manufacturers.  Since 1980 one issue a year has been dedicated entirely to a foreign country, region or city. 

Academy Journal: Official Journal of the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH)
Select 'abstracts' to view fulltext from vol.1, no.1 1998.
Content : Of interest to those involved in the fields of healthcare architecture, planning, design and construction.

Acta physica aedificiorum  SEE  Nordic Journal of Building Physics

L'Arca
Contents listed from 1987. 
Content : An international monthly magazine of architecture, design and visual communication.  Also contains links to L'Arca International (French ed.) and L'Arca Plus, a monographic collection dedicated to contemporary architecture. 

ArchE+/BBZine
Content : Unofficial chronicle of architecture in competitions, polemics, commercials, trivia, and other nonsense.

  ArchiNed News
Fulltext available from Jan 1996.
Content : Provides information on the spatial design professions in the Netherlands: architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

  arch'it  Italian language
Content : Architectural news, interviews, book reviews, conferences, exhibitions and competitions.  Links to architects, e-zines, professional institutions/organisations, publishers and architectural research resources. 

Architectural Record
Website complementing the print journal. Contains a variety of sections including News, Projects, Practice, Green, Community.

Architecture and Urbanism  SEE  a+u

Architecture Australia
Fulltext available from  Mar/Apr 2000. 
Content : The official national magazine of the RAIA, and features the latest architectural projects, and issues related to architectural practice and the profession. 

Architecture Show  SEE  Archizine

Architettura  SEE  Arch'it

Archizine
Fulltext available from Nov 2002.
Internet Edition of  Architecture Show.
Content : Australian weekly.  Aims to be an information resource for both architects and non-architects.  Includes projects by Australian architects, architects' websites and newsletters.

Arcspace
Danish magazine
Content : News, reviews of books and exhibitions, photos and articles about contemporary architects.  The Architect's Studio and The Camera feature architectural drawings and architectural photography. 

Arkhitekturny Vestnik 
Content : Russia's only regular periodical covering the problems connected with development of national and foreign architecture, town planning and design.

Arkkitehti: The Finnish Architectural Review
Selected fulltext from no. 4 1996.
Content: Professional architectural journal published by the The Finnish Association of Architects.  Covers Finnish architecture and town planning and follows both national and international research.  Intended for architects and other professionals in planning and construction, for decision-makers and for the public interested in environmental matters, both in Finland and abroad.

B

  BUILDING
Selected fulltext available from Nov/Dec 1999. 
Content :  Canadian national news magazine focusing on issues that matter to the building development industry.  BUILDING is also a marketplace for suppliers to the building development industry reaching: developers, architects, designers, builders, specifiers, property managers, and financers of residential, commercial/industrial, retail and institutional/hotel development.

Building Innovation & Construction Technology
Fulltext coverage from no.1 1998 - no. 38 2004
Content : Formerly in print.  A bi-monthly online magazine showcasing technology, products and services impacting on Australia's built environment.

Building Operating Management: Online Edition
Fulltext coverage from Jan 2002.
Content : For professionals who design, construct, manage and maintain buildings.  Has "been filling the information needs of building owners and facilities executives for more than 40 years."

C

CADALYST Magazine
Selected full-text.
Content : CAD as it applies to multiple industries including architecture, architectural engineering, construction, manufacturing, civil engineering, GIS/mapping and facilities management. 

Cloud-Cuckoo-Land : International Journal of Architectural Theory
Fulltext coverage begins with vol.1, no. 1, 1996.
Content : Edited in three languages by the chair for "Theory of Architecture" at the Brandenburg Technical University (BTU), in cooperation with US, Canadian and Russian universities.  The journal creates "a space where abstract architectural ideas are confronted with practice...a space where cognition and action, building and dwelling, work and process as well as art and every day life are related to each other."  Contains links to databases which index critics and scholars in the field of architectural theory, research projects, links to university libraries all over the world, catalogues of books in print and other national and international architectural journals on the internet. 

Concrete : Journal of the Cement & Concrete Association of New Zealand
Fulltext from March 2000.
Content : PDF versions of Concrete including all feature articles, research, problem clinic and innovations.

Construction Innovation
Fulltext coverage begins with vol.1, no. 1, 1995.
Content : Published quarterly by the NRC's Institute for Research in Construction.  It provides news of recent research results, product evaluations, code developments and conference highlights to Canada's construction practitioners. 

Construction News (Rudd Watts & Stone)  SEE  Projects : construction, energy and engineering

DE

Design Drawing
Content : An independent, web-based magazine for technical professionals using "non-CAD" drag-and-drop technical design and drawing tools including Visio, Actrix, SmartSketch and iGrafx.

Design Trends  SEE  New Zealand Design Trends

Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Fulltext coverage begins with vol.1, 1996. 
Content : A peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the use of IT in construction. Articles are submitted and published electronically in printable and hypertext formats and distributed internationally over the Internet.  Committed to promoting maximum flexibility in the ways that readers use the journal for teaching, research, and scholarship. 

FGH

FORM
Table of contents and abstract coverage begins with no. 6 1999.
Content : Covers Swedish and international design: furniture, interior decoration, graphic and industrial design, applied art, fashion, architecture.

GA Document
Table of contents coverage begins with no. 17 (incomplete).
Content : Presents the finest in international design, focusing on architecture that expresses the times.  Strives to record the history of contemporary architecture.  International scholars and critics provide insightful texts to inform the reader of the most up-to-date ideas and events in the profession.

GA Houses
Table of contents coverage begins with no. 17 (incomplete).
Content : Documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world.  Also included in each issue are retrospective looks at "residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making."  An essential read for both architects and architectural students. 

  Habitat (CTI Centre for the Built Environment)
Fulltext coverage begins with Issue1, 1996. 
Content : Articles, reviews, reports and other relevant material on the use of computers for teaching within the built environment disciplines. 

IJ

Information Bulletin  SEE  CIB Info Bulletin

InterCommunication
Table of contents coverage begins with Issue 0, 1992. 
Content : Explores the frontiers of art and technology "for the coming electronic information network oriented society." 

Interiors & Sources: The Design Magazine Dedicated to Design Professionals
Fulltext coverage from May 1995.  Table of contents coverage begins with Mar 1995.
Content : Written and edited for contract and residential interior designers, specifiers, architects and facility managers.  Article topics are carefully selected to deliver pertinent news, information, viewpoints, concerns and solutions to the business and personal issues facing today's design practitioners.  Promotes the value of design services in the creation of healthy, functional and aesthetically-pleasing environments. 

International Journal of Architectural Theory  SEE  Cloud-Cuckoo-Land

International Journal of Computer Integrated Design and Construction
Table of contents and abstract coverage begins with vol.1, no. 1, 1999.
Content : Focuses on the use of computers and associated technologies in the integration of the design and construction processes. The journal publishes both original research papers as well as practical papers on aspects of computer-integrated design and construction.  Aimed at academics, design engineers, construction managers, planners, architects, building services engineers, researchers, IT specialists, etc. 

International Journal of Design Computing
Selected fulltext coverage begins with vol.1, 1997-8.
Content : A peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published on the World Wide Web and archived by the University of Sydney Library.  Promotes research and technology transfer in design computing through the publication of interactive, multimedia journal articles within the general topic of design computing. 

JDC  SEE  Journal of Design Communication

Journal of Design Communication
Fulltext coverage begins with Issue 1, 1998.
Content : A refereed publication of the Design Communication Association.   Aims to promote communication among educators and researchers in the design disciplines who are involved with teaching and research in design communication.  This includes sketching, drawing, verbal and written communication, CAD, internet, multimedia, and other design communication tools. 

Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionJournal of Financial Management of Property and Construction
Hosted by Emerald. Full text coverage from Volume 10 Issue 1 2005.
Content : Combines the disciplines of financial and managerial economics, risk management, econometrics and accounting in property and construction contexts. 

Journal of the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH)  SEE  Academy Journal

KLM 

loud paper
Selected full-text articles from vol. 1, no. 1.
Content : A zine "dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse. It is a slambamgetitoutthere way of linking architectural thoughts, musings and new work with the culture at large." 

Metal architecture
Selected full-text coverage from 4/1999.
Content : Published monthly for the professional architect engaged in the design of commercial, industrial and institutional buildings--as well as retrofit projects.  Articles focus on designing these buildings with metal, including primary and secondary structurals, metal roofing and wall panels, as well as tilt-up concrete with metal roofing, and masonry with metal roofing. 

Metropolis
Selected full-text articles.  Coverage begins with Dec/Jan 1998. 
Content : Examines contemporary life through the various design disciplines.  Broad in perspective; its subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use.  Explores the contexts - economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, technological - that surround the object, building, street and city. 

New Urban News
Table of contents and abstract coverage begins with vol.1, no. 1, 1996. 
Content : Began publishing in response to a growing interest to the planning and development trend called the New Urbanism.  Covers a wide range of topics connected to the New Urbanism: significant projects; planning concepts; finance; architecture; construction; home sales; street design; inner city revitalization; zoning; and many others.  New Urban News brings together the diverse disciplines required to build mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods. 

New Zealand Design Review
Coverage: Volume 1 Issue 1 (April 1948) - Volume 5 Issue 5 (April 1954)
Content: The "New Zealand Design Review" addressed design topics as broad as furniture, town planning, theatre and stage design, packaging, church design, book-binding, poster design, industrial design and, of course, architecture. It was the first journal of its kind in New Zealand, reflecting an interest in architecture, design and the arts in the broadest sense.

New Zealand Trendsideas
Selected articles in full-text.  Covers the latest two years of issues only.
Content : Trends is an international showcase of products and ideas for homes. The Trends series includes the following titles: New Home Trends, Outdoor Living Trends, Kitchen Trends, Interior Trends, Bathroom Trends, Renovation Trends/Traditional Home Trends, Collection Trends and Architecture & Design Trends.  Numbering for the series is consecutive.  Choose the title you are interested in from the index.

New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law (NZJEL)
Table of contents and abstract coverage begins with vol.1, 1997. 
Content : The journal is in the format of a University law review and is the only academic publication of its kind in New Zealand. It is intended to provide an outlet for longer analytical and comparative legal writing in the environmental and natural resources law area. 

Nordic Journal of Architectural Research
Table of contents, abstracts.  Coverage begins with no.3 1996.
Content : Produced by the Architecture Dept, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.  Issues are generally theme-related, for example, Architecture and Feminism, Architecturology, Building conservation and Workspace design.  Articles are in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English.

Nordic Journal of Building Physics (Acta physica aedificiorum)
Fulltext coverage begins with Vol.1 1997-98.
Content : A scientific journal of building physics.  The main topics are heat and mass transfer problems applied to buildings and building constructions.

OPQR

Obras  Spanish language
Table of contents and selected full-text articles.  Coverage begins with vol.25, no. 289, 1997.
Content : Construction, engineering, architecture and design in Mexico.  Highlights new construction techniques; architectronic, urban and graphical design; and analyses the costs of manual labor in the construction market.

Onsite Ireland (Archiseek: Ireland)
Content : Documents architectural projects currently being developed and built within Ireland.  The site includes both real and virtual architecture: projects created for specific sites, clients and construction technologies, as well as those using alternative technologies and new media to create virtual environments. 

Ottagono
Table of contents from Issue 156.
Content : Bimonthly journal, founded in 1966.  Its articles, in Italian and in English, provide an up-to-date panorama of Italian and international production design: the latest views and trends.

PLAN Newsletter
Fulltext coverage begins with No.48 Dec 1997.
Content : Newsletter of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.

Progress
Full text coverage from 1905 to 1910.
Content: New Zealand's first architectural periodical, published in Wellington. Variant title: NZ Building Progress.

Precis
Fulltext coverage begins with the first online issue (no.13).  Archives are not yet complete. 
Content : The student journal of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation .  Includes contributions from scholars, professionals and students who are or have been affiliated with the school.  Serves as a forum for ideas on architecture and urbanism.

 STU

Trends  SEE  New Zealand Design Trends

Urban Reinventors
Coverage begins with Issue 1, June 2007.
An online urban journal intended to evaluate political strategies of urban redevelopment and reinvention, and to put current debates about these strategies in context and perspective. Includes fulltext articles, and video and image galleries.

 

VWXYZ

ViA arquitectura
Table of contents, selected articles available full-text.  Architects' index available.
Content :  Four-monthly Spanish architectural review that focuses on aspects of recent international architecture.  Issues include: Landscapes, Luminescence, Housing, Infrastructure.

Volume5
Content : Design and construction in the new millennium.  Includes book reviews, interviews, chat and feature articles. 

YES!: A Journal of Positive Futures
Table of contents, selected articles in full-text.  Coverage begins with Iss.1 Winter 1997.
Content : Aims to increase the public visibility, and access to visions, tools and techniques for change, of people "working to create a more just, sustainable, and compassionate future."  Combines analysis of key problems with news of actions people are taking in the United States and around the world to create a more positive future.  The online version of YES! provides additional information and links to relevant organizations.  Issues have included Cities, Economics, Education, Peace Makers,  Millennium, Watersheds, Local Currency.

Zone Architecture
News archives available. 
Content : In operation since January 1998.  Archives and promotes contemporary architecture in Quebec.  Use of digital archives and internet mediatisation is crucial to the realisation of its goals.  Aims to generate public debate on architecture and to promote the competition procedure as a generator of quality. 


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 Last updated:  8 December, 2011