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Benjamin, Walter. "Script, Image, Script-Image," "Author as Producer," "Arrested Auditor of Books" in The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, (ed.) Michael Jennings, Brigid Doherty, Thomas Levin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Colomina, Beatriz. "Introduction: On Architecture, Production and Reproduction," Architecture Production and Reproduction, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988.

Conrads, Ulrich. Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.

Davidson, Cynthia. “What’s in a Log?” in Log 1 (2003), 5-8.

Harrington, K. Changing Ideas on Architecture in the ‘Encylopédie.’ Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1985.

Writing Criticism:

Goldberger, Paul. Building Up and Tearing Down : Reflections on the Age of Architecture. New York: Monacelli Press, 2009.

___. On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Postmodern Age. New York: Times Books, c1983.

___. The City Observed, New York : A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan. New York: Random House, 1979.

___. Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York. New York: Random House, 2004.

Huxtable, Ada Louise. On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change. New York: Walker, 2008.

___. Will they ever finish Bruckner Boulevard? Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.

Lange, Alexandra. Writing about Architecture : Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.

___. Lange, Alexandra. “Whatever Happened to Architecture Critique?” Design Observer, July 1, 2010.

Lind, Diana. “On Criticism 7: Authority and Responsibility,” Urban Omnibus, November 23, 2010.

Nobel, Philip. “Anti-Starchitecture Chic,” Metropolis, June 2007.

Temko, Allan. “Introduction: Activist Criticism,” No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Writing History:

Searing, Helen and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. “The Architectural Historian as Critic and Connoisseur,” in The Architectural Historian in America, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall (ed.) Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990. pp.251-263.

Tafuri, Manfredo. "There is no Criticism, only History." Design Book Review, Spring 1986.

Wright, Gwendelyn and Parks, Janet (eds.), The History of History in American Schools of Architecture 1865-1975, (Princeton Architectural Press, 1990).

Writing Theory:

Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Knapp, Steven and Walter Benn Michael. "Against Theory." Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism. W.J.T. Mitchell (ed.) Chicago/ London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. pp. 11-30.

Ockman, Joan. "Theory without history is hubris. . ." Assemblage, no. 41, p. 61.

Somol, Robert E. and Sarah Whiting. "Okay, Here's the Plan." Log, no. 5 (Spring/Summer 2005), pp. 5-7.

Speaks, Michael. "After Theory," Architectural Record (June 2005), pp. 72-75.

Utopie Group. "Architecture as a Theoretical Problem," Architectural Design, June 1968.

Writing as Architecture:

Gandelsonas, Mario. "On Reading Architecture." Progressive Architecture, vol. 53 (March 1972), pp. 68-88; reprinted in Broadbent, Geoffrey, ed., Signs, Symbols, and Architecture. New York: Wiley, 1980. pp. 243-73.

Guillerme, Jacques. "The Idea of Architectural Language: A Critical Inquiry." Oppositions 10 (Fall 1977). pp. 21-29.

Hollier, Dennis. Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.

Lipstadt, Helen. "The building and the Book in César Daly's Revue Générale de l'Architecture." in Beatriz Colomina, (ed.). Architectureproduction. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp.24-55.

Wigley, Mark. The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel. Assemblage, 2/1/1989, Issue 8, pp. 7.

Printed Matter:

Columina, Beatriz and Craig Buckley (ed.) Clip Stamp Fold : the Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, 196X to 197X. Barcelona: Actar ; Princeton: Media and Modernity Program, Princeton University, 2010.

Colomina, Beatriz. "L'Esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicité," Architecture Production and Reproduction, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988.

De Smet, Catherine. Le Corbusier: Architect of Books. Basel: Lars Müller Publishers, 2007. Eisenman, Peter, "Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media," Domus, no. 734 (January 1992), pp. 21-24.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Media Hot and Cold," 36-45; "The Print," 149-53 In Understanding Media. New York: Signet, 1964.

Scott-Brown, Denise. "Little Magazines in Architecture and Urbanism" in Journal of the American Institute of Planners, (July 1968). p. 223-233.