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Current Issue | Volume 31, Issue 1

Out of register: remaining with architecture? | Deljana Iossifova & Doreen Bernath

Thirty years sit uneasily. Long enough to establish a voice, a readership, a set of expectations. Long enough, too, for those expectations to begin to feel out of register with the conditions we now find ourselves in. As The Journal of Architecture reaches this point, we find ourselves circling a question: what does it mean, now, to remain with architecture?

We do not ask this from outside the discipline. We ask it from within a journal that has, for three decades, participated in shaping how architecture is written, historicised, and debated. That history informs how we read, how we select, and how we argue. It also presses against us, at times gently, at times more insistently. CONTINUE READING

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Fragments from Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, trans. by Frederick Etchells (London and New York, NY: The Architectural Press and Frederick A. Praeger, 1922), assembled by the author, 2025

Ole Bouman

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Photograph of the construction shop of Dorman Long, in Dorman, Long and Co., Dorman, Long and Company, Limited, Middlesbrough, England (Middlesbrough: Dorman Long, 1924), courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Jingliang Du

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The map of the Belgrade Waterfront project, 2025, Google Maps, in the public domain

Sanja Rodeš

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Aerial illustration of the South Bank Exhibition, Festival of Britain, 1951, showing the Skylon, Dome of Discovery, and other structures along the South Bank, in the public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Sinan Wang

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Plaque of the ‘Homeworld’ plan, Coleshill Place, Milton Keynes, photographed by the author, 2024

Florian Urban

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J. Igor Fardin & Richard Lee Peragine

Book Review

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Guanghui Ding

By Ruo Jia, Routledge, 2026 ISBN 9781032907321 £155, hardback pp. 282, with 87 b/w illustrations

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