BIBLIOGRAPHY
For the study of the architecture of the western world since about 1840 no sources are more valuable than the professional periodicals. To provide a comprehensive list with full bibliographical details would require an inordinate amount of space and many technicalities because of the complicated way such publications start and stop, initiate new series, merge, and change title. However, it may be helpful to mention, without giving any descriptive details, a few that are especially valuable to the historian. In England, the Builder, the Building News, and later the Architectural Review are most useful; in France the Revue générale de l’architecture, the Encyclopédie d’architecture, the Gazette des architectes, and later L’Architecture vivante and L’Architecture d’aujourd’ hui. In Austria-Hungary the Allgemeine Bauzeitung may be cited. For the United States, the American Architect and Building News and later the Architectural Record, the Architectural Forum, and Progressive Architecture cover the field from the eighteen-seventies to the present. The American Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians has devoted more articles to the nineteenth century than other learned journals. Particular articles in the above-mentioned and other periodicals are for the most part merely referenced in the Notes, except those that provide the equivalent of separate monographs on certain architects; such are listed here.
General Works are subdivided, necessarily with some overlap, into those covering the Nineteenth Century (including, in fact, the later decades of the eighteenth also) and those covering the Twentieth Century. There follow rubrics for separate countries or groups of countries. Finally come the monographs on individual architects arranged, regardless of country or period, alphabetically by architect.