Study Architecture 
ProPEL AASL Column, June 2025
Column changes: Please welcome Alisha Rall as co-editor of the column. Alisha is an Academic Services Librarian at Kansas State University. She is the subject librarian for Architecture, interior architecture and industrial design, landscape architecture, regional and community planning, environmental design, real estate and community development, and architectural engineering and construction science. Barret Havens will be stepping back from the column to focus on his work as University Librarian at Woodbury University.
The World of Architecture School Journals
Kent State published the first online journal of architecture which is no longer being published.
Schools of Architecture have long been interested in producing written content. This has taken different forms, from yearbooks to studio design work to “real” research and scholarly output. Some of these efforts have not been sustainable, yet they have still made an impact. Here are those from U.S. schools of architecture which are currently being published.
“[ABouT] journal is the reincarnation of [TRANS-] journal, a student-run academic publication founded in 2014 by members of Tau Sigma Delta at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture.” (The University of Arizona)
Advanced Architectural Research and Design (Design III)
“Architectural Design III provides our most advanced architecture majors with an opportunity to do research and design on urgent issues in an international context. Each year, the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department publishes a book compiling our students’ research and projects from this course.”
ARCE Magazine is a free-to-read architecture magazine written and published by Cal Poly’s Architectural Engineering Department. The magazine showcases student achievement, projects, alumni profiles and news.
“Architrave is a student-run publication that aims to capture and showcase the passionate undergraduate studio work and theory of architecture from the University of Florida through a widely distributed annual print edition.”
“ARGUS is a student-led publication based in the architecture department of the University of Idaho. The publication’s uniqueness lies in its identity as a ‘roadside’ journal, with each issue proposing to explore what happens along a route – whether land, water, or air – that intersects Idaho” (University of Idaho).
“Atmosphere, the NYIT School of Architecture and Design’s annual publication, will introduce you to an overview of student works, travel programs, workshops, events, and conversations selected by our students’ driven editorial team.”
“The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.” The journal, published by Columbia University, focuses on the “theoretical, architectural, and political aspects” of the work of others.
“Column 5, the annual, student-produced journal of the Department of Architecture, Column 5 has been published and distributed to alumni and friends since 1987. The journal provides a forum for the critical exchange of ideas between the University and the broader community” (University of Washington).
Cornell Journal of Architecture
“The Cornell Journal of Architecture is a critical journal of architecture and urbanism produced by editors in the department of architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.”
“Contemporaneity is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly and artistic explorations of the diverse ways in which the complexities of being in time are expressed. It is based in the department of the History of Art & Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.”
CROP is a student-led, student-produced journal by Texas Tech University. “CROP gathers essays, interviews, and design work from the institution and beyond. It is a fully-bilingual publication—in both English and Spanish.”
Dialectic is a peer-reviewed journal of the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. “In the spirit of dialectical thinking, the journal brings together distinct voices in the discipline today on issues, values, methods and debates most important to the community of educators at the University of Utah and beyond nationally and globally.”
“Dichotomy, a student-led journal at the University of Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture and Community Development (SACD), strives to be a critical link between students and the discourses on design, architecture, urbanism, and community development.”
“Dimensions is the student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan, published annually since 1987.”
Discipline is a “student-edited, student-created journal of Architecture” at Arizona State University. “Publication of architecture student, faculty, and alumni works, field trips, and other events organized and edited by our AIAS Student Organization.”
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“EUNOIA is a student publication that features student design and research projects from across the design disciplines at Washington State University’s School of Design & Construction.”
Fresh Meat, which has been published since 2009, is the independent graduate architecture student publication of the University of Illinois at Chicago. It publishes content that both reflects and challenges UIC’s pedagogical agenda and is a response to the current architecture discipline.
“The Georgia Landscape Magazine is a student-run publication of the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia.”
“Glue, a journal produced and managed by students in the Department of Architecture at Ball State University’s R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning. Issues include student designs, drawings, and writings.”
“Harvard Design Magazine probes beyond the established design disciplines to enrich and diversify current discourse. Scholarly, poetic, and visually lush, each presents new interpretations of design’s defining role in today’s culture.”
“Hyphen is a print journal edited by Ph.D. students of the Department of Architecture at Penn State’s Stuckeman School.”
INDEX is an architecture journal published by the University of Southern California featuring the work of students and faculty. “The pedagogy and curriculum of USC Architecture’s graduate degree programs celebrate a pluralistic approach to what architecture means, what architecture’s impact can be, and how an individual architect interacts with the context of the global world.”
influx is an architecture publication by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The journal exhibits the pedagogical innovations and advances in research created by architecture students and faculty.
InSites Magazine is the annual publication of the Utah State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
Int|AR, the official publication of the Department of Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design: “The journal addresses issues of existing structures and adaptive reuse by promoting creative explorations of this subject through exemplary works in which sustainability is one important facet.”
Intersight Journal of Student Work
Intersight Journal of Student Work is a publication by the University at Buffalo. First published in 1990 as the School of Architecture and Planning’s journal of student work, Intersight chronicles the creative and scholarly outputs of our students and reflects on the pedagogy of the school.
“LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) Journal is a biannual print journal produced out of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.”
“LUNCH is the student-led publication for the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.”
OnSite is an annual journal published by the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department.
“Oz is the student-edited journal of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning, and Design. It explores ideas through publication of diverse responses to important issues related to the college’s four professional programs: architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and interior architecture/product design.”
“Pidgin is a publication edited and designed by graduate students at the Princeton University School of Architecture. The name Pidgin encapsulates the spirit of the journal: a type of communication formed by a lack of common language, and a homonym for a low-tech, feathered dispatch.”
“Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal is the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the United States and is internationally respected for its contributions to contemporary architectural discourse with original presentations of new projects as well as historical and theoretical essays.”
“PLAT is an independent architecture journal published by the students of Rice Architecture. Through a combination of open submissions and commissioned pieces, the editors seek out contributions from various disciplines to generate a vibrant conversation.”
“PLATFORM is the annual magazine of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. It serves as a platform for the school to investigate the intersections of its research, practice, and pedagogical approaches with a broader audience.”
“POOL is the student magazine of the Department of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles.”
The Process Journal is the student publication at the Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture.
Prometheus is published by the Illinois Institute of Technology. The journal has been publishing since 2017.
“Retrospecta is the annual journal of student work at the Yale School of Architecture. Part historical record, part monograph, Retrospecta seeks to capture and record the current life of the school.
Review is an annual Architecture magazine published by the University of Miami. The magazine contains student and faculty news highlights.
Room One Thousand is the graduate architecture journal at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
SCI-Arc Press is an architecture journal published by Southern California Institute of Architecture, envisioned “as a distinct voice in architecture to examine and propagate the work and research of designers and theorists developing the next generation of ideas.”
SEQUITUR is a scholarly art and architectural history journal that promotes “the scholarship and professional experience of graduate students by providing an online platform through which to publish material and to acquaint students with academic editorial processes and peer review.” (Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture)
Spacework is produced through Jefferson’s College of Architecture as a part of the Architectural Publication Course and “serves as a time capsule for the current trends, diverse personalities, and compelling stories of that academic year.”
Telesis, the student-led journal at the University of Oklahoma’s Gibbs College of Architecture.
“TKTNK is an undergraduate publication published by the Barnard + Columbia Architecture Society promoting architectural writing, research, and proposals that span a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, creative writing, urban studies, sustainability, planning, and preservation.”
“Established in 1992, Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture.”
VORKURS is the publication for the University of Florida’s Graduate School of Architecture. Founded in August 2015, it developed as an ode to the Bauhaus foundation course of the same name and aims to question outside parties, both academics and professionals.
This list of currently produced architecture school publications was compiled by Yarden Wallace, MLIS Candidate, May 2026.
Please send additions or updates to Barbara Opar at baopar@syr.edu.
