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1903 Henry van de Velde: Programme --
1906 Hans Poelzig: Fermentation in architecture --
1907 Henry van de Velde: Credo --
1908 Adolf Loos: Ornament and crime --
1910 Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic architecture --
1911 Hermann Muthesius: Aims of the Werkbund --
1914 Muthesius/Van de Velde: Werkbund theses and antitheses --
1914 Paul Scheerbart: Glass architecture --
1914 Antonio Sant'Elia/Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: Futurist architecture --
1918 `De Stijl': Manifesto 1 --
1918 Bruno Taut: A programme for architecture --
1919 'Work Council for Art': Under the wing of a great architecture --
1919 Gropius/Taut/Behne: New ideas on architecture --
1919 Walter Gropius: Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar --
1919 Erich Mendelsohn: The problem of a new architecture --
1920 Naum Gabo/Antoine Pevsner: Basic principles of Constructivism --
1920 Bruno Taut: Down with seriousism! --
1920 Le Corbusier: Towards a new architecture: guiding principles --
1921 Bruno Taut: Friihlicht (Daybreak) --
1922 'De Stijl': Creative demands --
1923 'De Stijl': Manifesto V Van Doesburg and van Eesteren: Towards collective building (Commentary on Manifesto V) --
1923 Oskar Schlemmer: Manifesto for the first Bauhaus exhibition --
1923 Werner Graeff: The new engineer is coming --
1923 Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and function --
1923 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Working theses --
1923 Arthur Korn: Analytical and Utopian architecture --
1924 Theo van Doesburg: Towards a plastic architecture --
1924 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Industrialized building --
1924 Hermann Finsterlin: Casa Nova --
1924 Kasimir Malevich: Suprematist manifesto Unovis --
1925 Le Corbusier: Guiding principles of town planning --
1926 Walter Gropius: Principles of Bauhaus production [Dessau] --
1926 Frederick Kiesler: Space City architecture --
1926 Le Corbusier/Pierre Jeanneret: Five points towards a new architecture --
1927 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: On form in architecture --
1927 Hugo Haring: Formulations towards a reorientation in the applied arts --
1928 Erich Mendelsohn/Bernhard Hoetger: Synthesis - World Architecture --
1928 CIAM: La Sarraz Declaration --
1928 ABC demands the dictatorship of the machine --
1928 Hannes Meyer: Building --
1929 El Lissitzky: Ideological superstructure --
1930 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The new era --
1931 Frank Lloyd Wright: Young architecture --
1932 Hugo Hiring: The house as an organic structure --
1932 R. Buckminster Fuller: Universal architecture --
1933 CIAM: Charter of Athens: tenets --
1943 Walter Gropius/Martin Wagner: A programme for city reconstruction --
1947 A post-war appeal: fundamental demands --
1947 Frederick Kiesler: Magical Architecture --
1949 Henry van de Velde: Forms --
1950 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Technology and architecture --
1954 Jacques Fillon: New games! --
1957 Konrad Wachsmann: Seven theses --
1958 Hundertwasser: Mould Manifesto against rationalism in architecture --
1958 Constant/Debord: Situationist definitions 163 1960 William Katavolos: Organics --
1960 Reinhard Gieselman/Oswald Mathias Lingers: Towards a new architecture --
1960 GEAM: Programme for a mobile architecture --
1960 Louis 1. Kahn: Order is --
1960 Werner Ruhnau/Yves Klein: Project for an aerial architecture --
1960 `Situationists': International Manifesto --
1960 Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz: The Space City --
1960 Constant: New Babylon --
1961 R. Buckminster Fuller: The architect as world planner --
1962 Walter Pichler/Hans Hollein: Absolute architecture --
1962 Yona Friedman: The ten principles of space town planning --
1963 We demand --

The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The most influential of these are collected here in chronological order from 1903 to 1963. Taken together, they constitute a subjective history of modern architecture; compared with one another, their great diversity of style reveals in many cases the basic differences of attitude and temperament that produced a corresponding divergence in architectural style. In point of view, the book covers the aesthetic spectrum from right to left; from programs that rigidly generate designs down to the smallest detail to revolutionary manifestoes that call for anarchy in building form and town plan. The documents, placed in context by the editor, are also international in their range- among them are the seminal and prophetic statements of Henry van de Velde, Adolf Loos, and Bruno Taut from the early years of the century; Frank Lloyd Wright's 1910 annunciation of Organic Architecture; Gropius's original program for the Bauhaus, founded in Weimar in 1919; "Towards a New Architecture, Guiding Principles" by Le Corbusier; the formulation by Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner of the basic principles of Constructivism; and articles by R. Buckminster Fuller on universal architecture and the architect as world planner. Other pronouncements, some in flamboyant style, including those of Erich Mendelsohn, Hannes Meyer, Theo van Doesburg, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, El Lissitzky, and Louis I. Kahn. There are also a number of collective or group statements, issued in the name of movements such as CIAM, De Stijl, ABC, the Situationists, and GEAM.
Since the dramatic effectiveness of the manifesto form is usually heightened by brevity and conciseness, it has been possible to reproduce most of the documents in their entirety; only a few have been excerpted.