The Avery Review

The Avery Review—an online journal of critical essays dedicated to thinking about buildings, books, and other architectural media, broadly defined—is seeking submissions for the spring. We publish

monthly during the academic year, and while we do accept submissions on a rolling basis, for full consideration for this coming semester, texts should be received by January 17.

This spring we’re looking forward to pieces that bring friction to the quick pace of reaction, to essays that labor in the contemplative terrain of critique and ask how we might understand the urgency of the present as a persistent condition. What does it look like when architecture slows down to resist, refuse, or struggle? What are the many complicities of architecture—what have they always been—and how can exploring these complicities help us imagine new paths forward for the field?

We invite writers to submit work that offers alternative forms of practice, that digs into the region known as “the rural,” that reads social justice into the built environment, and that de-normalizes the discipline. These issues aren’t new. They’re what designers, writers, historians, urbanists, and citizens should always be thinking about, though they may now be resonating more loudly.

More information at the Avery Review website.