The world of architectural publishing has a diverse character that reflects its disciplinary make-up. It has a long tradition of professional architectural journals – Architectural Review, Architectural Record, A+U, El Croquis etc. Increasingly architectural scholarship is served by refereed journals – Journal of Architecture, ARQ, JAE, Daidalos, Lotus.

Alongside these vehicles, there is also a lively self-publishing tradition in architecture. This ranges from outright vanity publication and marketing material, to serious-minded regional publishing efforts, short-term project oriented work, sporadic issue-based initiatives, to student-led journals. These diverse outlets make up a shifting terrain, and perhaps because of its mobile, speculative and more openly motivated or ideological quality, often manages to support significant contributions to architectural scholarship, pedagogy and practice. This terrain is not inherently distinct from the formal academic publishing world. Often material is incubated in the former space, tested, tried out before finding its way to publication in the latter ‘official’ space.

ESALA has begun to engage with this quasi-formal publishing space in recent years -- catalogues, pamphlets, themed collections of essays etc. -- in addition to the formal scholarly publishing (details of which can be found on individual staff profiles and in the Research pages).