The production of this book stems from two of the editors' longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of modernism in architecture given the role it played in postwar reconstruction in Europe.

Introduction Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham 1. Swiss Journals 1940-1965: mirroring the difficult departure into modernity Christoph Allenspach 2. Postwar Editorial Conversations in Germany: Baumeister and Baukunst und Werkform Torsten Schmiedeknecht 3. The Free Bird and Its Cages: Dutch architectural journals in the first decade after the Second World War Herman van Bergeijk 4. Nation Building: Sweden's modernisation and the autonomy of the profession Claes Caldenby 5. Visual Sensibility and the Search for Form: the Architectural Review in postwar Britain Andrew Higgott 6. Axe or Mirror? Architectural journals in postwar Hungary András Ferkai 7. Periodicals and the Return to Modernity after the Spanish Civil War: Arquitectura, Hogar y Architectura and Nueva Forma Ana Esteban Maluenda 8. The Greek Vision of Postwar Modernity Panayotis Tournikiotis 9. Architecture d'aujord'hui, the André Bloc years Nicholas Bullock 10. Against the Contingencies of Italian Society: issues of historical continuity and doscontinuity in Italy's postwar architectural periodicals Paolo Scrivano 11. The After-Life of the Architectural Journal Andrew Peckham