''Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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published since 1952 by the
Yale School of Architecture and distributed by the
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). It was established in 1962.
History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publ ...
. Graduate students are competitively chosen to edit each issue. It is the oldest architectural journal of its kind in the United States.
Contributors include some of the most important figures in contemporary architecture worldwide.
References
Further reading
* Robert A.M. Stern,
Peggy Deamer, Alan Plattus
Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal 2005
External links
*
''Perspecta'' series on the MIT Press website
Architecture journals
Publications established in 1952
MIT Press academic journals
English-language journals
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Academic journals edited by students
Yale University academic journals
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