The Federation of Architectural Studies Independent Publications brings together non-profit academic journals invested in the advancement of architectural and art scholarship in all its dimensions. Once a year, the FAST-IP Board selects the most outstanding article submitted to its federated journals and awards it the "FAST-IP Excellence Award." The prize results in the simultaneous publication of the article in all the federated journals.

FAST-IP was founded by Mark Jarzombek (MIT), Jorge Otero-Pailos (Columbia University) and Vikram Prakash (University of Washington, Seattle) in 2004 with the mandate to advance architectural scholarship in all its dimensions. FAST-IP carries out its mission by serving as an international network of specialized professional and academic non-profit journals. Through FAST-IP, readers have access to a wide array of trusted sources where they may find the latest and most in-depth research in the world of architecture.

FAST-IP federated journals:

• Are committed to advancing architectural knowledge in all its dimensions.
• Represent and uphold the highest standards of scholarly excellence.
• Encourage cross-readership among federated journals through the exchange of advertising space.
• Promote exceptional authors by competing for the yearly FAST-IP prize for best published article.

Journals wishing to join FAST-IP:
The journal's Director must send a written request to the FAST-IP board stating the journal's history, area of specialization, mission, readership, run and periodicity. The request must be accompanied by: 1) a letter of recommendation from the Director of an existing FAST-IP journal, 2) sample copies of the last year's issues. All materials must be submitted to Prof. Jorge Otero-Pailos, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, 400 Avery Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027.

FAST-IP Award for Best Published Architectural Studies Article:
The Director of each federated journal is entitled to submit one article per year to be considered for the FAST-IP prize. Articles should be submitted in PDF format via email to prize@fast-ip.org before the last Friday in April. Only articles published in a FAST-IP affiliated journal during the previous calendar year are eligible for submission. The selection committee is composed of the Directors of all FAST-IP journals. FAST-IP will announce the winner by July 1st. The award entails the re-printing of the winning article in all FAST-IP journals before the end of the calendar year in which the prize was awarded. Deadline for submitting articles published in 2004: April 29 2005.

FAST-IP committee has chosen the following articles for merit:
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Lucia Allais, "Ordering the Order: Claude Perrault's Ordonnance and the Eastern Colonnade of the Louvre" Thresholds 28: Essays in Honor of Henry A. Millon (Winter 2005), 58-75.
       allais.pdf

David Karmon, "Renaissance Strategies to Protect the Colosseum: Selective Preservation and Reuse, Future Anterior, 2/2 (Winter 2005), 1-10.
       karmon.pdf

Daniel Naegele, "Drawing-over: Une Vie Decantée. Le Corbusier y Louis Soutter," 43-54
       naegele.pdf

Thresholds, published by the Department of Architecture at MIT, is a cross-disciplinary journal that comes out twice a year, publishing short articles around a particular theme. It is one of the leading departmental journals in the country and promotes interesting work in history, theory and practice with its primary emphasis on architecture and art. The Thresholds advisory board is composed of internationally recognized figures in various fields of visual culture.

To subscribe, write to: thresh@mit.edu
1 year (2 issues): $24 in US, $34 international
2 years (4 issues): $48 in US, $68 international

Essential reading for anyone interested in historic preservation and its role in current debates, Future Anterior approaches historic preservation from interdisciplinary positions of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, historic preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice, and results. Future Anterior asks these difficult questions from philosophical, aesthetic, historiographical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. As the first and only refereed journal of its kind in American academia, Future Anterior engages the reader in new ways of reflecting and taking on the built past not as constraint but as a provocation to intervene creatively in contemporary culture.

To subscribe, write to: futureanterior@columbia.edu
1 year (2 issues): $24 in US, $34 international
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Springerin is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the theory and critique of contemporary art and culture. Springerin addresses a public that perceives cultural phenomena as socially and politically determined. Springerin informs about current events and tendencies in the cultural field und tries to describe their conditions and meanings.

Ra, Revista de Arquitectura is yearly published by the Department of Architecture of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. Ra is a forum for results of the academic debate regarding to diverse dimensions of architecture and the city, considering both as cultural realities and as objects of careful attention, study and investigation.

Ra aims to specifically assemblage the intellectual production of Theory and History, Urban Planning and Architectural Design Departments, although it is open to articles and collaborations from independent professionals and other academic institutions. Ra avoid the publication of studio projects or faculty work, which are more suitable covered by so many other magazines of proven experience and reliability in that particular field. The Ra International Editorial Board invites you to collaborate with us.

To subscribe, write to: spetsa@unav.es
1 year (1 issue): 12euro international

      jorge tárrago mingo
      ETS Arquitectura. Universidad de Navarra
      31080 Pamplona. Spain
      jtarmin@alumni.unav.es