journals and magazines you won't find in bookstores. you might have to go to the library or suck it up and get a subscription to jstor.

read em, emulate the writing style and notation... submit and wait a long, long time. if it is good, you'll get published.

be prepared to have an extremely polarized viewpoint.

if you want to be published there are two kinds of publication to aim for. one is peer-reviewed, the other is not.

peer-reviewed is better but requires you have something to write about that you can prove. which is to say you need to do research that you can fit into a group of existing research by others then show how you have created new content and why the content is worth reading.

most architects do not have the skills to do this. nor the opportunity frankly. in spite of rockandhill's admonitions to expect polarization in actuality for that kind of journal you will need less opinion and more content. for example, if you want to write about automobile pollution and how it causes disease then you have to prove which diseases and do an actual study to prove the correlation of disease to automobile. viewpoint is not relevant to that kind of writing. verifiable results are the main thing.

for the other kind of publication the only important point is that the editors set the tone and the content. better magazines will require much the same as above, while others are fine if you make unsubstantiated claims.


it is also fairly easy to be published on the strength of your architectural work. assuming you have work that is interesting most magazines are hungry for content and the only thing you need to do is send it off to the publishers.

as for how to get things going, JSTOR is actually pretty good and the search is free. type in the topic you are thinking about writing on and see what pops up. JSTOR will give you abstracts of the work for free and there you can read the basic info as well as get the name of publications. if you find a journal that interests you then google the place and follow the trail till you find out where to send submissions. easy.


the hard part is to have content. in my case i just finished phd so have been publishing and speaking at conferences about that work recently. i also run an office and have been able to get our work published in places like wallpaper, interni, frame, etc. it takes time, but becomes easier once you have momentum going.

good luck.

jump, i love you.

That is a lot of great information. Thanks a lot for posting!

I have also been looking at writing as a side project to my design work. Its been slow going but I have had a few articles published and am running my own small website.

If anyone is interested in contributing let me know. I can't pay but it is good exposure - the site gets around 30 visits a day.

Lucas Gray
www.talkitect.com

The best place to start is to look for teaching assistant work. If you feel like you are too senior for TA work, you could try to partner with an academic you already know as a kind of studio/practice collaboration/

first time i heard about JSTOR... interesting to know about this, went to their site, try to register and do some searching, unfortunately "outsider" not allow to register nor access to information... too bad!

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that-- you can only access JSTOR through institutions. I remember at one point you might have been able to subscribe to it.

I "steal" from JSTOR. I tend to drive my car to my old university and park in one of the garages close enough to a building to get wifi. Then I just do a couple of searches and download as many PDFs as I can when I need too.

BMD- the easiest way to start teaching is to... teach. volunteer to be a juror at the local design school and other similar extra-curricular stuff. Writing is only one of the notches on your CV that universities look at. Design competitions are another route into getting noticed (and published). Contact all your old profs and ask if they have any interesting projects that they need help on (ie writings, et cetera). Local newspapers often need folks to write about the built environment.

Are you looking to remain in you current location or to relocate in pursuit of a teaching gig? it is easiest to connect with your alma mater or a local school that you have connections to via the community. nurture those connection as references are very, very important in the academic world.

teaching is as if not more competitive then practice, so take a full stock of what you really have to offer students beyond your ego. Do you have cutting edge design experience? expert knowledge of sustainable design (not just LEED)? a portfolio full of social justice projects? Are you a god in BIM or Rhino or ? Can you identify Palladio from Vetruvius with a blindfold on? Can you build a boat with just your pinkies?

What really makes you qualified to teach? what distinguishes you from every other PA/PM/Job Captain/downsized architect/frustrated architect that thinks the grass is greener?

there are quite a number of threads regarding teaching on archinect, take the time to search for them and read up.

aspect, if u have friends in school, they probably have a subscription to jstor through their school email id and password, or watever they use for online registration or the like,, ask around, most schools have jstor, and there are other hosts too, so if u dont get jstor, ull be able to get others,, try it out, worth a shot

bluemd, i second agfa8x, if u have any friends who are teaching already, ask to visit their studio reviews, or to visit for crits and the sort, students like that alot, especially if u can offer something to the table,,, u dont have to be "relevant" to their work per se,, u just have to make sense, thats the beauty about education, u can have ur own viewpoint, but stil be able to adapt when needed,,, anyway, get urself noticed in the school, and more ppl will ask u to come over,, and u might get offered a teachin post or something,, its a ladder u gotta climb, just like the profession, sort of

don't even try getting published if u spell like that ppl.

did i say anything?

thanks for information

treekiller shall design a facebook quiz "are u ready to teach", should be fun^^

One fairly easy way to get published in a more visible (though non-academic) way is to pen an editorial for the local paper. NOT a cranky-letter-to-the-editor, but a thoughtful piece (it can still be critical) focused on a particular topic. A proposed plan, new infrastructure project, controversial planning ordinance... that kind of thing.

Most newspaper editors are always looking for this kind of material. Find out who the appropriate person is at your city's paper and submit a piece for their consideration. I did this at the LA Times, then started to get requests for other editorials in the Sunday op-ed section.

Now, these are not career-builders, but a handful of such citations in your CV can help fill out a shorter list of more serious articles and cast you as a person who writes regularly for a range of audiences. Not a bad thing for someone applying for an academic gig.

I think you use JSTOR if you join SAH, the Society for Architectural Historians:

http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=JSAH%20Online&category=Publications

Make that: I think you _can_ use JSTOR if...