Moderne Bauformen: Monatshefte für Architektur und Raumkunst was a monthly German architecture and interior-design journal published by Julius Hoffmann Verlag in Stuttgart from 1902 to 1944. Across four decades it reviewed and illustrated international currents in architecture, interior design, ornament, industrial design, garden design, and urban planning, typically profiling a leading architect or a notable new building, domestic or international, in each issue. This archive holds the journal's issues from 1904 to 1937.
The magazine passed through several editors over its run: architect and critic Max Joseph Gradl founded and led it from 1902 to 1909, followed briefly by Paul Klopfer in 1910. Art historian Casimir Hermann Baer then edited the journal for over a decade, from 1911 to 1921, before publisher Julius Hoffmann took over editorial duties himself from 1922 to 1931. Herbert Hoffmann succeeded him in 1932 and oversaw the magazine through its final years, closing with a combined issue 7–9 of the 1944 volume.
Contributors over the decades included Otto Müller-Jena, Hans Paul Schmohl, Mia Seeger, and Joseph August Lux, among many others.
The scans reproduced here are drawn from the Heidelberg University Library digital collection and the Silesian Digital Library (Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa), both of which granted permission to republish this material.
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4,504 buildings and projects have been extracted from the issues; a selection is listed here, each opening the issue at its page. See all 4,504 projects in the project directory.
The full editorial timeline of Moderne Bauformen, as documented by Wikidata and the Heidelberg digital library.
Founding editor of the magazine; architect and architectural writer.
Briefly succeeded Gradl for a single volume year before Baer took over.
Art historian and architecture critic; edited the journal for over a decade.
The magazine's own publisher took over editorial responsibility directly for nearly a decade.
Oversaw the journal through its final years, closing with a combined issue in 1944.
Selected scholarship on the journal, and the institutional sources from which the database draws its scans and transcripts.
The reproductions are sourced from the Heidelberg University Library digital collection and the Silesian Digital Library (Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa), both of which granted permission to republish this material. Scans were assembled into PDF booklets, processed for Character Recognition, and re-uploaded as flipbooks.
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