| Foreword | 11 |
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| 1903 - Henry van de Velde: Programme | 13 |
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| 1906 - Hans Poelzig: Fermentation in architecture | 14 |
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| 1907 - Henry van de Velde: Credo | 18 |
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| 1908 - Adolf Loos: Ornamentation and crime | 19 |
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| 1910 - Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture | 25 |
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| 1911 - Hermann Muthesius: Aims of the Werkbund | 26 |
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| 1914 - Muthesius / Van de Velde: Werkbund theses and antitheses | 28 |
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| 1914 - Paul Scheerbart: Glass architecture | 32 |
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| 1914 - Antonio Sant'Elia / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: Futurist architecture | 34 |
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| 1918 - 'De Stijl': Manifesto I | 39 |
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| 1918 - Bruno Taut: A programme for architecture | 41 |
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| 1919 - 'Work Council for Art': Under the wing of a great architecture | 44 |
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| 1919 - Gropius / Taut / Behne: New ideas on architecture | 46 |
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| 1919 - Walter Gropius: Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar | 49 |
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| 1919 - Erich Mendelsohn: The problem of a new architecture | 54 |
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| 1920 - Naum Gabo / Antoine Pevsner: Basic principles of Constructivism | 56 |
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| 1920 - Bruno Taut: Down with seriousism! | 1920 |
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| 1920 - Le Corbusier: Towards a new architecture: guiding principles | 59 |
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| 1921 - Bruno Taut: Frühlicht (Daybreak) | 63 |
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| 1922 - 'De Stijl': Creative Demands | 64 |
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| 1923 - 'De Stijl': Manifesto V | 66 |
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| 1923 - Van Doesberg and van Eesteren: Towards collective building (Commentary on Manifesto V) | 67 |
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| 1923 - Oskar Schlemmer: Manifesto for the first Bauhaus exhibition | 69 |
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| 1923 - Werner Graeff: The new engineer is coming | 71 |
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| 1923 - Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and function | 72 |
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| 1923 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Working theses | 74 |
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| 1923 - Arthur Korn: Analytical and Utopian architecture | 76 |
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| 1924 - Theo van Doesburg: Towards a plastic architecture | 78 |
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| 1924 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Industrialized building | 81 |
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| 1924 - Hemann Finsterlin: Casa Nova | 83 |
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| 1924 - Kasimir Malevich: Suprematist manifesto Unovis | 87 |
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| 1925 - Le Corbusier: Guiding principles of town planning | 89 |
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| 1926 - Walter Gropius: Principles of Bauhaus production [Dessau] | 95 |
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| 1926 - Frederick Kiesler: Space City architecture | 98 |
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| 1926 - Le Corbusier / Pierre Jeanneret: Five points towards a new architecture | 99 |
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| 1927 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: On form in architecture | 102 |
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| 1927 - Hugo Häring: Formulations towards a reorientation in the applied arts | 103 |
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| 1928 - Erich Mendelsohn / Bernhard Hoetger: Synthesis - World Architecture | 106 |
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| 1928 - CIAM: La Sarraz Declaration | 109 |
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| 1928 - ABC demands dictatorship of the machine | 115 |
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| 1928 - Hannes Meyer: Building | 117 |
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| 1929 - El Lissitzky: Ideological superstructure | 121 |
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| 1930 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The new era | 123 |
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| 1931 - Frank Lloyd Wright: Young Architecture | 124 |
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| 1932 - Hugo Häring: The house as an organic structure | 126 |
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| 1932 - R. Buckminster Fuller: Universal architecture | 128 |
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| 1933 - CIAM: Charter of Athens: tenets | 137 |
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| 1943 - Walter Gropius / Martin Wagner: A programme for city reconstruction | 146 |
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| 1947 - A post-war appeal: fundamental demands | 148 |
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| 1947 - Frederick Kiesler: Magical Architecture | 150 |
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| 1949 - Henry van de Velde: Forms | 152 |
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| 1950 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Technology and Architecture | 154 |
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| 1954 - Jacques Fillon: New games! | 155 |
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| 1957 - Konrad Wachsmann: Seven theses | 156 |
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| 1958 - Hundertwasser: Mould Manifesto against rationalism in architecture | 157 |
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| 1958 - Constant / Debord: Situationist definitions | 161 |
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| 1960 - William Katavolos: Organics | 163 |
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| 1960 - Reinhard Gieselman / Oswald Mathias Ungers: Towards a new architecture | 165 |
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| 1960 - GEAM: Programme for a mobile architecture | 167 |
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| 1960 - Louis I. Kahn: Order is | 169 |
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| 1960 - Werner Ruhnau / Yves Klein: Project for an aerial architecture | 171 |
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| 1960 - 'Situationists': International Manifesto | 172 |
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| 1960 - Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz: The Space City | 175 |
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| 1960 - Constant: New Babylon | 177 |
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| 1961 - R. Buckminster Fuller: The architect as world planner | 179 |
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| 1962 - Walter Pichler / Hans Hollien: Absolute architecture | 181 |
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| 1962 - Yona Friedman: The ten principles of space town planning | 183 |
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| 1963 - We demand | 185 |
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| Sources | 187 |
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| Index | 191 |
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