Search ArchNet collections for architectures of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
ArchNet (“focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.”)
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program (a joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center)
Inner Asia Digital Archive (American Center for Mongolian Studies)
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Mimar: architecture in development (journal focusing on architecture in the Islamic world. E-journal versions from 1981-92 available via ArchNet)
Barshee, Tenzing, et al, “Aeuroasia: Oyster Muscle,” Domus, May 2011, p.106-115
Demchenko, Igor, “Decentralized past: heritage politics in post-Stalin Central Asia,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.65-80 (via Jstor)
Frye, David, "Walls connect Eurasia : China and central Asia, c. 100 BC", and "Walls and the Apocalypse : Western and Central Asia, AD 500-1300", in Walls : a history of civilization in blood and brick, Scribner, UG400 .W35 2018
Komaroff, Linda & Stefano Carboni, The legacy of Genghis Khan: courtly art and culture in western Asia, 1256-1353, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N7283 .L44 2002
Mould, David H., Postcards from Stanland: journeys in Central Asia, Ohio University Press, 2016 (via Ebook Central)
Oliver, Paul (editor), Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2 (See: “Central Asia and Mongolia,” p.855-873)
Sartori, Paolo, Exploration in the social history of modern Central Asia, Brill, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Soucek, Svatopluk, A history of inner Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)
Wood, Frances, The Silk Road: two thousand years in the heart of Asia, University of California Press, DS33.1 .W59 2002
*Afghanistan sits at the cross roads of South and Central Asia, and thus appears here and in the Kappe research guide: Architectures of South & Southeast Asia.
“Afghanistan,” Oxford Art Online
Banti, Sara, “The stirring of consciences,” Abitare, May 2016, p.36-47 (On four works, including a maternity hospital and surgical center)
Cutuli, Mario, et al, “Half school, half fortress,” Abitare, June 2011, p.86-99 (On the Maria Grazia Cutuli School in Herat, Afghanistan)
Fontenot, Anthony & Ajmal Maiwandi, “Reconstructing Kabul: past, present and future,” Volume, 2014, #40, p.30-39
Kazimee, Bashir A. & James McQuillan, “Living traditions of the Afghan courtyard and Aiwan,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2002, p.23-34 (PDF via Jstor)
Martinez-Sève, Laurianne, “The spatial organization of Ai Khanoum, a Greek city in Afghanistan,” American Journal of Archaeology, 2014, vol. 118, #2, p.267-283 (Downloadable PDF via Academia)
Mollard, Manon, “A woman’s place,” Architectural Review, October 2015, p.84-89
Stein, Gil J., “The war-ravaged cultural heritage of Afghanistan,” Near Eastern Archaeology, September 2015, p.187-195 (PDF via The Pearson Institute)
Astana, Mayor’s Office official website
“Kazakhstan,” Oxford Art Online
Koch, Natalie, “Urban ‘utopias’: the Disney stigma and discourses of false modernity,” Environment and Planning A, October 2012, p.2445-2462 (PDF via academia.edu)
Palumbo, Jacqui, “The incomparable, futuristic architecture of Kazakhstan’s young capital,” Artsy, August 16, 2018 (via www.artsy.net)
Sterling, Bruce, “Bruce Sterling: Speculative architecture,” SCI-Arc Media Archive, September 26, 2018 (Discusses Astana, Kazakhstan, begins at 15:46)
Yeang ,Ken, "Premier City, Almaty Kazakhstan", in Ecomasterplanning, Wiley, NA997.Y43 A4 2009
“World Expo 2017 exhibition site, Astana, Kazakhstan,” Arca International, January / February 2014, p.38-43
World Heritage Sites in Kazakhstan (UNESCO)
“Architectural Monuments in Kyrgyzstan” Travel Guide to Kyrgystan (site with photos and text describing historical monuments) (via https://too.kg/en/)
Igmen, Ali, Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
"Kyrgyzstan, Republic of," Oxford Art Online
Morton, Margaret, “Cities of the dead,” The Architectural League of New York, 2014 (via archleague.org)
Osmoeva, Altynai, "Fazana's roots and wings," Moowon (online magazine and store), retrieved March 2019
Albers, Anni, “The Pliable Plane; Textiles in Architecture,” Perspecta, v.4, 1957, p.36–41 (PDF via Jstor)
Bolchover, Joshua, “Settling the nomads,” Architectural Design, July/August 2016, p.20-27 (On tent structures and portable housing in urban Ulaanbbatar, Mongolia)
Centlivres-Demont, Micheline, “Mongol,” Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world, edited by Paul Oliver, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2, p.864-865
Kamata, Takuya, et al, Managing urban expansion in Mongolia: best practices in scenario-based urban planning, World Bank Publications, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
"Mongolia," Oxford Art Online
“Mongolian Architecture,” ArchDaily, retrieved May 21, 2019 (collection of articles on contemporary architectures in Mongolia)
Adineh, Esfandiar, “Demolishing Dushanbe: how the former city of Stalinabad is erasing its Soviet past,” The Guardian, October 19, 2017
Nourzhanov, Kirill & Christian Bleuer, Tajikistan: a political and social history, Australian National University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Simeon, Pierre, “Hulbuk: architecture and material culture of the capital of the Banijurids in Central Asia,” Muqarnas, 2012, Vol.29, p.385-421 (On a medieval citadel) (via Jstor)
"Tajikistan," Oxford Art Online
Wain, Anthony, “Up on the roof,” Topos, 2013, #82, p.84-87 (On a public park in the capital city of Gorno-Badakhshan)
Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, Tribal nation: the making of Soviet Turkmenistan, Princeton University Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)
Golombek, Lisa, “The so-called “Turabeg Khanon” mausoleum in Kunya Urgench,” Muqarnas, 2011, Vol.28, p.133-156 (via Jstor)
Taylor, Alan, “The city of white marble: Ashgabat, Turkmenistan,” The Atlantic, June 5, 2013 (via www.theatlantic.com)
"Turkmenistan," Oxford Art Online
World Heritage Sites in Turkmenistan (UNESCO)
Badr, Jasmin & Mustafa Tupev, "The Khoja Zainuddin Mosque in Bukhara,” Muqarnas, 2012, Vol.29, p.213-243 (via Jstor)
Degeorge, Gerard & Pierre Chuvin, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Flammarion, NA1498.S3 C48 2001
Meuser, Philipp, Seismic modernism: architecture and housing in Soviet Tashkent, DOM Publishers, NA1492.382.T37 M48 2016
Shaw, Charles, "The Gur-i Amir mausoleum and the Soviet politics of preservation," Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, #1, 2011, p. 43-63 (PDF via Jstor)
Shiskina, G.B. & N.B. Nemtseva, “Samarkand,” Oxford Art Online
Stronski, Paul, Tashkent: forging a Soviet city, 1930–1966, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
“Uzbekistan, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online
World Heritage Sites in Uzbekistan (UNESCO)
Beyer, Elke, “Competitive coexistence: Soviet town planning and housing projects in Kabul in the 1960s,” Journal of Architecture, June 2012, p.309-332
Stronski, Paul, Tashkent: forging a Soviet city, 1930–1966, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Wain, Anthony, “Up on the roof,” Topos, 2013, #82, p.84-87 (On a public park in Khorog, Tajikistan)
Wurmb-Seibel, Ronja von, “Dear Kabul,” Topos, 2017, #99, p.40-45
Crawford, James, “Journey to the tent at the centre of the world: Karakorum, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia,” in Fallen glory: the lives and deaths of history’s greatest buildings, Picador, NA209 .C73 2017
Igmen, Ali, Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Morgan, Llewelyn, The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Harvard University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Nourzhanov, Kirill & Christian Bleuer, Tajikistan: a political and social history, ANU Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Schatz, Edward, Modern clan politics: the power of “blood” in Kazakhstan and beyond, University of Washington Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)
Adineh, Esfandiar, “Demolishing Dushanbe: how the former city of Stalinabad is erasing its Soviet past,” The Guardian, October 19, 2017
Freedman, Eric & Richard Shafer (editors), After the czars and commissars: journalism in authoritarian post-Soviet Central Asia, Michigan State University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Mould, David H., Postcards from Stanland: Journeys in Central Asia, Ohio University Press, 2016 (via Ebook Central)
Demchenko, Igor, “Decentralized past: heritage politics in post-Stalin Central Asia,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.64-80
Leslie, Jolyon, “Reclaiming Babur’s ‘light garden’ in Kabul,” Volume, 2010, #26, p.70-73
Shaw, Charles, “The Gur-I Amir Mausoleum and the Soviet politics of preservation,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.42-63
Leslie, Jolyon, “Reclaiming Babur’s ‘light garden’ in Kabul,” Volume, 2010, #26, p.70-73
Wain, Anthony, “Up on the roof,” Topos, 2013, #82, p.84-87 (On a public park in Khorog, Tajikistan)
Graham, Mark, Afghanistan in the cinema, University of Illinois Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Kushner, Tony, Homebody / Kabul, Theatre Communications Group, 2005 (revised edition) (via Ebook Central)
Beyer, Elke, “Competitive coexistence: Soviet town planning and housing projects in Kabul in the 1960s,” Journal of Architecture, June 2012, p.309-332
Billé, Franck, et al, Frontier encounters: knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border, Open Book Publishers, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Demchenko, Igor, “Decentralized past: heritage politics in post-Stalin Central Asia,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.64-80
Fontenot, Anthony & Ajmal Maiwandi, “Reconstructing Kabul: past, present and future,” Volume, 2014, #40, p.30-39
Geukjian, Ohannes, Ethnicity, nationalism and conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the legacy of Soviet nationalities policy, Taylor & Francis, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Igmen, Ali, Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Kalinovsky, Artemy M., A long goodbye: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Harvard University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
“The evolving Mongolian ger,” Field Study of the World, January 25, 2016, accessed July 8, 2019 (www.fieldstudyoftheworld.com)
Oliver, Paul (editor), Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2, (See: “Central Asia and Mongolia,” p.855-873)
Kazimee, Bashir A. & James McQuillan, “Living traditions of the Afghan courtyard and Aiwan,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2002, p.23-34 (PDF via Jstor)
