Urbanitet og modernisme
Walter Benjamin, « Paris, det 19. Århundredes hovedstad », i Walter Benjamin, Kulturindustri. Udvalgte Skrifter, København: Bibliotek Rhodos, 1973, s. 95-112
Walter Benjamin, ”Centralpark”, i Walter Benjamin, Kulturindustri. Udvalgte Skrifter, København, Bibliotek Rhodos, 1974, s. 161-180
Vincent Bouvet og Gérard Durozoi: Paris. Between the Wars 1919-1939. Art, Life & Culture. The Vendome Press, 2010. (ca 200 s tekst)
Barry Bergdoll: “The City Transformed, 1848-90”. I Bergdoll; European Architecture 1750-1890, Oxford History of Art, s.241-268, 2000 og senere utgaver.
Sigfried Giedion: “The Streets becomes dominant: The Transformation of Paris, 1853-1868” I Space, Time and Architecture. The Growth of a new tradition, Camebridge, Massachusetts,(Fifth edition, 1941-1982) Part VII, s. 739-773.
Sigfried Giedion: Bauen in Frankreich. Bauen in Eisen. Bauen in Eisenbeton, Berlin, 1928. Her leses bruddstykker; s. 3-12, 36-38, 70-82.
Hilde Heynen: Architecture and Modernity. A Critique, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999. Her leses følgende tre tekster: “An architectural Avant-Garde?” (s.26-28), Sigfried Giedion: A programmatic View of Modernity” (s.29-42) “Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society” (s. 95-117).
Modernismens billedkunst
T.J.Clark, Image of the People: Gustav Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, University of California Press, 1999 (208 s.)
T.J.Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers, Princeton University Press, 1999 (376 s.)
Guillaume Apollinaire, « The Cubists » 1911, « On the Subject in Modern Painting » 1912, « The New Painting : Art Notes » 1912, from The Cubist Painters, i Charles Harrison og Paul Wood, Art in Theory. 1900-2000. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003,s. 185-188
Clement Greenberg, “Avant-garde and Kitsch”, “Towards a Newer Laocoon” 1940, “i Charles Harrison og Paul Wood, Art in Theory. 1900-2000. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, s. 539-549 og 562-568,
Clement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1993: "Late Monet", s. 3-10, "Picasso at Seventy-Five", s. 26-25, "Modernist Painting", s. 85-93
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, from The Rise of Cubism, 1916-20, i Charles Harrison og Paul Wood, Art in Theory. 1900-2000. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, s. 208-214
Harold Rosenberg, “The Fall of Paris” 1940, i Charles Harrison og Paul Wood, Art in Theory. 1900-2000. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003,s. 549-553
Le Corbusier og modernismens arkitektur
Jean-Louis Cohen: “A Journey through the Modern World: The Life and the Work of Le Corbusier”. I Jean-Louis Cohen og Staffan Ahrenberg: Le Corbusier´s Secret Laboratory. From Painting to Architecture, 2013 s. 57- 94. Introduserende tekst om Le Corbusier.
Jean-Louis Cohen (red): Le Corbusier. An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. MOMA, 2013. Her leses: “Paris”, s 224-297. Diverse korte artikler om Le Corbusier´s relasjon til Paris, belyst av forskere som Daniéle Pauly, Barry Bergdoll, Jean Louis Cohen, Arthur Rüegg, Anthony Vidler, Ronny Golan, Caroline Maniaque-Benton.
Utvalgte artikler om modernismen i Neil Leach (ed.): Rethinking Architecture. A reader in cultural theory, Routledge, 1997. Her leses: Georg Simmel, “Bridge and Door” (s.66-69), Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life” (s.69-84), Georges Bataille, “Architecture”, “Slaughterhouse”, “Museum” (3 artikler, s.21-22) , Sigfried Kracauer, “The Hotel Lobby” (s.53-58), Sigfried Kracauer, “On Employment Agencies: The Construction of a Space.” (s.59-64)