Builder magazines are available by the truckloads in bookstores and on newsstands around the world, and are also accessible online. Below are just a few of the major publications, with helpful commentary from editors, publishers, and readers.
~PAPER and INK BUILDER MAGAZINES~
Builder Magazine
Builder Magazine, a publication for home-building industry, is read by builders, architects, subcontractors, and building manufacturers and agents.
Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest, though not a purely building magazine but rather a top interior design magazine, is dedicated to international consumers, builders, and readers with interior design interests. Each month the periodical features visits inside homes of celebrities and leaders in entertainment, business, society, and the arts. With sections such as "Historic Architecture," "Designers at Large," and "Estates for Sale," readers can study design styles or be inspired by design ideas.
Architecture
Architecture has what one reviewer called «more serious architectural commentary.»
Custom Home Magazine
Custom Home Magazine, previously published as Custom Builder (CBD), is a magazine dedicated to those concerned with the custom home market--builders, architects and interior designers.
Dwell Magazine
Dwell Magazine, a «showcase of modern home design and architecture,» is a popular publication covering both interiors and exteriors. This magazine includes stories, pictorials, and feature articles focused on the «latest trends in modern furniture design, ideas and advice on interior design, and environmentally-sensitive architecture.» One reviewer marks this building magazine as his first choice for «reasonable (and financially attainable) interior design commentary.»
Home Builder Magazine
Home Builder Magazine covers topics involving the new residential construction market.
Luxury Home Builder
Luxury Home Builder, previously titled Professional Builder & Remodeler, is also a publication covering the residential construction industry. The magazine features sections on building legislation, news, market data, merchandising, and design, and covers other related topics such as land development, technology, and new products related to the building and construction market.
Metropolitan Home
Metropolitan Home is a builder magazine that features insightful commentary on architectural trends and interior decoration, carries notes on home peripherals in the "TechNotes" and "Collecting" sections, and provides full-color home pictorials of modern and classic homes. While one reviewer notes that the magazine «tends to focus on multi-bedroom homes, but does sometimes branch out to cover smaller city dwellings such as apartments and condominiums, and even, in one 2001 issue, rooftop gardens,» the publisher notes that the magazine «focuses on the art of living well» by containing «coverage of home design, furnishings, fashion, food, wine and spirits, entertaining, electronics and travel»,»features and articles that are «aimed at quality-conscious young adults seeking personal, individual style and comfort in decorating.»
Rural Builder Magazine
Rural Builder Magazine is what the publishers define as «the only publication serving the market occupied by the diversified town and country builder.» The periodical features articles and information in every issue that are «designed to help contractors better manage their businesses through features and news about the industry, suppliers, and products» of and in rural environments.
~ONLINE BUILDER MAGAZINES~
Architecture Week (architectureweek.com)
Architecture Week, the New Magazine of Design and Building is a leading online building and design magazine that features news and information»updated weekly»on architecture, building, construction, and digital media as it relates to building and design. This cutting edge coverage is read by 200,000 readers a month, likely due to the publishers» «aim to set a new standard for accessible, frank, accurate, probing, integrated, and inclusive coverage of the built environment.»
Arch News Now (ArchNewsNow.com)
ArchNewsNow.com , according to Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Richards, «delivers the most comprehensive coverage of national and international news, projects, products, and events in the world of architecture and design.» Delivered daily to subscribers, the free newsletter links to cutting edge news and current events in the architecture and design worlds, and features, in addition, cover articles on «international projects by established and up-and-coming architects and designers;» articles containing observations, opinions, and musings on a range of subjects written by industry leaders; and a current update calendar that «includes conferences, competitions, and exhibitions of interest to A&D professionals, with links to the events' websites.»
Loud Paper (loudpapermag.com)
Loud Paper, an avant-garde building and design magazine for the thoughtful, is a «ezine dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse»is a slambamgetitoutthere way of linking architectural thoughts, musings and new work with the culture at large,» according to the publishers and editors. An open-minded, intelligent coverage of architecture and culture, Loud Paper--which is «open to all students, architects, educators, girls about town, dear Johns, and critics as a place for writing loud about architecture and culture»»is also accessible on paper in independent, architectural, and mainstream bookstores.
Metropolis (metropolis.com)
Metropolis, taking a different angle, « examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.» The publication features sections and subjects on a range of topics, issues, and concerns, such as «the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use,» looking for why design happens in a certain way»say the editors--by «[exploring]»economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and technological context[s].»
