The subject of the article is to discuss the role of manifestos, books and other publications in the creation of the radical architectural vision of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of modernism in the twentieth century. T he theoretical basis of avant-garde architecture, which in time became mass architecture, was developed in the main part by theorists. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the nature of architectural manifestos has changed, and deviated from the formal description of ordinal architectural solutions towards promoting the idea of cities of the future associated with social issues. P articularly noteworthy is the increase in the importance of schematic idea diagrams and constant radicalization of the vision.

The subject of the article is to discuss the role of manifestos, books and other publications in the creation of the radical architectural vision of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of modernism in the twentieth century. T he theoretical basis of avant-garde architecture, which in time became mass architecture, was developed in the main part by theorists. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the nature of architectural manifestos has changed, and deviated from the formal description of ordinal architectural solutions towards promoting the idea of cities of the future associated with social issues. P articularly noteworthy is the increase in the importance of schematic idea diagrams and constant radicalization of the vision.