Architectural criticism has hardly developed the same epistemological tools and body of work as art criticism has done since the beginning of the 20th century. If the history of art criticism seems to have given little space to architectural criticism, criticism has often taken centre stage in modern and contemporary architectural discourses. In recent years, recurring discussions about its alleged “crisis” have also hindered most historical analyses on criticism’s founding criteria, on its primary actors and cultural milieus, its theoretical instruments, and its universe of intellectual references. Contrary to the history of art criticism, fully defined as an accepted field of art history in the 1980s, the history of architectural criticism remains in large part to be built. A few works mark out the construction of this field of research, as a reflection not only of different intellectual traditions but also of diverse theoretical postulations. The history of architectural criticism, in fact, still overlaps with multiple research realms: the histories of architectural theories; the histories of critics intended as histories of intellectual and professional trajectories that contributed to establishing the ground for architectural criticism; and the histories of media outlets dedicated to architecture. As related but subsidiary fields, none of them has established sufficient ground for the construction of a specific history of architectural criticism.