Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
Archnet-IJAR is an interdisciplinary scholarly peer reviewed journal of architecture, planning, and built environment studies. http://www.archnet-ijar.net
Archnet-IJAR is the first of its kind; an interdisciplinary comprehensive scholarly journal of architecture, planning, and built environment studies, that is blind reviewed and published on the World Wide Web three times a year. Archnet-IJAR is published and archived by Archnet, the most comprehensive online community for architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, landscape archite
cts, and scholars working in these fields, developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in close cooperation with, and with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. Archnet-IJAR is lead by the Chief Editor Professor Ashraf M. Salama. Two international boards (advisory and editorial) ensure the quality of scholarly papers and allow for a comprehensive academic review of contributions spanning a wide spectrum of disciplinary issues, methods, and practices.
10/03/2023
A selection of some of our latest content published in
Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
The publishing and editorial teams would like to thank the following, for their invaluable service as 2021 reviewers for this journal. We are very grateful for the contributions made. With their help, the journal has been able to publish such high-quality articles:
04/06/2022
The New Issue of Archnet-IJAR (Volume 16, Issue 1 - June/July 2022) is now available, and includes an excellent collection of 13 articles by scholars from 16 countries on:
neuro-architecture (Lee et al.); neuroscience (Gholami et al.); resilient cities ( Kozlowski et al.); silver cities (Azzali et al.); hermeneutic phenomenology (El-Kholei); attrition and retention of females in AE (Moller et al.); special needs classroom prototypes (Patel et al.); indoor conditions and UG student performance (Paschoalin Filho et al.); space utilisation in small homes (Chakraborty et al.); architecture of home in later life (Gwendoline Schaff et al.); the icon as a collaborative performance ( Dimitrova and Grubbauer); and performance of architectural design firms (Othman and Fouda) ....
Maximizing minimums: space-utilization in the small homes in the Mumbai metropolitan region - Author: Shreyonti Chakraborty, Alexandra Staub, Christina Bollo
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07/08/2021
Archnet-IJAR
Where do our citations come from -- over the past 4 years to date (August 2017-August 2021)?
Total 349 citations
12% (42) self citations from Archnet-IJAR and 88% citations by other prestigious journals including sustainability, cities, sustainable cities and society, frontiers of architectural research, and many more (302).
The fragmentary production of knowledge on cultural heritage on the Arab world: From an orientalist vision to a scarce engagement with epistemological and theoretical spheres - Author: Rami Farouk Daher
17/07/2021
Editor's pick
Unpacking the effects of star architecture projects
Nadia Alaily-Mattar , Dominik Bartmanski , Johannes Dreher , Michael Koch , Martina Löw , Timothy Pape , Alain Thierstein
Unpacking the effects of star architecture projects - Author: Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Dominik Bartmanski, Johannes Dreher, Michael Koch, Martina Löw, Timothy Pape, Alain Thierstein
Archnet-IJAR: Sustainable solutions for Tropical Asian Cities: The nexus between architecture, technology and heritage. https://www.ashrafsalamanet.net/selected-news
Guest editors of this Special Issue
Dr. Keith Kay Hin TAN, Taylor’s University Email: [email protected]
Dr. Johannes Widodo, National University of Singapore, [email protected]
Dr. Camelia Kusumo, Taylor’s University, [email protected]
31/03/2021
Special Issue: Architecture, Urbanism, and Health in a Post Pandemic Virtual World: Challenges and Opportunities in Education, Research, and Practice
(Vol 15, issue 1, March 2021)
Guest Editors: Beatriz Maturana, Ashraf M.Salama, Anthony McInneny
Curriculum development in health and the built environment: creating a multidisciplinary platform to enhance knowledge and engagement - Author: Mohammad Gharipour, Amber L. Trout
27/02/2021
Editor's Pick- Archnet-IJAR (14. 3)
Utilising social networking services as a collective medium to support design communication in team collaboration
Mi Jeong Kim, Yeon Sook Hwang, Ha Sung Hwang
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As of 30th April 2019, Archnet-IJAR maintains a distinguished position as a Q1 Journal for Architecture (23/111) and as a Q2 Journal for Urban Studies (63/159).
Editorial Objectives
Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal of architecture, urban design and planning, and built environment studies. The journal aims at establishing a bridge between theory and practice in these fields. The journal acts as a platform that reports on the latest research findings for examining buildings and urban environments and debates innovative approaches for creating responsive environments. Archnet-IJAR is truly international and aims at strengthening ties between scholars, academics, and practitioners from the global north and the global south with contributors and readers reaching across the boundaries of cultures and geographies. Archnet-IJAR was founded in 2007 by Professor Ashraf M. Salama who continues to be its Editor in Chief since then.
Key Focus Areas
Archnet-IJAR publishes articles in two broad areas that address a wide range of topics and scales:
Architectural and Design Research: involves a range of topics that include architectural pedagogy and design studio teaching practices; architectural and sustainable design; design methods and architectural theories; architectural criticism; design and project programming; environment-behaviour studies; application of information technologies; post occupancy and facility performance evaluation; and social and cultural factors in design.
Cities and Urban Research: involves a range of topics that include governance and political factors contributing to the shaping of communities, cities and urban regions; community planning; sustainable urban conservation; environmental planning and eco development; housing policy; planning, and design; new urbanism; everyday urbanism; sustainable development; urban design assessment; and urban studies.
