OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Architectural Theory Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Architecture as Media System: Konrad Wachsmann at California City	4
The Heuristics of Heroism: Lebbeus Woods Notebooks (1988–1997) at the Getty Research Institute Special Collections	3
Architecture Unmoored	3
Living Archives: Stories of Design and the Rethinking of Historicity	3
The Iraq Petroleum Company’s Infrastructure of “Desert Control” during the British Mandate in the Middle East	2
Unfolding Architecture, Enfolding Landscape: The Shakkei at Geppa-rō Pavilion	1
Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union	1
A Landscape “Difficult to Describe”: The Model Village and the Capital City	1
Functional Environs: Austin Tetteh’s Situated World(mak)ing Planning Practice, 1950–80	1
Laughing Matter	1
Giving Value to Architecture and Heritage *Review of Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture* , by Ashley Paine, Sus	1
The Allure of Generality (Revisited)	1
We “Decide,” You “Expedite”: Imperial Directives for Housing Development in South Korea, 1954–59	1
Europe Builds : The Architecture of a Marshall Plan Exhibition as a Performance of Global Governance	1
Continuity and Rupture	1
The Architecture of Generosity: Google Bay View and the New Techno Empire	1
Speculation’s Spatial Terms: Imminence and Inevitability in Amaravati	1
Ancillary Accumulation Review of Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change , by Nick Axel, Daniel	1
Cosmopolitanism’s Agents and Architectural World making	1
A Critical Brutalism?	1
Risk in “the Room:” Negotiating New Economic Paradigms in the Architecture of Lloyd’s of London Insurance Market	0
Built Orders of Finance, Risk, and Racial Capitalism	0
From Doll’s House to Dream House	0
Reform or Revolution: Architectural Theory in West Berlin and Zurich (1967–72)	0
Architecture as a Mode of Oppression	0

A Seat at the Table: United Nations and the Architecture of Diplomacy	0
Architecture’s Maternity: Conceiving the Mother of the Arts in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
Building Influence Through Architecture: The British Council’s Film Van in Post-War Turkey	0
Parcel, Bubble, Shell: The Insular Environment of Finance	0
On the Public and the Human: Kenneth Frampton’s References to the Space of Appearance	0
Dispossession and the Model Cottage: Violent Homemaking and Disciplinary Debt in the Allotment Era	0
Theories of Style	0
René Furer’s Semantic and Syntactic Analysis: Venturi and Vignola at ETH Zurich	0
Editorial	0
Visual Culture and Post-War Reconstruction	0
“Suitable Palaces”: Navigating Layers of World Ordering at the Centre William Rappard (1923–2013)	0
Putting Up a (Glass) Façade	0
Residues of the British Informal Empire: The Smyrna–Aydın Railway’s Punta Square as the Future Centre of “Colonial” Smyrna	0
Charles W. Moore and the Uses of History	0
Engineering Economies of Identity: Saudi Planning, Pan-Islamism, and Transnational Architectural Production	0
“Google for President”: Power and the Mediated Construction of an Unbuilt Big Tech Headquarters Project	0
Learning from Louis Kahn: Denise Scott Brown on the Kahnian Urban Legacy	0
Crystals in the Colony	0
Displaying Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China’s Architectural Aid in the Global South, 1960s–70s	0
What is Queer about Queer Architecture?	0
A New Perspective on Architectural Hybridity in Modern Bangkok	0
Beyond the Master’s Tools: In Conversation with Keller Easterling	0
The Quaint	0
A Contemporary Reading of Vitruvius’ Opening Statements and a Proposed New Partial Translation of De Architectura I.1	0
Giancarlo De Carlo: Participation Depends	0
Crisis in the Culture Cabinet: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Colin Rowe and the Architekturtheorie Internationaler Kongress , TU Berlin, 1967	0
Uncertain Sites	0
Untimely Teachers: Recovering Postmodernism’s Anachronic Pedagogies	0
The “Legitimized Architecture” of Minsk World: Primitive Accumulation through Housing under Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Belarus	0
Financialized Berlin: The Monetary Transformation of Housing, Architecture and Polity	0
Metabolic Infrastructures: An Organic Analogy between Literal Imitation and Metaphor	0
Economies of Scale: Paradigms of a Theory in Housing Sites	0
Building Knowledge: Constructing Technoscientific Infrastructures	0
Internationalising the Local: An Architectural Scenario for the First Metropolitan Apartments in Seoul’s Manhattan	0
Blue Architectural History	0
Inheriting Climate	0
Securing the Insurance Industry	0
Our Machinic Inheritance	0
A Theory of Architectural Production in a Geography of Change: Auguste Choisy in the Ottoman Empire	0
The Tyranny of Rockefeller Center: Architecture and Infrastructure in Greater New York	0
How We Learn Now	0
Mass Housing in Global Perspective	0
Confidence in the System	0
From Keywords to Use: The New European Bauhaus, Language, and Ethics in Architecture	0
Architectures of Informal Empire	0
“Un neoclásico propio”: Trujillo’s National Palace and the Built Legacies of US Imperialism in the Dominican Republic, 1907–47	0
Paxiúba: Traditional Housing in the Western Amazon	0
From Colonial Ruins to Digital Hub: The Grand Port Autonome de Marseille, a Tale of a Big Data Informal Empire in the Making	0
Agents of Territorial Transformation in the Costa Rican Caribbean: Imperial Relationships and Practices of Spatial Governance at the United Fruit Enclave, 1870–1940	0
Ville Blanche: Levantine Gentlemen, Architectural Modernism and the “White City” of Tel Aviv, 1930–48	0

The Atrium Effect	0
Cementing Imperialism: Material Exports and the Uneven Politics of Construction	0
Embodied, Built, and Fluid *Review of Dance, Architecture and Engineering* , by Adesola Akinleye, London: Bloomsbury, 2021, 176 pp, ISBN	0
Repairing What’s Broken and Breaking: Melbourne Public Housing and OFFICE Architects	0
Cosmopolitan Subaltern: Transnational Spatial Agency on the Fringe of the Worlding Cities of the Global South	0
Editorial	0
Philosophy from the Bottom of the Well: The Creative Potential of Misunderstanding Metaphorical Anecdotes	0
The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Architectonics of Time, Movement and Hapticity	0
“Build Your Own House”: Betty Spence’s Design-Research in 1950s South Africa	0
Contaminations, Pulsations, (Dis)Obedience: Christian Norberg-Schulz and the Baroque in the 1960s	0
Frame, Fortress, Fenestration: The Architectural “Enframings” of Rwanda’s Forests, 1904–2022	0
Financing the Modern Research University: The Ciudad Universitaria de Buenos Aires by Caminos and Catalano (1959–66)	0
Furniture as Program: Exhibiting, Educating and Professionalising Interior Design at Belgium’s Saint Luke Schools in the 1980s	0
Editorial	0
Minor Architectures of the Plantationocene: A Colonial Family Romance	0
Editorial	0
Building a Dream: Pan Arab Modernism in Kuwait in the 1960s	0
In from the Periphery: Becoming (G)locally Cosmopolitan in Springvale	0
“Woman as Creator”: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s and Juliette Tréant-Mathé’s Design of the New Dwelling in Interwar Europe	0
Fear the Elephant: Selling Flexibility at the Austin Company in the Aftermath of the Great Depression	0
Loci Amoeni: The Meaning and Aesthetics of Sites	0
Performing “I Was Here”: Architecture and the Circle of Representation in a Peripheral Place	0
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History	0
Humanitarian Aid as Global Governance: The Architecture of the Red Cross’s Relief Operations after the 1976 Guatemala Earthquake	0
Financialized Space	0
How Architecture Makes Friends	0
Architectures of Informal Empire: Further Contributions	0
The Profession’s Vanguards: Arab Architects and Regional Architectural Exchange, 1900–50	0
Towards an Architectural Theory of Jurisdictional Technics: Midcentury Modernism on Native American Land	0
Representing the Profession and Protecting the Past: Mitchell/Giurgola and the AIA Competition in Washington, DC	0
Space, Art, Architecture	0
Building (on) Trust: The Architecture of Debt in the Late Ottoman Empire	0
Excavating 2020 Review of Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance , eds. Matthew Mindrup and Lilian Chee, London: L	0
The Salamis Bay Hotel: A Residual Imperialism in Cyprus	0
The Value of Others: Modern Heritage and Historiographic Inequity	0
Infrastructural Decay and Urban Politics in West Africa	0
Boston City Hall and Mitchell/Giurgola Architects: Thoughts and Themes on a Competition’s “Runner-Up”	0
Influence and Untimeliness in Modern Architecture: A Conversation between Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Amanda Reeser Lawrence	0
Prefabrication and Transnational Building Materials in Modern India	0
Simultaneous Double Notions: Mannerist Elements in Contemporary Architecture	0
Editorial	0
Fast Building: Money, Management and Risk at London’s Chelsea Harbour Development	0
Global Semperian Tectonics	0
Architecture after Partition	0
Just What Is a “Right-Wing Space?”: Revisiting a Debate About Architectural Theory and Far Right Populism	0
Editorial	0
The Architecture of Global Governance: Paths of Approach	0
Dalibor Vesely and the Model of the Late Baroque	0