Frontiers of Architectural Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Frontiers of Architectural Research is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding pedestrian behavior and spatial relations: A pedestrianized area in Besiktas, Istanbul160
‘Visual excitation’ in Richard Neutra's residential architecture: An analysis using weighted graphs and centrality measures73
Green retrofitting of heritage buildings based on (3Ts) framework: An applied case study50
Collineation measurement: A method for constructing the imperial citadel of Thang Long in harmony with nature45
Building cognition through material engagement37
Revealing connectivity in residential Architecture: An algorithmic approach to extracting adjacency matrices from floor plans35
Noise levels inside the coaches of Greater Cairo tunnel metro, line 3 tunnel31
Urban landscape structure anatomy: Structure patterns and typology identification in the space-time of Setif City, Algeria28
Evaluation of perceived value and behavioral intentions of citizens in Chinese commercially open communities: A case study of Liuyun Community26
Editorial26
Living geometry, AI tools, and Alexander's 15 fundamental properties. Remodel the architecture studios!25
A framework for rural spatial governance based on the eco-environment oriented development mode: The case of coal mining subsidence area on the Weibei Plateau24
Assessing architectural color preference after Le Corbusier's 1931 Salubra keyboards: A cross cultural analysis23
A wood-wood joining system suitable for digital fabrication and its application in the design of a “wood-only” spatial module22
How do residents perceive urban parks? A cross-geographic comparison based on online reviews22
Balancing priorities: An importance-performance analysis of architectural heritage protection in China's historical cities22
Measuring the built environment of green transit-oriented development: A factor-cluster analysis of rail station areas in Singapore21
Events as a means to foster knowledge-driven urban development: Experience from the new district development in Nanjing21
Spatial patterns of residents’ daily activity space and its influencing factors based on the CatBoost model: A case study of Nanjing, China20
Towards reconstructing the Shakespeare's first Globe Theatre: A virtual model for research and development19
Performance-based firefighting in dense historic settlements: An exploration of a firefighting approach combining value and risk assessment with numerical simulation19
Current design guidelines’ streetscape improvement for visual perception and walkability: A case study of Sejong City, Republic of Korea18
A triangular architectural relation model among sustainability, beauty, and power17
Biology and architecture: An ongoing hybridization of scientific knowledge and design practice by six architectural offices in France17
Acculturation and translation: Modern architectural heritage of Zhongshan Park in Xiamen from typological perspective17
A hypothetical comparative evaluation system for arctic indoors17
The Hutong neighbourhood grammar: A procedural modelling approach to unravel the rationale of historical Beijing urban structure17
Effects of facades positioned at different angles on building thermal performance and flow behaviors16
Integrating spatial vitality and node-place model to evaluate and classify metro station areas in Wuhan16
Reuse of port industrial heritage in tourist cities: Shipyards as case studies16
Integrating ergonomics data and emotional scale to analyze people's emotional attachment to different landscape features in the Wudaokou Urban Park15
An individuality-oriented interactive architectural system for children with emotional/behavioral disorders15
The virtual-real measurement of Chinese garden impression: A quantitative analysis of cognitive experience of Jiangnan gardens with virtual reality experiments14
Lighting preferences in office spaces concerning the indoor thermal environment14
Cognitive-emotional feasibility of the effect of visual quality of building form on promoting the sense of place attachment (Case study: Cultural iconic buildings of Iran's contemporary architecture)14
A new frontier in design studio: AI and human collaboration in conceptual design14
Walking experience: Exploring the trilateral interrelation of walkability, temporal perception, and urban ambiance14
Integrating BIM and machine learning to predict carbon emissions under foundation materialization stage: Case study of China's 35 public buildings13
Assessment of the street space quality in the metro station areas at different spatial scales and its impact on the urban vitality13
“Interface-element-perception” model to evaluation of urban sidewalk visual landscape in the core area of Beijing13
A study of the inhibitory effect and mechanism of airflow regarding mould on building surfaces13
The sustainability cycle of historic houses and cultural memory: Controversy between historic preservation and heritage conservation13
Editing landscapes: Experimental frameworks for territorial-based robotic fabrication13
Ordinary Urban Heritage of Rattanakosin: Ordinary restaurants and everyday foods of the historic center of Bangkok12
Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments12
A road map to find in 3D printing a new design plasticity for construction – The state of art12
A structural equation model to analyze the use of a new multi media platform for increasing awareness of cultural heritage12
Cultural heritage tourism and urban regeneration: The case of Fez Medina in Morocco12
Architectural phenomenology: Past, present, future of an interdisciplinarity11
Neurological benefits of third places for young adults in healthy urban environments11
Random fractal-based computational design of an ice-ray (IR) lattice shell structure11
Recognition of defensive factors in the architectural heritage of Iran's organic ancient shelters11
Contemplative neuroaesthetics in architecture: A real-world mobile EEG study in the ancient city of Ghardaïa, Algeria11
Modeling of wind-driven rain absorption ratio of building exterior finishing materials based on field measurements11
Designing for well-Being: Using facial micro-expression analysis and EEG biosensor to evaluate human responses to 2D biophilically-driven geometries11
Optimization of furniture configuration for residential living room spaces in quality elderly care communities in Macao10
An approach for heritage settlement classification using block patterns: The study of 37 typical colonial heritage settlements in the Americas10
Exploring entry-exit correlation coefficient (EEC) as new quantitative social activities performance measurement of public space: The case of Dilworth Park, Philadelphia10
Optimal design strategy of traditional courtyard based on performance and data-driven method—A case study of Yanshen ancient town, China10
Choice preferences in drum tower design among the Dong people: Evidence from the five villages in Guangxi, China10
Study on the gene mapping and formation mechanism of historical buildings influenced by multiculturalism: A case of Gulangyu, China10
Thermal comfort analysis of earth-sheltered buildings: The case of meymand village, Iran9
Solar radiation-based method for early design stages to balance daylight and thermal comfort in office buildings9
Cultivating more-than-human care: Exploring bird watching as a landscaping practice on the example of sand martins and flooded gravel pits9
Visitors' consistent stay behavior patterns within free-roaming scenic architectural complexes: Considering impacts of temporal, spatial, and environmental factors9
Kentos: Socio-ecologies of care9
Emerging patterns in the construction of Sejima's, Sanaa's and Nishizawa's domestic spaces, from 1987 to 20108
Impacts of corridor design: An investigation on occupant perception of corridor forms in elderly facilities8
Spatial sight analysis of Hangzhou Xiaoyingzhou based on tourists' landscape preference8
Optimization-based design exploration of building massing typologies—EvoMass and a typology-oriented computational design optimization method for early-stage performance-based building massing design8
Passive cooling techniques in medieval Indian stepwells7
Concept cathedral and “squaring the circle”: Interpreting the Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris as a standing hymn7
Perception beyond sight: Investigating the cognitive maps of congenitally blind individuals in urban environments7
Revitalizing industrial territories in Ukraine: Spatial model of the tourism cluster in the Prydniprovsk region7
Designing with nature: Advancing three-dimensional green spaces in architecture through frameworks for biophilic design and sustainability7
Socioeconomic performance of in-between open spaces in a post-socialist city of Tirana, Albania7
People-oriented urban design7
A study on the form contemporary developments of Tabriz leather and shoe Bazaar (marketplace) from the late Qajar to current period7
A cost effective approach to design of energy efficient residential buildings6
Equilibrium as the common ground: Introducing embodied perception into structural design with graphic statics6
From empty to empowering: Leveraging vacant land for urban socio-ecological resilience6
Do green roofs really provide significant energy saving in a Mediterranean climate? Critical evaluation based on different case studies6
The impact of biophilic design in Maggie’s Centres: A meta-synthesis analysis6
Mapping urban public spaces based on the Nolli map method6
Mapping the approaches for investigating Makkah's architectural vocabularies and AI: A literature review6
Water as a common reference for monastic lives and spaces in Cistercian and Han Buddhist monasteries6
Structural performance of authentic architectural heritage designs: A masonry monument in Western Anatolia6
From BIM model to 3D construction printing: A framework proposal6
An investigation of the influence of ground surface properties and shading on outdoor thermal comfort in a high-altitude residential area6
A geopolitics of mud construction: Self-help and the CINVA-Ram machine in Ghana and South Vietnam during the Cold War6
Theoretical framework of the Isfahani style: Inspiring sustainable aspects of a vernacular urban development6
Exploration and design of knitted composites for architectural application: The MeiTing project5
Assessing the accessibility to fire hazards in preserving historical towns: Case studies in suburban Shanghai, China5
A graphical method of presenting property rights, building types, and residential behaviors: A case study of Xiaoxihu historic area, Nanjing5
Mathematical beauty and Palladian architecture: Measuring and comparing visual complexity and diversity5
Influence of built environment and user experience on the waterfront vitality of historical urban areas: A case study of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, China5
Digital representation methods: The case of algorithmic design5
A growing system: Constituent elements and spatial evolution of ancient local Confucian temples in China5
Impact of solar reflectivity and infrared emissivity on the thermal performance of metal and concrete roofs in cloudy warm-humid climate5
Solar Ark 3.0: A lightweight, energy-efficient house based on smooth poly-hypar surface structures5
Improving access to urban parks through public transit optimization5
Examining control, centrality and flexibility in Palladio's villa plans using space syntax measurements5
GenFloor: Interactive generative space layout system via encoded tree graphs5
Resulting of pedigree and topology of centripetal spatial schema in Chinese traditional cities5
Does architectural design require single-objective or multi-objective optimisation? A critical choice with a comparative study between model-based algorithms and genetic algorithms5
From hinterland granary fort to frontier mountain fortress: Initiation, construction, and expansion of the Diaoyucheng Fortress, Hechuan, China, in the wars during 1125–12795
The long-run estimation role of industrial parks on the level of sustainability in Iran and Turkey5
Biophilic design in architecture and its contributions to health, well-being, and sustainability: A critical review4
A graphical multi-objective performance evaluation method with architect-friendly mode4
The New Bridge of Ronda (Spain): History of the construction of a landmark in the development of this city4
The morphological evolution of Chinese urban cemeteries from the perspective of fringe belt: A case study of Nanjing4
From knowledge encoding to procedural generation for early-stage layout design: A case of linear shopping centres4
A relational perspective on the walking activity in urban spaces: Shaping, transformation, and interrelations4
Deciphering built form complexity of Chinese cities through plot recognition: A case study of Nanjing, China4
From the backyard to collective gardens in the “blue-courtyard”: Reversing the process of upgrading historic timber-framed courtyard buildings in Madrid4
The impact of the mega-event on urban morphology: Arbaeen event in Al-Najaf as a case study4
Micro-scale built environment and pedestrian behavior: A focus on sidewalks in commercial districts in Tokyo4
Designing architectural continuity in a historic urban quarter of Dinajpur, Bangladesh4
Bio-inspired interactive kinetic façade: Using dynamic transitory-sensitive area to improve multiple occupants’ visual comfort4
A data-driven method for feature assessment of historical settlements: A case study of Northeast Hubei, China4
Unveiling the potential of space syntax approach for revitalizing historic urban areas: A case study of Yushan Historic District, China4
Landscape transparency: An approach to elucidating and harmonizing contradictions in contemporary landscape design4
Physiological and cognitive discontinuities: From mythical mediation to implicit discretization of architectural design tools4
Forcing biological sciences into architectural design: On conceptual confusions in the field of biomimetic architecture4
Exploring the synergy of building massing and façade design through evolutionary optimization4
Urban microclimate and energy consumption: A multi-objective parametric urban design approach for dense subtropical cities4
The building blocks of walkability: Pedestrian activity in Abu Dhabi city center3
Comprehensive improvement of energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality for university library atrium—A multi-objective fast optimization framework3
Effects of square attractiveness on emotional perception, cognitive performance, and neurophysiology3
Using social sensing to evaluate the effect of spatial planning: A case study of Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China3
Empowering the community through participation and action in historic neighbourhood conservation planning3
Regardless if it is comedy, action, thriller, or biography: A review of urban crime in the 1980s cinema of Chicago3
Geometric investigation of entrance proportions of houses from the Qajar to the beginning of the early Pahlavi in Dezful City (1789–1979)3
Code-Bothy: Mixed reality and craft sustainability3
Digital and physical materiality in contemporary architectural design: A material engagement approach3
An augmented and interactive exhibition of an archived model for Frederick Kiesler's Endless House, 19593
Organic stabilization in earthen plaster: Eco-compatible architecture and ancient techniques in Tata Somba homes3
Image clustering algorithm and psychological perception in historical building colour rating research: A case study of Guangzhou, China3
Expression and communication in architecture philosophy of vernacular architecture of the Yorubas in Nigeria3
Regenerating historical districts through tactical urbanism: A case study of Sarpol neighborhood in Isfahan Province, Iran3
In-between spaces for today's city: Historical review for identifying their beneficial characteristics3
Investigation of typical residential block typologies and their impact on pedestrian-level microclimate in summers in Nanjing, China3
Multiscale urban design based on the optimization of the wind and thermal environments: A case study of the core area of Suzhou Science and Technology City3
Exploring the relationship-oriented spaces of social networks and depressive symptoms among older adults3
A diffusion-based machine learning method for 3D architectural form-finding3
Cognitive preferences for architectural renovation strategies in traditional villages combining subjective evaluation and eye tracking3
The appropriation of autopoiesis in architecture3
Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architecture3
Development of an urban health and wellbeing index for work precincts: A comparative study in Sydney, Australia3
The key spatial elements and high-density development of urban peninsula: A discussion on the relationship between core and cape3
Is there a need for new kitchen design? Assessing the adaptative capacity of space to enable circularity in multiresidential buildings2
Architecture as device: Estrangement theory from literature to architecture2
The effect of Urban Heat Island mitigation strategies on outdoor human thermal comfort in the city of Baghdad2
An analysis of Rem Koolhaas's discourses on architecture and urban design using a corpus-based model2
A novel approach for assessing color harmony of historical buildings via street view image2
Investigating preferences and influencing factors of age-friendly housing environments across different age groups using the Delphi-Kano model and entropy weight TOPSIS method2
Optimized design and thermal performance study of solar heating composite exterior wall panels2
A systematic method of generating hinged tessellations by adding hinged plates based on dual graphs2
Integrating eye-movement analysis and the semantic differential method to analyze the visual effect of a traditional commercial block in Hefei, China2
Evolution of the “Golden Royal City”: Analytical study on urban forms of ancient capital cities in Myanmar2
Interpretation of appropriate places: State ceremonies and the imperial main halls of the Tang and Song dynasties2
The layers of history: New architecture interventions in castle ruins2
Intermediate space for housing design learned from tradition of Korean maru and Turkish sofa2
Investigating the adaptability and implementation of computational design methods in concept design taking plasterboard opportunities for dimensional coordination and waste reduction as a case study2
New method of evaluating spatial quality for innovation districts: A case study of Haidian and Chaoyang districts, Beijing2
Promoting conservation or change? The UNESCO label of world heritage (re)shaping urban morphology in the Old Town of Lijiang, China2
The walking friendliness of ladder trails for the elderly: An empirical study in Chongqing2
Corrigendum to ‘Exploring multidimensional aspects of walkability: An innovative analysis approach in Besiktas, Istanbul’ [Frontiers of Architectural Research Volume 12, Issue 6, (2023) Pages 1097–1122
AI for conceptual architecture: Reflections on designing with text-to-text, text-to-image, and image-to-image generators2
Unraveling the legacy of estancias: Territorial development and housing transformations in Buenos Aires2
Preserving the historical value and thermal properties of renovated buildings: The case of reconstructed town houses in Kosice, Slovakia2
A design framework for a kinetic shading device system for building envelopes2
Quantifying the link between industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth over Kenya2
Associative cultural landscape approach to interpreting traditional ecological wisdom: A case of Inuit habitat2
The influence of calculation error of hourly marine meteorological parameter on building energy consumption calculation2
Role of public space design on the perception of historical environment: A pilot study in Amasya2
Urban traffic modeling and pattern detection using online map vendors and self-organizing maps2
Linear cultural heritage eco-cultural spatial system: A case study of the Great Tea Route in Shanxi2
An evaluation approach to spatial identity in historic urban areas from a humanistic perspective2
Contradiction and consistency: Deconstruction of landscape bridges based on multiple temporal-spatial scales2
Exploring expressive and functional capacities of knitted textiles exposed to wind influence2
Evolution of the “ancient Kedah”: A study on urban forms at Sungai Batu Archaeological Complex (SBAC), Bujang Valley, Kedah, Malaysia2
3D extrusion of multi-biomaterial lattices using an environmentally informed workflow2
Valorising Ikseon-dong's Hanok residence as a heritage place2
Kahn's light: The measurable and the unmeasurable of the Bangladesh National Assembly Building2
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