OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Archnet-IJAR International Journal 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reshaping water-related urban places with collaborative participation: a critical examination of the Kabataş waterfront	21
Understanding historic buildings from an environmental perspective: Finsbury Health Centre – as an environmental rhetoric of modernism	21
Spatial intelligence: integration of land use to connectivity in the context of eastern urbanism	20
Knowledge spaces in architecture and urbanism – a preliminary five-year chronicle	19
Mapping architectural students’ perception on educational spaces: a guideline toward understanding spatial belonging	19
Revitalisation of urban spaces by women architects: enhancing cultural heritage in the gulf region	17
Designing democratic innovations: a methodological framework for participation in urban planning and governance	15
Nurturing an architect through transformative pedagogy: design studio teaching experience	14
Evolving informality as an urban cultural phenomenon: the case of evening food streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh	12
Researching children’s physical environment: a systematic review of research methods	11
Star architecture in online public discourse: exploring Reddit user-generated content on the Vessel, New York, through a text analytics approach	10
Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective	10
Relationship between environmental indoor conditions of a classroom and the performance of undergraduate students	10
Sustainable Development Goals and the future of architectural education – cultivating SDGs-centred architectural pedagogies	9
Courtyard configuration to optimize shading, daylight and ventilation in a tropical terrace house using simulation	9
Architectural learning networks: a study on eliciting the learning agendas of architectural schools	8
The impact of platform affordance on the representation of iconic architecture: a case study of Markthal across visual social media	8
Effects of biophilic design on sustainable behaviors: introducing the use of serious game as a measure of sustainable behavior	8
Between tradition and modernity: a mixed-methods analysis of villa-like apartment units in Abu Dhabi	8
Cartography of controversy as an approach to inquiry into care and the city: a case study with architecture students	8
Affordance-led framework of understanding of BIM adoption	8
Integrated analysis of building form, orientation and envelope factors on energy efficiency in high-rise offices in hot-humid climates	8
Integrating aesthetics and sustainability: evaluating the aesthetic perception of photovoltaic installation on the apartment building façade in Jordan	7
Implications of rapid changes and identity transformation on walkability in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt	7
Sensory spaces: sensory living – studio teaching the design of autism-friendly adult accommodation	7

The role of the residential balcony in local context; perception of Cairene women	7
Defying tradition or maintaining the status quo? Moving towards a new hybrid architecture studio education to support blended learning post-COVID-19	7
Maximizing solar energy generation: guidelines for optimizing photovoltaic panel placement on building facades	7
Toward a framework for the design of fair shared open spaces case study: Effat University, Jeddah	7
Everyday use of balconies in Cairo’s residential neighborhoods: a visual and ethnographic study	7
Viewpoint on what may be considered as evidence and how to obtain it when designing health-promoting and inclusive green spaces	7
“You must go here”: architecture, yelp and the tourist gaze	7
Developing a guiding framework based on sustainable development to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease	7
Integrating sustainable development goals into architectural design education: a case study in second-year design studio	6
Social network analysis (SNA) in architectural conceptual design: classifying factors for social harmony – a comprehensive review	6
Re-establishing traditional stilt structures in contemporary architecture–The possibilities	6
Joyful living labs – pedagogical approach for urban design thinking soft skills	6
Book review	6
Exploring the restorative environments in Bratislava using EEG and VR: a neuro-urbanism approach	6
Balancing complexity and restoration in virtual interior environments: user perceptions of organized complexity in biophilic design	6
Voices from the frontline: care managers' insights on quality of life in extra care housing environments	6
Economic powers encompass the largest cultural buildings: market, culture and equality in Stockholm, Sweden (1918–2023)	6
Smart interactive environment on campus for pedagogical stimulation: a focused analysis of open spaces on campus	6
Hermeneutic phenomenology for spatial analysis	6
The physical geometries of sacred spaces: methodological challenges in applying practice-based approaches to study sacred shrines	5
Design strategies and health planning to improve the primary health care environment: a case study in Brazil	5
Predicting and analysing initiator crime environments based on machine learning for improving urban safety	5
Insights on the obstacles, challenges, and complexities of engaging youth in urban planning in Jordan: assessment and recommendations	5
Usability test and implications of an activity allocation mapping in complex organizations: perceptions about a software by emergency room agents	5
Social sustainability in architectural practice: examining experiences of architectural offices in B-Corp certification in the United Kingdom	5
Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model	5
Framework for application of Azheke Village’s traditional ecological knowledge for harmonious human-nature interactions in contemporary sustainable urban management	5
The influence of urban campus landscape on college students' exercise participation and mental health: an approach using deep learning and street view images	5
Distress, anxiety, boredom, and their relation to the interior spaces under COVID-19 lockdowns	5
Unveiling the missing innovation – an actor–network theory analysis of regulatory efforts towards universal design	5
Architectural design research in small practices	5
The effects of environmental factors on the social interaction of children in need of protection in outdoor living spaces	5
Unveiling architectural and geometric dimensions through a systematic review of Córdoba: insights to UNESCO World Heritage Sites	5
The meaning of the home in the realm of Korean everyday life	5
Impact of biophilic classroom design on pupils’ creative thinking, perceived stress and place attachment: a quasi-experiment in the Egyptian context	5
A guide for a guide: using UIA publications for an SDG-focused studio	4
Publisher’s Note	4
Practitioner architects who teach design: evaluative judgement and identity	4
The diagonal axis from VERB to VOID: interdisciplinarity in basic design studio education	4
The missing link in the sustainability chain: Gulf women	4
An emergent ontology for digitally modeling existing buildings: examining Kyoto’s Nishiki market	4
Beyond the grand narrative of Al Bastakiya: Ayesha Al Bastaki and the Windtower houses of Old Dubai	4
Out of confinement: adaptive agency and dynamic meaning-making in accounts of pandemic campus restrictions	4
Design research for disaster and risk mitigation. The FOVI international project as a case study in architectural education	4
The cost of universal design for public buildings: exploring a realistic, context-dependent research approach	4
Linking education and practice gaps for inclusive architecture in the AEC industry	4
Plot-based approach for controlled morphological transformation in urban heritage contexts: the case of New Gourna village, Luxor – Egypt	4
Theorizing architectural research and practice in the metaverse: the meta-context of virtual community engagement	4
Gendered sense of safety and coping strategies in public places: a study in Atatürk Meydanı of Izmir	4
Leaving no one behind: unveiling gaps in inclusive architecture at the UIA World Congress of architects 2023	4

Postgraduate disciplinary trends in architecture: mapping master theses in Jordan	4
The possibility of radical resources and participation in architectural education: autobiographical spatial narratives	3
Young people’s preferences in public spaces	3
Sustainable embodied experience in the built environment: reinterpreting architectural history through embodied cognition	3
Experiencing cinematic architecture: the impact of architecture on the audience emotional engagement	3
Contested identities, contested building: planning for a glocal future	3
Towards a new rural and urban intersection, “R-Urban”: the Beykoz district case in Istanbul	3
Architectural approaches to housing customization: introducing the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach and the MyChanges tool	3
The built environment and social media: a semi-systematic review of architectural and design disciplines	3
A study on children's multi-sensorial experiences of nature: design approaches and preferences for primary school architecture case studies in Glasgow, Scotland, UK	3
Evidence-based implications for school architecture: spatial layout and teachers' perceived sense of school control	3
Environmental analysis in UK modern methods of construction (MMC) housing: insights from early-stage architectural design process	3
Disgust sensitivity and perceptions of urban density and densification	3
Guest editorial: Women and Gulf Cities. The transformative impact of women influencing the architectural and urban developments of the gulf region	3
Why Imre Lakatos’ epistemological method best suits research in urbanization: the case of the Muslim built environments	3
Silver cities: planning for an ageing population in Singapore. An urban planning policy case study of Kampung Admiralty	3
Post-occupancy evaluation of residential properties: a case study on an organizational multistorey apartment building	3
Empowering the next generation of women in interior design in the United Arab Emirates through competitive education: a curriculum review	3
Critical therapeutic landscape design elements for cognitive impairments in the Royal Talbot rehabilitation centre	3
Predicting children’s streetscape perceived safety based on new combinations of enclosure aspects and demographic characteristics	3
The periphery as a critical project: towards an architectural pedagogy for the Anthropocene	3
The impact of biophilic design in university study areas on students' productivity	3
Investigation of architecture and architectural engineering online education; educator experience, self-efficacy and success	3
Guest editorial: Sustainable solutions for tropical Asian cities: the nexus between architecture, technology and heritage	3
The FIX-up mix-up; undue façadism or adaptive reuse? Examining the former FIX brewery transformation into the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens	3
Visuality peaks, function lasts: an empirical investigation into the performance of iconic architecture on Instagram	3
Years of education and research driven in sustainable architecture: Where do we stand and where do we go?	2
Architecture and the imaginary: text stimulus to improve students' creativity with nonlinear design process	2
Evaluating the vitality of urban public spaces: perspectives on crowd activity and built environment	2
Characteristics of notational expression by decomposition of Steven Holl’s sketches	2
Development of special needs classroom prototypes to respond to the sensory needs of students with exceptionalities	2
How a high-modernism project in South Korea failed: Sewoon Sangga (1966–1972), the first experimental modern planning	2
A talent management based framework for developing sustainable quality of work life in architectural design firms in Egypt	2
Live projects: a mixed-methods exploration of existing scholarship	2
The crucible of the unfinished master plans for Cairo and a plan for the new administrative capital city	2
A hybrid modelling approach for information processing workflow in inter-cultural heritage projects	2
Intelligibility and cellularity in the villas of Palladio and Le Corbusier: examining Rowe's observations	2
Transdisciplinary architectures: reconnecting theories, research and practices	2
A relational model of university's identity and architectural design pre- and post-pandemic	2
Towards a relational approach for understanding the multiplicity of sitting activities	2
Urban morphology of informally built dwellings: counter-mapping coastal cities of Montenegro	2
Gender-inclusive urban planning: European frameworks as a potential methodology for Arabian Gulf urban parks	2
The assessment of biophilic features in residential buildings: a case from Dubai	2
Brainstorming the context–text dialectic: epistemic reflections from early-career researchers on urban design research	2
Comparing desired spatial ratios among autistic and non-autistic children	2
Gender and mobility: enhancing the Egyptian working women’s travel pattern	2