OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nexus Network Journal 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimating the Minimum Thickness of Earthquake-Resistant Vaults and Catenary Arches by Using a Hanging Chain	14
Constructing Vision, Surface, and Form in Architecture	11
The Vaults of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Brixen Between Geometry, History and Missed Space	10
Analytical Design in Architecture: New Developments	10
Relationships between Mathematics and Art in Their Intellectual History - Reflections According to Max Bense	9
Creating Constellation Patterns II: Enumeration	8
From Parametric Determinism to Emergent Fusion: Data-Curated Style Control in Connectionist Architecture	7
Spatial Configuration and Cultural Logic: A Cross-Regional Decoding of Chinese Courtyard Dwellings	7
Hat Monotiles: Driving Innovation in Aperiodic Pattern Generation and Application	7
Gothic Design Procedures in Three Early Hawksmoor Churches	7
On the Math-inspired Sustainable Skyscraper Design	6
Breaking Complexity: Kaleidoscopic Tools for Islamic Geometric Pattern Design	6
Digital Heritage Classification via Machine Learning and H-BIM	6
A Mathematical Formalization of Making Grammars	6
Varagavank Monastery’s Khachkar Motifs: Understanding Production Through Parametric Methods	6
Visualizing Anne Tyng’s Transformations of the Octetruss	5
Integration of Fabric Formwork and Geodesic Grids for Hemispherical Dome Fabrication	5
The Corner Tower of Anagni Cathedral: Geometry and Equilibrium	5
Survey and Preliminary Analysis of a Third-Century Brick-Chambered Tomb with Squinch Vaults in China	5
Correction to: Heron’s Legacy: An Example of Ancient Calculations Applied to Roman Imperial Architecture	5
Discovering Arches of Timurid Architecture: The Case of Ishrat-Khana Mausoleum	5
Computing the Spatial Explorations of Roberto Matta	4
A Parametric Model for Designing Swallow Roofs of Anatolia	4
Heron’s Legacy: An Example of Ancient Calculations Applied to Roman Imperial Architecture	4
Geometry and Stress Resilience of Medieval Portals	4

Gothic Vaulting in Spanish Military Architecture from the Eighteenth Century	4
Fourier Spectral Analysis of Architectural Rhythms: Case Study of Historic Isfahan	4
Application of Fabric Formwork based on a Truchet Tiling Pattern for Planar Surfaces	4
Space Syntax Analysis of Visual Privacy in Residential Buildings Developed Under the Influence of Modernism: A Case study in Isparta	4
Non-trivial Self-organised Floor Plans: An Optimisation Strategy	4
A Recursive Algorithm for the Generative Study of Seljuk Muqarnas in Kayseri and Sivas	4
Classical and Traditional: Palladio’s Design Process at the Redentore	4
On the Regularity of Opening Patterns in Building Facades	4
Geometric Construction and Parametric Modeling of Irregular Fortifications in Military Architecture Treatises from the Late Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries	3
An Exemplary Case Study of Post-WWII Reconstruction in Milan	3
Masonry Sail Vaults in Maltese Architecture: Geometrical Analysis for the Study of Building Processes	3
Knitted Textile Canopies: A Rapid Generative Design Optimization Tool for Enhanced Shading Performance	3
Thinking Through Geometry: Bridging Polyhedral Structures, Parametric Modeling, and Digital Fabrication in Architectural Education	3
The Architecture of Logic: Diagrammatic Reasoning and Spatial Syntax in Lewis Carroll’s The Game of Logic	3
Self-adaptive Modelling Method for Chinese Ancient Timber Architecture Based on Digital Structure Metamodel	3
Complexity and Diversity in Palladian Facades	3
Tools and Techniques for Curves Tracing in Nineteenth Century Techno-Scientific Culture: Daniel Eichberg’s Ellipsograph Described by G.A. Breymann	3
Correction: Monge Surfaces. Generation, Discretisation and Application in Architecture	3
Structural Plan Schema Generation Through Generative Adversarial Networks	3
A Commentary on Silvio Belli’s On Ratio and Proportion	3
Computational Design and Parametric Analysis of a Fractal-Based Folded-Smooth (F-S) Hybrid Shell Structure	3
Publisher Correction to: Proportion and Ratio in Palladio’s Redentore	3
Publisher Correction to: Creating Constellation Patterns I: Composition	3
The Hexagon’s Persistent Presence: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Architecture of Olivetti	3
Reflections on the Relationships between Mathematics and Arts	3
Proportion and Ratio in Palladio’s Redentore	2
Quantitative Analysis of Eave Curves in Imperial Chinese Architecture Through the Cross-cultural Application of the Japanese CAD Curve Formula	2
About the Sources of the Vaults of San Lorenzo in Turin	2
Rediscovering Shixue: The Point-Notation as Social and Intellectual Signifiers Under the Institutional Censorship of Imperial China in the Eighteenth Century	2
The Model as Cognitive Infrastructure: Parametric and openBIM Approaches to the Knowledge of Existing Bridges	2
An Open-Source Solution for Fast and Informative Modelling of Churches	2
The New Theory of the Metrological Framework of the Pantheon	2
Edge-Corrugation as Structural Enhancement of Shallow Shells	2
Beyond Representation	2
Deformations of the Fortress Towers Analyzed by the SfM Survey	2
El Escorial, Derand and Guarini: About Formal Control of Ribbed Spherical and Elliptical Vaults	2
The Grammar of Anne Tyng’s Simpler Space Structures	2
A Novel System Combining Additive Patterns and Polygonal Structures	2
Mathematics and Geometry in the Nembro Reinforced Concrete Arch Bridge	2
Graph-Based Computational Modeling of Armenian Khachkar Motifs	2
Formal Experimentation in Zaha Hadid’s Pictorial Work	2
Symmetry Group Effect on Perforated Image Perception	2
From Archaeology To Gendered Space– Geometric Evidence in Architecture	2
The Habitat Perspective in Post-world War II Mediterranean Housing: A Space Syntax Analysis of Quinta da Malagueira (Portugal) and Carrières Centrales (Morocco)	2
A Generative Framework for Designing Linear-Modular Housing Integrated with a Real-Time User Interface	2
Revisiting the Original Vision: Digital Reconstruction of the Kosmaj Monument’s Hyperbolic Contours	2
Building more mathematico in Renaissance Venice	2
The Measurement Theorem for the Project	2
Research Arising: The Nexus Conference 2023	2
Parametric Interlocking Elastic Wooden Plate Joint for Complex Structures	2

A Hexagonal Pattern in the Paraninfo at the Universidad de Alcalá	2
Observations on the Geometry of the Monument at the Kasta Tumulus at Amphipolis	2
Wren’s Legacy: Proportion and Ratio at the Church of St James Piccadilly	2
AI-Augmented Parametric Façade Design: Exploring MCTS for Early-Stage Decision-Making	2
Optimizing Settlements for Seasonal Agricultural Workers with Genetic Algorithms: A Case Study in Turkey	2
Procedural Generation of Morava-Style Vernacular Houses for Video Game and Architectural Visualization	2
Parameters, Modeling and Taxonomy for an HBIM Baroque Facade	2
Typological Evolution in the Early Ottoman Period: The Case of Cross-Axial Mosques	2
Translation of Form: a Model for Teaching Design Coding to Undergraduate Students	2
The Critical Digital Model and Two Case Studies: the Churches of Santa Margherita and Santo Spirito in Bologna	2
The Regular Polyhedra: Drawing and Computing in Euclid’s day	2
Geometry to Fabrication in Architecture	2
Making Palladio Digitally Explicit: Geometrical Parameters in Door’s Ornaments	2
Italian Architectural Ratios in the British Rotunda Typology	2
AI-Assisted Floor Plan Design Incorporating Structural Constraints	2