OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Archnet-IJAR International Journal of Architectural Research is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatial intelligence: integration of land use to connectivity in the context of eastern urbanism	62
Reshaping water-related urban places with collaborative participation: a critical examination of the Kabataş waterfront	23
Nurturing an architect through transformative pedagogy: design studio teaching experience	18
Knowledge spaces in architecture and urbanism – a preliminary five-year chronicle	16
Understanding historic buildings from an environmental perspective: Finsbury Health Centre – as an environmental rhetoric of modernism	16
Mapping architectural students’ perception on educational spaces: a guideline toward understanding spatial belonging	14
Revitalisation of urban spaces by women architects: enhancing cultural heritage in the gulf region	12
Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective	12
Prioritising public spaces architectural strategies for autistic users	10
Star architecture in online public discourse: exploring Reddit user-generated content on the Vessel, New York, through a text analytics approach	10
Researching children’s physical environment: a systematic review of research methods	9
Relationship between environmental indoor conditions of a classroom and the performance of undergraduate students	9
Affordance-led framework of understanding of BIM adoption	8
Mapping and measuring spatial connectivity of the pathways to home-based businesses within informal urban contexts	8
Evolving informality as an urban cultural phenomenon: the case of evening food streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh	8
Sustainable Development Goals and the future of architectural education – cultivating SDGs-centred architectural pedagogies	8
Courtyard configuration to optimize shading, daylight and ventilation in a tropical terrace house using simulation	8
Effects of biophilic design on sustainable behaviors: introducing the use of serious game as a measure of sustainable behavior	8
Toward a framework for the design of fair shared open spaces case study: Effat University, Jeddah	7
The impact of platform affordance on the representation of iconic architecture: a case study of Markthal across visual social media	7
Cartography of controversy as an approach to inquiry into care and the city: a case study with architecture students	7
Sensory spaces: sensory living – studio teaching the design of autism-friendly adult accommodation	7
Architectural learning networks: a study on eliciting the learning agendas of architectural schools	7
Developing a guiding framework based on sustainable development to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease	6
Integrating aesthetics and sustainability: evaluating the aesthetic perception of photovoltaic installation on the apartment building façade in Jordan	6

The role of the residential balcony in local context; perception of Cairene women	6
Variance in student and teacher roles in the contemporary Australasian architecture design studio context	6
“You must go here”: architecture, yelp and the tourist gaze	6
Defying tradition or maintaining the status quo? Moving towards a new hybrid architecture studio education to support blended learning post-COVID-19	6
Viewpoint on what may be considered as evidence and how to obtain it when designing health-promoting and inclusive green spaces	6
Maximizing solar energy generation: guidelines for optimizing photovoltaic panel placement on building facades	6
Economic powers encompass the largest cultural buildings: market, culture and equality in Stockholm, Sweden (1918–2023)	5
Integrating sustainable development goals into architectural design education: a case study in second-year design studio	5
Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model	5
Joyful living labs – pedagogical approach for urban design thinking soft skills	5
Book review	5
Exploring the restorative environments in Bratislava using EEG and VR: a neuro-urbanism approach	5
Balancing complexity and restoration in virtual interior environments: user perceptions of organized complexity in biophilic design	5
Re-establishing traditional stilt structures in contemporary architecture–The possibilities	5
Implications of rapid changes and identity transformation on walkability in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt	5
Hermeneutic phenomenology for spatial analysis	5
The physical geometries of sacred spaces: methodological challenges in applying practice-based approaches to study sacred shrines	5
The effects of environmental factors on the social interaction of children in need of protection in outdoor living spaces	4
Design strategies and health planning to improve the primary health care environment: a case study in Brazil	4
Beyond the grand narrative of Al Bastakiya: Ayesha Al Bastaki and the Windtower houses of Old Dubai	4
Insights on the obstacles, challenges, and complexities of engaging youth in urban planning in Jordan: assessment and recommendations	4
Plot-based approach for controlled morphological transformation in urban heritage contexts: the case of New Gourna village, Luxor – Egypt	4
Unveiling the missing innovation – an actor–network theory analysis of regulatory efforts towards universal design	4
Social sustainability in architectural practice: examining experiences of architectural offices in B-Corp certification in the United Kingdom	4
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	4
Usability test and implications of an activity allocation mapping in complex organizations: perceptions about a software by emergency room agents	4
The meaning of the home in the realm of Korean everyday life	4
Practitioner architects who teach design: evaluative judgement and identity	4
Mapping the urban environment using real-time physiological monitoring	4
Architectural design research in small practices	4
A blended learning strategy: reimagining the post-Covid-19 architectural education	4
Distress, anxiety, boredom, and their relation to the interior spaces under COVID-19 lockdowns	4
The influence of urban campus landscape on college students' exercise participation and mental health: an approach using deep learning and street view images	4
The reestablishment of Mosul's city fabric: an approach to computational hybridization	4
Predicting and analysing initiator crime environments based on machine learning for improving urban safety	4
An emergent ontology for digitally modeling existing buildings: examining Kyoto’s Nishiki market	3
Theorizing architectural research and practice in the metaverse: the meta-context of virtual community engagement	3
Gendered sense of safety and coping strategies in public places: a study in Atatürk Meydanı of Izmir	3
Leaving no one behind: unveiling gaps in inclusive architecture at the UIA World Congress of architects 2023	3
The cost of universal design for public buildings: exploring a realistic, context-dependent research approach	3
Post-occupancy evaluation of residential properties: a case study on an organizational multistorey apartment building	3
A guide for a guide: using UIA publications for an SDG-focused studio	3
The child as an active participant: enhancing the child's attachment to kindergartens through architectural design	3
Linking education and practice gaps for inclusive architecture in the AEC industry	3
Architectural approaches to housing customization: introducing the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach and the MyChanges tool	3
Postgraduate disciplinary trends in architecture: mapping master theses in Jordan	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
Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London	3
The diagonal axis from VERB to VOID: interdisciplinarity in basic design studio education	3
The use of an analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the flexibility and adaptability in architecture	3

Guest editorial: Sustainable solutions for tropical Asian cities: the nexus between architecture, technology and heritage	3
The missing link in the sustainability chain: Gulf women	3
Experiencing cinematic architecture: the impact of architecture on the audience emotional engagement	3
Critical therapeutic landscape design elements for cognitive impairments in the Royal Talbot rehabilitation centre	2
A study on children's multi-sensorial experiences of nature: design approaches and preferences for primary school architecture case studies in Glasgow, Scotland, UK	2
Transdisciplinary architectures: reconnecting theories, research and practices	2
The assessment of biophilic features in residential buildings: a case from Dubai	2
Intelligibility and cellularity in the villas of Palladio and Le Corbusier: examining Rowe's observations	2
Investigation of architecture and architectural engineering online education; educator experience, self-efficacy and success	2
The possibility of radical resources and participation in architectural education: autobiographical spatial narratives	2
Towards a new rural and urban intersection, “R-Urban”: the Beykoz district case in Istanbul	2
The impact of biophilic design in university study areas on students' productivity	2
A relational model of university's identity and architectural design pre- and post-pandemic	2
Sustainable embodied experience in the built environment: reinterpreting architectural history through embodied cognition	2
Characteristics of notational expression by decomposition of Steven Holl’s sketches	2
Young people’s preferences in public spaces	2
Empowering the next generation of women in interior design in the United Arab Emirates through competitive education: a curriculum review	2
Environmental analysis in UK modern methods of construction (MMC) housing: insights from early-stage architectural design process	2
Visuality peaks, function lasts: an empirical investigation into the performance of iconic architecture on Instagram	2
Silver cities: planning for an ageing population in Singapore. An urban planning policy case study of Kampung Admiralty	2
Guest editorial: Women and Gulf Cities. The transformative impact of women influencing the architectural and urban developments of the gulf region	2
The periphery as a critical project: towards an architectural pedagogy for the Anthropocene	2
Surprise: challenging design perceptions in immersive virtual reality environments? The case of designing a hospital project using a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment)	2
Development of special needs classroom prototypes to respond to the sensory needs of students with exceptionalities	2
Contested identities, contested building: planning for a glocal future	2
COVID-19 and “the trinity of boredom” in public spaces: urban form, social distancing and digital transformation	2
The built environment and social media: a semi-systematic review of architectural and design disciplines	2
Years of education and research driven in sustainable architecture: Where do we stand and where do we go?	1
Comparing desired spatial ratios among autistic and non-autistic children	1
The icon as a collaborative performance: non-standard solutions, invisible work and networks of trust in the construction of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg	1
How can a global icon become a local icon? A qualitative case study of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre	1
Digital tools and digital pedagogy for placemaking	1
Implications of neuroarchitecture for the experience of the built environment: a scoping review	1
A social media-based framework for marketing architectural design firms in Egypt during global economic downturn	1
The impact of architectural design studio education on perceptions of sustainability	1
Architecture as frozen music: perception of crossing boundaries as audible experience	1
Live projects: a mixed-methods exploration of existing scholarship	1
The crucible of the unfinished master plans for Cairo and a plan for the new administrative capital city	1
How a high-modernism project in South Korea failed: Sewoon Sangga (1966–1972), the first experimental modern planning	1
Our Common Gulf Cities: agenda for equitable AEC industries for sustainable urban development	1
Gender-inclusive urban planning: European frameworks as a potential methodology for Arabian Gulf urban parks	1
Seeking elsewhere: a systematic review of literature surrounding attrition and retention of female architects in the profession post-registration	1
Sustaining Traditionalism: an investigation into the vernacular transformation of the Khasi tribal houses of Sylhet	1
A qualitative study on how Danish landscape architectural firms understand and work with accessibility	1
Furniture configurations in an active learning classroom make further differences in student outcomes	1
The socio-spatial dynamics of coliving: examining fractality, visual integration and copresence in a large-scale purpose-built shared living building	1
Evaluating the vitality of urban public spaces: perspectives on crowd activity and built environment	1
Urban morphology of informally built dwellings: counter-mapping coastal cities of Montenegro	1
Towards a relational approach for understanding the multiplicity of sitting activities	1
Architecture and the imaginary: text stimulus to improve students' creativity with nonlinear design process	1
Gender and mobility: enhancing the Egyptian working women’s travel pattern	1
A systematic review of indicators for sustainability of urban heritage sites	1
Women, sustainable development and heritage regeneration in Qatar and Bahrain	1
Embedding sustainability and SDGs in architectural and planning education: reflections from a KAP survey, Egypt	1
Bascarsija (Bashcarshiya), Sarajevo's historic core: evaluating the qualities of its open spaces	1
Revitalizing old low-rise residential environments by focusing on communities: case studies in Seoul, Korea	1
A talent management based framework for developing sustainable quality of work life in architectural design firms in Egypt	1
A hybrid modelling approach for information processing workflow in inter-cultural heritage projects	1