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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How our homes impact our health: using a COVID-19 informed approach to examine urban apartment housing	93
Architecture students' satisfaction with and perceptions of online design studios during COVID-19 lockdown: the case of Jordan universities	54
A blended learning strategy: reimagining the post-Covid-19 architectural education	47
The new normal or the forgotten normal: contesting COVID-19 impact on contemporary architecture and urbanism	45
COVID-19 responsive teaching of undergraduate architecture programs in India: learnings for post-pandemic education	43
Emerging living styles post-COVID-19: housing flexibility as a fundamental requirement for apartments in Jeddah	41
Architecture, urbanism and health in a post-pandemic virtual world	41
An evaluation of online architectural design studios during COVID-19 outbreak	40
Questioning the use of the balcony in apartments during the COVID-19 pandemic process	36
Speculations on the post-pandemic university campus – a global inquiry	26
COVID-19 and “the trinity of boredom” in public spaces: urban form, social distancing and digital transformation	23
Beyond the pandemic: the role of the built environment in supporting people with disabilities work life	22
Social integration through social connection in everyday life. Residents' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in SällBo collaborative housing, Sweden	20
The fifth-place metamorphosis: the impact of the outbreak of COVID-19 on typologies of places in post-pandemic Cairo	17
The impact of legibility and seating areas on social interaction in the neighbourhood park and plaza	16
Open space and sense of community of older adults: a study in a residential area in Hong Kong	16
Assessing public open spaces in Belgrade – A quality of urban life perspective	15
“Stay at home” for addressing COVID-19 protocol: learning from the traditional Balinese house	11
Well-coordinated: learner-focused coordination tactics beyond the pandemergency	11
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	10
The changing context of walking behavior: coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in urban neighborhoods	9
A systematic conduct of POE for polyclinic facilities in Saudi Arabia	9
An investigation into decision-making and delivery activities following design-led events in collaborative planning	9
Implications of neuroarchitecture for the experience of the built environment: a scoping review	9
Mapping the urban environment using real-time physiological monitoring	8

Embedding sustainability and SDGs in architectural and planning education: reflections from a KAP survey, Egypt	8
Learning in metaverse: the immersive atelier model of the architecture studio	8
Prioritising public spaces architectural strategies for autistic users	8
Impacts of architectural education on entrepreneurial intention: a case study of senior architects from six universities in Turkey	8
Co-design in the architectural process	8
Developing a guiding framework based on sustainable development to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease	7
The impact of architectural design studio education on perceptions of sustainability	7
Design-led events in collaborative planning: improving post-event planning and delivery	7
Knowledge spaces in architecture and urbanism – a preliminary five-year chronicle	7
Healthy BIM: the feasibility of integrating architecture health indicators using a building information model (BIM) computer system	7
Design tactics for enhancing the adaptability of primary and middle schools to the new needs of postpandemic reuse	6
The use of an analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the flexibility and adaptability in architecture	6
Defying tradition or maintaining the status quo? Moving towards a new hybrid architecture studio education to support blended learning post-COVID-19	6
Integrating technology subjects with design studio teaching: comparing curriculum of architecture education in Australia and Iran	6
Primary school design: co-creation with children	6
Post-pandemic residential environment in Amman	6
Sustainable Development Goals and the future of architectural education – cultivating SDGs-centred architectural pedagogies	6
The child as an active participant: enhancing the child's attachment to kindergartens through architectural design	5
Automated assessment of architectural spatial layout configurations using fuzzy logic	5
How can community architects build socially resilient refugee camps? Lessons from the Office of Displaced Designers in Lesvos, Greece	5
Variance in student and teacher roles in the contemporary Australasian architecture design studio context	5
Engaging in social interaction: relationships between the accessibility of path structure and intensity of passive social interaction in urban parks	5
Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model	5
Post-occupancy evaluation of outdoor spaces on the campus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil	5
Assessing park qualities of public parks in Cairo, Egypt	5
Unpacking the effects of star architecture projects	5
Mapping and measuring spatial connectivity of the pathways to home-based businesses within informal urban contexts	4
Residential satisfaction and quality of urban life: examining diverse housing environments	4
Spatial intelligence: integration of land use to connectivity in the context of eastern urbanism	4
Shaping health and well-being in a COVID era: the role of design	4
A qualitative study on how Danish landscape architectural firms understand and work with accessibility	4
The Chicago Riverwalk: urban sustainability lessons	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
A systematic review of indicators for sustainability of urban heritage sites	4
Assessing contextual factors for sustainable development: a case study of LEED-certified projects in Jordan	4
A community healthcare clinic in Baltimore: healing environment, design criteria, and assessment metrics	4
The reestablishment of Mosul's city fabric: an approach to computational hybridization	4
Silver cities: planning for an ageing population in Singapore. An urban planning policy case study of Kampung Admiralty	4
Architectural approaches to housing customization: introducing the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach and the MyChanges tool	4
Theorizing architectural research and practice in the metaverse: the meta-context of virtual community engagement	4
Architecture and the imaginary: text stimulus to improve students' creativity with nonlinear design process	3
The transition of spatial organisation planning of pre and post-colonial housing in Khartoum	3
“You must go here”: architecture, yelp and the tourist gaze	3
Assessing the post-occupancy performance of educational design/build: the thinking while doing initiative	3
Transformational contribution of technology to studio culture: experience of an online first-year architecture design studio during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Relationship between environmental indoor conditions of a classroom and the performance of undergraduate students	3
Analytical hierarchy process for ranking green neighbourhood efforts in the Middle East and North Africa region	3
A guide for a guide: using UIA publications for an SDG-focused studio	3
Development of special needs classroom prototypes to respond to the sensory needs of students with exceptionalities	3
Surprise: challenging design perceptions in immersive virtual reality environments? The case of designing a hospital project using a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment)	3

Seeking elsewhere: a systematic review of literature surrounding attrition and retention of female architects in the profession post-registration	3
Decolonising the design curriculum: making “sustainability” accessible, understandable and practicable to second-year undergraduate architecture students	3
Influences and aspirations in the production of national projects in Lebanon and Kuwait	3
Next time, with empathy: revisiting the studio pedagogy for transitional housing for refugees	3
Evolution of cities in Borneo: a kaleidoscope of urban landscapes for planning future resilient cities	3
Plot-based approach for controlled morphological transformation in urban heritage contexts: the case of New Gourna village, Luxor – Egypt	3
Designers' perceptions of biophilia and testing of the biophilic interior design matrix in China	3
Sustainable embodied experience in the built environment: reinterpreting architectural history through embodied cognition	3
Courtyard configuration to optimize shading, daylight and ventilation in a tropical terrace house using simulation	3
Towards a relational approach for understanding the multiplicity of sitting activities	2
Evaluating the legibility of urban parks based on neuroscience and the FVFL model	2
Opportunities and challenges for service-learning experiences in informal urban settlements	2
Managerial representations of achieving a competitive advantage in architectural practices: a UK perspective	2
Materiality and digital technologies: concrete experiments for the built environment	2
Postgraduate disciplinary trends in architecture: mapping master theses in Jordan	2
Gazing at Egypt's museums: toward a new internationalism	2
Storytelling as a multidimensional pedagogical tool in practice-based doctoral training for design disciplines	2
Using post-occupancy evaluation as a methodological approach to assess residential hostels in CFTI	2
Distress, anxiety, boredom, and their relation to the interior spaces under COVID-19 lockdowns	2
Interactions between architects and end-users during housing design processes: a systematic literature review	2
The icon as a collaborative performance: non-standard solutions, invisible work and networks of trust in the construction of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg	2
An ecocentric approach to defining a public park system	2
Effect of typo-morphological analysis and place understanding on the nature of intervention within historic settings: the case of Amman, Jordan	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
Contested identities, contested building: planning for a glocal future	2
From house to home: exploring the spatial expression of social identity on traditional Shiraz houses	2
Work-integrated learning (WIL) as a part of quality education in architecture: the profession's perspective	2
Guest editorial: Sustainable solutions for tropical Asian cities: the nexus between architecture, technology and heritage	2
A talent management based framework for developing sustainable quality of work life in architectural design firms in Egypt	2
Toward smart sustainable cities: assessment of stakeholders' readiness for digital participatory planning	1
Young people’s preferences in public spaces	1
Sustaining Traditionalism: an investigation into the vernacular transformation of the Khasi tribal houses of Sylhet	1
Identifying key urban design attributes for enhanced sense of safety – the case of El-Sherouk city in Cairo	1
The current trends in mosque architecture in the northern cities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1
The effects of environmental factors on the social interaction of children in need of protection in outdoor living spaces	1
Urban morphology of informally built dwellings: counter-mapping coastal cities of Montenegro	1
Re-establishing traditional stilt structures in contemporary architecture–The possibilities	1
The role of urban green spaces in supporting active and healthy ageing: an exploration of behaviour–physical setting–gender correlations	1
Reshaping water-related urban places with collaborative participation: a critical examination of the Kabataş waterfront	1
Comparing desired spatial ratios among autistic and non-autistic children	1
A pedagogical approach optimization toward sustainable architectural technology education applied by massive open online courses	1
Years of education and research driven in sustainable architecture: Where do we stand and where do we go?	1
Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London	1
Sensory spaces: sensory living – studio teaching the design of autism-friendly adult accommodation	1
Investigation of architecture and architectural engineering online education; educator experience, self-efficacy and success	1
An experiment of collaborative, international, multi-disciplinary design studio – Erasmus+ CBHE TACEESM project Summer School	1
Bascarsija (Bashcarshiya), Sarajevo's historic core: evaluating the qualities of its open spaces	1
Revitalisation of urban spaces by women architects: enhancing cultural heritage in the gulf region	1
Architectural pedagogy for the Anthropocene: theory, critique and typological urbanism	1
The impact of urban graffiti with facial expressions on human behavioral and emotional experiences in a VR environment	1
Zero emission and clean energy concept for campus area in hot-humid tropical climate	1
Experiencing cinematic architecture: the impact of architecture on the audience emotional engagement	1
Viewpoint on what may be considered as evidence and how to obtain it when designing health-promoting and inclusive green spaces	1
The informal city and the future of our cities: towards a manifesto	1
Gender and mobility: enhancing the Egyptian working women’s travel pattern	1
A century of Jordanian architecture: narrating the development of the nation	1
Simulation-based service walkthrough (SBSW) to assess airport environment performance	1
A cultural diversity management framework for enhancing the performance of architectural design firms in Egypt	1
Design strategies and health planning to improve the primary health care environment: a case study in Brazil	1
Architectural design research in small practices	1
The cost of universal design for public buildings: exploring a realistic, context-dependent research approach	1
The impact of ASPECTSS-based design intervention in autism school design: a case study	1
Live projects: a mixed-methods exploration of existing scholarship	1
Balancing complexity and restoration in virtual interior environments: user perceptions of organized complexity in biophilic design	1
Optimizing energy retrofitting of existing buildings through combinations of advanced noninvasive interventions: a case study in a hot climate zone	1
Maximizing minimums: space-utilization in the small homes in the Mumbai metropolitan region	1
Gendered sense of safety and coping strategies in public places: a study in Atatürk Meydanı of Izmir	1
The diagonal axis from VERB to VOID: interdisciplinarity in basic design studio education	1