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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
How our homes impact our health: using a COVID-19 informed approach to examine urban apartment housing	82
Architecture students' satisfaction with and perceptions of online design studios during COVID-19 lockdown: the case of Jordan universities	44
The new normal or the forgotten normal: contesting COVID-19 impact on contemporary architecture and urbanism	43
COVID-19 responsive teaching of undergraduate architecture programs in India: learnings for post-pandemic education	37
Architecture, urbanism and health in a post-pandemic virtual world	35
Emerging living styles post-COVID-19: housing flexibility as a fundamental requirement for apartments in Jeddah	35
A blended learning strategy: reimagining the post-Covid-19 architectural education	33
An evaluation of online architectural design studios during COVID-19 outbreak	31
Questioning the use of the balcony in apartments during the COVID-19 pandemic process	28
Strengthening the affectivity of atmospheres in urban environments: the toolkit of multi-sensory experience	25
Speculations on the post-pandemic university campus – a global inquiry	22
COVID-19 and “the trinity of boredom” in public spaces: urban form, social distancing and digital transformation	21
The impact of urban façade quality on affective feelings	20
Social integration through social connection in everyday life. Residents' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in SällBo collaborative housing, Sweden	19
Beyond the pandemic: the role of the built environment in supporting people with disabilities work life	17
The fifth-place metamorphosis: the impact of the outbreak of COVID-19 on typologies of places in post-pandemic Cairo	15
Residential satisfaction among low-income single-mother households: the case of residential welfare facilities in South Korea	14
The impact of legibility and seating areas on social interaction in the neighbourhood park and plaza	13
The public value of child-friendly space	13
Incremental housing: harnessing informality at Villa Verde	13
Open space and sense of community of older adults: a study in a residential area in Hong Kong	12
A life cycle assessment of a ‘minus carbon’ refugee house: global warming potential and sensitivity analysis	11
Well-coordinated: learner-focused coordination tactics beyond the pandemergency	10
Assessing public open spaces in Belgrade – A quality of urban life perspective	10
An investigation into decision-making and delivery activities following design-led events in collaborative planning	10

“Stay at home” for addressing COVID-19 protocol: learning from the traditional Balinese house	10
Utilising social networking services as a collective medium to support design communication in team collaboration	10
Teaching strategies for linking knowledge acquisition and application in the architectural design studio	9
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	8
Sustainable architectural design: towards climate change mitigation	8
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	8
Design-led events in collaborative planning: improving post-event planning and delivery	7
Impacts of architectural education on entrepreneurial intention: a case study of senior architects from six universities in Turkey	7
Collaborative design of an active learning classroom with high school students and teachers	7
Healthy BIM: the feasibility of integrating architecture health indicators using a building information model (BIM) computer system	7
Co-design in the architectural process	7
Pocket parks for promoting social interaction among residents of Baghdad City	7
Integrating technology subjects with design studio teaching: comparing curriculum of architecture education in Australia and Iran	6
Prioritising public spaces architectural strategies for autistic users	6
Architect and craftsperson: project perceptions, relationships and craft	6
Post-pandemic residential environment in Amman	6
Assessment, learning and power in the architectural design studio jury: a case from the United Arab Emirates	6
Mapping the urban environment using real-time physiological monitoring	6
The use of an analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the flexibility and adaptability in architecture	6
Implications of neuroarchitecture for the experience of the built environment: a scoping review	6
Knowledge spaces in architecture and urbanism – a preliminary five-year chronicle	6
Primary school design: co-creation with children	6
Variance in student and teacher roles in the contemporary Australasian architecture design studio context	5
Curriculum development in health and the built environment: creating a multidisciplinary platform to enhance knowledge and engagement	5
Design tactics for enhancing the adaptability of primary and middle schools to the new needs of postpandemic reuse	5
Developing a guiding framework based on sustainable development to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease	4
The Chicago Riverwalk: urban sustainability lessons	4
A pedagogical protocol for iterative robotic fabrication on remote grounds	4
A qualitative study on how Danish landscape architectural firms understand and work with accessibility	4
Unpacking the effects of star architecture projects	4
How can community architects build socially resilient refugee camps? Lessons from the Office of Displaced Designers in Lesvos, Greece	4
The child as an active participant: enhancing the child's attachment to kindergartens through architectural design	4
The reestablishment of Mosul's city fabric: an approach to computational hybridization	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
Next time, with empathy: revisiting the studio pedagogy for transitional housing for refugees	3
The transition of spatial organisation planning of pre and post-colonial housing in Khartoum	3
Evolution of cities in Borneo: a kaleidoscope of urban landscapes for planning future resilient cities	3
Automated assessment of architectural spatial layout configurations using fuzzy logic	3
Learning in metaverse: the immersive atelier model of the architecture studio	3
Architectural approaches to housing customization: introducing the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach and the MyChanges tool	3
Defying tradition or maintaining the status quo? Moving towards a new hybrid architecture studio education to support blended learning post-COVID-19	3
Assessing the post-occupancy performance of educational design/build: the thinking while doing initiative	3
Engaging in social interaction: relationships between the accessibility of path structure and intensity of passive social interaction in urban parks	3
The impact of architectural design studio education on perceptions of sustainability	3
Shaping health and well-being in a COVID era: the role of design	3
Successful thesis proposals in architecture and urban planning	3
Architecture and the imaginary: text stimulus to improve students' creativity with nonlinear design process	3
Mapping and measuring spatial connectivity of the pathways to home-based businesses within informal urban contexts	3
Embedding sustainability and SDGs in architectural and planning education: reflections from a KAP survey, Egypt	3

Silver cities: planning for an ageing population in Singapore. An urban planning policy case study of Kampung Admiralty	2
A talent management based framework for developing sustainable quality of work life in architectural design firms in Egypt	2
Gazing at Egypt's museums: toward a new internationalism	2
Climatically and culturally responsive typologies using mathematical permutation	2
Evaluating the legibility of urban parks based on neuroscience and the FVFL model	2
Designers' perceptions of biophilia and testing of the biophilic interior design matrix in China	2
Distress, anxiety, boredom, and their relation to the interior spaces under COVID-19 lockdowns	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
Spatial intelligence: integration of land use to connectivity in the context of eastern urbanism	2
Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model	2
Storytelling as a multidimensional pedagogical tool in practice-based doctoral training for design disciplines	2
Post-occupancy evaluation of outdoor spaces on the campus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil	2
Intelligibility and cellularity in the villas of Palladio and Le Corbusier: examining Rowe's observations	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
Materiality and digital technologies: concrete experiments for the built environment	2
A systematic review of indicators for sustainability of urban heritage sites	2
An ecocentric approach to defining a public park system	2
Guest editorial: Sustainable solutions for tropical Asian cities: the nexus between architecture, technology and heritage	2
A guide for a guide: using UIA publications for an SDG-focused studio	2
A community healthcare clinic in Baltimore: healing environment, design criteria, and assessment metrics	2
Sustainable embodied experience in the built environment: reinterpreting architectural history through embodied cognition	2
Relationship between environmental indoor conditions of a classroom and the performance of undergraduate students	2
Opportunities and challenges for service-learning experiences in informal urban settlements	2
Residential satisfaction and quality of urban life: examining diverse housing environments	1
Influences and aspirations in the production of national projects in Lebanon and Kuwait	1
Experiencing cinematic architecture: the impact of architecture on the audience emotional engagement	1
Architectural pedagogy for the Anthropocene: theory, critique and typological urbanism	1
Work-integrated learning (WIL) as a part of quality education in architecture: the profession's perspective	1
Assessing contextual factors for sustainable development: a case study of LEED-certified projects in Jordan	1
Viewpoint on what may be considered as evidence and how to obtain it when designing health-promoting and inclusive green spaces	1
Using post-occupancy evaluation as a methodological approach to assess residential hostels in CFTI	1
Plot-based approach for controlled morphological transformation in urban heritage contexts: the case of New Gourna village, Luxor – Egypt	1
Sensory spaces: sensory living – studio teaching the design of autism-friendly adult accommodation	1
Transformational contribution of technology to studio culture: experience of an online first-year architecture design studio during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Port Said historic markets: a tool for urban revitalization	1
Architectural design research in small practices	1
Bascarsija (Bashcarshiya), Sarajevo's historic core: evaluating the qualities of its open spaces	1
Analytical hierarchy process for ranking green neighbourhood efforts in the Middle East and North Africa region	1
Interactions between architects and end-users during housing design processes: a systematic literature review	1
Postgraduate disciplinary trends in architecture: mapping master theses in Jordan	1
Managerial representations of achieving a competitive advantage in architectural practices: a UK perspective	1
Towards a relational approach for understanding the multiplicity of sitting activities	1
Gendered sense of safety and coping strategies in public places: a study in Atatürk Meydanı of Izmir	1
Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London	1
Assessing park qualities of public parks in Cairo, Egypt	1
Sustaining Traditionalism: an investigation into the vernacular transformation of the Khasi tribal houses of Sylhet	1
Seeking elsewhere: a systematic review of literature surrounding attrition and retention of female architects in the profession post-registration	1
Sustainable Development Goals and the future of architectural education – cultivating SDGs-centred architectural pedagogies	1
Courtyard configuration to optimize shading, daylight and ventilation in a tropical terrace house using simulation	1
Decolonising the design curriculum: making “sustainability” accessible, understandable and practicable to second-year undergraduate architecture students	1
Urban morphology of informally built dwellings: counter-mapping coastal cities of Montenegro	1
Maximizing minimums: space-utilization in the small homes in the Mumbai metropolitan region	1
Transformations of ground floors: effects on the perception of security and the occurrence of crime	1
The diagonal axis from VERB to VOID: interdisciplinarity in basic design studio education	1
A pedagogical approach optimization toward sustainable architectural technology education applied by massive open online courses	1
A century of Jordanian architecture: narrating the development of the nation	1
“You must go here”: architecture, yelp and the tourist gaze	1
Identifying key urban design attributes for enhanced sense of safety – the case of El-Sherouk city in Cairo	1
An experiment of collaborative, international, multi-disciplinary design studio – Erasmus+ CBHE TACEESM project Summer School	1