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Biophilic design in architecture and its contributions to health, well-being, and sustainability: A critical review

February 2022

Weijie Zhong | Torsten Schröder | Juliette Bekkering

In the last ten years, ‘nature’ and biophilic design have received widespread attention in architecture, especially in response to growing environmental challenges. However, open questions and controversies...

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Using passive cooling strategies to improve thermal performance and reduce energy consumption of residential buildings in U.A.E. buildings

Hanan M. Taleb

Passive design responds to local climate and site conditions in order to maximise the comfort and health of building users while minimising energy use. The key to designing a passive building is to...

The effects of environmental factors on the patient outcomes in hospital environments: A review of literature

Saman Jamshidi | Jan S. Parker | Seyedehnastaran Hashemi

This study investigates the evidence supporting the impact of the built environment on the health outcomes for patients within the hospital setting. Improving the hospital environment may potentially...

Designing with nature: Advancing three-dimensional green spaces in architecture through frameworks for biophilic design and sustainability

August 2023

Weijie Zhong | Torsten Schroeder | Juliette Bekkering

In the transition to a more sustainable built environment over the last two decades, the “greening” of architecture as a popular approach has received widespread attention. However, there are still...

Evolution of Islamic geometric patterns

Yahya Abdullahi | Mohamed Rashid Bin Embi

This research demonstrates the suitability of applying Islamic geometrical patterns (IGPs) to architectural elements in terms of time scale accuracy and style matching. To this end, a detailed survey...

Computational design in architecture: Defining parametric, generative, and algorithmic design

Inês Caetano | Luís Santos | António Leitão

Computation-based approaches in design have emerged in the last decades and rapidly became popular among architects and other designers. Design professionals and researchers adopted different terminologies...

Tree-inspired dendriforms and fractal-like branching structures in architecture: A brief historical overview

September 2014

Iasef Md Rian | Mario Sassone

The shapes of trees are complex and fractal-like, and they have a set of physical, mechanical and biological functions. The relation between them always draws attention of human beings throughout history...

Mapping urban public spaces based on the Nolli map method

September 2021

Huimin Ji | Wowo Ding

In 1748, Giambattista Nolli published a large map of Rome, which accurately depicted the form and system of public space in the city. This graphic presentation has become a powerful tool for urban space...

Healthy campus by open space design: Approaches and guidelines

December 2014

Stephen Siu Yu Lau | Zhonghua Gou | Yajing Liu

This paper examines the architectural and landscape design strategies and intentions for green, open spaces facilities targeting stress alleviation for learning environments such as those of university...

Exploring the influence of the built environment on human experience through a neuroscience approach: A systematic review

Tulay Karakas | Dilek Yildiz

The built environment provides a habitat for the most sophisticated mammal in our universe, the human being. Developments in science and technology are forcing us to reconsider the priority of human...

Geometric proportions: The underlying structure of design process for Islamic geometric patterns

December 2012

Loai M. Dabbour

This paper discusses geometric proportions which serve as a design tool, especially for Islamic pattern design. The key role of geometry in Islamic patterns is discussed with relation to proportions...

Kahn's light: The measurable and the unmeasurable of the Bangladesh National Assembly Building

Blerim Lutolli | Kaltrina Jashanica

To incline and unfold the constituent elements of Louis I. Kahn's architecture and philosophy, a precise attention must lie on the fundamental objectives that he vigorously pursued and mastered, especially...

Short- and long-term effects of architecture on the brain: Toward theoretical formalization

December 2019

Andréa de Paiva | Richard Jedon

The physical environment affects people's behavior and wellbeing. Some effects can be easily noticed through observation, whereas others require an in-depth study to be understood and measured. Although...

Studies on sustainable features of vernacular architecture in different regions across the world: A comprehensive synthesis and evaluation

Anh Tuan Nguyen | Nguyen Song Ha Truong | David Rockwood | Anh Dung Tran Le

Due to the increasing pressure brought by recent global environmental problems, building designers are embracing regionalism and the knowledge of traditional structures, arguing that these structures...

Concept cathedral and “squaring the circle”: Interpreting the Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris as a standing hymn

Nelly Shafik Ramzy

Semiotics is used in the sphere of visual arts as a tool that helps reading the message included in a certain work. Gothic architecture, as an outcome of the rich cultural context of medieval tradition,...

Integrated design of transport infrastructure and public spaces considering human behavior: A review of state-of-the-art methods and tools

Liu Yang | Koen H. van Dam | Arnab Majumdar | Bani Anvari | Washington Y. Ochieng | Lufeng Zhang

In order to achieve holistic urban plans incorporating transport infrastructure, public space and the behavior of people in these spaces, integration of urban design and computer modeling is a promising...

Biology and architecture: An ongoing hybridization of scientific knowledge and design practice by six architectural offices in France

Natasha Chayaamor-Heil | Louis Vitalis

As a highly interdisciplinary field, architecture is being influenced by many subjects of natural and social sciences. Biology despite being apparently distant from architecture is currently a scientific...

The impact of the design of learning spaces on attention and memory from a neuroarchitectural approach: A systematic review

Mar Llorens-Gámez | Juan Luis Higuera-Trujillo | Carla Sentieri Omarrementeria | Carmen Llinares

Enriched environments in animal models have demonstrated that exposure to an optimal stimulus improves behavior, cognition, and genomics. However, the evidence base for the neurophysiological influence...

Unveiling the potential of space syntax approach for revitalizing historic urban areas: A case study of Yushan Historic District, China

December 2023

Yuyan Lyu | Mohd Iskandar Abd Malek | Nor Haslina Ja`afar | Yina Sima | Ziyi Han | Zhangjingyi Liu

Historic urban areas are a crucial component of urban heritage, embodying the collective memory of urban development and possessing distinctive urban textures and cultural attributes. However, the growing...

Quality of public space and sustainable development goals: analysis of nine urban projects in Spanish cities

Raimundo Bambó Naya | Pablo de la Cal Nicolás | Carmen Díez Medina | Isabel Ezquerra | Sergio García-Pérez | Javier Monclús

The starting point of this research is the urban model promoted by the United Nations through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of public spaces is especially highlighted in Goal...

Cognitive-emotional feasibility of the effect of visual quality of building form on promoting the sense of place attachment (Case study: Cultural iconic buildings of Iran's contemporary architecture)

February 2024

Narmin Ariannia | Negar Naseri | Mansour Yeganeh

The present research studies the relationship between place attachment and the perception of form's visual quality in fifteen outstanding contemporary Iranian architectural cultural buildings. This...

Contemplative neuroaesthetics and architecture: A sensorimotor exploration

Zakaria Djebbara | Juliet King | Amir Ebadi | Yoshio Nakamura | Julio Bermudez

This paper takes initial steps towards developing a theoretical framework of contemplative neuroaesthetics through sensorimotor dynamics. We first argue that this new area has been largely omitted from...

What is a Korean officetel? Case study on Bundang New Town

Emilien Gohaud | Seungman Baek

The purpose of this study is to identify a little-known element in Korea׳s housing typology: the officetel. A portmanteau of the English office and hotel, the officetel was originally a work facility...

Blue–green architecture: A case study analysis considering the synergetic effects of water and vegetation

Friederike Well | Ferdinand Ludwig

Blue–green infrastructure is a network of natural and near-natural areas that has a positive effect on the quality of urban environment. This multifunctional planning approach addresses different issues...

Reuse of port industrial heritage in tourist cities: Shipyards as case studies

María J. Andrade | Eduardo Jiménez-Morales | Rachel Rodríguez-Ramos | Pablo Martínez-Ramírez

The progressive deindustrialisation of many western cities since the 1980s has led to many industrial zones linked to port activities being abandoned or falling into disuse. Cities such as Barcelona,...

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‘Precarity’  is a difficult to overlook condition of life in the 21st century. Almost as if by design, the circumstances of global capital—whose extractive industries and financial arrangements imperil labor, material supply chains and all who engage with the built environment—have rendered architecture highly vulnerable in the face of material and data waste, and the accelerated specter of environmental collapse. While such actualities pose difficulties for those who practice, there is perhaps no more urgent a moment to reckon with inherited Enlightenment epistemologies that have led to this point, and to imagine alternative models of architectural research and scholarship. ‘Precarity’ can begin to trace the outlines of a new framework that address architecture’s extended milieu and the outcomes it produces. This conference hosted by the PhD Program in Architecture of the Weitzman School of Design encourages the exploration of ideas aligned with the theme of ‘Precarity’. It features papers that examine the theme of Precarity from the perspectives of technology, project-making, and history/theory. The conference represents an opportunity to question the boundaries of architecture, as well as to seek interdisciplinary contributions that interrogate multiple perspectives.

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The loeb fellowship at harvard gsd announces the selection for the class of 2025.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) has announced the Class of 2025 Loeb Fellows. Ten practitioners and activists from around the world have been selected to join the Loeb Fellowship program to expand their careers and advance their programs and initiatives focused on equity, resilience, and collective action.

The ten selected practitioners are mid-career professionals coming from diverse backgrounds. Each one has been recognized for initiating practices that are transforming public spaces and urban infrastructures, addressing public health concerns and environmental injustices, as well as housing needs and efforts to preserve the cultural, natural, and architectural heritage of diverse regions from all continents.

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Jingru (Cyan) Cheng Wins 2023 Wheelwright Prize for her Study on the Impact of Sand on the Environment and Communities

Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced Jingru (Cyan) Cheng as the recipient of the 2023 Wheelwright Prize , a study grant created to support globally-minded research and investigative approaches to contemporary architecture. The winning research project, titled “Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift,” delves into the multifaceted impacts of sand mining and reclamation, understood from cultural, economic, and ecological perspectives. The unassuming material has become an indispensable element for our built environment and human communities, serving as a vital component in the production of glass, concrete, asphalt roads, and artificial land. Yet the process of dredging underwater systems and sand mining leads to the disruption of habitats in a process that simultaneously shapes one habitat while devastating another.

Design for Inclusivity at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

The UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 is an invitation for architects from around the world to meet in Copenhagen July 2 – 6 to explore and communicate how architecture influences all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more than two years, the Science Track and its international Scientific Committee have been analyzing the various ways in which architecture responds to the SDGs. The work has resulted in the formulation of six science panels: design for Climate Adaptation , design for Rethinking Resources , design for Resilient Communities , design for Health , design for Inclusivity , and design for Partnerships for Change. An international call for papers was sent out in 2022 and 296 of more than 750 submissions from 77 countries have been invited to present at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 in Copenhagen. ArchDaily is collaborating with the UIA to share articles pertaining to the six themes to prepare for the opening of the Congress.

In this fifth feature, we met with co-chairs of design for Inclusivity architect Magda Mostafa , Professor of Design, Department of Architecture , the American University in Cairo and architect Ruth Baumeister , Associate Professor of Theory and History, Aarhus School of Architecture.

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

In this fourth feature, we met with co-chairs of design for Health architect Arif Hasan , former Visiting Professor NED University Karachi and member of UNs Advisory Group on Forced Evictions, and architect Christian Benimana , Senior Principal and Co-Executive Director at MASS Design Group

Design for Resilient Communities at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

In this third feature, we met with co-chairs of Design for Resilient Communities Anna Rubbo , Senior Researcher, Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD), The Climate School, Columbia University, and Juan Du , Professor and Dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture , Landscape and Design, University of Toronto.

Rethinking Resources at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

The UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 is an invitation for architects from around the world to meet in Copenhagen July 2 – 6 to explore and communicate how architecture influences all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more than two years, the Science Track and its international Scientific Committee have been analyzing the various ways in which architecture responds to the SDGs. The work has resulted in the formulation of six science panels: design for Climate Adaptation , design for Rethinking Resources , design for Resilient Communities , design for Health , design for Inclusivity , and design for Partnerships for Change. An international call for papers was sent out in 2022 and 296 of more than 750 submissions have been invited to present at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 in Copenhagen. ArchDaily is collaborating with the UIA to share articles pertaining to the six themes to prepare for the opening of the Congress.

In this first feature, we met with the Head of the Scientific Committee Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen , Professor and Head of the CITA (Centre for IT and Architecture), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture , Design and Conservation who is also co-chairing the panel design for Rethinking Resources with Carlo Ratti, Professor and Director of the Senseable Lab, MIT, Founding Partner of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati .

The UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 Copenhagen Science Track Announces the 6 Themes of Its Agenda

The UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 is an invitation for architects from all around the world to meet in Copenhagen to explore and communicate how architecture influences all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Science Track of the UIA World Congress has been tasked with the development of the agenda, Sustainable Futures – Leave No One Behind . For more than two years, its international Scientific Committee has been analyzing the various ways in which architecture responds to the SDGs. The work has resulted in the formulation of six themes: climate adaptation, rethinking resources, resilient communities, health, inclusivity, and partnerships for change. ArchDaily is collaborating with UIA to share articles pertaining to the six themes to prepare for the opening of the Congress on July 2, 2023.

“Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else”: The Italian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale is Curated by Fosbury Architecture

The project for the Italian Pavilion at the 18 th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will be curated by Fosbury Architecture , a collective composed of Giacomo Ardesio, Alessandro Bonizzoni, Nicola Campri, Veronica Caprino, and Claudia Mainardi. Fosbury Architecture’s vision for the exhibition is based on a research practice that sees design as the result of collective and collaborative work. From January to April, leading up to the opening of the Biennale, nine site-specific interventions titled “ Spaziale presenta ” are set out to activate different locations across Italy.

"With Intention to Build", Moshe Safdie’s Exhibition of Unbuilt Projects Opens in Boston, USA

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The 3rd Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture is Awarded to a Research Project Celebrating Anna Bofill Levi

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Here is a list of important architecture journals you might be interested in browsing. These are just a few examples. Do not discount a journal because it's not on the list. Occasionally you might find an article that may be considered scholarly even though the journal is not considered scholarly. Ask your professor or GSI when in doubt.

The current issues of architectural journals are available to you for browsing on the second floor of the library. They are organized alphabetically in the low brown cases to your left as you face the Reserves Desk. The oversize journals are on the tall shelves behind the New Book Shelf. Bound journals (containing older issues) are organized by call number and are in the room through the glass doors beyond the current journals.

Click on the links in the list below to see if electronic access is available for the journal. Please note that not all journals will be available electronically.

• Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Call Number: NA 1 .A1 A67
• Arq (Architectural Research Quarterly) Call Number: NA 2000 .A77
• ArQ (Architettura quaderni) Call Number: NA 4 .A7831
• Art Bulletin Call Number: N 1 .A65
• Aula Call Number: NA 702.5 .A95
• Building & Environment Call Number: TH1 .B9325 B
• Building Research & Practice Call Number: TH 1 .B9323
• Harvard Design Magazine Call Number: NA 2300 .H34 G73
• Journal of Architectural & Planning Research Call Number: NA1 .A67166
• Journal of Architectural Education Call Number: NA2000.A1 J86
• Journal of Architecture Call Number: NA 1 .J681
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Call Number: NA 11 .A63
• Journal of Urban Design Call Number: NA 9000 .J87

Databases for Architecture Research

The most appropriate database for finding articles on architectural subjects is the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals .  

The Avery Index and other relevant databases for your research are listed here:

• ArtBibliographies Modern Abstracts of articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs & reviews, and dissertations covering artists & movements from the late 19th century to all aspects of modern & contemporary art, including photography from its invention in 1839 to the present.
• Art Source with Art Index Retrospective Indexes key international English-language arts publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition & award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. Includes full text for selected articles since 1997.
• ARTstor A rich archive of images of art and architectural monuments, landscape architecture, public art, and cultural images.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Citation database focused on periodicals in architecture and related fields, emphasizing architectural design and history, construction, public arts, urban planning and design, etc.
• Bibliography of the History of Art Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs.
• Building Types Online 850 searchable case studies of buildings: expertly authored texts, architectural drawings and photographs selected from Birkhäuser manuals.
• CumInCAD CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design.
• Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Contains over 100,000 annotated references to articles from over 450 design and craft journals published worldwide; plus data on over 46,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, etc.
• DETAIL Inspiration A database of visual and textual content of the German architectural magazine, Detail, from 1987- present.
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text access to the archives of 2,600+ journals and 35,000+ books in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
• Material ConneXion Database A searchable/browseable database of innovative and new materials.
• Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Full-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
• ProQuest Research Library Searches over 5,000 multi-disciplinary academic and popular journals.
• RIBA Library The library catalog for the Royal Institute of British Architects.
• UrbanNext Lexicon Thematically organized Actar publications (articles, books, and interviews) on urban design issues.