Architectural Theory Review

Aims & Scope

Architectural Theory Review is an international forum for generating, exchanging and reflecting on architectural theory.

It is a review in the sense of a periodical publication containing articles, discussions, and review essays concerned with the contemporary state of architectural theory.

But more than this, it uses the notion of review as a verb, to forge a distinct approach to architectural theory and discourse.

The journal investigates relationships between current critical issues, the legacy of past debates, and the continued reconfiguration of enduring concerns in architectural theory.

ATR values the untimely as well as the propitious - attending to the overlooked and unrealised as well as the projective, and thus allows for critical and even subversive readings of what architectural theory has been, can be and will be.

The underpinning for ATR’s editorial approach is thus not a disciplinary field or ideological position, but rather a formal strategy.

Each special issue of ATR concentrates on reviewing a particular object – whether a text, a drawing, a building, or otherwise – the implications and legacies of which are addressed by the contributors to that special issue.

The selected object is thus a catalyst: a point of departure or contention; of revision, re-evaluation, and review.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24125

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	26

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.155

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Mud, Dust, and<i>Marougé</i>: Precarious Construction in a Congolese Refugee Camp

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Marnie Jane

• Placing “Matter Out of Place”:<i>Purity and Danger</i>as Evidence for Architecture and Urbanism

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Ben

• IS DESIGNING HERMENEUTICAL?

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Adrian, Richard

• Architecture in action: Traveling with actor-network theory in the land of architectural research

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Kjetil

• Towards an Architectural Anthropology—What Architects can Learn from Anthropology and vice versa

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Marie

• The Tutelary Architecture of Immigration Detention Prisons and the Spectacle of ‘Necessary Suffering’

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Joseph

• Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker Prize

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Hilde

• The Right To The City: Rethinking Architecture's Social Significance

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Lee

• Indigenous Place-Making in the City: Dispossessions, Occupations and Implications for Cultural Architecture

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Janet, Anoma, Emily

• A Renewed Right to Urban Life: A Twenty-First Century Engagement with Lefebvre's Initial “Cry”

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Lee, Bob

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