The Evolutionary Use of Curved Wood in Korean Traditional Architecture
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The study of how native materials have been understood and used for the ancient architectures is interesting, and would contribute to the cultural sustainability discussion. You provide a solid rationale to clarify the story behind the formal changes of the vernacular architecture over time.
However, there are some suggestions that I would like to give: first, you should add a key map of South Korea to identify the specific locations of cases used in this paper; second, the research method can be improved. It looks they conducted some site visits, data collection, and analysis. But, “2.2. Methods” does not fully explain how this research was implemented; and, last, the conclusion should be strengthened explaining how this work can contribute to the discussion of sustainability considering the objectives of the journal.
The paper meets the formatting requirements for the Sustainability. It may need to have some minor re-wording to clarify the meaning of specific passages. It may benefit from a thorough re-read to catch additional spelling and grammar errors but none of these significantly affect the message.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Table 1. The names of the buildings of the different periods should be separated by gaps or lines as some of them are not possible to know until you read it later on the text. To make the text most understandable it would be interesting that in this table appears another column that defines the use of each of the building (temple, housing, palaces, etc.)
Figures_ you should be consistent on the references to the figures and tables on the text. Most of them are referenced before the figure appears but some of them not (exam. figure 9). Also remember to make reference on the text to all the figures (exmpl. figure 8b)
References_references 23 and 24 are the same.
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