Emerging Trends in Architecture, Urbanization, and Design
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2025 | Viewed by 171
Special Issue Editors
Interests: architecture; urban planning and design; city information modeling; design thinking; educational assessment; computing in social science, arts and humanities
Interests: architecture; urban planning and design; city information modeling; design thinking; educational assessment; service learning
Interests: computation in architecture; generative design; AI; digital fabrication; responsive architecture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions for our Special Issue, "Emerging Trends in Architecture, Urbanization, and Design". Contemporary societies are experiencing rapid transformations that have a deep impact on the built environment. These changes are shaping architectural and urban planning strategies, along with related educational and research methodologies.
This Special Issue calls for articles presenting innovative research, compelling case studies, and critical discussions addressing the current theoretical and practical challenges faced by architects, urban planners, designers, and educators. Submissions may include the creative integration of digital technologies in architecture and urban planning, sustainable design methodologies, dynamic design thinking processes in practice and education, and practical computational approaches applied to architecture and urbanism.
We genuinely look forward to exploring your ideas and discoveries.
Dr. Nuno Montenegro
Dr. Fernando Lima
Dr. Gonçalo Castro Henriques
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- artificial intelligence in architecture, design and education
- computational design and digital fabrication
- city information Modeling (CIM)
- data-driven spatial analysis
- responsive and adaptive building systems
- smart cities and intelligent environments
- human-centered design and UX in architecture
- immersive technologies in design education (VR/AR)
- design pedagogy and digital learning
- technological innovation in architectural practice
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