Architectural Heritage and Cultural Landscape

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on architectural heritage as a central field of multidiscilinary research, addressing historical buildings and cultural landscapes within urban, rural, and territorial contexts shaped by ongoing socio-economic, cultural, productive, and administrative transformations.

The Issue aims to collect contributions that provide critical, multi-scalar interpretations of heritage values, fostering advanced methodologies for the knowledge, comprehension, recognition, conservation, enhancement, and management of architectural and landscape heritage. An integrated and interdisciplinary approach is encouraged, bringing together perspectives architectural history, conservation, geomatics, drawing, urban design, landscape and interior architecture, and exhibition design, as well as real estate appraisal and project evaluation, structural analysis and design, and building physics and energy systems, intersecting disciplinary trajectories through established methods and proposing new forms of fertilizations.

Special attention is given to research methodologies as the foundation of heritage protection strategies, guided by the dual principles of compatibility and sustainability. This Special Issue also highlights the role of innovative digital technologies in heritage analysis, historical studies and digital humanities, documentation, restoration, management, and in the communication of research outcomes and intervention strategies.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Architectural history;
• Digital humanities;
• Preventive and planned conservation;
• Restoration;
• Three-dimensional modelling;
• BIM, HBIM;
• Photogrammetry, LiDAR and SLAM;
• Point clouds;
• VR/AR applications for architectural cultural heritage;
• Multi-disciplinary case studies;
• AI in cultural heritage.

Dr. Silvia Beltramo
Dr. Filiberto Chiabrando
Prof. Dr. Monica Naretto
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 1800 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.