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“Questions of the History of World Architecture” is a peer-reviewed Open Access academic periodical, one of the leading journals in the field of the history and theory of architecture. Its articles represent the most recent work in the field: they cover all eras in the development of world architecture and town planning, with a focus on vexed questions of history, architectural creativity, the origins of architectural forms, as well as on the interactions between regional traditions.

The periodical has been published since 1961 by the Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning (NIITIAG), branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation. It is published twice annually since 2016.

Keywords: history of world architecture, history of town planning, architectural creativity, interaction between architectural traditions

Naming and content of rubrics in the publication correspond scientific disciplines and groups of scientific specialties conforming to the Nomenclature of scientific specialties, upon which the academic degrees are conferred and which was approved on 25.02.2009 by the order № 59 of Russia Ministry of Education and Science (in the wording of Orders of that Ministry of 11.08.2009 № 294, of 16.11.2009 № 603, of 10.01.2012 № 5, of 20.02.2015 № 114):

  • 05.23.00 – Architectural studies and Construction;
  • 07.00.00 – Historical studies and Archaeology;
  • 17.00.00 – Art studies.


CONTACTS
Ed. office address: Dushinskaia str. 9, 111024 Moscow, Russia
Phone number: +7 (499) 951 82 72
E-mail: armenkazaryan@yahoo.com, niitag@yandex.ru


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Volume 12 (full texts)
Volume 11 (full texts)
Volume 10
Volume 9
Volume 8
Volume 7
Volume 6
 

THE EDITION

The establisher Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation

The publisher The Publishing house "Nestor-Historia"

Mass media registration certificate ПИ № ФС 77 - 70991 of 07.09.2017

ISSN 2500-0616

Publication language – Russian, English

The edition is issued 2 times a year

Subscription index number in the JSC “Rospechat” 80503


THE PROCEDURE OF MANUSCRIPT PEER-REVIEWING AND THE REQUIEREMENTS OF THE EDITORIALS OFFICE – DOWNLOAD pdf


Publication ethics
Editors, authors and publisher adopt the guidelines, codes to conduct and best practices developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Editors commit themselves to be guided by the principles of objectivity and validity. The editorial decisions should not be affected by the origins of the manuscript, including the nationality, ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, race, sex or sexual orientation of the authors.
Editors are responsible for everything published in the collection.
 

The peer review process:

the managing editor removes the name and affiliation of the author and sends each article to two Reviewers;

the managing editor informs the Reviewers on everything that is expected of them, including the criteria of evaluation, the confidentiality and the ethic norms;

on the base of receiving two reviews to the Editors who thereupon make their decisions on whether to reject or accept articles with or without any amendments;

Authors are informed about the outcome of their submission;

Editors seek to exclude competing interests and require that the Reviewers disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission;

reviews are kept by Editors and can be sent to the Authors upon request (without the name and affiliation of the reviewer).

Selection criteria for the publication of articles

The main criterion is the high quality of research work attested by the peer review. The most important aspects are:

  • novelty, originality and topicality: preference will be given to papers containing new evidence or new approach to a certain problem already known in the field;
  • high level of research methodology: mastering different approaches, use of scholarly literature in the field, convincing argumentation, clarity of conclusions;
  • substantial and adequate presentation of research results in the abstract.

The Editorial board will not consider submissions not relevant to the scope of edition, neither late submissions, nor texts not conforming to the guidelines for publication.


THE PUBLISHER

The Publishing house “Nestor-Historia” was founded in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) in 2002. Priority of the publishing is the publication of scientific and popular scientific literature in the field of Humanities.

Address: Petrozavodskaia str. 7, 197110 Saint Petersburg, Russia


EDITORIAL BOARD

Kazaryan Armen
Managing editor, Dr., corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, State Institute for Art Studies (Russia)

Agudo María de los Ángeles Utrero
Assoc. Prof. PhD, Instituto de Historia (Spain)

Anisimov Alexander
Dr., Prof., corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (Russia)

Aronova Alla
PhD., State Institute for Art Studies (Russia)

Blessing Patricia
Assoc. Prof. PhD., Pomona College (USA)

Bondarenko Igor
Dr., Prof., academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (Russia)

Vitti Paolo
Prof. PhD. in history of architecture, The University of Roma Tre (Italy)

Vyazemtseva Anna
PhD., Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (Russia)

Guixiang Wang
Prof. PhD., Tsinghua University (China)

Caillet Jean-Pierre
Prof. Dr., Université Paris Ouest (France)

Castiñeiras González Manuel Antonio
Prof. Dr., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Konovalova Nina
PhD., adviser of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (Russia)

Kosenkova Julia
Dr., adviser of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (Russia)

McNeill John
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries — and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, — British Archaeological Association (Great Britain)

Malinowski Jerzy
Prof. Dr., Polish Institute of World Art Studies (Poland)

Mamaloukos Stavros
Assoc. Prof., PhD. in art and archaeology, University of Patras (Greece)

Maranci Christina
Prof. PhD in Art History, Tufts University (USA)

Maciel Lev
PhD, Higher School of Economy (Russia)

Ousterhout Robert
Prof. PhD in Art History, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Sardarov Armen
Prof. Dr. in architecture, Belarusian National Technical University (Belarus)

Sedov Vladimir
Dr., Prof., corresponding member of RAN, Institute of Archaeology (Russia)

Tegenhoff Wolf
Prof. Dr., Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte (Germany)

Theis Lioba
Prof. Dr., Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Austria)

Ter-Minasyan Anoush
PhD in architecture, National Museum-Institute of Architecture (Armenia)

Khrushkova Liudmila
Dr., Prof., Moscow State University (Russia)

Shvidkovskiy Dmitriy
Dr., Prof., Russian Academy of Arts and academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) (Russia)

Shevchenko Marianna
PhD, Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) (Russia)

Shukurov Sharif
Dr., Institute for Oriental Studies (Russia)

Shenkov Aleksey
Dr., Prof., corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, branch of the Central Institute for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (Russia)


Editors: art historians Elena Lavrentieva, Ekaterina Smirnova (Russia)

Editors of English abstracts: art historian Beatrice Tolidjian (USA), architect Kirill Stepanov (Russia)