Journal profile · ARCHITECTURE
Architecture and Culture
ISSN 2050-7828 · eISSN 2050-7836 · Taylor & Francis
Architecture and Culture: CAS Zone 3 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 610 days (first decision after review, publisher); acceptance rate 39% (journal website); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Architecture and Culture is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Architecture, Modernity, and Design, Art, Politics, and Modernism and Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation, together about 27.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Urban Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Architecture and Culture, the international award winning, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. Whether culture is understood extensively, as shared experience of everyday life, or in terms of the rules and habits of different disciplinary practices, Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in and engages with it – and how both culture and architecture might be reciprocally transformed. Architecture and Culture publishes exploratory research that is purposively imaginative, rigorously speculative, visually and verbally stimulating. From architects, artists and urban designers, film-makers, animators and poets, from historians of culture and architecture, from geographers, anthropologists and other social scientists, from thinkers and writers of all kinds, established and new, it solicits essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives in both images and words, art and building projects, and design hypotheses. Architecture and Culture aims to promote a conversation between all those who are curious about what architecture might be and what it can do. Peer Review Statement: All articles published undergo rigorous anonymized peer review. After initial screening by the editors they are reviewed anonymously by at least two referees. Our reviewing is attentive to interdisciplinary practice and knowledge through referee selection, and criteria for review.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ARCHITECTURE
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 3, United States 2, Australia 1, Netherlands 1, Singapore 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Architecture, Modernity, and DesignEngineering11.1%
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities9.5%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities6.9%
- Architecture and Computational DesignEngineering6.9%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences5.7%
- Urban Planning and GovernanceSocial Sciences5.1%
- Architecture, Design, and Social HistoryArts and Humanities4.9%
- Urbanization and City PlanningSocial Sciences4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Architecture | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Architecture | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
Other: ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.16LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.16Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.39LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.39Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 14OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.08OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 30.91%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 36LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 65,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 515 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 12 | 0 |
| 2024 | 29 | 20 | 4 |
| 2023 | 23 | 14 | 13 |
| 2022 | 42 | 20 | 90 |
| 2021 | 40 | 12 | 160 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
610 daysfirst decision after review
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 39%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 450 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 610 daysPublisher website ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Architecture and Culture is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All articles published undergo rigorous anonymized peer review. Model summary
All articles published undergo rigorous anonymized peer review.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 2050-7828
- Electronic ISSN
- 2050-7836
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 1-2 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Architecture and Culture
What CAS zone is Architecture and Culture in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Architecture and Culture is in Zone 3 of Arts, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Architecture. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Architecture and Culture?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1, h-index 10.
How long does peer review take at Architecture and Culture?
The publisher reports about 610 days (first decision after review); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 39%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Architecture and Culture based?
Of the 8 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (3), United States (2) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Architecture and Culture?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Architecture and Culture is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Architecture and Culture open access, and what is the APC?
Architecture and Culture is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .