The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes peer-reviewed articles on the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. The main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of architecture. View the IJIA YouTube channel here. Winner of the Mohamed Makiya Prize for Architecture 2019. View the free issue of IJIA (volume 7, issue 1) here. View the free Editorial essays published in the 10th Anniversary Issue of IJIA here. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Design Ecologies describes a burgeoning field that promotes ecological transitions within local and global contexts. This peer-reviewed journal builds communities and discusses themes that cross over, into and out of architecture, environment, interaction, urbanism, performing arts and communication. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

What are the challenges of learning and teaching in art, design and communication? The peer-reviewed journal of Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education aims to inform, stimulate and promote the development of research in the field by providing a forum for debate arising from findings as well as theory and methodologies. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote current and emerging craft research, including research into materials, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. This may be in any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including craft education. The journal will portray and build the crafts as a vital and viable modern discipline that has a vision for the future. It is distinct from mainstream journals in that it is dedicated to presenting and reporting on research, in the widest sense, in order to advance the knowledge in the field. Making this knowledge, in whatever form, available to the community will help build and advance the field, and present it – in all its diversity – as a strong and essential force that cannot be overlooked. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The Journal of Design, Business & Society is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality academic papers that examine design from various perspectives and a range of disciplines. The mission of the journal is to present design in all its multifaceted forms and from a range of platforms – whether they are social, environmental, commercial, political or educational in nature. This journal is indexed with Scopus. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Focusing on drawing as a significant discipline in its own right, Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice is a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates ongoing international debates within the wider fields of its practice and research. A vibrant, proactive forum for contemporary ideas, the journal is a platform for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dissemination of all forms of drawing practice and theory. This title is indexed with Scopus. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The Journal of Illustration provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration. This peer-reviewed journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as maker, visualizer, thinker, and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts. This title is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. It is not committed to any one notion of photography nor, indeed, to any particular philosophical approach. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for debate on theoretical issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that may be said to constitute photography as a multifaceted form. In a contemporary context remarkable for its diversity and rate of change, the conjunction of the terms 'philosophy' and 'photography' in the journal’s title is intended to act as a provocation to serious reflection on the ways in which existing and emergent photographic discourses might engage with and inform each other. This title is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

This peer-reviewed journal provides in-depth exploration of the cultural aspects of urban life and the representation of cities in cultural products. It explores the intersection of humanities and social sciences, including essays that balance individual cultural/artistic product(s) with social-science urban approaches. This title is indexed with Scopus. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Visual Inquiry is a readable and approachable academic journal dedicated to discussing issues of art education in a challenging and visually engaging way. It is a forum for engaging the rich and multifaceted process of learning and teaching art that takes place in the classroom, studio and beyond.  This title is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. The chapters shed light on the multiple dimensions of the refugees’ urban experiences from the scale of the interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informal settlements, and from personal accounts to the formation of public discourse. 70 b/w illus.Free sample: Introduction - The Urban Refugee: Migration, Neoliberalism, and the City

Addresses the question of how architecture – defined broadly – mediates the forces that constitute various forms of flows and boundaries, and thus creates nuanced definitions of Muslim selves. It book discusses how different experiences of partition and consolidation informed or resisted architectural developments and urban planning. 167 b/w illus.Free sample: Introduction - Confining Contingency

Watch This Space is a collection of insightful essays on the interconnectedness of urban design, architecture and moving image studies. 82 b&w illus.

The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful architecture practice is always based in a deep commitment to the idea that architecture is first and foremost an expression of the creative mind. 63 b/w illus.

Reframing Berlin investigates the concept of urban memory through the transformation and/or consistency of the built environment. These architectural changes, defined as urban strategies, range from demolition (forgetting) to memorialisation (remembering) and are shown through case studies using film locations in Berlin. 64 b/w illus.

Comprehensive exploration of architectural visualization through speculative design projects. Outlines how cinema and animation augment traditional design drawing practices to expand the possibilities for theoretical architectural projects. It provides a history of speculative designs and elaborates on their modes of representation. 119 b&w illus.

Addresses the dynamic place of Islamic art, architecture, and creative expression in decolonizing processes across the African continent. Brings together new work by leading scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visual cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundaries that have curtailed the study of African Muslim expression. 74 col. illus.Free sample: Introduction - Un-Disciplining African Muslim Expressive Cultures

Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from artists and scholars. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to regional and Islamic art and culture. 48 b&w illus.Free sample: Introduction - Beyond Borders and Binaries

An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities, discussing their evolution, and significance for the urban life as well as their interaction with society’s modernization processes, through contributions of numerous authors portraying diverse urban environments. 91 b/w illus.Free sample: Introduction by Seda Kula

Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architecture’ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of ‘Islamic’ in built environments, and the geographical, chronological, disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study encompassing far more than mosques and tombs. 118 b/w illus.Free sample: Introduction - The Changed and Changing Field of ‘Islamic Architecture’