Frontiers of Architectural Research（FOAR）是由高等教育出版社和联合主办的全英文学术期刊。FoAR 于2012年创刊，为季刊（一年四期），在Elsevier平台上发行，开放获取（Open Access），免费下载。期刊论文涉及领域包括建筑设计与理论、建筑技术科学、城市规划与设计、风景园林、遗产保护等，覆盖建筑学、城乡规划和风景园林三个一级学科。本刊优先发表采用严格科学方法和前沿技术进行研究的学术论文，同时也欢迎探讨建筑社会属性的高水平文章。对所有论文将严格进行同行评议并只接受英文投稿。
本期目录：
Frontiers of Architectural Research
Volume 6/ Issue 4/ December 2017 (p431 –p538)
本期共9篇文章，全部通过严格专家审核，内容和质量水平均符合本刊的定位。文章来源分别为：中国1篇，瑞典1篇，澳大利亚1篇，阿联酋1篇，尼日利亚1篇，印度1篇，科索沃1篇，伊朗2篇。
文章目录如下：
Measuring the spatial and social characteristics of the architectural plans of aged care facilities
Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Ostwald, Hyunsoo Lee
Museum architecture as spatial storytelling of historical time: Manifesting a primary example of Jewish space in Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum
Fangqing Lu
Syntactical analysis of the accessibility and sociability of a square in the Kuala Lumpur City Center
Hossein Safari, Fataneh Fakouri Moridani
Traditional Indian religious streets: A spatial study of the streets of Mathura
Meeta Tandon, Vandana Sehgal
Interpretation of architectural identity through landmark architecture: The case of Prishtina, Kosovo from the 1970s to the 1980s
Teuta Jashari-Kajtazi, Arta Jakupi
Bahri Mamluk muqarnas portals in Egypt: Survey and analysis
Mohamad Kashef
Soundscape actions: A tool for noise treatment based on three workshops in landscape architecture
Gunnar Cerwén, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Carola Wingren
Review of economic and environmental benefits of earthen materials for housing in Africa
Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun, Yomi Michael Daisiowa Adedeji
Daily variation of urban heat island effect and its correlations to urban greenery: A case study of Adelaide
Ali Soltani, Ehsan Sharifi
封面介绍：LOVE HOUSE
Location: Dingshu Town, Yixing, Jiangsu Prince, P. R. China
Project owner: Construction Bureau of Dingshu
Profile:This building works as a medium of time and nature,transmiting the eternity of love.
Design time: 2015.12 - 2016.1
Construct time: 2016.7 - 2016.10
在线投稿：http://www.ees.elsevier.com/foar/
刊物主页：http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/20952635
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/20952635/6/4
2018年FoAR封面作品征集：
征集条件：已建成作品（主要针对的中青年教师，亦欢迎自由投稿）
征集信息：作品图片，作品主要图纸，作品中英文简介
刊载内容：以固定格式刊载于杂志的封面，封底和封三
2017年FoAR封面回顾
