About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Histories of Postwar Architecture (HPA) is a biannual open-access peer-reviewed Journal that aims to publish innovative and original papers on postwar architecture, with no geographical, methodological, historiographical or disciplinary restrictions.

The Journal accepts papers and original submissions that have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors maintain their copyright and are aware that their works are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors can re-publish their paper (or parts of it) giving appropriate credit to HPA Journal. The journal accepts papers in English, even though reviews are also accepted in Italian. HPA is published by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna in partnership with the Department of Visual, Performing and Media Arts and the Department for Life Quality Studies of the same university.

HPA is a scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary area 10 (Antiquities, philology, literary studies, art history). Since 2018 it is rated “Classe A” Journal for disciplinary area 08 (Civil engineering and architecture).

For further information, please contact the Editorial Team.

Section Policy

HPA contributions

“HPA contributions” collects the scientific committee members’ and editorial team’s articles about the topic of the current issue.

Articles

The Articles section publishes original contributions and is organized in two sub-sections: Focus and Miscellanea.

Focus includes articles in English submitted in response to our call for abstracts. Abstracts should be no more than 4,000 characters and are evaluated by the Editorial Team and the Scientific Committee, which selects proposals according to their originality, relevance and adherence to the topic described within the call.

Miscellanea includes articles that, regardless of the current topic, deal with topics relevant to the history of architecture of the second half of the 20th century.

Articles are expected to be between 20,000 and 80,000 characters long. Originality, relevance and coherence of the article will be evaluated with a double-blind peer-review process, which will involve experts in the field. If revisions are necessary, authors will be asked to revise their article following the instructions provided by reviewers.

Articles, along with abstracts and five keywords, will be published within six months from their submission. Usually, this section includes up to five papers.

Invited Papers

This section comprises contributions of those Authors that both the Editorial Team and the Scientific Committee regard as relevant for the topics of the Journal. There is no peer review process within this section. Articles, along with abstracts and five keywords, will be published within 6 months from their submission. Usually, this section comprises 1-2 papers.

Reviews

This section hosts critical reviews of books, conferences, exhibitions, events and any others interesting contributions for the purpose of this Journal.

The “Review” section is by the editorial staff. All readers and authors of the Journal are invited to submit a proposal send to Matteo Sintini.

Text will be considered by the editorial board. The issue of “Review” section doesn’t follow the releases of the Journal, contributions can be published at any time.

Peer Review Process

Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double-blind peer review. Two independent anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of their specific competence and research fields. Papers are evaluated according to criteria such as intrinsic quality, thematic relevance and originality. By intrinsic quality we mean good use of primary and secondary sources, and an appropriate literary style; by thematic relevance an adequate relation to the current topic and by originality a factual or interpretative contribution to the existing historiography.

By submitting an article, the author implicitly accepts the double-blind peer-review process. As part of the initial quality assessment, each article will undergo plagiarism detection through iThenticate. The Editorial Team will provide a judgment both in case of approval or non-approval of the article within two months from the date of submission. The article will be published online within six months after the evaluation.

Visual

This section hosts interviews, graphical projects, and contents related to photography and visual arts regarding the history of postwar architecture.

Publication Frequency

The Journal is biannual.

Open Access Policy

This Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the Journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this Journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

The Journal adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Department of Architecture
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Viale del Risorgimento, 2
40136 – Bologna (Italy)

in partnership with: