Guest Editors: Vladimir Lojanica & Ivan Rašković

Papers due: 30th September 2025

The Serbian Architectural Journal (SAJ) is pleased to announce the launch of the SAJ Emerging Research Series, a new annual publication platform dedicated to recognizing and promoting outstanding emerging research in architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, and related disciplines. The series is particularly dedicated to supporting emerging researchers by providing an international platform for the dissemination of original, high-quality research and encouraging the development of new academic voices within the architectural discipline. The series is founded on the belief that contemporary architectural research increasingly emerges through innovative methodological approaches, critical inquiry, interdisciplinary dialogue, and design-led investigation. It seeks to provide a platform for original research that addresses current spatial, environmental, technological, cultural, and societal challenges while contributing to the advancement of architectural knowledge. Rather than being organized around a predefined thematic framework, each volume of the SAJ Emerging Research Series will develop its own thematic identity through the editorial selection of accepted contributions. This approach allows each issue to reflect emerging research directions, contemporary debates, and novel perspectives that arise from the submitted papers themselves.

Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• Architectural design research 

• Urban design and urban morphology 

• Landscape architecture and territorial studies 

• Sustainable and regenerative design 

• Housing and contemporary living environments 

• Heritage, conservation and adaptive reuse 

• Digital design, computation and artificial intelligence 

• Environmental performance and climate-responsive architecture 

• Spatial analysis and data-driven methodologies 

• Public space, participation and social inclusion 

• Architectural theory and criticism 

• Architectural education and pedagogy 

• Experimental design methods 

• Interdisciplinary approaches to the built environment

All submissions will undergo the journal’s standard double-blind peer-review process. Following the review process, the Editorial Board will curate the final issue, defining its thematic focus through the selected contributions and framing the volume with an editorial introduction. To submit a paper, kindly visit our Author Guidelines page and follow the submission instructions. Authors familiar with the SAJ submission procedure may submit directly through the journal platform. Alternatively, manuscripts may be submitted by email to saj@arh.bg.ac.rs. For any questions regarding the call, please contact the Editorial Office at saj@arh.bg.ac.rs.