About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Arquitectura y Urbanismo is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that, since 2025, has adopted a continuous publication format, in volumes without issues. It publishes original research results in the fields of architecture and urban planning and their relationship with the arts and culture. It addresses issues of design, construction, conservation, habitat in developing countries, sustainability, and other current topics. It also focuses on training, curriculum design, and the development of teaching experiences.
Arquitectura y Urbanismo has three sections: Con Criterio (With Criteria), Del Reino de este Mundo (From the Kingdom of this World), and Academics.

 

AU provides immediate, open access to all its content.
journal does not charge any monetary fees for submission, review, processing, evaluation, publication, or downloading of articles (APCs, article processing charges) to authors and/or institutions.

Subjects:
AU journal publishes original research results spanning territorial, urban, and architectural scales, and their relationships with design and the visual arts, within the fields of theory and history, planning, design, conservation, construction technologies, management, and training, among others.

AU pays special attention to issues of habitat, sustainability, the built environment, and the restoration of built heritage, particularly in developing countries, and is also interested in issues related to the training of professionals in architecture, urban planning, and design.

Audience:

Architects, urban planners, designers, art historians, whether researchers, teachers and professionals in general, who work in any of the branches of architecture, urban planning and other related specialties.

Creative Commons License:

All content in the journal Arquitectura y Urbanismo is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. This must be expressly stated where applicable.

Continuous Publication by Volume:

Starting in 2025, the journal adopted the Continuous Publication by Volume format, identified in the Volume title as Continuous Publication. This allows for faster visibility of articles, as each one will be published upon completion of the editorial process.

Objective:
To offer a space for the communication and sharing of original research and project results that span territorial, urban, and architectural scales, and their relationships with design and the visual arts, within the fields of theory and history, planning, design, conservation, construction technologies, management, and education, among others.

Mission:
To contribute to the development of scientific and technical knowledge in the thematic areas it covers, through the dissemination of results of excellence derived from research and projects aimed at solving relevant and current problems in the theory and practice of the profession, for the benefit of society and the built environment.

Vision:
AU's vision is to establish itself as a leading publication within its geographic area through sustained improvement in the quality of its editorial process.

Online Submissions:
The article must be sent to the Editorial Board via email: revistaau@tesla.cujae.edu.cu

The journal is currently preparing the OJS system for this process.

The author in charge of correspondence must submit, along with the article, the Cover Letter, which includes the Authors' Contribution Statement, using the CRediT Taxonomy.

All articles must comply with the Guidelines for authors and be submitted using the journal's Template.

Plagiarism detection policy

This journal penalizes plagiarism and fraudulent data in documents, publishing the same article in more than one journal, copying and using textual information from any document, using data, images, and other resources without the authorization of all the natural or legal authors of the work, using information that has not been consulted from the original source by some of the authors of the document, modifying or distorting the meaning and context of information contained in other works, as well as any other inappropriate use that alters the integrity of the information.

To detect plagiarism, the journal's editors and referees use the free software Plagiarisma. It can detect plagiarism in more than 190 languages, uses different search engines, and supports a large number of document extensions.