Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians


The leading journal on the built environment

The JSAH is a blind-peer reviewed international journal devoted to all aspects of the history of the built environment and spatial practice, including architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and city planning. Published since 1941, the JSAH has defined the field of architectural history, and is a pioneer in digital publication. We seek articles that are historically rigorous, conceptually sophisticated, and theoretically innovative. Our scope is global.

The JSAH simultaneously publishes two editions, on paper and online. As the leading English-language journal on the built environment, each issue of JSAH offers four to five scholarly articles on national and international topics, reviews of recently-published books, multi-media productions and architecture exhibitions, field-notes and editorials that place the discipline of architectural history within a larger intellectual inter-disciplinary context.  Subscriptions to JSAH are a benefit of membership in the Society of Architectural Historians. Access to the JSAH and JSAH online places you at the cutting edge of discourse on the built environment.

View an example article: Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum by Diane Favro and Christopher Johanson

SAH members - click here to access JSAH Online (current issues and JSAH archive 1941 - present)


Submit to JSAH


2012 Guidelines for Authors Submitting to JSAH and JSAH Online_sced

Tutorials for submitting to JSAH Online: 

Supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, JSAH is creating video tutorials to guide authors through the basics of using some of the new media capacities of JSAH Online: three-dimensional modeling/Google Maps integration, videos, and panoramic photography. All videos were made with the help of Chris Cook and Prof. David Brownlee at the University of Pennsylvania.  To watch fullscreen, click on the arrows on the bottom right of the video. 

How to Prepare 3D Models for JSAH Online



How to Prepare Videos for JSAH Online 



How to Prepare Panoramic Photographs for JSAH Online 


JSAH Editors

Editor

Prof. Swati Chattopadhyay
Department of History of Art and Architecture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Arts 1234 
Santa Barbara, California 93106-7080
swati@arthistory.ucsb.edu 

Book Review Editors

To submit a book for review, please send it to the appropriate book review editor:

North and South America:

William Littmann
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
wlittmann@cca.edu

Europe, Africa, and Asia pre 1750:

Prof. Jesús Escobar
Department of Art History
Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive, Kresge 3-400
Evanston, IL 60208-2208
j-escobar@northwestern.edu

Europe, Africa, and Asia after 1750:

Prof. Patricia Morton
History of Art Department
University of California, Riverside
232 Arts Building
Riverside, CA 92521 -0319
patricia.morton@ucr.edu

Exhibition Review Editor

Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty 
School of Art History and Cultural Policy 
University College Dublin 
Belfield, Dublin 4 
Ireland 
kathleen.JamesChakraborty@ucd.ie

Multimedia and Website Review Editor

Dr. Kazys Varnelis
Director, Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University
40 Fairfield Street
Montclair, NJ 07042
Kazys@Varnelis.net

Managing Editor

Mary Christian
101 West 55th Street 12L
New York, NY 10019
marychristian@nyc.rr.com