Abstract
A few weeks later than expected, due to the large number of scholars taking part and the rigorous revision of the contributions, two of a series of themed issues following the FAM 2015 International Call For Papers have now been published.The Call was divided into three general sections on different themes (City, Theory, and Education) within which the same number of editors (Enrico Prandi, Lamberto Amistadi, and Giuseppina Scavuzzo) created specific sub-themes, (respectively “Smart design for a Smart city”, “Dispositio and Architectural Composition” and “Building and/is Building Ourselves. The complex relationship between architecture and education”) turning them into orientation papers, subsequently coordinating the peer review phase to finally select the articles to appear in a magazine issue (in some cases more than one), with an introductory essay.The Call attracted a hundred or so international contributions of which 35 dealt with the “City” theme, 31 “Theory” and 29 “Education”.Of the 35 on the “City”, 10 were accepted by revisors with a fully positive assessment; 8 with instructions from the revisors to refine/alter some parts (which the authors did); 10 contributions were rejected and the authors encouraged to revise and re-submit them in the light of some guidelines for improvement from the revisors; 5 were rejected outright and the authors urged to submit them elsewhere to more suitable journals; 2 were non-compliant, knowingly outside the topic or of poor quality.The subdivisions of the other sections were not much different as proof of the quality and competence of the participating scholars whom we consider the magazine's main audience.
