| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Co-creation and the new landscapes of design | CoDesign | 2008 | 2,437 |
| 2 | Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution | Design Studies | 2001 | 1,376 |
| 3 | Adapting Cities for Climate Change: The Role of the Green Infrastructure | Built Environment | 2007 | 1,289 |
| 4 | Contrasting the capabilities of building energy performance simulation programs | Building and Environment | 2008 | 1,152 |
| 5 | The core of ‘design thinking’ and its application | Design Studies | 2011 | 974 |
| 6 | The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change | Journal of Architectural Education | 1991 | 928 |
| 7 | Life cycle assessment of building materials: Comparative analysis of energy and environmental impacts and evaluation of the eco-efficiency improvement potential | Building and Environment | 2011 | 899 |
| 8 | Design fixation | Design Studies | 1991 | 852 |
| 9 | Theory and applications of HVAC control systems – A review of model predictive control (MPC) | Building and Environment | 2014 | 815 |
| 10 | The situated function–behaviour–structure framework | Design Studies | 2004 | 808 |
| 11 | A model-based method for organizing tasks in product development | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 1994 | 798 |
| 12 | Literature survey on how different factors influence human comfort in indoor environments | Building and Environment | 2011 | 790 |
| 13 | Photocatalytic oxidation for indoor air purification: a literature review | Building and Environment | 2003 | 785 |
| 14 | Metrics for measuring ideation effectiveness | Design Studies | 2003 | 747 |
| 15 | A functional basis for engineering design: Reconciling and evolving previous efforts | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 2002 | 728 |
| 16 | Designerly ways of knowing | Design Studies | 1982 | 724 |
| 17 | Performance characteristics and practical applications of common building thermal insulation materials | Building and Environment | 2005 | 713 |
| 18 | Numerical study on the effects of aspect ratio and orientation of an urban street canyon on outdoor thermal comfort in hot and dry climate | Building and Environment | 2006 | 710 |
| 19 | Ventilation performance prediction for buildings: A method overview and recent applications | Building and Environment | 2009 | 699 |
| 20 | 4D Printing: Multi‐Material Shape Change | Architectural Design | 2014 | 696 |
| 21 | Temperature decreases in an urban canyon due to green walls and green roofs in diverse climates | Building and Environment | 2008 | 689 |
| 22 | A review of bottom-up building stock models for energy consumption in the residential sector | Building and Environment | 2010 | 679 |
| 23 | Computational Fluid Dynamics for urban physics: Importance, scales, possibilities, limitations and ten tips and tricks towards accurate and reliable simulations | Building and Environment | 2015 | 661 |
| 24 | A study on the cooling effects of greening in a high-density city: An experience from Hong Kong | Building and Environment | 2012 | 655 |
| 25 | Seeing things: consumer response to the visual domain in product design | Design Studies | 2004 | 619 |
| 26 | Expertise in design: an overview | Design Studies | 2004 | 611 |
| 27 | Photocatalytic construction and building materials: From fundamentals to applications | Building and Environment | 2009 | 603 |
| 28 | Urban building energy modeling – A review of a nascent field | Building and Environment | 2016 | 600 |
| 29 | Kinds of seeing and their functions in designing | Design Studies | 1992 | 572 |
| 30 | Applying multi-objective genetic algorithms in green building design optimization | Building and Environment | 2005 | 572 |
| 31 | Contextmapping: experiences from practice | CoDesign | 2005 | 572 |
| 32 | Mechanical properties of concrete with recycled coarse aggregate | Building and Environment | 2007 | 563 |
| 33 | Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames | Landscape Journal | 1995 | 562 |
| 34 | Visual landscapes and psychological well‐being | Landscape Research | 1979 | 557 |
| 35 | Life cycle assessment in buildings: State-of-the-art and simplified LCA methodology as a complement for building certification | Building and Environment | 2009 | 554 |
| 36 | Solid wastes generation in India and their recycling potential in building materials | Building and Environment | 2007 | 549 |
| 37 | A field study of thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor environments in subtropical Sydney Australia | Building and Environment | 2003 | 546 |
| 38 | The cooling effect of green spaces as a contribution to the mitigation of urban heat: A case study in Lisbon | Building and Environment | 2011 | 542 |
| 39 | Approaches to study Urban Heat Island – Abilities and limitations | Building and Environment | 2010 | 533 |
| 40 | Multiobjective optimization of building design using TRNSYS simulations, genetic algorithm, and Artificial Neural Network | Building and Environment | 2010 | 530 |
| 41 | Thermal perception, adaptation and attendance in a public square in hot and humid regions | Building and Environment | 2009 | 529 |
| 42 | A low energy building in a life cycle—its embodied energy, energy need for operation and recycling potential | Building and Environment | 2002 | 522 |
| 43 | Application of latent heat thermal energy storage in buildings: State-of-the-art and outlook | Building and Environment | 2007 | 517 |
| 44 | Thermal comfort in outdoor urban spaces: Analysis across different European countries | Building and Environment | 2006 | 503 |
| 45 | Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality: A review of the literature | Building and Environment | 2016 | 497 |
| 46 | A theoretical adaptive model of thermal comfort – Adaptive Predicted Mean Vote (aPMV) | Building and Environment | 2009 | 496 |
| 47 | The Geomechanics of CO2 Storage in Deep Sedimentary Formations | Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | 2012 | 496 |
| 48 | Key concepts in a framework for analysing visual landscape character | Landscape Research | 2006 | 489 |
| 49 | Modeling crowd evacuation of a building based on seven methodological approaches | Building and Environment | 2009 | 488 |
| 50 | Shading effect on long-term outdoor thermal comfort | Building and Environment | 2010 | 486 |
| 51 | Occupants' window opening behaviour: A literature review of factors influencing occupant behaviour and models | Building and Environment | 2012 | 485 |
| 52 | Probes, toolkits and prototypes: three approaches to making in codesigning | CoDesign | 2014 | 481 |
| 53 | Describing the creative design process by the integration of engineering design and cognitive psychology literature | Design Studies | 2008 | 478 |
| 54 | Evolution of design for sustainability: From product design to design for system innovations and transitions | Design Studies | 2016 | 475 |
| 55 | Produced water treatment technologies | International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies | 2014 | 468 |
| 56 | Product platform design: method and application | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 2001 | 467 |
| 57 | Towards adoption of prefabrication in construction | Building and Environment | 2007 | 460 |
| 58 | Investigation of thermal benefits of rooftop garden in the tropical environment | Building and Environment | 2003 | 459 |
| 59 | Application of life-cycle assessment to early stage building design for reduced embodied environmental impacts | Building and Environment | 2013 | 457 |
| 60 | Change and customisation in complex engineering domains | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 2004 | 454 |
| 61 | A heuristic method for identifying modules for product architectures | Design Studies | 2000 | 453 |
| 62 | What do architects and students perceive in their design sketches? A protocol analysis | Design Studies | 1997 | 450 |
| 63 | Design for variety: developing standardized and modularized product platform architectures | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 2002 | 445 |
| 64 | Acoustic characterization of natural fibers for sound absorption applications | Building and Environment | 2015 | 437 |
| 65 | A techno-economic comparison of ground-coupled and air-coupled heat pump system for space cooling | Building and Environment | 2007 | 436 |
| 66 | Thermal evaluation of vertical greenery systems for building walls | Building and Environment | 2010 | 436 |
| 67 | C-K design theory: an advanced formulation | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 2009 | 432 |
| 68 | Surface heat budget on green roof and high reflection roof for mitigation of urban heat island | Building and Environment | 2007 | 429 |
| 69 | Outdoor thermal comfort within five different urban forms in the Netherlands | Building and Environment | 2015 | 428 |
| 70 | Review of permeable pavement systems | Building and Environment | 2007 | 427 |
| 71 | Building houses with local materials: means to drastically reduce the environmental impact of construction | Building and Environment | 2001 | 422 |
| 72 | CFD simulation of cross-ventilation for a generic isolated building: Impact of computational parameters | Building and Environment | 2012 | 414 |
| 73 | Influence of urban geometry on outdoor thermal comfort in a hot dry climate: A study in Fez, Morocco | Building and Environment | 2006 | 408 |
| 74 | Developing a green building assessment tool for developing countries – Case of Jordan | Building and Environment | 2009 | 406 |
| 75 | European residential buildings and empirical assessment of the Hellenic building stock, energy consumption, emissions and potential energy savings | Building and Environment | 2007 | 405 |
| 76 | Discrete Element Modeling of Masonry Structures | International Journal of Architectural Heritage | 2007 | 404 |
| 77 | Thermal conductivity of concrete – A review | Journal of Building Engineering | 2018 | 403 |
| 78 | Derivation of the adaptive equations for thermal comfort in free-running buildings in European standard EN15251 | Building and Environment | 2010 | 402 |
| 79 | A model of human physiology and comfort for assessing complex thermal environments | Building and Environment | 2001 | 401 |
| 80 | Extending air temperature setpoints: Simulated energy savings and design considerations for new and retrofit buildings | Building and Environment | 2015 | 389 |
| 81 | Life-cycle energy use in office buildings | Building and Environment | 1996 | 385 |
| 82 | Life cycle of buildings, demolition and recycling potential: A case study in Turin, Italy | Building and Environment | 2009 | 384 |
| 83 | Policies and technical guidelines for urban planning of high-density cities – air ventilation assessment (AVA) of Hong Kong | Building and Environment | 2009 | 384 |
| 84 | Genetic-algorithm based approach to optimize building envelope design for residential buildings | Building and Environment | 2010 | 383 |
| 85 | Ventilation rates in schools and pupils’ performance | Building and Environment | 2012 | 380 |
| 86 | Axiomatic Design Theory for Systems | Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering | 1998 | 377 |
| 87 | Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review | Building and Environment | 2018 | 377 |
| 88 | Modelica Buildings library | Journal of Building Performance Simulation | 2014 | 375 |
| 89 | A critical comparison of green building rating systems | Building and Environment | 2017 | 374 |
| 90 | Design and other types of fixation | Design Studies | 1996 | 371 |
| 91 | Microstructure Investigation in Unsaturated Soils: A Review with Special Attention to Contribution of Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy | Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | 2008 | 371 |
| 92 | Compressive strength prediction of environmentally friendly concrete using artificial neural networks | Journal of Building Engineering | 2018 | 370 |
| 93 | Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant | Building and Environment | 2021 | 367 |
| 94 | A review of the performance of different ventilation and airflow distribution systems in buildings | Building and Environment | 2014 | 363 |
| 95 | Removal of heavy metals from wastewater using agricultural and industrial wastes as adsorbents | HBRC Journal | 2013 | 357 |
| 96 | The life cycle costing (LCC) approach: a conceptual discussion of its usefulness for environmental decision-making | Building and Environment | 2004 | 356 |
| 97 | Biologically inspired design: process and products | Design Studies | 2009 | 355 |
| 98 | Design of A Sustainable Building: A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Sustainability in the Building Sector | Buildings | 2012 | 354 |
| 99 | Drawings and the design process | Design Studies | 1998 | 353 |
| 100 | Energy and exergy analysis of a ground-coupled heat pump system with two horizontal ground heat exchangers | Building and Environment | 2007 | 353 |
