New Peer-Reviewed Journal to Publish JAE's Canceled Palestine Issue

A new peer-reviewed scholarly architecture journal will publish the Palestine issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) that its publisher cancelled last year.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), which publishes JAE, cancelled an issue focused on Palestine. The decision triggered consequences: the JAE editorial board resigned en masse.

Now a new peer-reviewed scholarly architecture journal plans to carry the cancelled issue's content, giving the work a venue after the standoff between the board and ACSA.

The episode exposed a fault line between ACSA, the umbrella organization for architecture schools in the United States, and the scholars who produce the journal's peer-reviewed content. The mass resignation removed the entire editorial leadership of one of the field's longest-running academic publications over a single themed issue.

The new journal's decision to publish the Palestine issue restores an outlet for scholarship that ACSA had blocked. It also marks the entry of a new peer-reviewed player into architectural academic publishing—one born directly from a censorship dispute.

The publication of the cancelled issue will test whether scholarly architecture discourse on Palestine can find durable institutional support outside the ACSA framework.