The discipline and the profession of architecture continue to change rapidly, at once reaching out to other discrete areas of knowledge while searching for a unifying base. In response to this, at the October 2006 JAE meeting, the Editorial Board agreed to change the two general categories under which most manuscripts are submitted. The designation "Scholarship of Design" replaces what JAE previously termed œScholarly Articles." "Design as Scholarship" replaces what was previously termed "Design Articles." The reasons for this change are several. Foremost, it reflects the Editorial Board's desire to acknowledge that scholarship and inquiry are not limited to the long-standing rigors of research our discipline inherited from Art and Architectural History. Moreover, by marking one group of articles as "scholarly," and the other not, sends precisely the wrong message at precisely the wrong time in our discipline's trajectory.

Manuscripts submitted to JAE must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts must be the author's original work and must not have been published elsewhere, in whole or in part. Authors are limited to submitting a single manuscript (or design) for each theme issue. Authors may simultaneously submit separate manuscripts as a General Article, a theme issue, and an Op Arch submission.