Vitruvio
International journal 
of Architecture 
Technology and 
Sustainability
Volume 0

v

EDITORIAL

PRESENTATION

In the past, scientific dissemination was carried out  
through publications mainly in the field of medicine 
and biology. Several years ago, by consulting the 
journal Science, although  I was not an expert on its 
topics, I realized the extraordinary scientific quality 
and the significant impact on the scientific community 
of the published articles . Indeed, the magazine, 
explaining the latest advancement in the medical field, 
offered the opportunity to be continuously updated 
and sollecited new and innovative research activities 
able to save the life and improve its quality.
Nowadays, the publishing of articles has a key role in 
all scientific and technical fields. The dissemination of 
the results of innovative research activities by both 
research institutions and industries is the driving force 
to develop new ideas, to open up new horizons and 
achieve goals that are more ambitious. Unfortunately, 
especially in recent years, there has been a proliferation 
of publications, which are often devoid of new 
elements compared to the state of the art, deriving by 
the need to publish at any cost required by the system 
of evaluation of scientific quality in the academic 
world. This adverse side effect of the scientific 
dissemination threatens to cause the debasement of 
the important role of the innovations and news sharing 
ideas, subordinating it to the distorted logic of having 
to write articles.
The journal Vitruvio aims to counteract this drift by 
offering an opportunity for an authentic comparison 
among those who intend to communicate and to 
question their own beliefs and the results of their 
research.
Vitruvius intends to belong to the large group of strict 
scientific journals that cover topics of engineering 
and architecture from the sustainable, innovative and 
multidisciplinary point of view with a focus on the 
materials, methods and applications advancements.
The articles published in our new journal will have 
a common thread or they may deal with subjects 
completely different from each other. This feature 
is the strong point of the magazine that provides a 
broad and not pre-established vision on the current 
way of carrying out research activities  in work team 

facing complex situations with a multidisciplinary 
approach that leads to follow different  and sometimes 
unforeseeable paths.
Another important goal of the newspaper is 
the dissemination of innovations in information 
technologies, which are nowadays a powerful tool of 
support to achieve qualitative and quantitative results 
in all types of investigations.
Coming back to talk about the issues of Vitruvio, 
it can be stated that it is  a singular magazine in the 
architecture and engineering fields, which gives special 
attention, for example, to the deconstruction and the 
selective demolition, considering them as key stages 
of the construction process and not as fashion items 
that often haven’t got its precise dissemination. The 
same attention is given to the interventions on urban 
scale such as that of the Smart Cities as well as the 
sustainable and eco-efficient rehabilitations, topics 
that are a viable alternative but also a hard challenge 
compared to the obvious option for new constructions.
Finally, I would like to point out the criteria of the 
magazine that are sustainability, actuality, innovation, 
and respect and sensitivity to others as well. I hope that 
the adoption of these principles can bring personal 
and professional benefits to everyone who will want to 
contribute to our magazine.

Luis Palmero 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2015.4470