The South Architecture journal was founded in 1981. Initially, the journal focused on the south of the Five Ridges and oriented to the whole of China. It has exerted positive and extensive influences on architectural creation theory.South Architecture has retained the original intention to be a first-class architectural journal in the past decade since the revisions. It has been positively promoting the propagation and communication of Chinese and foreign architectural circles and insisting on the spirit of “emphasis on research, emphasis on theory, emphasis on innovation.” It aims to be a high-level academic and research journal that can timely reflect original achievements of architecture, urban-rural planning, landscape architecture and other disciplines at home and abroad. By standing at a subtropical zone and orienting to great national needs and academic frontiers, it reports important theoretical innovations, records significant engineering practices of the age, publishes high-level scientific research results, and develops main fronts for theoretical studies of architecture, becoming a leading domestic and internationally renowned professional journal of architecture.