The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive vision of architectural academism through the network analysis of architectural studies based on “KAKEN”, the database of the Grants-in-Aid for scientific research in Japan. 4224 researchers are derived from 8062 research projects since 1972, and 6863 edges are identified from their research cooperation. Then, the research community is configured as a complex network. The network is examined from the view of three properties, i.e., scale-free, cluster cohesion, and small-world. Consequently it is confirmed that the formation of the academic community is subjected by “preferential attachment”. All keywords registered to the research projects are also extracted, and the academic interests of the traditional research fields are reviewed. Finally, to break these traditional categories, the whole network is divided into the 43 clusters by the Newman fast greedy clustering method, and the practical research communities are characterized by assigning their keywords.
