Novel viewpoints see facade as a multi-functional component that should meet functional and aesthetics requirements simultaneously. These requirements need a state-of-the-art approach to be evaluated. Although façade performance assessments are seen in the literature, rarely can be found the studies that investigate aesthetics and performance of façade together. Reviewing the approaches, methodologies, and criteria utilized to assess facades can draw a vision of the background for those intend to develop a method for façade evaluation based on novel perspective. The purpose of this study is to investigate recent research to find out the approaches towards façade. To implement this aim, an exploratory case study methodology was applied, while the data collection method was library-based. Content analysis was employed via logical reasoning to find out the approaches, methods and criteria of façade evaluations. Also, open and axial coding were used to organize the criteria extracted. The found approaches were “sustainability,” “buildability,” “life cycle assessment,” “competing objectives,” “performance,” and “general,” while the most frequent one was “performance” and “sustainability” after “general.” Previous façade-focused research methodologies were concentrated on five methodologies: multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), simulation, optimization, library-based, and hybrid. The most popular method was MCDM. Extraction of criteria demonstrated that “Costs,” “Thermal performance,” “Environmental impacts,” and “Durability” are respectively the trend ones with the highest frequency of presentation. To conclude, façade as a multi-functional element needs to be assessed with state-of-the-art methods that consider all the required functions of façade, including aesthetics, whereas, Conventional methods are not able to provide such a service. تفاصيل المقالة