Project Thinking on Design
About the Book Series
Project Thinking On Design is the first shared Routledge Book Series co-created with the CIAUD_Research Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, based at the Lisbon School of Architecture (FA-ULisboa). The Series focuses on the theory and praxis underneath creative processes in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design from both contemporary and historic perspectives. It provides the reader with the latest investigations and contributions in these fields and, by making these studies available to the global academic community (offering immediate open access to its content as an e-book).
Fuzzy Boundaries: Threshold Between Water and Land
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Dal Cin, Joana de Mesquita Lima, Sérgio Barreiros Proença
December 06, 2025
Fuzzy Boundaries: Threshold Between Water and Land is a curated selection of reflections on the boundaries between water and land, and its meaning amidst climate change, social, economic, and political challenges. By engaging with form and contemplating the frictions and quiet conflicts that ...
Designing in Times of Crisis: Envisioning and Applying
1st Edition
Edited
By Jorge Cruz Pinto, Ljiljana Čavić, Hugo Lopes Farias, Luis Miguel Ginja
March 11, 2025
Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world. The book highlights the urgency of addressing global crises and encourages architects and urban ...
Proximity in Design Research: People, Processes, Products, Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita Assoreira Almendra
February 10, 2025
Proximity in Design Research explores four constituents of design: people, processes, products and philosophy, and their potential to bridge contemporary gaps through multilevel synergies. The book brings together a variety of design approaches on several scales developed in the collaboration of ...
More than Buildings: Learning from Portuguese Building Typology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sérgio Padrão Fernandes, João Silva Leite, Carlos Dias Coelho
February 03, 2025
More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a function), the territory where it is integrated and with time and the way in which built forms evolve. The book is structured around a set of key ...
Which Proximity in Design Education?: A Contemporary Curriculum
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita Assoreira Almendra
January 30, 2025
This book explores various pedagogical viewpoints and dialectical positions within the field of design education and the concept of proximity it has established with industries and manufacturing. Which Proximity in Design Education? frames a wide range of approaches in design studios on ...
Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network: Lessons, Projects and Prospects from Lisbon
1st Edition
Edited
By João Rafael Santos, Maria Matos Silva, Ana Beja da Costa
October 01, 2024
This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal ...
Portuguese Landscape Architecture Education, Heritage and Research: 80 Years of History
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Matos Silva, Cristina Castel-Branco, João Ferreira Nunes, Luís Paulo Ribeiro, Teresa Andresen
July 31, 2024
In 2022, the Landscape Architecture course in Portugal celebrated 80 years of existence. This edited collection, Portuguese Landscape Architecture Education, Heritage and Research, commemorates this important milestone by bringing together some of the most respected names in Portuguese Landscape ...