Routledge Research in Architectural History
About the Book Series
Books in this series look in detail at aspects of architectural history from an academic viewpoint. Written by international experts, the volumes cover a range of topics from the origins of building types, the relationship of architectural designs to their sites, explorations of the works of specific architects, to the development of tools and design processes, and beyond. Written for the researcher and scholar, we are looking for innovative research to join our publications in architectural history.
Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Lembo Fazio, Valentina Tomassetti
July 31, 2025
Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through shared values, or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry. The chapters in this edited ...
The Berlin Tenement and the City
1st Edition
By Katharina Borsi
June 23, 2025
The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin’s standard housing type and its principal urban component – the city’s ubiquitous typology. In contrast to earlier historical categorizations of the tenement as a ‘...
Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis J. Gordo Peláez, Paul B. Niell
May 27, 2025
This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level ...
The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan: the “last modernist architect”
1st Edition
By Szymon Ruszczewski
May 27, 2025
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Sołtan’s work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students. The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan takes the reader ...
The Temporality of Building: European and Chinese Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage
1st Edition
By Yun Gao, Nicholas Temple, Jing Xiao
March 31, 2025
This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions. Whilst issues of time in architecture have attracted increasing interest by academics in the West, challenging the dominant modernist ...
Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Eran Neuman
March 13, 2025
Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A graduate of the Bauhaus, Sharon worked for a few years...
Developing Iran: Company Towns, Architecture, and the Global Powers
1st Edition
By Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani
January 30, 2025
This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based ‘company town’ projects built in association with the ‘Big Three’ powers of World War II. The book’s narrative builds upon a ...
Architecture for Spain's Recovered Democracy: Public Patronage, Regional Identity, and Civic Significance in 1980s Valencia
1st Edition
By Manuel López Segura
November 28, 2024
Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spain’s democracy. This pioneering book seeks to fill that void. Between the late 1970s and early 1990s, Spain founded representative institutions, launched its welfare ...
Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Delhi
1st Edition
By Jyoti Pandey Sharma
November 28, 2024
No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway by the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a watershed event. Following British ...
Dahomey’s Royal Architecture: An Earthen Record of Construction, Subjugation, and Reclamation
1st Edition
By Lynne Ellsworth Larsen
November 28, 2024
Dahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey...
Inventing the Built Environment: Planning, Science, and Control in British Architecture
1st Edition
By Juliana Yat Shun Kei
June 28, 2024
Why and how was the term ‘built environment’ first introduced? Inventing the Built Environment retrieves the origin of this ubiquitous term. The articulation of the ‘built environment,’ Kei demonstrates, coincided with the redefinition of education, research, and professional practices in ...
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements
1st Edition
By Joseph Godlewski
March 06, 2024
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub‑Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity. Intersected by small creeks, rivulets, and dotted with...