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.
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...
Mexico City’s Zócalo: A History of a Constructed Spatial Identity
1st Edition
By Benjamin A. Bross
October 09, 2023
This book presents a case study of one of Latin America’s most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment. It poses questions about how the identity of a place emerges, how it evolves ...
William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult
1st Edition
By Amandeep Kaur Mann
October 09, 2023
This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857–1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular. Using detailed analysis of Lethaby’s drawings and architecture, the research uncovers Lethaby’s familiarity with occult concepts and ideology ...
Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory
1st Edition
By Amir H Ameri
September 25, 2023
Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for ...
Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Juan Luis Burke
January 09, 2023
Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, ...
Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Nicholas Temple
December 13, 2021
This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the ...
The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940
1st Edition
By Julie Collins
December 13, 2021
The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between ...
Urban Architectures in Interwar Yugoslavia
1st Edition
By Tanja D. Conley
December 13, 2021
Resulting from a twenty-year period of research, this book seeks to challenge contradictions between the concepts of national and modern architectures promoted among the most pronounced national groups of Yugoslavia: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It spans from the beginning of their nation-building ...
Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on the Geometry of the Baroque
1st Edition
Edited
By Adil Mansure, Skender Luarasi
August 02, 2021
The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning. Numerous investigations have attempted to reveal its underlying geometrical principles...
The Rise of Academic Architectural Education: The origins and enduring influence of the Académie d’Architecture
1st Edition
By Alexander Griffin
March 31, 2021
Academic architectural education started with the inauguration of the Académie d'Architecture on 3 December 1671 in France. It was the first institution to be devoted solely to the study of architecture, and its school was the first dedicated to the explicit training of architectural students. The ...
Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography
1st Edition
By Gevork Hartoonian
March 23, 2020
Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper for architectural history. In a work exploring themes such as time, autonomy and ...