Routledge Research in Architecture
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Architecture series provides the reader with the latest scholarship in the field of architecture. The series publishes research from across the globe and covers areas as diverse as architectural history and theory, technology, digital architecture, structures, materials, details, design, monographs of architects, interior design and much more. By making these studies available to the worldwide academic community, the series aims to promote quality architectural research.
Animals in Modern and Postmodern Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Kostas Tsiambaos
October 02, 2026
The book focuses on specific case studies from modern and postmodern architecture where animals stand out as agents that contribute to a broader political, cultural, and environmental critique. The various entangled, convoluted animal references and representations are not only seen as products of ...
Architectures of Relations: Environment Plus Organism
1st Edition
By Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman
August 18, 2026
This book examines how environments and organisms dynamically produce one another. As such, it takes its title very seriously (and very literally): to speak of environment plus organism is the only viable way where neither term gets to be reduced to the other. It is rather their coming together, ...
Rented Worlds: Bedsits, Boarding Houses and Multiple Occupancy Homes in Postwar London, 1946-1963
1st Edition
By Alistair Cartwright
August 06, 2026
Rented Worlds examines the hidden yet ubiquitous world of bedsits, boarding houses, service flats, subdivided terraces and other forms of private rented housing that continued to dominate postwar London, numerically as well as culturally, well into the 1960s. While the rise of council housing and ...
Neuro-Affective Architecture: Designing for Presence and Embodied Attunement
1st Edition
By Wei-An Chen
August 04, 2026
This book is about the inner life of buildings—how architecture lands in the body, moment by moment, as breath, posture, tension, ease, and attention. It begins with a quiet question: why do so many spaces look extraordinary yet feel lacking from the inside? When image, performance, and ...
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition
1st Edition
By Miguel Lopez Melendez
July 15, 2026
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition revisits a controversial theme in architectural theory and history. This book reframes “autonomy” as a cultural issue rather than a purely disciplinary debate centered on architectural form. It offers the first urban formulation of “autonomy” by ...
The Architecture of Human Exceptionalism: Redrawing Our Relationship with Other Species
1st Edition
By Eva Perez de Vega
July 06, 2026
This book challenges the assumption that architecture is a human-centered endeavor and calls for a fundamental shift in how we engage with the built environment. By examining how speciesist assumptions rooted in human exceptionalism shape architectural thought and practice, it asks how architecture...
The Architecture of Exhibitions: Experiential Design
1st Edition
By Alessandro Melis, Rozina Vavetsi, Fabio Finotti
June 22, 2026
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its evolutionary significance. The book challenges ...
Vittorio Gregotti. Architect of the Modern Project
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Ciccarelli
June 22, 2026
This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti’s projects and works, but rather a historical‑critical analysis of his peculiar figure. Like a few others, Gregotti embodied the model of the architect‑intellectual that characterised post‑war Italian design culture. Editor of leading magazines, ...
Walter Gropius in Britain: Emigration and Collaborations
1st Edition
By Alborz Dianat
June 22, 2026
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius’s activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder’s contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937. Drawing on earlier and later decades, this reveals the close contact ...
Understanding Structures through Neuroscience: Embodiment and the New Structural Art in Architecture
1st Edition
By Shuaizhong Wang
June 08, 2026
Drawing on the recent findings of neuroscience, this book invites readers to rethink the issue of structural expression through the lens of embodiment. This book begins by exploring an ambiguous and often-overlooked perspective on structural expression in architectural design. It reveals how ...
The History of Marketing Architecture in Canada: Ongoing Considerations for Contemporary Practice
1st Edition
By Brynne Hope Campbell
May 26, 2026
This book examines Canadian architects’ evolving relationship with marketing, tracing how regulatory restrictions, professional identity, and cultural values shaped attitudes towards promotion. Through analysis of The Canadian Architect magazine, key historical milestones, and firm case studies, it...
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building
1st Edition
By Alexander Tsigkas
May 22, 2026
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philosophy and practice in architecture, exploring life, viability, and interdisciplinary collaboration and offering practical design insights for all beings....