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.
Rented Worlds: Bedsits, Boarding Houses and Multiple Occupancy Homes in Postwar London, 1946-1963
1st Edition
By Alistair Cartwright
August 07, 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 ...
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...
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 often-overlooked yet ambiguous 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 toward promotion. Through analysis of The Canadian Architect magazine, key historical milestones, and firm case studies, it ...
Biological Design Beyond Earth: Mycelium-Regolith Habitats for Space Exploration
1st Edition
By Monika Brandić Lipińska
May 12, 2026
This book explores how fungal mycelium can support the construction of habitats for future human missions to Mars. Addressing the challenge of transporting building materials from Earth, presented research proposes a bio-fabrication strategy based on two principles: combining mycelium with Martian ...
Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century: After Visibility
1st Edition
By Sanja Rodeš
April 20, 2026
This book examines architecture, image, and media relationships as productive for architecture and architectural discourses. By arguing that the relationships between architecture and media cannot be dismissed via linear criticism of architecture and media or image, these relations are instead seen...
Architecture’s Disability Problem
1st Edition
By Wanda Katja Liebermann
April 20, 2026
Architecture’s Disability Problem explores the intersection of architecture and disability in the United States from the perspective of professional practice. This book uncovers why, despite the profound effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the architectural profession, there has been ...
African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity
1st Edition
By Courtnay Micots
April 06, 2026
This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s to 1950s, and to highlight their intentions during the tumultuous period in the Gold Coast Colony (part of present-day Ghana) from roughly 1874 to independence from the British on March...
Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia and the Works of Geoffrey Scott and Bernard Berenson
1st Edition
By Mark Campbell
April 06, 2026
This book considers the motives, ambitions, and malaprops of writing architectural history during the early-1900s – a moment that coincided with the emergence of modernity. In reference to a series of eccentric Anglo-American cultural figures, it considers the relationships between architecture, ...
Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarosh Anklesaria, Lily Chi
April 02, 2026
Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future. This book examines Sanskar Kendra both as a physical artifact and as a site of broader cultural debates. Originally ...
On Care and Architecture: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
By Anthony Clarke
March 18, 2026
This book argues that current techniques and representations of architectural practice can take on greater significance and generate a more meaningful societal and professional contribution if they are developed through a lens of care. This lens of care, however, requires a fundamental ...