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.
The Architecture of Human Exceptionalism: Redrawing Our Relationship with Other Species
1st Edition
By Eva Perez de Vega
August 02, 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 06, 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 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
March 26, 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 ...
African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity
1st Edition
By Courtnay Micots
March 04, 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...
On Care and Architecture: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
By Anthony Clarke
March 04, 2026
This book argues that current techniques and representation 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 repositioning...
Medieval Courtyard Design: Converging Urban Morphologies from Europe to the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Khosrow Bozorgi
December 30, 2025
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptiness—the “bounded void”—functions as architecture’s primary generative principle. Moving beyond conventional object-based analysis, the book ...
Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans
1st Edition
By Dhara Patel
December 26, 2025
Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism. It delves into the spatial structure, perception and ...
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO
1st Edition
By Roberto Podda
December 26, 2025
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906–1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as editor-in-chief of the magazine SPAZIO, as well as a further essay on parametric ...
Nelson Goodman and Modern Architecture: A Belated Encounter
1st Edition
By Kasper Lægring
December 26, 2025
This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern architecture articulated by figures like Peter Blake, Charles Jencks, and Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown on the other. Grounded in Goodman’s aesthetic ...