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.
Construct: Large Everyday Architecture
1st Edition
By Iain Borden
December 15, 2025
Construct introduces a new category of architecture and engineering in our cities. These structures are highly visible yet often ignored, large-scale and built without traditional designers. They are characterized by substantial technical innovation and expertise, embedded in the everyday lives of ...
Speculative Architectures after Minoritarian Futurisms
1st Edition
By Joel P.W. Letkemann
December 08, 2025
Speculative Architecture after Minoritarian Futurisms is a work of architectural theory which understands architecture as a practice of speculation analogous to science fiction. While it might seem immediately obvious, especially given the discipline's legacy of fantastical invention and commitment...
Architecture in the Baltic States: Cities, Landscapes and Heritage of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Falsetti
November 20, 2025
This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature. Nevertheless, this collection of essays provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment of the three countries that make up the Baltic ...
Rudolph M. Schindler’s Unbuilt Architecture: Design Theory, Languages and Methods Toward Space Making
1st Edition
By Jin-Ho Park
November 17, 2025
This book explores Rudolph M. Schindler’s design theory, architectural language, and methods, with a focus on his unbuilt projects. Drawing from his lecture notes, manuscripts, and drawings, it offers fresh insights into Schindler’s legacy, emphasizing how his work diverged from mainstream ...
Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete
1st Edition
By Ruo Jia
November 13, 2025
Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution—through its adaptation by French Theory and French Theory’s subsequent adaptation by Chinese Experimental Architecture—shaped the Chinese reformative effort to redefine ...
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde: A Sociological Approach
1st Edition
By Lina Stergiou
November 04, 2025
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it. The sources consist ...
Design as Communication: An Architectural History of Christian Universities in China
1st Edition
By Yinrui Xie
October 29, 2025
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi-colonial power interaction and cross-cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China. The Christian universities in China witnessed ...
Architecture and Architects in Socialist Poland: Between Stalin and Le Corbusier
1st Edition
By Błażej Ciarkowski
September 30, 2025
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country. The history of architecture and architects in ...
Sacred Modernity: Anglican Church Architecture in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Grieco
September 30, 2025
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of modern Anglican church design and the contributions of ...
Virtual Reality: Architecture, Culture, and the Body
1st Edition
By Tatjana Crossley
September 30, 2025
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality (VR), examining how architecture and representation engage with the ...
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ferng
September 10, 2025
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific. Multinational contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of regional processing centres in Papua New...
The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy
1st Edition
By Berin F. Gür
August 15, 2025
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping this memory, underscoring its susceptibility to ...