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 Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860
1st Edition
By Daniel Maudlin
October 23, 2017
The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it. It is a study of small buildings built on country estates, and not so small buildings built in picturesque rural ...
Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968
1st Edition
By Fiona Fisher
October 12, 2017
In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood’s firm is representative of a geographically distinct category of ...
Intersections of Space and Ethos
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyriaki Tsoukala, Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou, Charikleia Pantelidou
October 12, 2017
The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of the last two decades has witnessed an impressive number of new design techniques and conceptual ...
Through the Healing Glass: Shaping the Modern Body through Glass Architecture, 1925-35
1st Edition
By John Sadar
October 12, 2017
In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments. The advanced chemistry of "Vita" Glass mobilised theories of light and medicine, health practices and glassmaking technology to compress an entire epoch’s ...
Conflicted Identities: Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation
1st Edition
By Alexandra Staub
June 07, 2017
Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and urban plans have a visibility that lends them authority, while their repeated portrayals in the media cement their image...
Sacred Architecture in a Secular Age: Anamnesis of Durham Cathedral
1st Edition
By Marie Clausén
June 07, 2017
Having won more than one recent poll as Britain’s best-loved building, the appeal of Durham Cathedral appears abiding, which begs the question whether an iconic sacred building can retain meaning and affective pertinence for contemporary, secular visitors. Using the example of Durham Cathedral, ...
Bruno Taut’s Design Inspiration for the Glashaus
1st Edition
By David Nielsen
May 31, 2017
As a formative exemplar of early architectural modernism, Bruno Taut’s seminal exhibition pavilion the Glashaus (literally translated Glasshouse) is logically part of the important debate of rethinking the origins of modernism. However, the historical record of Bruno Taut’s Glashaus has been ...
Cut and Paste Urban Landscape: The Work of Gordon Cullen
1st Edition
By Mira Engler
May 31, 2017
During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the discourse and practice of architecture. It was a time where architecture became a mainstream commodity whose products sold through mass media; a time in which Thomas Gordon Cullen came to be one of Britain’s ...
Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North: Regional Schools and Traditions (14th - 19th centuries)
1st Edition
By Evgeny Khodakovsky
May 31, 2017
The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour of the country’s capital cities, this unique phenomenon is regarded as the most distinctive ...
Drawing the Unbuildable: Seriality and Reproduction in Architecture
1st Edition
By Nerma Cridge
May 24, 2017
Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not just unbuilt, but cannot be built. This distinct form of architectural project has an important and ...
Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey: Architecture Across Cultures in the 1950s and 1960s
1st Edition
Edited
By Meltem Gürel
May 24, 2017
Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey studies the unfolding of modern architecture in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s. The book brings together scholars who have carried out extensive research on post-WWII modernism in a global context. The authors situate Turkish architectural case studies within an ...
An Architecture of Parts: Architects, Building Workers and Industrialisation in Britain 1940 - 1970
1st Edition
By Christine Wall
October 10, 2016
This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship between architects and building workers. It considers individual, as well as collective, interactions with technical change and in doing so brings ...