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.
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 ...
Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene
1st Edition
By Michael Hirschbichler
December 26, 2025
This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that ...
The Architecture and Geography of Sound Studios: Sonic Heritage
1st Edition
By Even Smith Wergeland
December 26, 2025
This is a book about sound studios, focusing on their architectural and geographical aspects. It explores how music is materialized under specific spatial and technological conditions and the myths associated with this process. Through ten in-depth studies, it examines the design, evolution and ...
The Diné Hogan: A Modern History
1st Edition
By Lillian Makeda
December 26, 2025
Over the course of their history, the Navajo (Diné) have constructed many types of architecture, but during the 20th century, one building emerged to become a powerful and inspiring symbol of tribal culture. This book describes the rise of the octagonal stacked-log hogan as the most important ...
The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran: From Pedagogical Revolution to Revolutionary Pedagogy (1960-1990)
1st Edition
By Ali Javid
December 26, 2025
The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant socio-political upheavals in Iran: The White Revolution (1963) and the Islamic Revolution (1979). It examines how these transformative periods influenced the field, providing ...
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde: A Sociological Approach
1st Edition
By Lina Stergiou
December 19, 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...
Construct: Large Everyday Architecture
1st Edition
By Iain Borden
December 09, 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 characterised 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 02, 2025
Speculative Architectures 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 ...
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 chapters provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment of the three countries that make up the Baltic ...