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.
On Power in Architecture: From a Materialistic, Phenomenological, and Post-Structuralist Perspective
1st Edition
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By Mateja Kurir
May 22, 2026
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume represents an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist. This collection opens an ...
Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture: Essays on Otherness and Canon
1st Edition
By Jorge Francisco Liernur
May 22, 2026
The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "Other" figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself. Instead, it recognizes the...
Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable
1st Edition
By Gevork Hartoonian
May 21, 2026
In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Focusing on the non-synchronicity inherent in their approaches to the tectonics of the column and wall, Hartoonian ...
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
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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
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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 ...
Medieval Courtyard Design: Converging Urban Morphologies from Europe to the Middle East
1st Edition
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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 ...