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.
Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport
1st Edition
Edited
By Kapila D. Silva, Nisha A. Fernando
July 31, 2025
In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport – a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship – scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing ...
Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America
1st Edition
By Pablo Meninato, Gregory Marinic
July 31, 2025
Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes. From the mid-20th century to the present, Latin America and other ...
London's ‘Big Bang’ Moment and its Architectural Conversations: The Built Environment as a Subject of Public Discourse
1st Edition
By Stephen Rosser
June 30, 2025
This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focussing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital’s financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century. During this time, the City’s mode of ...
The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse
1st Edition
By Philippe d’Anjou
June 30, 2025
How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms—like fair, right, good—convey different meanings? Delving into the dynamic and adaptable nature of ethical ...
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
1st Edition
By Monica Naso
June 27, 2025
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narratives to explore scales and perspectives and the layered ...
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Path to Beauty
1st Edition
By Kenneth Dahlin
June 19, 2025
This book connects Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic theory with his pursuit of beauty, presenting a path for the recovery of beauty in architecture. While there has been a resurgence of interest in beauty in architecture recently, the modern uglification of our built environment means there is no clear...
Cultural Architecture and Late-Colonial Space: Constructing Cultural Centres in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Melody Hoi-lam Yiu
June 17, 2025
This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years. Recent developments at the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) have attracted ...
Alvar Aalto in the Finnish Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Aino Niskanen, Kirmo Mikkola, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gareth Griffiths
May 30, 2025
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), written by one of Aalto’s Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934–1986). The book is divided into six sections dealing with different ...
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
1st Edition
By Naina Gupta
May 30, 2025
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices. Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the ...
Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics
1st Edition
By Marianna Charitonidou
May 30, 2025
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa ...
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity
1st Edition
By Emma Cheatle
May 27, 2025
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today. Where conventional architectural histories objectify ...
Liquid Architecture: Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux
1st Edition
By Pierangelo Marco Scravaglieri
May 06, 2025
Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look ...