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.
Vittorio Gregotti. Architect of the Modern Project
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Ciccarelli
March 31, 2025
This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti’s projects and works, but rather a historical‑critical analysis of his peculiar figure. Like a few others, Gregotti embodied the model of the architect‑intellectual that characterised post‑war Italian design culture. Editor of leading magazines, ...
Walter Gropius in Britain: Emigration and Collaborations
1st Edition
By Alborz Dianat
March 31, 2025
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius’s activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder’s contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937. Drawing on earlier and later decades, this reveals the close contact ...
Ornament and Class: Modern Architecture and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie
1st Edition
By Gary Huafan He
March 23, 2025
This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also analyzing their tangible manifestations in buildings ...
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949–1987
1st Edition
By Danyal Ahmed
March 13, 2025
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the present day. Tracing the social, scientific and technological...
Experiential Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works
1st Edition
By Vincent B. Canizaro
March 13, 2025
Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers. The book focuses on the how these tools influence their ability to envision and craft the future experiential ...
Social Practices and City Spaces: Towards a Cooperative and Inclusive Inhabited Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyriaki Tsoukala
March 13, 2025
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the ...
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas
1st Edition
Edited
By Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi
January 30, 2025
This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to ...
Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter: OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin
1st Edition
By Helena Huber-Doudová
January 30, 2025
This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This...
Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza: Meaning, Action and Place
1st Edition
By Sally J. Faulder
December 30, 2024
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life. It combines philosophical hermeneutics, narrative textual description, and history and theory research to provide a ...
The Architecture of Exhibitions: Experiential Design
1st Edition
By Alessandro Melis, Rozina Vavetsi, Fabio Finotti
December 30, 2024
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its evolutionary significance. The book challenges ...
Valences of Historiography: Essays on Architectural History
1st Edition
Edited
By Gevork Hartoonian
December 30, 2024
The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critically re-writing history. Essential to each author's contribution are specific traditions created ...
Street-by-Street Retrofit: A Future for Architecture
1st Edition
By Mike McEvoy
December 16, 2024
For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change. The art of retrofit is posited as a way forward beyond today’s weak pseudo-Modernist architecture – all that is left – the ...