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.
Design as Communication: An Architectural History of Christian Universities in China
1st Edition
By Yinrui Xie
October 29, 2025
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi‑colonial power interaction and cross‑cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China. The Christian universities in China witnessed ...
Architecture and Architects in Socialist Poland: Between Stalin and Le Corbusier
1st Edition
By Błażej Ciarkowski
September 30, 2025
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country. The history of architecture and architects in ...
Sacred Modernity: Anglican Church Architecture in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Grieco
September 30, 2025
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of modern Anglican church design and the contributions of ...
Virtual Reality: Architecture, Culture, and the Body
1st Edition
By Tatjana Crossley
September 30, 2025
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality (VR), examining how architecture and representation engage with the ...
Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form
1st Edition
By Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez
September 29, 2025
Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience. The use of exaptation’s ...
Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil
1st Edition
By Aline Coelho Sanches
September 29, 2025
Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created ...
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ferng
September 10, 2025
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific. Multinational contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of regional processing centres in Papua New...
The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy
1st Edition
By Berin F. Gür
August 15, 2025
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping this memory, underscoring its susceptibility to ...
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 ...