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.
Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises
1st Edition
By Stephen M. Anderson
November 29, 2024
The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn’s approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better ...
An Architecture of Care in South Africa: From Arts and Crafts to Other Progeny
1st Edition
By Nicholas Coetzer
November 28, 2024
Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of ‘an architecture of care’ that not only remains embedded in current discourse and practice but also that is being ...
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century
1st Edition
By Marianna Charitonidou
November 28, 2024
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived. The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and ...
Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces
1st Edition
By Lilian Chee
November 28, 2024
Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse? Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such ...
Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology in China: The Buildings of the Order of the Dong
1st Edition
By Xuemei Li
November 28, 2024
Drawing on the author’s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong’s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong’s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings. It ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Huafan He, Skender Luarasi
November 28, 2024
This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style...
Exteriorless Architecture: Form, Space, and Urbanities of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Stefano Corbo
November 28, 2024
The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others. Generally considered as mediocre and banal examples that sit outside of pre-established disciplinary ...
Metaphorical Practices in Architecture: Metaphors as Method and Subject in the Production of Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Borree, Stephanie Knuth, Moritz Röger
November 28, 2024
Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture’s social, cultural and political dimensions – past and present – and to ...
Modernism in Late-Mao China: Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 1969–1976
1st Edition
By Ke Song
November 28, 2024
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign ...
Perspective as Logic: Positioning Film in Architecture
1st Edition
By Stefanos Roimpas
November 28, 2024
Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline’s repertoire. The book determines the screen’s conditions of possibility by critically asking not what a screen means, but how it can mean anything of architectural ...
Post-Western Histories of Architecture
1st Edition
By Pilar Maria Guerrieri, Marco Biraghi
November 28, 2024
This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of ...
The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Mariusz Sokołowicz, Aleksandra Nowakowska, Błażej Ciarkowski
November 28, 2024
This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical context in which it was created, such architecture ...