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.
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 ...
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...