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.
The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy
1st Edition
By Guy Trangoš
November 28, 2024
The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technology through a comparative study of four of the world’s most important radio telescopes. Employing detailed analysis, historical research, interviews, ...
The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Gevork Hartoonian
November 28, 2024
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. Focusing on a particular building type, an influential architect’s work,...
Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities: Theories, Methodologies and Cases in Architecture and Urbanism
1st Edition
By Bertug Ozarisoy, Hasim Altan
November 28, 2024
This book critically examines the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios. The aim of this book is to provide scholarly yet accessible graphic novel illustrations to inform narratives of urban manifestos. Through four ...
Wren’s Burford Masons: Unsung Heroes of 17th and Early 18th Century English Architecture
1st Edition
By Melody Mobus
November 28, 2024
This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Burford Masons were involved in the construction ...
Eating, Building, Dwelling: About Food, Architecture and Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By David Arredondo Garrido, Juan Calatrava, Marta Sequeira
November 26, 2024
The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse. This book delves into a diverse set of cases throughout history in which processes related to food significantly influenced ...
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape: Primitivism and Progress
1st Edition
By Lindsay Harris
November 19, 2024
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape explores the impact of photography at a pivotal moment in Italian architecture and culture, focusing on the period between 1910 and the mid-1970s. The book analyzes architectural photographs taken by Italian cultural figures who helped ...
Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies
1st Edition
By Sang Lee
October 31, 2024
This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ...
On Power in Architecture: From a Materialistic, Phenomenological, and Post-Structuralist Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Mateja Kurir
September 30, 2024
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume represents an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist. This collection opens an ...
Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable
1st Edition
By Gevork Hartoonian
September 10, 2024
In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Focusing on the non-synchronicity inherent in their approaches to the tectonics of the column and wall, Hartoonian ...
The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran: From Pedagogical Revolution to Revolutionary Pedagogy (1960-1990)
1st Edition
By Ali Javid
September 05, 2024
The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant socio-political upheavals in Iran: The White Revolution (1963) and the Islamic Revolution (1979). It examines how these transformative periods influenced the field, providing ...
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building
1st Edition
By Alexander Tsigkas
August 13, 2024
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philosophy and practice in architecture, exploring life, viability, and interdisciplinary collaboration and offering practical design insights for all beings....
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO
1st Edition
By Roberto Podda
August 01, 2024
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906–1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as editor-in-chief of the magazine SPAZIO, as well as a further essay on parametric ...