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.
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 ...
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 ...