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.
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 ...
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....
Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture: Essays on Otherness and Canon
1st Edition
By Jorge Francisco Liernur
July 15, 2024
The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "Other" figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself. Instead, it recognizes the...
Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman
1st Edition
By Michael Jasper
May 27, 2024
This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman’s work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role. The book explores Eisenman’s approach to ...
Marcel Breuer: Shaping Architecture in the Post-War Era
1st Edition
By John Poros
May 27, 2024
This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer’s aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific building and puts into context Breuer’s other work and the contemporary movements/architects of the ...
The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons
1st Edition
By Joel Robinson
May 27, 2024
The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of ‘planetary urbanisation’. Joel ...