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.
Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance through Emptying
1st Edition
By Randall S. Lindstrom
January 09, 2023
Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity’s grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the “emptying” that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible. It concretises that grounding through architecture—a primal expression of human creativity—critically ...
Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms
1st Edition
By Elisabetta Barizza
January 09, 2023
This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an original interpretation of the work of Kahn during one of the most fruitful periods of his career, when he was working on a particular design method based ...
Writing the Materialities of the Past: Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination
1st Edition
By Sam Griffiths
January 09, 2023
Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thinking since the 1950s. Author Sam Griffiths argues that the social theory of cities in this period was characterised by the dominance of socio-economic ...
Le Corbusier in the Antipodes: Art, Architecture and Urbanism
1st Edition
By Antony Moulis
December 19, 2022
This book considers the architect Le Corbusier’s encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated by his ...
Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament: David Boswell Reid and Disruptive Environmentalism
1st Edition
By Henrik Schoenefeldt
December 19, 2022
Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control system in parliament. This book retraces and ...
The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work: Exorcising Outlines, Apparitions and Angels
1st Edition
By J. Kevin Story
December 19, 2022
This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what, why and how we build, which allowed for more open discourse and enhance the ...
The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective
1st Edition
By Petra Čeferin
December 19, 2022
Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem, and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from ...
Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and Myths
1st Edition
By Daria Ricchi
December 19, 2022
Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician...
The University as a Settlement Principle: Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy
1st Edition
By Francesco Zuddas
June 30, 2021
The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academic institution as a major force behind the perpetuation of a controlling society. Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy,&...
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures: Phase Spaces and Generative Domains
1st Edition
By Miguel Paredes Maldonado
June 30, 2021
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism. It investigates how their unique ‘ontological regimes’ can be mobilised to supersede the classical framework that still informs both the ...
The Architect as Magician
1st Edition
By Albert Smith, Kendra Schank Smith
May 28, 2020
The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. There is a belief that a greater understanding of the meaning of magic provides insights about architecture and architects’ design processes. Architects influence the effects of nature through the making of their ...
A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture: 1700-2014
1st Edition
Edited
By Alla Aronova, Alexander Ortenberg
May 14, 2020
This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the Sochi Winter Olympics. The forms and the circumstances ...