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 Residential Architecture of Pius Edmund Pahl: From Bauhaus to South Africa
1st Edition
By Arthur Barker
October 30, 2026
The Residential Architecture of Pius Edmund Pahl: From Bauhaus to South Africa explores the life and work of Pius Pahl (1909–2003), a Bauhaus-trained German architect who immigrated to South Africa in 1952. The book critically examines Pahl’s contributions to a Fourth Cape Vernacular, showcasing ...
Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo Meninato, Vanessa Grossman
October 08, 2026
Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field offers a compelling and rigorous re-examination of one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Born in Italy, and later naturalized in Brazil, Lina Bo Bardi pursued an interdisciplinary practice that traversed ...
Animals in Modern and Postmodern Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Kostas Tsiambaos
September 29, 2026
The book focuses on specific case studies from modern and postmodern architecture where animals stand out as agents that contribute to a broader political, cultural, and environmental critique. The various entangled, convoluted animal references and representations are not only seen as products of ...
Architectures of Relations: Environment Plus Organism
1st Edition
By Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman
August 18, 2026
This book examines how environments and organisms dynamically produce one another. As such, it takes its title very seriously (and very literally): to speak of environment plus organism is the only viable way where neither term gets to be reduced to the other. It is rather their coming together, ...
Neuro-Affective Architecture: Designing for Presence and Embodied Attunement
1st Edition
By Wei-An Chen
August 07, 2026
This book is about the inner life of buildings—how architecture lands in the body, moment by moment, as breath, posture, tension, ease, and attention. It begins with a quiet question: why do so many spaces look extraordinary yet feel lacking from the inside? When image, performance, and ...
Rented Worlds: Bedsits, Boarding Houses and Multiple Occupancy Homes in Postwar London, 1946-1963
1st Edition
By Alistair Cartwright
August 06, 2026
Rented Worlds examines the hidden yet ubiquitous world of bedsits, boarding houses, service flats, subdivided terraces and other forms of private rented housing that continued to dominate postwar London, numerically as well as culturally, well into the 1960s. While the rise of council housing and ...
Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies
1st Edition
By Sang Lee
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Eating, Building, Dwelling: About Food, Architecture and Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By David Arredondo Garrido, Juan Calatrava, Marta Sequeira
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Ornament and Class: Modern Architecture and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie
1st Edition
By Gary Huafan He
July 20, 2026
This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also analyzing their tangible manifestations in buildings ...
Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza: Meaning, Action and Place
1st Edition
By Sally J. Faulder
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape: Primitivism and Progress
1st Edition
By Lindsay Harris
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Street-by-Street Retrofit: A Future for Architecture
1st Edition
By Mike McEvoy
July 20, 2026
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 ...