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.
Alvar Aalto in the Finnish Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Aino Niskanen, Kirmo Mikkola, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gareth Griffiths
May 30, 2025
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), written by one of Aalto’s Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934–1986). The book is divided into six sections dealing with different ...
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
1st Edition
By Naina Gupta
May 30, 2025
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices. Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the ...
Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics
1st Edition
By Marianna Charitonidou
May 30, 2025
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa ...
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity
1st Edition
By Emma Cheatle
May 27, 2025
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today. Where conventional architectural histories objectify ...
Liquid Architecture: Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux
1st Edition
By Pierangelo Marco Scravaglieri
May 06, 2025
Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look ...
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949–1987
1st Edition
By Danyal Ahmed
March 13, 2025
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the present day. Tracing the social, scientific and technological...
Experiential Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works
1st Edition
By Vincent B. Canizaro
March 13, 2025
Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers. The book focuses on the how these tools influence their ability to envision and craft the future experiential ...
Social Practices and City Spaces: Towards a Cooperative and Inclusive Inhabited Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyriaki Tsoukala
March 13, 2025
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the ...
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas
1st Edition
Edited
By Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi
January 30, 2025
This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to ...
Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter: OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin
1st Edition
By Helena Huber-Doudová
January 30, 2025
This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This...
Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises
1st Edition
By Stephen M. Anderson
November 29, 2024
The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn’s approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better ...
An Architecture of Care in South Africa: From Arts and Crafts to Other Progeny
1st Edition
By Nicholas Coetzer
November 28, 2024
Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of ‘an architecture of care’ that not only remains embedded in current discourse and practice but also that is being ...