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 Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment
1st Edition
By Dean Hawkes
October 09, 2023
This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career. The book considers the relationship between the technologies of the environment and wider historical and ...
Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico
1st Edition
By Luis E. Carranza
September 25, 2023
Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the ...
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
1st Edition
By Tao DuFour
May 31, 2023
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice ...
Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism
1st Edition
By Adrian Carter, Marja Sarvimäki
May 31, 2023
This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated with reference to the work of Jørn Utzon. It introduces critical contemporary perspectives of the design thinking and career of this renowned Danish ...
Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice
1st Edition
By Akari Nakai Kidd
January 09, 2023
Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research. Although numerous studies have ...
Architectural Anthropology: Exploring Lived Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielson, Aina Landsverk Hagen
January 09, 2023
This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining ...
Cybernetic Architectures: Informational Thinking and Digital Design
1st Edition
By Camilo Andrés Cifuentes Quin
January 09, 2023
For the past 50 years, the advancements of technology have equipped architects with unique tools that have enabled the development of new computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. Simultaneously, in contemporary architecture new frameworks emerged that...
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 ...