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.
Regular Bastion Castles: European Ideals and Local Adaptations in the Ruthenian Voivodeship
1st Edition
By Olha Tikhonova
April 13, 2027
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the emergence of a noble residence that combined a palace with a bastioned enceinte: the bastion castle. This book examines the type through the architectural treatises that shaped its development and through a significant group of examples built in the ...
Towards an Architectural Theory for Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Brook, Andrea Canclini, Christian Gänshirt, Francesca Zanotto
March 18, 2027
Sustainability has become the horizon against which contemporary architecture measures itself, yet it too often collapses into technical standards, moral imperatives or rhetorical formulae. This volume asks what it would mean to reframe sustainability as a properly architectural question, one that ...
The Scenography of Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City
1st Edition
By Paul Ranogajec
March 10, 2027
This book examines architectural scenography in New York’s Beaux-Arts buildings from 1880 to the 1920s, a period when the city underwent a dramatic corporate-capitalist transformation. It explores how architects and liberal theorists sought to unify the cityscape and its people, creating an ...
Live Project, Design Build and Community Design Education: Connecting Pedagogy, Society, Environment, Practice and Research
1st Edition
By Jane Anderson
March 08, 2027
Live Project, Design Build and Community Design Education connect students with a complex world. This book tells the stories of students, educators and stakeholders working together to initiate and realise ambitious projects such as buildings, landscapes, infrastructure and strategic interventions,...
The Organic Modernism of a Philadelphia Neighborhood: School Lane Hills
1st Edition
By David M. Breiner
February 12, 2027
This book explores how grassroots suburban development organically fostered architectural diversity and collaboration, challenging conventional narratives of top-down planning and uniformity in postwar suburban design. Focusing on the School Lane Hills community in Philadelphia, USA, the book ...
Architecture and Architects in Socialist Poland: Between Stalin and Le Corbusier
1st Edition
By Błażej Ciarkowski
December 28, 2026
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country. The history of architecture and architects in ...
Sacred Modernity: Anglican Church Architecture in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Grieco
December 28, 2026
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of modern Anglican church design and the contributions of ...
Virtual Reality: Architecture, Culture, and the Body
1st Edition
By Tatjana Crossley
December 28, 2026
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality (VR), examining how architecture and representation engage with the ...
Southern Syrian Vernacular Architecture with Lessons for Sustainability
1st Edition
By Sanaa Alkadi, Derek John Clements-Croome, Adnan Alshoufi, Philip Griffiths
December 23, 2026
The Southern Syrian Vernacular Dwelling is an overlooked, soulful, basalt stone dwelling. This traditional dwelling has been continuously occupied and adapted over thousands of years in response to its inhabitants’ lifestyle and their evolving culture. This book explores this adaption phenomenon ...
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Path to Beauty
1st Edition
By Kenneth Dahlin
November 24, 2026
This book connects Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic theory with his pursuit of beauty, presenting a path for the recovery of beauty in architecture. While there has been a resurgence of interest in beauty in architecture recently, the modern uglification of our built environment means there is no clear...
The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy
1st Edition
By Berin F. Gür
November 24, 2026
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping this memory, underscoring its susceptibility to ...
Being and Making Architecture: Ecological Thinking Across Scales
1st Edition
By Ophélia Mantz
November 17, 2026
Far removed from techno-heroic narratives, Being and Making Architecture demonstrates how ecological consciousness in architecture is built “within reach.” The themes organizing its content—matter, garden, workshop, kitchen, pedagogy, and collective practices—unfold across various scales through a ...