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.
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, ...
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 ...
Neuro-Affective Architecture: Designing for Presence and Embodied Attunement
1st Edition
By Wei-An Chen
August 04, 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 ...
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition
1st Edition
By Miguel Lopez Melendez
July 15, 2026
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition revisits a controversial theme in architectural theory and history. This book reframes “autonomy” as a cultural issue rather than a purely disciplinary debate centered on architectural form. It offers the first urban formulation of “autonomy” by ...
The Architecture of Human Exceptionalism: Redrawing Our Relationship with Other Species
1st Edition
By Eva Perez de Vega
July 06, 2026
This book challenges the assumption that architecture is a human-centered endeavor and calls for a fundamental shift in how we engage with the built environment. By examining how speciesist assumptions rooted in human exceptionalism shape architectural thought and practice, it asks how architecture...
Understanding Structures through Neuroscience: Embodiment and the New Structural Art in Architecture
1st Edition
By Shuaizhong Wang
June 08, 2026
Drawing on the recent findings of neuroscience, this book invites readers to rethink the issue of structural expression through the lens of embodiment. This book begins by exploring an often-overlooked yet ambiguous perspective on structural expression in architectural design. It reveals how ...
The History of Marketing Architecture in Canada: Ongoing Considerations for Contemporary Practice
1st Edition
By Brynne Hope Campbell
May 26, 2026
This book examines Canadian architects’ evolving relationship with marketing, tracing how regulatory restrictions, professional identity, and cultural values shaped attitudes towards promotion. Through analysis of The Canadian Architect magazine, key historical milestones, and firm case studies, it...
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building
1st Edition
By Alexander Tsigkas
May 22, 2026
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philosophy and practice in architecture, exploring life, viability, and interdisciplinary collaboration and offering practical design insights for all beings....
On Power in Architecture: From a Materialistic, Phenomenological, and Post-Structuralist Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Mateja Kurir
May 22, 2026
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume represents an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist. This collection opens an ...
Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture: Essays on Otherness and Canon
1st Edition
By Jorge Francisco Liernur
May 22, 2026
The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "Other" figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself. Instead, it recognizes the...
Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable
1st Edition
By Gevork Hartoonian
May 21, 2026
In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Focusing on the non-synchronicity inherent in their approaches to the tectonics of the column and wall, Hartoonian ...
Biological Design Beyond Earth: Mycelium-Regolith Habitats for Space Exploration
1st Edition
By Monika Brandić Lipińska
May 12, 2026
This book explores how fungal mycelium can support the construction of habitats for future human missions to Mars. Addressing the challenge of transporting building materials from Earth, presented research proposes a bio-fabrication strategy based on two principles: combining mycelium with Martian ...