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 University as a Settlement Principle: Territorialising Knowledge in Late 1960s Italy
1st Edition
By Francesco Zuddas
June 30, 2021
The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academic institution as a major force behind the perpetuation of a controlling society. Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy,&...
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures: Phase Spaces and Generative Domains
1st Edition
By Miguel Paredes Maldonado
June 30, 2021
Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materialism. It investigates how their unique ‘ontological regimes’ can be mobilised to supersede the classical framework that still informs both the ...
The Architect as Magician
1st Edition
By Albert Smith, Kendra Schank Smith
May 28, 2020
The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. There is a belief that a greater understanding of the meaning of magic provides insights about architecture and architects’ design processes. Architects influence the effects of nature through the making of their ...
A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture: 1700-2014
1st Edition
Edited
By Alla Aronova, Alexander Ortenberg
May 14, 2020
This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the Sochi Winter Olympics. The forms and the circumstances ...
Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn
1st Edition
By Elisabetta Barizza, Marco Falsetti
May 14, 2020
Louis I. Kahn was one of the most influential architects, thinkers and teachers of his time. This book examines the important relationship between his work and the city of Rome, whose ancient ruins inspired in him a new design methodology. Structured into two main parts, the first includes personal...
Architectural Colossi and the Human Body: Buildings and Metaphors
1st Edition
By Charalampos Politakis
May 07, 2020
The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing ...
Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration
1st Edition
By Mirjana Lozanovska
May 07, 2020
Migrant Housing, the latest book by author Mirjana Lozanovska, examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Housing is pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant participation in the adaptation or building of houses provides ...
A History of Design Institutes in China: From Mao to Market
1st Edition
By Charlie Q. L. Xue, Guanghui Ding
March 23, 2020
A History of Design Institutes in China examines the intricate relationship between design institutes, the state, and, in later periods, the market economy through a carefully situated discussion of significant theoretical and historical issues including socialist utopia, collective and individual ...
Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Sexton
March 23, 2020
The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book opens a space for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, architects, and digital humanities professionals to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and ...
Architectures of Transversality: Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination
1st Edition
By Shima Mohajeri
March 23, 2020
Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran. Focusing on Paul Klee’s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn’s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran, it traces the architectonics of the present as a ...
From Doxiadis' Theory to Pikionis' Work: Reflections of Antiquity in Modern Architecture
1st Edition
By Kostas Tsiambaos
March 23, 2020
In this book, Tsiambaos redefines the ground-breaking theory of Greek architect and town planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis (The Form of Space in Ancient Greece) and moves his thesis away from antiquity and ancient architecture, instead arguing that it can only be understood as a theory founded in ...
Small-Scale Public Transportable and Pre-Fabricated Buildings: Evaluating their Functional Performance
1st Edition
By Junjie Xi
March 23, 2020
This book investigates the design, operation and use of contemporary transportable buildings, and explores how functional performance can be assessed in small-scale examples for public use alongside their relationship to other design elements. The research focuses on three case studies, Chengdu ...