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.
Speculative Architectures after Minoritarian Futurisms
1st Edition
By Joel P.W. Letkemann
December 02, 2025
Speculative Architectures after Minoritarian Futurisms is a work of architectural theory which understands architecture as a practice of speculation analogous to science fiction. While it might seem immediately obvious, especially given the discipline's legacy of fantastical invention and ...
Architecture in the Baltic States: Cities, Landscapes and Heritage of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Falsetti
November 20, 2025
This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature. Nevertheless, this collection of chapters provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment of the three countries that make up the Baltic ...
Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete
1st Edition
By Ruo Jia
November 18, 2025
Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution—through its adaptation by French Theory and French Theory’s subsequent adaptation by Chinese Experimental Architecture—shaped the ...
Rudolph M. Schindler’s Unbuilt Architecture: Design Theory, Languages and Methods Toward Space Making
1st Edition
By Jin-Ho Park
November 18, 2025
This book explores Rudolph M. Schindler’s design theory, architectural languages, and methods, with a focus on his unbuilt projects. Drawing from his lecture notes, manuscripts, and drawings, it offers fresh insights into Schindler’s legacy, emphasizing how his work diverged from mainstream ...
Design as Communication: An Architectural History of Christian Universities in China
1st Edition
By Yinrui Xie
October 29, 2025
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi‑colonial power interaction and cross‑cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China. The Christian universities in China witnessed ...
Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form
1st Edition
By Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez
September 29, 2025
Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience. The use of exaptation’s ...
Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil
1st Edition
By Aline Coelho Sanches
September 29, 2025
Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created ...
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ferng
September 10, 2025
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific. Multinational contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of regional processing centres in Papua New...
Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport
1st Edition
Edited
By Kapila D. Silva, Nisha A. Fernando
July 31, 2025
In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport – a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship – scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing ...
Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America
1st Edition
By Pablo Meninato, Gregory Marinic
July 31, 2025
Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes. From the mid-20th century to the present, Latin America and other ...
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
1st Edition
By Monica Naso
June 27, 2025
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narratives to explore scales and perspectives and the layered ...
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 ...