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.
Liquid Architecture: Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux
1st Edition
By Pierangelo Marco Scravaglieri
May 06, 2025
Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look ...
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949–1987
1st Edition
By Danyal Ahmed
March 13, 2025
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the present day. Tracing the social, scientific and technological...
Experiential Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works
1st Edition
By Vincent B. Canizaro
March 13, 2025
Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers. The book focuses on the how these tools influence their ability to envision and craft the future experiential ...
Social Practices and City Spaces: Towards a Cooperative and Inclusive Inhabited Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyriaki Tsoukala
March 13, 2025
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the ...
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas
1st Edition
Edited
By Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi
January 30, 2025
This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to ...
Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter: OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin
1st Edition
By Helena Huber-Doudová
January 30, 2025
This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This...
Sverre Fehn and the City: Rethinking Architecture’s Urban Premises
1st Edition
By Stephen M. Anderson
November 29, 2024
The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn’s approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better ...
An Architecture of Care in South Africa: From Arts and Crafts to Other Progeny
1st Edition
By Nicholas Coetzer
November 28, 2024
Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of ‘an architecture of care’ that not only remains embedded in current discourse and practice but also that is being ...
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century
1st Edition
By Marianna Charitonidou
November 28, 2024
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived. The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and ...
Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces
1st Edition
By Lilian Chee
November 28, 2024
Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse? Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such ...
Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology in China: The Buildings of the Order of the Dong
1st Edition
By Xuemei Li
November 28, 2024
Drawing on the author’s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong’s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong’s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings. It ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Huafan He, Skender Luarasi
November 28, 2024
This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style...