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.
Mies at Home: From Am Karlsbad 24 to the Tugendhat House
1st Edition
By Xiangnan Xiong
January 29, 2024
Mies at Home is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohe’s career, from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas— ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of the Tugendhat House. The book examines how Mies’s ...
Pyrotechnic Cities: Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation
1st Edition
By Liam Ross
January 29, 2024
This book explores the relationship between architecture, government and fire. It posits that, through the question of fire-safety standardisation, building design comes to be both a problem for, and a tool of, government. Through a close study of fire-safety standards it demonstrates the shaping ...
Architecture of Threshold Spaces: A Critique of the Ideologies of Hyperconnectivity and Segregation in the Socio-Political Context
1st Edition
By Laurence Kimmel
October 09, 2023
This book explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy through a discussion on threshold spaces linking public space with publicly accessible buildings. It explores the connection between exterior and interior and how this creates and affects interactions between people and the ...
The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment
1st Edition
By Dean Hawkes
October 09, 2023
This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career. The book considers the relationship between the technologies of the environment and wider historical and ...
Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico
1st Edition
By Luis E. Carranza
September 25, 2023
Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the ...
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
1st Edition
By Tao DuFour
May 31, 2023
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice ...
Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism
1st Edition
By Adrian Carter, Marja Sarvimäki
May 31, 2023
This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated with reference to the work of Jørn Utzon. It introduces critical contemporary perspectives of the design thinking and career of this renowned Danish ...
Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice
1st Edition
By Akari Nakai Kidd
January 09, 2023
Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research. Although numerous studies have ...
Architectural Anthropology: Exploring Lived Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielson, Aina Landsverk Hagen
January 09, 2023
This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining ...
Cybernetic Architectures: Informational Thinking and Digital Design
1st Edition
By Camilo Andrés Cifuentes Quin
January 09, 2023
For the past 50 years, the advancements of technology have equipped architects with unique tools that have enabled the development of new computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. Simultaneously, in contemporary architecture new frameworks emerged that...
Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance through Emptying
1st Edition
By Randall S. Lindstrom
January 09, 2023
Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity’s grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the “emptying” that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible. It concretises that grounding through architecture—a primal expression of human creativity—critically ...
Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms
1st Edition
By Elisabetta Barizza
January 09, 2023
This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an original interpretation of the work of Kahn during one of the most fruitful periods of his career, when he was working on a particular design method based ...