Welcome to the Architecture Catalogue 2012
2012 marks an exciting year for architecture at Routledge as we have grown and strengthened after the Architectural Press and Earthscan publishers became part of our publishing programme last year. We have some exciting new books publishing this year, including key professional titles, core textbooks, groundbreaking research and some classic references. The Routledge architecture list is now more diverse than ever; nearly all of our books are available electronically as well as in print, so we hope that you find something which suits your needs.
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Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions
Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection...
Published March 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Exercises in Architecture
Learning to Think as an Architect
Architecture is a doing word. You can learn a great deal about the workings of architecture through analysing examples but a fuller understanding of its powers and potential comes through practice, by trying to do it... This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop...
Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Designing Architecture
The Elements of Process
Designing Architecture is an indispensable tool to assist both students and young architects in formulating an idea, transforming it into a building, and making effective design decisions. This book promotes integrative and critical thinking in the preliminary design of buildings to inspire...
Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
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The Architect's Portfolio
Planning, Design, Production
The creation of a successful portfolio is a vital skill needed by architectural students and professionals alike. In a highly competitive global market the accomplished representation of the architect’s work must be able to turn opportunities into triumphs. This book offers a fresh step-by-step...
Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
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Le Corbusier: Beton Brut and Ineffable Space (1940 – 1965)
Surface Materials and Psychophysiology of Vision
This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into...
Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture
Faith, Form and Building Technology
A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs. These projects represent different periods of Wright’s career (from 1886 to 1958), new building technologies, and application of...
Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Will Alsop
The Noise
The design process of Will Alsop acts as a conduit for the dreams and aspirations of others. Moving from public consultation to the privacy of his painting studio – here ideas are born in the liquidity of paint, the serendipity of collage and the flourish of line, resulting in the avant-garde and...
Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge
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Vernacular Architecture of West Africa
A World in Dwelling
The dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of conceptions and building practices that contradict the widespread image of the primitive hut commonly attributed to rural Africa. Each house or group of houses is designed not only to shelter the members of a family, but also to...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
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The Housing Design Handbook
A Guide to Good Practice
How well have architects succeeded in building housing and what lessons can be learned from their triumphs and failures? The Housing Design Handbook will give you a complete understanding of what makes successful housing design. Through the analysis of work by Levitt Bernstein and a wide range of...
Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Sports Facilities and Technologies
Developers, designers and operators are increasingly needing to create versatile sport and leisure amenities that are of lasting value to local and wider communities. Placing facilities design and operation at the heart of sports development, this book adopts a holistic approach, integrating...
Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge
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Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers
The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300...
Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
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Live Architecture
Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music
Live Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day. This book quantifies the factors that determine what makes a venue successful focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest barroom music space to the largest...
Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture
Tradition and Today
In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects – Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki – Buntrock reveals...
Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
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Performalism
Form and Performance in Digital Architecture
Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the...
Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Dwelling with Architecture
The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of...
Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production
Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction. Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book presents some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last decade....
Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
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The Structural Basis of Architecture
2nd Edition
This is a book about structures that shows students how to "see" structures as integral to architecture, and how knowledge of structures is the basis for understanding both the mechanical and conceptual aspects inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the...
Published April 17th 2011 by Routledge
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The Art of Structures
This book describes the complete panorama of supporting structures and their function by describing how loads are sustained and transmitted to the ground. With a minimum of mathematics, the reader is guided through the analysis of some of the world’s most famous designs and structures from a civil...
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Daylighting
Architecture and Lighting Design
This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects, lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design, with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental element of architecture. It includes: an overview of current practice of daylighting in...
Published January 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design
2nd Edition
Modern concert halls and opera houses are now very specialized buildings with special acoustical characteristics. With new contemporary case-studies, this updated book explores these characteristics as an important resource for architects, engineers and auditorium technicians. Supported by...
Published September 23rd 2009 by Spon Press
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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple...
Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Around and About Stock Orchard Street
9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects for their own use. Completed in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and...
Published April 13th 2011 by Routledge
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The Green Studio Handbook
2nd Edition
Learn how to integrate green strategies into your building design. This practical handbook provides an essential introduction to green design strategies – helping you to understand how to save energy, water and material resources. It provides the information required to make judgments about which...
Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Rural Design
A New Design Discipline
Rural areas worldwide are undergoing profound change creating considerable challenges and stress for its residents and on the ecosystems upon which they depend. Rural design brings design thinking and the problem-solving process of design to rural issues recognizing that human and natural systems...
Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge