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.
Being and Making Architecture: Ecological Thinking Across Scales
1st Edition
By Ophélia Mantz
November 23, 2026
Far removed from techno-heroic narratives, Being and Making Architecture demonstrates how ecological consciousness in architecture is built "within reach." The themes organizing its content—matter, garden, workshop, kitchen, pedagogy, and collective practices—unfold across various scales through a ...
The Unconscious Will to Architecture in Marx
1st Edition
By Nadir Lahiji
November 02, 2026
The Unconscious Will to Architecture in Marx offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of Marx’s intellectual legacy, challenging orthodox readings of his famous ‘base and superstructure’ thesis. By delving into the architectural metaphor embedded in Marx’s work, this book uncovers the profound ...
The Residential Architecture of Pius Pahl: From Bauhaus to South Africa
1st Edition
By Arthur Barker
October 29, 2026
The Residential Architecture of Pius Edmund Pahl: From Bauhaus to South Africa explores the life and work of Pius Pahl (1909–2003), a Bauhaus-trained German architect who immigrated to South Africa in 1952. The book critically examines Pahl’s contributions to a Fourth Cape Vernacular, showcasing ...
Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo Meninato, Vanessa Grossman
October 08, 2026
Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field offers a compelling and rigorous re-examination of one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Born in Italy, and later naturalized in Brazil, Lina Bo Bardi pursued an interdisciplinary practice that traversed ...
Animals in Modern and Postmodern Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Kostas Tsiambaos
September 29, 2026
The book focuses on specific case studies from modern and postmodern architecture where animals stand out as agents that contribute to a broader political, cultural, and environmental critique. The various entangled, convoluted animal references and representations are not only seen as products of ...
Alvar Aalto in the Finnish Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Aino Niskanen, Kirmo Mikkola, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gareth Griffiths
August 27, 2026
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), written by one of Aalto’s Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934–1986). The book is divided into six sections dealing with different ...
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
1st Edition
By Naina Gupta
August 27, 2026
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices. Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the ...
Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics
1st Edition
By Marianna Charitonidou
August 27, 2026
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa ...
Architectures of Relations: Environment Plus Organism
1st Edition
By Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman
August 18, 2026
This book examines how environments and organisms dynamically produce one another. As such, it takes its title very seriously (and very literally): to speak of environment plus organism is the only viable way where neither term gets to be reduced to the other. It is rather their coming together, ...
Neuro-Affective Architecture: Designing for Presence and Embodied Attunement
1st Edition
By Wei-An Chen
August 07, 2026
This book is about the inner life of buildings—how architecture lands in the body, moment by moment, as breath, posture, tension, ease, and attention. It begins with a quiet question: why do so many spaces look extraordinary yet feel lacking from the inside? When image, performance, and ...
Rented Worlds: Bedsits, Boarding Houses and Multiple Occupancy Homes in Postwar London, 1946-1963
1st Edition
By Alistair Cartwright
August 06, 2026
Rented Worlds examines the hidden yet ubiquitous world of bedsits, boarding houses, service flats, subdivided terraces and other forms of private rented housing that continued to dominate postwar London, numerically as well as culturally, well into the 1960s. While the rise of council housing and ...
Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies
1st Edition
By Sang Lee
July 20, 2026
This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ...