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.
Eating, Building, Dwelling: About Food, Architecture and Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By David Arredondo Garrido, Juan Calatrava, Marta Sequeira
July 20, 2026
The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse. This book delves into a diverse set of cases throughout history in which processes related to food significantly influenced ...
Ornament and Class: Modern Architecture and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie
1st Edition
By Gary Huafan He
July 20, 2026
This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also analyzing their tangible manifestations in buildings ...
Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza: Meaning, Action and Place
1st Edition
By Sally J. Faulder
July 20, 2026
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life. It combines philosophical hermeneutics, narrative textual description, and history and theory research to provide a ...
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape: Primitivism and Progress
1st Edition
By Lindsay Harris
July 20, 2026
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape explores the impact of photography at a pivotal moment in Italian architecture and culture, focusing on the period between 1910 and the mid-1970s. The book analyzes architectural photographs taken by Italian cultural figures who helped ...
Street-by-Street Retrofit: A Future for Architecture
1st Edition
By Mike McEvoy
July 20, 2026
For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change. The art of retrofit is posited as a way forward beyond today’s weak pseudo-Modernist architecture – all that is left – the ...
Valences of Historiography: Essays on Architectural History
1st Edition
Edited
By Gevork Hartoonian
July 20, 2026
The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critically re-writing history. Essential to each author's contribution are specific traditions created ...
The Architecture of Human Exceptionalism: Redrawing Our Relationship with Other Species
1st Edition
By Eva Perez de Vega
July 16, 2026
This book challenges the assumption that architecture is a human-centered endeavor and calls for a fundamental shift in how we engage with the built environment. By examining how speciesist assumptions rooted in human exceptionalism shape architectural thought and practice, it asks how architecture...
The Architecture of Exhibitions: Experiential Design
1st Edition
By Alessandro Melis, Rozina Vavetsi, Fabio Finotti
June 22, 2026
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its evolutionary significance. The book challenges ...
Vittorio Gregotti. Architect of the Modern Project
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Ciccarelli
June 22, 2026
This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti’s projects and works, but rather a historical‑critical analysis of his peculiar figure. Like a few others, Gregotti embodied the model of the architect‑intellectual that characterised post‑war Italian design culture. Editor of leading magazines, ...
Walter Gropius in Britain: Emigration and Collaborations
1st Edition
By Alborz Dianat
June 22, 2026
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius’s activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder’s contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937. Drawing on earlier and later decades, this reveals the close contact ...
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition
1st Edition
By Miguel Lopez Melendez
June 16, 2026
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition revisits a controversial theme in architectural theory and history. This book reframes “autonomy” as a cultural issue rather than a purely disciplinary debate centered on architectural form. It offers the first urban formulation of “autonomy” by ...
Understanding Structures through Neuroscience: Embodiment and the New Structural Art in Architecture
1st Edition
By Shuaizhong Wang
June 08, 2026
Drawing on the recent findings of neuroscience, this book invites readers to rethink the issue of structural expression through the lens of embodiment. This book begins by exploring an ambiguous and often-overlooked perspective on structural expression in architectural design. It reveals how ...