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Routledge Research in Architecture


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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.

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An Architecture of Care in South Africa From Arts and Crafts to Other Progeny

An Architecture of Care in South Africa: From Arts and Crafts to Other Progeny

1st Edition

By Nicholas Coetzer
July 10, 2023

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

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

1st Edition

By Marianna Charitonidou
July 10, 2023

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 ...

Metaphorical Practices in Architecture Metaphors as Method and Subject in the Production of Architecture

Metaphorical Practices in Architecture: Metaphors as Method and Subject in the Production of Architecture

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah Borree, Stephanie Knuth, Moritz Röger
June 23, 2023

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture’s social, cultural and political dimensions – past and present – and to ...

Post-Western Histories of Architecture

Post-Western Histories of Architecture

1st Edition

By Pilar Maria Guerrieri, Marco Biraghi
June 23, 2023

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of ...

Wren’s Burford Masons Unsung Heroes of 17th and Early 18th Century English Architecture

Wren’s Burford Masons: Unsung Heroes of 17th and Early 18th Century English Architecture

1st Edition

By Melody Mobus
June 23, 2023

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Burford Masons were involved in the construction ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism The Limits of Self-Generation

Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation

1st Edition

Edited By Gary Huafan He, Skender Luarasi
June 07, 2023

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...

Architecture and Affect Precarious Spaces

Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces

1st Edition

By Lilian Chee
May 31, 2023

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

Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology in China: The Buildings of the Order of the Dong

1st Edition

By Xuemei Li
May 31, 2023

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 ...

Exteriorless Architecture Form, Space, and Urbanities of Neoliberalism

Exteriorless Architecture: Form, Space, and Urbanities of Neoliberalism

1st Edition

By Stefano Corbo
May 31, 2023

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others. Generally considered as mediocre and banal examples that sit outside of pre-established disciplinary ...

Husserl and Spatiality A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space

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

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 ...

Modernism in Late-Mao China Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 1969–1976

Modernism in Late-Mao China: Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 1969–1976

1st Edition

By Ke Song
April 28, 2023

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign ...

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