Routledge Research in Design History is a new series focusing on the history of designed objects, including architecture, fashion, crafts, interiors, textiles and graphic design. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Edited
By Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch
May 27, 2024
Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries. Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s ...
Edited
By Sarah A. Lichtman, Jilly Traganou
November 30, 2023
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement. The ...
By Arisa Yamaguchi
October 13, 2023
Using interdisciplinary research and critical analysis, this book examines experiences through (or with) kimonos in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Bringing new perspectives to challenge the existing model of ‘Japonisme in fashion’ and introducing overlooked contacts ...
By Caroline Dionne
July 31, 2023
This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll—from his nonsense fiction, to his work on logic and geometry, including his two short pamphlets on architecture. Drawing on ...
By Bill Roberts
August 06, 2019
This book examines artists’ engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist production and social life. Setting recent practices in historical relief, and exploring the work of Dan Graham, Rita McBride, Tobias Rehberger and Liam ...