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Edited by Derek Clements-Croome, Derek Clements-Croome

The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being. Here renowned professionals from practice and academia explore the evidence from basic research as well as case studies to test this belief. They show that many elements in the built environment contribute to establishing a…

Paperback – 2019-11-29
Routledge

By Geraint John, Dave Parker

Olympic Stadia provides a comprehensive account of the development of stadia including but not limited to: developments in running tracks, the introduction of lighting, improvements in spectator viewing standards and the introduction of roofs. Written by a world-renowned expert on sports…

Hardback – 2019-11-20
Routledge

By Henry Sanoff

Educators often overlook the positive impact of changing the environment of the school itself when considering how to improve the quality of education. First published in 1994, School Design shows how to create more effective schools through a design process that involves teachers, students,…

Paperback – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Linda Mulcahy, Emma Rowden

The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales. The book explores the extent to which…

Paperback – 2019-10-07
Routledge

By Nora Lefa, Pavlos Lefas

Buildings Used takes the reader on an exploration into the impact of use on buildings and users. While most histories and theories of architecture focus on a building’s conception, design, and realization, this book argues that its identity is formed after its completion through use; and that the…

Hardback – 2019-10-02
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

Edited by Guy Marriage

This is a guide to both the basics and the details of tall building design, delving into the rudimentary aspects of design that an architect of a tall office building must consider, as well as looking at the rationale for why and how a building must be built the way it is. Liberally illustrated…

Paperback – 2019-09-20
Routledge

By Francesco Zuddas

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academic institution as a major force behind the perpetuation of a controlling society. Focusing on the crisis and reform of higher education in Italy,&…

Hardback – 2019-09-19
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

By Charalampos Politakis

The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing…

Paperback – 2019-09-18
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

By Christos P. Kakalis

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential…

Hardback – 2019-08-29
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

By Günter Gassner

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in London’s tall-building boom, it develops a critique of the construction of more and more speculative towers as well as a critique of the claim that these buildings…

Hardback – 2019-08-15
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

By Yiming Wang

Shopping malls in China create a new pseudo-public urban space which is under the control of private or quasi-public power structure. As they are open for public use, mediated by the co-mingling of private property rights and public meanings of urban space, the rise, publicness and consequences of…

Hardback – 2019-06-11
Routledge
Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series

By Jonathan Hill

The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument…

Paperback – 2019-04-24
Routledge