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.
Towards an Architectural Theory for Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Brook, Andrea Canclini, Christian Gänshirt, Francesca Zanotto
March 18, 2027
Sustainability has become the horizon against which contemporary architecture measures itself, yet it too often collapses into technical standards, moral imperatives or rhetorical formulae. This volume asks what it would mean to reframe sustainability as a properly architectural question, one that ...
The Scenography of Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City
1st Edition
By Paul Ranogajec
March 10, 2027
This book examines architectural scenography in New York’s Beaux-Arts buildings from 1880 to the 1920s, a period when the city underwent a dramatic corporate-capitalist transformation. It explores how architects and liberal theorists sought to unify the cityscape and its people, creating an ...
Live Project, Design Build and Community Design Education: Connecting Pedagogy, Society, Environment, Practice and Research
1st Edition
By Jane Anderson
March 08, 2027
Live Project, Design Build and Community Design Education connect students with a complex world. This book tells the stories of students, educators and stakeholders working together to initiate and realise ambitious projects such as buildings, landscapes, infrastructure and strategic interventions,...
Southern Syrian Vernacular Architecture with Lessons for Sustainability
1st Edition
By Sanaa Alkadi, Derek John Clements-Croome, Adnan Alshoufi, Philip Griffiths
December 23, 2026
The Southern Syrian Vernacular Dwelling is an overlooked, soulful, basalt stone dwelling. This traditional dwelling has been continuously occupied and adapted over thousands of years in response to its inhabitants’ lifestyle and their evolving culture. This book explores this adaption phenomenon ...
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Path to Beauty
1st Edition
By Kenneth Dahlin
November 24, 2026
This book connects Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic theory with his pursuit of beauty, presenting a path for the recovery of beauty in architecture. While there has been a resurgence of interest in beauty in architecture recently, the modern uglification of our built environment means there is no clear...
The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy
1st Edition
By Berin F. Gür
November 24, 2026
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping this memory, underscoring its susceptibility to ...
Being and Making Architecture: Ecological Thinking Across Scales
1st Edition
By Ophélia Mantz
November 17, 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 ...
Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo Meninato, Vanessa Grossman
November 05, 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 as a Brazilian citizen, Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) pursued an interdisciplinary practice ...
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 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 how his ...
Cultural Architecture and Late-Colonial Space: Constructing Cultural Centres in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Melody Hoi-lam Yiu
October 16, 2026
This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years. Recent developments at the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) have attracted ...
London's ‘Big Bang’ Moment and its Architectural Conversations: The Built Environment as a Subject of Public Discourse
1st Edition
By Stephen Rosser
October 16, 2026
This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focussing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital’s financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century. During this time, the City’s mode of ...