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.
The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse
1st Edition
By Philippe d’Anjou
October 16, 2026
How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms—like fair, right, good—convey different meanings? Delving into the dynamic and adaptable nature of ethical ...
Animals in Modern and Postmodern Architecture
1st Edition
Edited
By Kostas Tsiambaos
October 12, 2026
The book focuses on specific case studies from modern and postmodern architecture where animals stand out as agents that contribute to a broader political, cultural, and environmental critique. The various entangled, convoluted animal references and representations are not only seen as products of ...
Alvar Aalto in the Finnish Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Aino Niskanen, Kirmo Mikkola, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gareth Griffiths
August 27, 2026
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), written by one of Aalto’s Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934–1986). The book is divided into six sections dealing with different ...
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation
1st Edition
By Naina Gupta
August 27, 2026
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices. Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the ...
Reinventing Modern Architecture in Greece: From Sentimental Topography to Ekistics
1st Edition
By Marianna Charitonidou
August 27, 2026
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa ...
Architectures of Relations: Environment Plus Organism
1st Edition
By Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman
August 18, 2026
This book examines how environments and organisms dynamically produce one another. As such, it takes its title very seriously (and very literally): to speak of environment plus organism is the only viable way where neither term gets to be reduced to the other. It is rather their coming together, ...
Neuro-Affective Architecture: Designing for Presence and Embodied Attunement
1st Edition
By Wei-An Chen
August 07, 2026
This book is about the inner life of buildings—how architecture lands in the body, moment by moment, as breath, posture, tension, ease, and attention. It begins with a quiet question: why do so many spaces look extraordinary yet feel lacking from the inside? When image, performance, and ...
Rented Worlds: Bedsits, Boarding Houses and Multiple Occupancy Homes in Post-war London, 1946-1963
1st Edition
By Alistair Cartwright
August 06, 2026
Rented Worlds examines the hidden yet ubiquitous world of bedsits, boarding houses, service flats, subdivided terraces, and other forms of private rented housing that continued to dominate post-war London, numerically as well as culturally, well into the 1960s. While the rise of council housing and...
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 ...