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.
Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century: After Visibility
1st Edition
By Sanja Rodeš
April 20, 2026
This book examines architecture, image, and media relationships as productive for architecture and architectural discourses. By arguing that the relationships between architecture and media cannot be dismissed via linear criticism of architecture and media or image, these relations are instead seen...
Architecture’s Disability Problem
1st Edition
By Wanda Katja Liebermann
April 20, 2026
Architecture’s Disability Problem explores the intersection of architecture and disability in the United States from the perspective of professional practice. This book uncovers why, despite the profound effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the architectural profession, there has been ...
African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity
1st Edition
By Courtnay Micots
April 06, 2026
This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s to 1950s, and to highlight their intentions during the tumultuous period in the Gold Coast Colony (part of present-day Ghana) from roughly 1874 to independence from the British on March...
Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia and the Works of Geoffrey Scott and Bernard Berenson
1st Edition
By Mark Campbell
April 06, 2026
This book considers the motives, ambitions, and malaprops of writing architectural history during the early-1900s – a moment that coincided with the emergence of modernity. In reference to a series of eccentric Anglo-American cultural figures, it considers the relationships between architecture, ...
Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarosh Anklesaria, Lily Chi
April 02, 2026
Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future. This book examines Sanskar Kendra both as a physical artifact and as a site of broader cultural debates. Originally ...
On Care and Architecture: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
By Anthony Clarke
March 18, 2026
This book argues that current techniques and representations of architectural practice can take on greater significance and generate a more meaningful societal and professional contribution if they are developed through a lens of care. This lens of care, however, requires a fundamental ...
Medieval Courtyard Design: Converging Urban Morphologies from Europe to the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Khosrow Bozorgi
December 30, 2025
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptiness—the “bounded void”—functions as architecture’s primary generative principle. Moving beyond conventional object-based analysis, the book ...
Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans
1st Edition
By Dhara Patel
December 26, 2025
Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism. It delves into the spatial structure, perception and ...
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO
1st Edition
By Roberto Podda
December 26, 2025
Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906–1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as editor-in-chief of the magazine SPAZIO, as well as a further essay on parametric ...
Nelson Goodman and Modern Architecture: A Belated Encounter
1st Edition
By Kasper Lægring
December 26, 2025
This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern architecture articulated by figures like Peter Blake, Charles Jencks, and Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown on the other. Grounded in Goodman’s aesthetic ...
Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene
1st Edition
By Michael Hirschbichler
December 26, 2025
This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that ...
The Architecture and Geography of Sound Studios: Sonic Heritage
1st Edition
By Even Smith Wergeland
December 26, 2025
This is a book about sound studios, focusing on their architectural and geographical aspects. It explores how music is materialized under specific spatial and technological conditions and the myths associated with this process. Through ten in-depth studies, it examines the design, evolution and ...