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.
Street-by-Street Retrofit: A Future for Architecture
1st Edition
By Mike McEvoy
July 20, 2026
For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change. The art of retrofit is posited as a way forward beyond today’s weak pseudo-Modernist architecture – all that is left – the ...
Valences of Historiography: Essays on Architectural History
1st Edition
Edited
By Gevork Hartoonian
July 20, 2026
The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critically re-writing history. Essential to each author's contribution are specific traditions created ...
Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies
1st Edition
By Sang Lee
July 19, 2026
This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ...
The Architecture of Human Exceptionalism: Redrawing Our Relationship with Other Species
1st Edition
By Eva Perez de Vega
July 19, 2026
This book challenges the assumption that architecture is a human-centered endeavor and calls for a fundamental shift in how we engage with the built environment. By examining how speciesist assumptions rooted in human exceptionalism shape architectural thought and practice, it asks how architecture...
The Architecture of Exhibitions: Experiential Design
1st Edition
By Alessandro Melis, Rozina Vavetsi, Fabio Finotti
June 22, 2026
The Architecture of Exhibitions embarks on a comprehensive exploration of creativity and design innovation within exhibition spaces. It describes the fundamental principles of exhibition design, tracing the origins of creativity and considering its evolutionary significance. The book challenges ...
Vittorio Gregotti. Architect of the Modern Project
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Ciccarelli
June 22, 2026
This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti’s projects and works, but rather a historical‑critical analysis of his peculiar figure. Like a few others, Gregotti embodied the model of the architect‑intellectual that characterised post‑war Italian design culture. Editor of leading magazines, ...
Walter Gropius in Britain: Emigration and Collaborations
1st Edition
By Alborz Dianat
June 22, 2026
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius’s activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder’s contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937. Drawing on earlier and later decades, this reveals the close contact ...
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition
1st Edition
By Miguel Lopez Melendez
June 16, 2026
Architectural Autonomy and the Urban Condition revisits a controversial theme in architectural theory and history. This book reframes “autonomy” as a cultural issue rather than a purely disciplinary debate centered on architectural form. It offers the first urban formulation of “autonomy” by ...
Understanding Structures through Neuroscience: Embodiment and the New Structural Art in Architecture
1st Edition
By Shuaizhong Wang
June 08, 2026
Drawing on the recent findings of neuroscience, this book invites readers to rethink the issue of structural expression through the lens of embodiment. This book begins by exploring an ambiguous and often-overlooked perspective on structural expression in architectural design. It reveals how ...
The History of Marketing Architecture in Canada: Ongoing Considerations for Contemporary Practice
1st Edition
By Brynne Hope Campbell
May 26, 2026
This book examines Canadian architects’ evolving relationship with marketing, tracing how regulatory restrictions, professional identity, and cultural values shaped attitudes towards promotion. Through analysis of The Canadian Architect magazine, key historical milestones, and firm case studies, it...
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building
1st Edition
By Alexander Tsigkas
May 22, 2026
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philosophy and practice in architecture, exploring life, viability, and interdisciplinary collaboration and offering practical design insights for all beings....
Mies Contra Le Corbusier: The Frame Inevitable
1st Edition
By Gevork Hartoonian
May 22, 2026
In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Focusing on the non-synchronicity inherent in their approaches to the tectonics of the column and wall, Hartoonian ...