Architecture

Introducing Architectural Theory

Debating a Discipline

Edited by Korydon Smith

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a...

Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge

Architecture Re-assembled

The Use (and Abuse) of History

By Trevor Garnham

Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in...

Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

The Rationalist Reader

Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920-1940 and 1960-1990

Edited by Andrew Peckham, Torsten Schmiedeknecht

The first reader to consolidate rationalism into an accessible primer, providing a survey of documents, invited contributions from leading theorists and an engaging and accessible editorial....

To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge

Gender Studies in Architecture

Space, Power and Difference

By Dörte Kuhlmann

Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and constructivist discourses, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design....

To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge

Use Matters

An Alternative History of Architecture

Edited by Kenny Cupers

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays...

To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge

Architecture and Embodiment

The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

By Harry Francis Mallgrave

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments...

Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge

Goodman for Architects

By Remei Capdevila Werning

Series: Thinkers for Architects

American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an introduction to the aspects of Goodman’s philosophy...

To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge

Foucault for Architects

By Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Series: Thinkers for Architects

From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have...

Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge

Gadamer for Architects

By Paul Kidder

Series: Thinkers for Architects

Providing a concise and accessible introduction to the work of the celebrated twentieth century German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, this book focuses on the aspects of Gadamer’s philosophy that have been the most influential among architects, educators in architecture, and architectural...

Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge

Derrida for Architects

By Richard Coyne

Series: Thinkers for Architects

Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is...

Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge

Benjamin for Architects

By Brian Elliott

Series: Thinkers for Architects

Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos,...

Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge

Bourdieu for Architects

By Helena Webster

Series: Thinkers for Architects

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and...

Published July 8th 2010 by Routledge

Bhabha for Architects

By Felipe Hernandez

Series: Thinkers for Architects

The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of...

Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge

Irigaray for Architects

By Peg Rawes

Series: Thinkers for Architects

Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray’s work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for making, discussing and experiencing...

Published October 23rd 2007 by Routledge

Heidegger for Architects

By Adam Sharr

Series: Thinkers for Architects

Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists. The first introduction to Heidegger’s philosophy written specifically for...

Published October 1st 2007 by Routledge

Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

By Andrew Ballantyne

Series: Thinkers for Architects

The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but...

Published October 1st 2007 by Routledge

Reading Architecture and Culture

Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents

Edited by Adam Sharr

Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details,...

Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge

The Cultural Role of Architecture

Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Edited by Paul Emmons, Jane Lomholt, John Hendrix

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations...

Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge

The Humanities in Architectural Design

A Contemporary and Historical Perspective

Edited by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Jane Lomholt, Nicholas Temple, Renée Tobe

Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity. Written by leading academics in the...

Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge

The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

By John Shannon Hendrix

Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form...

Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge

Rethinking Aesthetics

The Role of Body in Design

Edited by Ritu Bhatt

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in...

Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

Composition, Non-composition

By Jacques Lucan

In architecture, composition refers to the conception of a building according to principles of regularity and hierarchy, or according to the principles of obtaining equilibrium. However, it is not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the notion of composition becomes truly associated...

Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge

Quality Out of Control

Standards for Measuring Architecture

Edited by Allison Dutoit, Juliet Odgers, Adam Sharr

Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship, in the skilled making of products, ‘quality’ is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Its appreciation, once based in the exercise of individual judgement and taste, is now often founded on supposedly...

Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge

Architecture in the Space of Flows

Edited by Andrew Ballantyne, Christopher Smith

Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more...

Published September 4th 2011 by Routledge

The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

A Reader

Edited by Renata Hejduk, Jim Williamson

This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture. The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth century...

Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge

The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

By Thomas Barrie

The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the...

Published March 28th 2010 by Routledge

Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture

Phenomenal Phenomenology

By M. Reza Shirazi

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty...

To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge

Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

By William M. Taylor, Michael P. Levine

Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times. It does so by exploring the notion...

Published February 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Weather Architecture

By Jonathan Hill

Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider...

Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge

Peripheries

Edited by Ruth Morrow, Mohamed Abdelmonem

Series: Critiques

Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how broad architecture has become, and the extent...

Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge

Scale

Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture

Edited by Gerald Adler, Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Series: Critiques

Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. ‘To build in scale’ is an aspiration that...

Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge

Architecture and Field/Work

Edited by Suzanne Ewing, Jeremie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed, Victoria Clare Bernie

Series: Critiques

Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars. It will be of interest...

Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge

Agency

Working With Uncertain Architectures

Edited by Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker

Series: Critiques

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from...

Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge

Curating Architecture and the City

Edited by Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara

Series: Critiques

Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Striking&...

Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge

Transformations

From Mannerism to Baroque in the age of European Absolutism and the Church Triumphant

By Christopher Tadgell

Series: Architecture in Context

Unprecedented in scope like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Transformations, this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries – particularly the transformation of...

Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge

Reformations

From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious Contention and Colonial Expansion

By Christopher Tadgell

Series: Architecture in Context

The rediscovery of classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists, architects and theorists of late fithteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy led to the cultural peak characterised as the High Renaissance. This fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series begins with a definition...

Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

The West

From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation

By Christopher Tadgell

Series: Architecture in Context

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the...

Published May 5th 2009 by Routledge

The East

Buddhists, Hindus and the Sons of Heaven

By Christopher Tadgell

Series: Architecture in Context

Continuing the Architecture in Context series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to the Japanese archipelago, over a period extending from prehistory to the arrival of Islam and its distinct traditions...

Published November 5th 2007 by Routledge

Islam

From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

By Christopher Tadgell

Series: Architecture in Context

This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its source in the ubiquitous courtyard house, while the development of the mosque as both place of worship and the centre of the community,...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge

Antiquity

Origins, Classicism and The New Rome

By Christopher Tadgell

Series: Architecture in Context

The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today’s environments began to flourish. More than a catalogue of...

Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge

Relational Architectural Ecologies

Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity

Edited by Peg Rawes

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the ‘habitats’, ‘natural milieus’, ‘...

To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge

Cine-scapes

Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities

By Richard Koeck

Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this book offers a new perspective.... What happens if we begin to see the city as...

Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge

Architecture and Capitalism

1845 to the Present

Edited by Peggy Deamer

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt...

To Be Published August 11th 2013 by Routledge

Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

By Virag Molnar

Series: Architext

The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

An Architecture of Parts: Architects, Building Workers and Industrialisation in Britain 1940 - 1970

By Christine Wall

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship between architects and building workers. It considers individual, as well as collective, interactions with technical change and in doing so brings...

To Be Published June 23rd 2013 by Routledge

Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

By Liane Lefaivre, Alex Tzonis

The definitive introductory book on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization, this text addresses issues of identity, community, and sustainability along with a selection of the most outstanding examples of design from all over the world. Alex Tzonis and...

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Third World Modernism

Architecture, Development and Identity

Edited by Duanfang Lu

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism’s part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of national and...

Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge

Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice

Discourses on Architecture and the City

By Teresa Stoppani

Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product. A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to...

Published October 21st 2010 by Routledge

Vernacular Architecture of West Africa

A World in Dwelling

By Jean-Paul Bourdier, Trinh T. Minh-ha

The dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of conceptions and building practices that contradict the widespread image of the primitive hut commonly attributed to rural Africa. Each house or group of houses is designed not only to shelter the members of a family, but also to...

Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge

Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular

Edited by Peter Guillery

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

Latin American Modern Architectures

Ambiguous Territories

Edited by Patricio del Real, Helen Gyger

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A...

Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation

The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture

By Tahl Kaminer

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the...

Published January 18th 2011 by Routledge

Team 10: An Archival History

By Annie Pedret

This early history of Team 10 and the group's emergence from CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture ) shifts the locus of the group's importance from their better-known projects of the 1960s and 70s to the group's more theoretically intense period of the late 1940s and 50s. Extensive...

To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Routledge

Atomic Dwelling

Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture

Edited by Robin Schuldenfrei

In the years of reconstruction and economic boom that followed the Second World War, the domestic sphere encountered new expectations regarding social behaviour, modes of living, and forms of dwelling. This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban...

Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge

Lessons from Vernacular Architecture

Edited by Willi Weber, Simos Yannas

The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. The...

To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge

Bauhaus Construct

Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei

Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received. Contributions...

Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge

Bauhaus Dream-house

Modernity and Globalization

By Katerina Rüedi Ray

Series: Architext

A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus – tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and...

Published April 15th 2010 by Routledge

Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture

Tradition and Today

By Dana Buntrock

In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects – Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki – Buntrock reveals...

Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge

Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement

Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

By Zhongjie Lin

Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book focuses on the Metabolists’ utopian concept of the city and investigates the design and political implications of their visionary planning in the postwar...

Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge

Two Spheres

Physical and Strategic Design in Architecture

By Leonard Bachman

Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and practice, it is suitable either as a seminar...

Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

The Universe of Design

Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning

By Jean-Pierre Protzen, David Harris

This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design. When people – alone or in groups – want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst Rittel studied this process of making plans and he developed theories – including his notion of...

Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge

Concrete, From Archeology to Invention, 1700–1769

The Renaissance of Pozzolana and Roman Construction Techniques

By Roberto Gargiani

This text paints a completely unprecedented tableau of the history of concrete during the first half of the eighteenth century. It addresses, for the first time, the various contributions that led to the rediscovery of concrete made by the specialists of the period, from chemists to volcanologists;...

To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge

renovatio urbis

Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II

By Nicholas Temple

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each chapter focuses on a particular project, from the Palazzo dei Tribunali to the Stanza della...

Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge

Engineers

A History of Engineering and Structural Design

By Matthew Wells

This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state. Matthew Wells covers topics based...

Published February 25th 2010 by Routledge

Museum Architecture

A New Biography

By Suzanne MacLeod

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage

A Race against Time

By Peter F. Smith

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization...

To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge