Routledge Research in Architecture

Drawing the Unbuildable

Seriality and Reproduction in Architecture

By Nerma Cridge

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not just unbuilt, but cannot be built. This distinct form of architectural project has an important and...

Published June 12th 2015 by Routledge

Designing the British Post-War Home

Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968

By Fiona Fisher

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood’s firm is representative of a geographically distinct category of...

Published April 24th 2015 by Routledge

Kahn at Penn

Transformative Teacher of Architecture

By James Williamson

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Louis I. Kahn is widely known as an architect of powerful buildings. But although much has been said about his buildings, almost nothing has been written about Kahn as an unconventional teacher and philosopher whose influence on his students was far-reaching. Teaching was vitally important for Kahn...

Published March 27th 2015 by Routledge

Ars et Ingenium: The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Drawings

By Pari Riahi

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1475-1490) are significant....

Published January 26th 2015 by Routledge

Intersections of Space and Ethos

Edited by Kyriaki Tsoukala, Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou, Charikleia Pantelidou

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of the last two decades has witnessed an impressive number of new design techniques and conceptual...

Published January 5th 2015 by Routledge

The Films of Charles and Ray Eames

A Universal Sense of Expectation

By Eric Schuldenfrei

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

The Films of Charles and Ray Eames traces the history of the Eameses’ work, examining their evolution away from the design of mass-produced goods and toward projects created as educational experiences. Closely examining how the Eameses described their work reveals how the films and exhibitions they...

Published December 10th 2014 by Routledge

Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

Australia and Beyond

By Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning...

Published November 6th 2014 by Routledge

Architectural Temperance

Spain and Rome, 1700-1759

By Victor Deupi

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at...

Published August 18th 2014 by Routledge

Space Unveiled

Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio

Edited by Carla Jackson Bell

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Since the early 1800s, African Americans have designed signature buildings; however, in the mainstream marketplace, African American architects, especially women, have remained invisible in architecture history, theory and practice. Traditional architecture design studio education has been based...

Published July 31st 2014 by Routledge

Architectural System Structures

Integrating Design Complexity in Industrialised Construction

By Kasper Sánchez Vibæk

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

This book proposes a system structure in architectural design that conceptualises a systemic level in architecture and construction that lies between general construction techniques and specific architectural results. In order to make such a system structure operational, the elaboration of a model...

Published June 9th 2014 by Routledge