Built Environment: Architecture

Edited by Leland M. Roth

Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of values concerning men's relationships with…

Paperback – 2020-04-03 
Routledge

By Aki Ishida

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the perspectives of a practitioner, the six essays challenge assumptions about fragility and visual…

Paperback – 2020-04-01 
Routledge

By Anandi Ramamurthy

Edited by Simon Faulkner

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres – art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and…

Paperback – 2020-04-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Drew Plunkett

Democratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the ‘amateur’ householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed, it will…

Hardback – 2020-04-01 
RIBA Publishing

By Walter G Berl

This timely study deals with the heating and cooling of buildings using innovative systems that can reduce fossil fuel and electric energy requirements by as much as 80 percent. It also deals with promises and problems of solar energy use for efficient comfort conditioning.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

Edited by Mark Burry

‘Digital architecture’ is a relatively recent critical concept and encompasses all aspects of the discipline of architecture engaging with computation. It has evolved into a domain in its own right, as it were, rather than always being present from the first time architects ceded slide rule use in…

Hardback – 2020-03-18 
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Architecture

Edited by Mike Anusas, Cristián Simonetti

In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological sates, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and dying.…

Hardback – 2020-03-17 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Anthropology

By Menno Hubregtse

This book investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending. It offers a new understanding of how their architecture and artworks operate visually to guide people through the space and affect their behaviour. Menno Hubregtse’s research draws upon…

Hardback – 2020-03-11 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Design Studies

By Albert C. Smith, Kendra Schank Smith

The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. There is a belief that a greater understanding of the meaning of magic provides insights about architecture and architects’ design process. Architects influence the effects of nature through the making of their…

Hardback – 2020-03-07 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architecture

Edited by Michael Tutton, James W.P. Campbell

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This book offers depth and range of detail from dating and archaeology right through to the surveying,…

Hardback – 2020-03-06 
Routledge

By Nicholas Temple

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern in Italy. The study extends across the…

Hardback – 2020-03-04 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Architectural History

By Raj Patel

This book is an authoritative but uniquely accessible and highly illustrated guide to good acoustic design practice for architects, interior designers and acoustic professionals. It provides a user-friendly introduction to architectural acoustics and acoustics technology where the market is crowded…

Hardback – 2020-03-02 
RIBA Publishing