Routledge Architecture publishes high-quality architecture books for professionals, students and academic researchers.
Routledge Architecture publishes books for professionals, students, and academic researchers. Our extensive portfolio, including cutting-edge trends and ideas, enables us to offer the breadth and depth you require. Our books present technical graphics and illustrations, often in color, to present new ideas, concepts, and methodology to help you improve your practice.
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The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating…
Paperback – 2019-04-24
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The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer is an accessible and highly illustrated guide, which primes those involved in the design and research of tall buildings to dramatically improve their performance. Using a mixture of original research and analysis, best-practice design thinking and a…
Paperback – 2019-04-18
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Design technology is changing both architectural practice and the role of the architect and related design professionals. With new technologies and work processes appearing every week, how can practitioners be expected to stay on top and thrive? In a word, Superusers. Superusers: Design Technology…
Paperback – 2019-03-01
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How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety of forms: drawings by hand and computer, models both physical and virtual, and words as needed. The book reflects in witty prose on the…
Paperback – 2019-01-07
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Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structures without the need for columns or walls, whether for balconies, stairs, to occupy the air rights of the lot next door, or to build super tall buildings.…
Paperback – 2018-11-05
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Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent or inhabit. It doesn’t have to be like this. Bringing…
Paperback – 2018-10-16
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This book explores an emerging design culture that rigorously applies systems thinking to the practice of design as a form of facilitating change on an increasingly crowded planet. Designers conversant in topics such as living systems, cultural competence, social justice, and power asymmetries can…
Paperback – 2019-05-16
Routledge
Following on from the author’s previous book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces, Steps and Margins, this book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Urban Water Features, provides clear instruction for the construction of small to medium scale water…
Paperback – 2019-05-15
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Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five…
Hardback – 2019-05-14
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Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
PocketArchitecture: Technical Design is a FreeBook brought to you by Routledge, containing a collection of curated content from our PocketArchitecture: Technical Design Series (Series Editor: Ryan E Smith, University of Utah, USA).
Routledge is pleased to share with you our author Q&A; session with Dr Davina Jackson for her recently published title Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture.
We are pleased to announce our latest award-winning Built Environment titles. Browse the articles below to find our more information about each book award or click here to download free chapters from our award-winning books
Robin Roy is our latest Routledge Featured Author. Read our interview to discover more about his recent book, Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design: The Evolution and Impacts of Successful Products.
Stuart Walker is our latest Routledge Featured Author. Read our interview to discover more about his recent book, Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World.
Yara Sharif is Routledge Architecture's latest Featured Author. Read our interview to discover more about her new book, Architecture of Resistance: Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict.
Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation
Routledge is proud to present our Architectural Conservation, Historic Preservation, and Heritage Management titles. We publish an extensive list of books by experts all over the world for use by professionals, scholars, students, and historic building owners.
Our latest books, covering a wide range of key areas within Architecture for students, instructors, researchers, and professors.
Architecture Student Reference
We are pleased to present our latest books, covering a wide range of key areas within Architecture. You will find whatever you need to further your own studies, professional interests, and also be able to find essential reference materials.
A complete list of the textbooks published by Routledge in the field of Architecture.
Built Environment Books for Professionals
Our key titles for professionals, across the Built Environment disciplines.
BRE is an independent and impartial, research-based consultancy, testing and training organisation, which offers expertise in every aspect of the built environment and associated industries. Routledge has been IHS BRE Press’ partners since 2010, distributing their publications worldwide to practitioners, researchers, and manufacturers who need to stay informed of developments in an ever-changing industry.
We publish an extensive list of books to help with all of your refurbishment and renovation needs from regulations to conservation and energy efficiency to design and planning.
RIBA Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is one of the leading providers of high quality information for architects, built environment professionals and students around the world. Taylor and Francis are the exclusive distributor outside of the UK and Ireland for all published titles from RIBA Enterprises, RIBA Enterprises remains the exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
Our latest books, covering a wide range of key areas within Sustainable Built Environment for students, instructors, researchers, and professors.
This original series offers clear, quick and accurate introductions to key thinkers who have written about architecture. Each book summarises what a thinker has to offer for architects.
Fran Ford acquires books on architecture for professional and scholarly audiences. She has been commissioning for the Routledge architecture list since 2008 and publishes books in a variety of formats including professional texts, student textbooks, edited collections and scholarly handbooks. Where appropriate, the books on her list are highly designed and beautifully illustrated to appeal to their core markets.
Grace Harrison acquires books on landscape architecture for professionals, students and scholars. Published in a variety of formats and, where appropriate, highly designed and illustrated, these books cover topics such as gardens and designed landscapes, landscape conservation, sustainability, history, theory and urban landscapes. Additionally, she commissions research monographs in the areas of landscape, planning and architecture. Previously working on the architecture list at Routledge, she has been commissioning for landscape and built environment research since 2016.
Krystal LaDuc acquires books on architecture and interiors for students, professionals and scholars. She publishes a wide range of text types including textbooks for undergraduate and graduate courses, design studios and seminars; professional texts for practicing architects and designers; supplemental texts for upper-level courses; scholarly titles for library reference. Krystal has been with Routledge since 2016 previously working on the planning and urban design list.
Fran Ford - Publisher, Architecture
Krystal LaDuc - Editor, Architecture
Grace Harrison - Editor, Landscape and Built Environment Research
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