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Architecture of Modern China

A Historical Critique

By Jianfei Zhu

A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the 20th century. The…

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October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45781-1 (Routledge)

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Nordic Architects Write

A Documentary Anthology

Edited by Michael Asgaard Andersen

This anthology gathers together for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the…

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October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46352-2 (Routledge)

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Le Corbusier and Britain

An Anthology

Edited by Irena Murray, Julian Osley

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he designed no permanent buildings in the United…

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September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47994-3 (Routledge)

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Intimate Metropolis

Urban Subjects in the Modern City

Edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri

Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.

Rather than focusing purely…

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September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41507-1 (Routledge)

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Beyond Archigram

The Structure of Circulation

By Hadas A. Steiner

Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between…

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September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39477-2 (Routledge)

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The Evolution of Designs

Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

By Philip Steadman

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially…

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May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44753-9 (Routledge)

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Islam

From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

By Christopher Tadgell

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…

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April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43609-0 (Routledge)

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Art of the Brooklyn Bridge

A Visual History

By Richard Haw

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact…

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February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95386-3 (Routledge)

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Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

Supercrit #1

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43412-6 (Routledge)

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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas

Supercrit #2

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43414-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Stockholm: The Making of a Metropolis
By Thomas Hall
To be published December 2nd 2008

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
By Christopher Heuer
To be published December 9th 2008

The West: The Dark Age to the Reformation
By Christopher Tadgell
To be published April 14th 2009

Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape
Edited by Marc Treib
To be published May 6th 2009

Lanscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard
By David Jacques, Jan Woudstra
To be published July 1st 2009

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