ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into three parts – Practices, Interrogations, and Innovations – this book charts diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars and fresh theoretical orientations.

The collection features 29 chapters written by leading architectural scholars and highlights the reciprocity between the historical and the contemporary, research and practice, and disciplinary and professional knowledge. Providing an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture, the Companion will interest students, academics, and practitioners who wish to bolster their understanding of built environments.

chapter 1|80 pages

Architecture in the Age of Playfulness

Mapping a Framework for Global Historiography

part I|144 pages

Practices

chapter 2|14 pages

What Is Modern Architecture?

chapter 3|11 pages

Architecture and Image

chapter 4|16 pages

Cold War Modernism

chapter 6|10 pages

Postmodern Utopianism

chapter 7|13 pages

Metabolism and Beyond

chapter 9|14 pages

Architectural Production in Dubai

chapter 10|17 pages

The Afterlives of Modern Housing

chapter 11|13 pages

Social-Interest Architecture in Brazil

The Seed of Something New

part II|135 pages

Interrogations

chapter 14|17 pages

Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture

chapter 16|12 pages

Architecture and Phenomenology

chapter 17|15 pages

Critical Regionalism

From Critical Theory to Postcolonial and Local Awareness

chapter 18|15 pages

Vernacular Architecture

chapter 19|11 pages

Heritage Conservation

The Rise and Fall of a “Grand Narrative”

chapter 20|12 pages

Power, Empire, and Nation

chapter 21|9 pages

Architecture and Globalization

part III|115 pages

Innovations

chapter 23|15 pages

Electric City Land

Architecture and Media

chapter 24|16 pages

Divergent Matter

The Problematic Search for Material Suitability in Architecture

chapter 26|20 pages

The Programmable Architect

chapter 28|17 pages

Design for Ageing Buildings

An Applied Research of Poikilohydric Living Walls

chapter 29|7 pages

Nature, Infrastructure, and Cities