Popular Music Architecture
2019
Robert Kronenburg (sole author). This Must Be The Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Space, Bloomsbury, New York. 95,000 words, 130 illustrations. Publication March 2019. ISBN 9781501319280.
2018
Robert Kronenburg and Sara Cohen (co-authors). Liverpool’s Musical Landscapes, Historic England, Swindon, 247pp. ISBN 978-1-84802-284-3.
2015
‘From Shed to Venue: The Arena Concert Event Space’ in Ben Halligan, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, Robert Edgar, Nicola Spielman, The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 73-84. ISBN 9781628925579.
2014
‘Safe and Sound: Audience Experience in New Venues for Popular Music Performance’ In: Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience. SEMPRE Studies in the Pyschology of Music . Ashgate/Sempre, Farnham, Surrey, pp. 35-50. ISBN 978-1-4094-6981-0
Robert Kronenburg (sole author) Live Architecture: Popular Music Venues, Stages and Arenas, Routledge, Oxford, 200pp. ISBN 978-0-415-56192-1.
2011
‘Typological Trends in Contemporary Popular Music Performance Venues’, in Arts Marketing: An International Journal, Special Issue: The Business of Live Music, guest editor Professor Simon Frith, Vol 1, Issue 2, pp.136-144.
2010
‘Live Architecture: The Design of Buildings for Live Music Performance’ in Architectural Research Quarterly, 14:4. 2011, pp.304-316.
2008
Robert Kronenburg (sole author) Portable Architecture: Design and Technology, Birkhauser, Germany, 160pp. ISBN 978-3-7643-8324-4. Published simultaneously in separate English and German language editions.
2007
Robert Kronenburg (sole author) Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change, Laurence King, London, 237pp. ISBN 978-1-85669-461-2. Published simultaneously in separate English, French and Spanish language editions.
2003
Robert Kronenburg (sole author) Portable Architecture,
(3rd expanded edition, 2nd edition 2000, 192pp, 1st edition 1996, 140pp), Architectural Press, Oxford. 274pp. ISBN 0-7506-5653-0.
2002
Robert Kronenburg (sole author) Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building, (2nd expanded edition, 1st edition 1995, 144pp), John Wiley, London. c.168pp. ISBN 0-470-84331-4