Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

As far as we know, it was Leon Battista Alberti who first set down in writing the reciprocal analogy between house and city. Writing in the mid-15th century—at a time when cities were believed to grow according to principles of natural law—he proposed the phrase now...

In the decades following the Second World War, coal developed from an extracted energy source to a multi- dimensional modernist project. Across Europe, as nations rebuilt after the conflict, coal mining became the epicentre of technological optimism, democratic...

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi will be holding a major international conference from 8th–10th September 2026:...

The International Conference on Architecture & Interior Design (ICAD) is a biennial conference series, started in 2018, and hosted by Tishk International University in Erbil, Iraq. This year, the 5th edition of ICAD is jointly organized by Tishk International...

Does architecture create landscape? Is architecture a vector of landscape transformation? The relationship between architecture and landscape is both recent and as old as architecture itself. On the one hand, strictly speaking, since landscape is a modern reality, any...