List of architectural historians
This is a list of architectural historians. The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialize.
Architectural historians born in the 19th century
- Sir Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893), Indian architecture.[1]
- Sir Banister Fletcher (1866–1953), author of the once-standard textbook A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method written with his father, also named Bannister Fletcher (1833–1899) and still in print.
- Juan Giuria (1880–1957), history of South American architecture
Architectural historians born in the 20th century
- James S. Ackerman (born 1920) Italian Renaissance architecture
- Leopoldo C. Artucio (1903–1976), modern architecture in Uruguay
- Reyner Banham (1922–1988), taught by Pevsner and author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960).
- Elizabeth Blasius (born 1982) American Midwestern architecture
- Leonardo Benevolo (born 1923), twentieth-century architecture
- Karen Burns (academic) (born 1962), historian of nineteenth-century architecture and twentieth-century architecture
- Graeme Butler, architectural historian and heritage practitioner
- William J. R. Curtis (born 1948), twentieth-century architecture
- Harriet Edquist twentieth-century architecture
- Kenneth Frampton (born 1930), twentieth-century architecture
- Adam Hardy, South Asian architecture.
- John Harvey (1911–1997), English Gothic architecture and architects.
- Jonathan Hill, Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory at University College London, England.
- Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) Professor of the history and theory of architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- James Semple Kerr (1932–2014), Australian conservation architect and author of The Conservation Plan.
- Miles Ballantyne Lewis (born 1943) Australian academic specialising in building materials.
- Carlos Lemos (born 1925), Brazilian architect and architecture historian.
- César J. Loustau (1926–2011), architecture in Uruguay in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Aurelio Lucchini (died 1989), Uruguayan architecture.
- Michael W. Meister, temple architecture and the morphology of meaning of the Indian sub-continent.
- Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), author of the 46-volume series, The Buildings of England.
- Herbert Ricke (1901–1976), head of the Swiss research institute on Egyptian architecture and archaeology in Cairo, specialist of ancient Egyptian architecture.
- Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980), Bangladeshi historian of art and architecture.
- John Summerson (1904–1992), author of The Classical Language of Architecture and Architecture in Britain: 1530-1830.
- Jennifer Taylor (architect) (1935–2015), Australian, Japanese and South Pacific architecture
- Michael D. Willis (born 1951), early temple architecture of central India.[2]
See also
References
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