Architectural History Starter Pack
Please alert me to more people working on and posting about architectural historical research.
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@barnabascalder.bsky.social
@florianurban.bsky.social
Professor at the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK Head of History of Architecture and Urban Studies (HAUS) florianurban.com
@clemensfinkelstein.bsky.social
Historian of the Built Environment + Theorist in the Planetary Humanities | Ph.D. (Princeton) | M.Des. (Harvard) | Research Associate @ Panel on Planetary Thinking | writing: “Architectures of Vibration” • “Our Planetary Condition” clemensfinkelstein.com
@entschwindet.bsky.social
I spend my days in an architecture school I've written some books Chatting about music, culture, politics etc etc
@murphyniallgla.bsky.social
If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
@thevicsoc.bsky.social
The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us! linktr.ee/victoriansociety Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
@robyneerica.bsky.social
Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her https://robynecalvert.com/
@niamhroisin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of Limerick. Researching religious architecture, histories of public space. Interested in books, new music, design. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
@ashleygardini.bsky.social
Architectural historian teaching at community colleges. Adjunct. Union member. Doing SAH stuff and writing for JSTOR Daily.
@karenaverby.bsky.social
karenaverby.co.uk Buildings Historian/Consultant Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk FRHistS ACIfA Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist Rep Past Preservers Brum/London
@docomomoscot.bsky.social
Scottish chapter of the international committee for documentation & conservation of modern movement buildings/sites/neighbourhoods. Contact us at mail@docomomoscotland.org.uk.
@benjy-flowers.bsky.social
Professor of Architecture, Knowlton School, The Ohio State University. Executive Board Member, International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS). Stadiums, skyscrapers, small dogs. Arsenal supporter/sufferer. Opinions mine.
@slaydok.bsky.social
Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Postdoc @ the University of Rochester. Job market 2024-2025. Assistant editor w/ 4S Backchannels. For more: https://www.richardfadok.com
@fosterlaura.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Art History at John Cabot University, Rome. Early modern institutional architecture and urbanism. Also gender studies, 18th c. stuff. Also politics and cats. Opinions here are my own.
@pantonio.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at MIT Architecture, researching spatial practices of US government entities; New Deal, Art Deco, Water, and Sewage | he / him https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/03/art-deco-ourselves
@ninabake2.bsky.social
Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction. Writing book on women's motoring clubs worldwide. Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE. No profile? I won't follow you https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
@pzamarian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Humanities @LivUniArch Author: 'The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years' (Lund Humphries 2020)
@archhistdarling.bsky.social
Architectural historian, curator, author specialising in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, esp 20s/30s; expert on women & architecture 1890s to the present. Currently freelance. Also Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of GB
@kuukuwa.bsky.social
Architect • Asst Prof • History, Theory, & Politics of Architecture in Africa Am I writing this book or is it writing me? kuukuwa.com
@constructionhist.bsky.social
Construction history worldwide. Materials, technologies, systems and people relating to construction in the past. Journal, members' magazine, conferences etc To get a follow-back tell us your construction interests. https://www.constructionhistory.co.uk
@charlesjholland.bsky.social
Architect Professor at UCA, Canterbury Principal at Charles Holland Architects
@willjennings.bsky.social
Writer, artist, editor, curator Editor: recessed.space Director: Hypha Studios Teaching: UCL Bartlett & University of Greenwich Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when as a freelancer I am my employer
@aluckmann.bsky.social
PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him With jazz and conversation From the foot of Mount Belzoni
@lcszacka.bsky.social
Founder @pasza_architecture 📐 Senior Lecturer Arch. Studies @officialuom 🇬🇧 Director of @marg_manchester Vice president EAHN 🇪🇺 📍Paris 🇫🇷🐈
@antiprofessor.bsky.social
Crabby, dopey, fussy, grumpy, lazy, messy, nosy, pesky, queasy, rusty, sneezy, teasy, wheezy
@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social
Researcher of ancient buildings and finder of new solutions for them. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages. PhD, etc. Talking head in various media. Lecturer at the University of Bath. Gardens. Life.
@seasideferry.bsky.social
Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly. Founder member @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social Rep'd by @pastpreservers.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry
@blaservations.bsky.social
Architectural historian, writer and critic. Co-founder @presfutures. Old, new and future can coexist. She/her
@c20society.bsky.social
The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Report buildings at risk to caseworker@c20society.org.uk www.c20society.org.uk
@nikolaibrandes.bsky.social
Architectural historian @globaldiscnct.bsky.social. Formerly postdoc at the National Museum of Denmark. Schools of architecture in Africa, PALOP countries, East German architects abroad.
@rayverrall.bsky.social
Architect. Educator. PhD researcher at Newcastle University. Artist into maps, landscape, and surrealism. Cardiffian. Dad. Autistic. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/students/pgr-students/ray-verrall/
@helenbarrett.bsky.social
Features journalist - Financial Times, NYTimes, Telegraph Arts, Guardian, The Critic and others. Arts and culture, mainly. https://www.helenbarrettjournalist.com/ https://open.substack.com/pub/helenbarrett
@katewagner.bsky.social
architecture critic @thenation.com, creator of https://late-review.com, derailleur.net, mcmansionhell.com. Nicht bringst du Unheil dahin, wo Unheil im Hause wohnt. she/her
@danieljstilwell.bsky.social
Historian of Comfort & Arts & Crafts Revivalist @CharlesHollArch ...thinking about home, comfort & domestic life 🏡 📚🥑 https://www.bartlettarchhistory.com/daniel-stilwell
@paullincoln.bsky.social
Printmaker | City of London and Open City Guide | www.walkingcity.london
@adamsharr.bsky.social
Architect | Professor at Newcastle University | practice with Design Office | Editor at arq journal | Series Editor of Thinkers for Architects | thinking about architecture, risk, populism, replicas, and lots else
@archhistory.bsky.social
Architectural historian. Passionate pedestrian & former cyclist, so road safety! City & provincial politics. Lifelong renter in Toronto.
@victoriayoung.bsky.social
@jongoodbun.bsky.social
researcher, writer, educator and maker working at the intersection of architecture, technology, art and ecological pedagogy @ MA Environmental Architecture Royal College Art London and Rheomode Athens. www.rheomode.org
@lucaknorr.bsky.social
Landscape architect, art historian, Professor at Liverpool School of Architecture interested in history, gender and climate futures. Mum of two great kids and a vizsla. PI Women of the Welfare Landscape https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/womenofthewelfarelandscape
@geraintfranklin.bsky.social
Architectural historian with Historic England (opinions own). British architecture after 1945. Post-Modern Buildings in Britain, HKPA, John Outram. Forthcoming: High-Tech Britain. Co-peep of barky terrier
@harrietrichardsonb.bsky.social
Architectural historian, formerly at the Survey of London, long standing interest in hospital buildings. University of Edinburgh PhD ‘Medicine and Modernity’. Living in Scotland. Website: https://historic-hospitals.com/
@kimfoerster.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester/MARG; author of „Building Institution“ (2024), „Undisciplined Knowing“ (2023), and editor of „Environmental Histories of Architecture (2022); research interest in institutional and environmental history
@brunotonelli.bsky.social
Architecture is the name we give to all the physical and mental feelings we have in a built place. Architecture is also a conscious joining of elements aimed at a meaningful whole. I do this at Studioartec and Discourse Architecture.
@pastandotherplaces.bsky.social
Kay W. Researching in retirement. Occasional blogger at The Past and other Places. Original discipline historical geography. Takes too many photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Edinburgh 🏴 https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
@tomnewby.co.uk
Structural engineer. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice. Currently working on the unusual combination of social housing and stadiums in the UK.
@thejoa.bsky.social
The RIBA's peer-reviewed architecture journal. Published by Taylor & Francis | www.thejournalofarchitecture.com & www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjar20 | EiC @deljana.bsky.social
@matthewwhitfield.bsky.social
buildings, politics, miscellaneous Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.
@stephenparnell.bsky.social
Once an architect, now an architecture teacher, writer, editor, academic. Researching architecture media and postwar architecture. Brutalism. Passivhaus. AI. Northerner: border collie & brass band lover. Trombone learner. Here to learn not argue.
@urbanhistory.bsky.social
Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope. 🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
@hughpearman.bsky.social
Writer and editor on architecture. Chair of Twentieth Century Society. Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" published by Yale.
@susanklaiber.bsky.social
Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
@mrtimdunn.bsky.social
Historian, geographer, part of #Railway200 team, presenter @UKTV’s #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt & #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground, Trainspotter, 🏳️🌈, and always an enthusiast. Own views, obv.
@langealexandra.bsky.social
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
@laurafg.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress #architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa Own views 🌈 she/her
@salawatson.bsky.social
History, cities, cycling, planning and play. Often on a bike or in a museum. Researcher - Newcastle University Co-host - activetravelcafe.org.uk Trustee - historictownstrust.uk
@danielbarber.bsky.social
Chair of Architecture History and Theory TU Eindhoven. I study the relationship between architecture, history, and decarbonisation.
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
@grindrod.bsky.social
Social historian of modern places. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Next book on suburban LGBTQ history. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. New podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
@municipaldreams.bsky.social
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
@alistairfair.bsky.social
Reader in Architectural History, University of Edinburgh. C20th architecture in Britain. New towns. Book 'Building Modern Scotland' now available! Own views.
@barnabascalder.bsky.social
Historian of #architecture and #energy, at University of Liverpool School of Architecture. Author of Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican, 2021), and Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (William Heinemann, 2016).