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Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape

London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2026

Aviationland is the first critical study to examine how a major international airport takes shape on the ground, and what that means for the landscape around it. Focused on Heathrow airport, it traces how the area has been formed and reformed by overlapping systems of architecture, infrastructure and enclosure, from the common land of Hounslow Heath in the eighteenth century to the global transport hub of the present day.

Authored and Co-Authored Books

Authored/Co-Authored Books
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Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester

London: Paul Mellon Centre, 2022

The Art History of Architectural History – A Historiography

The Art History of Architectural History – A Historiography

(Co-authored with Richard J. Williams). London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

The Architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson

The Architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson

London: English Heritage/Twentieth Century Society, 2018.

Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence

Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. (Winner of the Historians of British Art Prize, 2014)

Rebuilding Babel: Internationalism and Modern Architecture

Rebuilding Babel: Internationalism and Modern Architecture

London: I B Tauris, 2017.

Modern Architecture and the End of Empire

Modern Architecture and the End of Empire

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. (Winner of the Spiro Kostof Prize, 2006)

Empire Building: Victorian Architecture and Orientalism

Empire Building: Victorian Architecture and Orientalism

London: Routledge, 1996.

Architecture – Art or Profession? 300 Years of Architectural Education

Architecture – Art or Profession? 300 Years of Architectural Education

(Co-authored with Jules Lubbock). Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.

Edited and Co-edited Books

Edited/Co-Edited Books
Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition

Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture
and the Marxist Tradition

(Co-edited with Luisa Lorenza Corna). Basel and Berlin: Birkhauser, 2025.

Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture

Building/Object: Shared and Contested

Territories of Design and Architecture.

(Co-edited with Charlotte Ashby). London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

‘Dynamic Vernacular’, ABE (European Architecture Beyond Europe) Journal

‘Dynamic Vernacular’, ABE (European Architecture Beyond Europe) Journal

Guest editor for themed issue on ‘Dynamic Vernacular', December 2016.

Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern. Studies in British Art 21

Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern. Studies in British Art 21

(Co-edited with Claire Zimmerman). New Haven: Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press, 2010.

James Stirling - Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture

James Stirling - Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture

London: Routledge, 2009.

Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City

Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City

London: Routledge, 2005.

Fabrications - New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester

Fabrications - New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester

(Co-edited with Helen Hills and Natlie Rudd). Manchester: UMiM, 2002.

Sonia Boyce: Performance

Sonia Boyce: Performance

London: Iniva, 1998.

Chapters in Books

Chapters in Books

‘The Frontiers of Architecture: Eduardo Paolozzi, Man with a Camera’, in Albert Brenchat Aguilar (ed.), As Hardly Found – Art and Tropical Architecture, London: AA, 2025, 37-40. ‘Anthropozemic Airport, or, Learning to Like Infrastructure’, in Nathalie Bredella, Dietrich Erben and Grayson Bailey (eds.), Desire and Denial: On Constructing and Contesting Infrastructures, Berlin: Distanz, 2025, 16-35. (Co-authored with Luisa Lorenza Corna). ‘Introduction’, in Crinson, Mark and Luisa Lorenza Corna (eds.), Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition, Basel and Berlin: Birkhauser, 2025, 7-28. In conversation with Nick Thorburn, ‘Brutalism as Class Architecture: The Case of Robin Hood Gardens’, in Crinson, Mark and Luisa Lorenza Corna (eds.), Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition, Basel and Berlin: Birkhauser, 2025, 111-128. ‘Architecture’s World History’, in Crinson, Mark and Luisa Lorenza Corna (eds.), Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition, Basel and Berlin: Birkhauser, 2025, 154-173. ‘How to Live in Britain: the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square’, in G. A. Bremner and Daniel Maudlin (eds.), Inner Empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, 305-331. ‘What is Modern Architecture?’, in Dunfang Lu (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History, New York and London: Routledge, 2024, 86-99. ‘Dem Rauch folgen. Architektur, Totalität and fossiler Kapitalismus’, in Moritz Gleich and Christa Kamleithner (eds.), Medium unter Medien, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2024, 125-150. ‘“Compartmentalized World”: Race, Architecture, and Colonial Crisis in Kenya and London’, in Race and Modern Architecture, ed. Cheng, Davis, Wilson. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. ‘Reports of Modern Building Reach Us: Modernism and the Serried Array’. In Modernism for the Future, ed. Vaidas Petrulis. Kaunas: European Year of Cultural Heritage, 2019. ‘A Fluvial Regionality?’. In Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture, eds. Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen. Singapore: NUS Press, 2019, 297-304. ‘Imperial Modernism’. In Architecture in the British Empire, ed. Alex Bremner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ‘Melnikov in Leicester - A Mythology.’ In Leuchtturmprojekte in der Architektur und Stirling Lectures, ed. Wustenrot Stiftung, 68-83. Stuttgart: Kraemerverlag, 2014. ‘The Building Without a Shadow.’ In Nationalism and Architecture, ed. Raymond Quek and Darren Deane, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. ‘Modernism Across Hemispheres, or, Taking Internationalism Seriously.’ In Non-West Modernist Past, ed. William Lim and Jiat-Hwee Chang, 47-58. Singapore: World Scientific, 2011. ‘"A House Which Grows": Stirling and Gowan, the Smithsons, and Consumer Society’. In Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern, ed. Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman, 177-199. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press, 2010. ‘From the Rainforest to the Streets.’ In Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past Rebellions for the Future, ed. T. Avermaete, S. Karakayali, and M. von Osten, 98-111. London: Black Dog, 2010. (Co-authored with Claire Zimmerman). ‘Introduction - Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern in Britain and Beyond.’ In Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern, ed. Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman, 7-25. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press, 2010. ‘ “L'Architecte Anglais” - Stirling and Le Corbusier.’ In James Stirling - Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture, ed. Mark Crinson,108-139. London: Routledge, 2009. ‘The Formation of a (Post) Modernist.’ In James Stirling - Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture, ed. Mark Crinson, 1-16. London: Routledge, 2009. ‘Manchester and the “Hypocritical Plan”: Architecture, Shopping, and Identity in the Industrial City’. In Thinking Northern: The Formation of Identity in Northern England, ed. C. Ehland, 193-216.rodopi, 2007. ‘The Invention of Colonial Regionalism, and its “Critical” and “Profound” Aftermath.’ In The Scaffolding of Empire, ed. Peter Scriver, 83-100. Adelaide: CAMEA, 2007. ‘"Fragments of Collapsing Space": Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art.’ In A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, ed. Amelia Jones, 450-469. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. (Co-authored with Paul Tyrer). ‘Clocking off in Ancoats: Time and remembrance in the post-industrial city.’ In Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City, ed. Mark Crinson, 49-71. London: Routledge, 2005. ‘Mnemotechny of the Industrial City: Contemporary art and urban memory.’ In Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City, ed. Mark Crinson, 195-213. London: Routledge, 2005. (Co-authored with Paul Tyrer). ‘Totemic Park: Symbolic representation in post-industrial space.’ In Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City, ed. Mark Crinson, 99-117. London: Routledge, 2005. ‘Urban Memory - An Introduction.’ In Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City, ed. Mark Crinson, xi-xxiii. London: Routledge, 2005. ‘Architecture and “National Projection” Between the Wars.’ In Cultural Identities and the Aesthetics of Britishness, ed. Dana Arnold, 182-199. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. ‘The Mosque and the Metropolis.’ In Orientalism's Interlocutors, ed. Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts, 79-102. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ‘Towards the Beautiful City.’ In Fabrications - New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester, ed. Crinson, Hills, Rudd, 18-23. Manchester: UMiM, 2002. ‘Telling Lyrics.’ In Sonia Boyce: Annotations, ed. Mark Crinson, 24-27. London: Iniva, 1998. ‘Education for change, 1938-1960: Towards the “official system”.’ In The Education of the Architect, ed. Neil Bingham, 47-51. London: Society of Architectural Historians of GB, 1993. ‘Pite and the mission aesthetic.’ In The Golden City: Essays on the Architecture and Imagination of Beresford Pite, ed. Brian Hanson, 85-94. London: Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, 1993. ‘Bourgeois homes in a liberal setting.’ In Friedrich Weinbrenner - Architect of Karlsruhe, ed. David Brownlee, 17-22. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Catalogue entries on Weinbrenner’s domestic architecture. In Friedrich Weinbrenner - Architect of Karlsruhe, ed. David Brownlee, 77-89. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Journal Articles, Selected Reviews etc.

Journal Articles Etc.

‘ “Protean Mechanism”: Robert Willis and the Technics of Architectural History’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 83:2, June 2024: 148-168. Review of Transparency: The Material History of an Idea by Daniel Jütte. Journal of Modern History, 96:2, June 2024. ‘ “My Village”: organizing the world and structuring the colonial architectural archive’, Journal of Architecture, 28:3, May 2023: 434-459. Review of Building Greater Britain, Architectural History, by G. A. Bremner. Architectural History, 66, 2023: 357-9. Review of Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City by Martin Hewitt. Victorian Studies, 64:2, Winter 2022: 310-312. ‘Neo-Brutalism’. London Art History Society Review, 2021: 6-8. ‘Dublin 1897: The Art of (Architectural) Street Fighting’, Perspecta, 52, 2019: 48-59. ‘Eye Wandering the Ceiling’. Art History, 41:2, 2018: 318-43. ‘To Obsolesce’ (review of Daniel M. Abramson, Obsolescence: An Architectural History). Art History, 40:5, November 2017: 1130-1133. ‘Paul Strand’s Ghana: Photography and Portraiture After Colonialism’, Art Bulletin, 98:4, December 2016: 510-25. ‘The Powers that be: “Visible Politics” and “Spatialised Power”’, ABE (European Architecture Beyond Europe) Journal, June 2014. Online. ‘"Certain Old and Lovely Things, Whose Signified is Abstract, Out of Date": James Stirling and Nostalgia.’ Change Over Time 3, no. 1(2013): 116-135. ‘The Medium is the Métissage.’ History Workshop Journal 76, no. 1(2013): 319-327. ‘Glass Architecture - A Riotous Mythology.’ Mute (2012): 1-9. ‘Austerity and Architectural Derangement.’ AA Files 63(2011): 90-96. ‘Stirling in Wonderland.’ AA Files 62(2011): 71-77. ‘Monstrous Plans and Good Habitats.’ Mute (2008): online. ‘Singapore's moment: critical regionalism, its colonial roots and profound aftermath.’ Journal of Architecture 13:5, 2008: 585-606. Review of Corporate Wasteland by Stephen High and David W. Lewis. The Public Historian, 30:4, November 2008: 150-152. ‘In the Bowels of the Fun Palace.’ Mute (2007): internet journal. ‘Picturesque and Intransigent: “Creative Tension” and Collaboration in the Early House Projects of Stirling and Gowan.’ Architectural History, 50 (2007): 267-295. ‘Georgianism and the Tenements, Dublin 1908-1928.’ Art History 29:4 (2006): 624-659. ‘Pictorialism and Industry: Alvin Langdon Coburn in Manchester.’ History of Photography 30:2 (2006): 155-172. ‘The Uses of Nostalgia: Stirling and Gowan's Preston Housing.’ Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65:2 (2006): 216-237. ‘Explaining Urbanism to Wild Animals.’ Mute 29 (2005): 62-66. ‘The Incidental Collection - Stuart Brisley's Peterlee Project.’ Mute 28 (2004): 132-133. ‘Photography and the Industrial City: Manchester and Salford, Ancient and Modern.’ Word and Image 18(4) (2002): 295-314. ‘Urbisville.’ Mute 25(2002): 20-25. ‘Nation-building, collecting and the politics of display: The National Museum, Ghana.’ Journal of the History of Collecting 13:2 (2001): 231-250. Review of Patricia A. Morton, Hybrid Modernities. Journal of Design History, 14:2, (2001): 153-156. ‘Imperial Story-lands: Architecture and display at the Imperial and Commonwealth Institutes.’ Art History 22:1(1999): 99-123. ‘Abadan: Architecture and Planning Under the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’ Planning Perspectives 12:3 (1997): 341-360. ‘Leading into Captivity: James Wild and his work in Egypt.’ Georgian Group Journal (1995): 51-64.

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