Annual Lectures

2025

Tanvir Hasan, Tim Foxall, Níall McLaughin, Ingrid Schroder, Amin Taha, A Conversation About the Shape of Buildings to Come

2024

Paul Binski, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

2023

Tim Benton, Badovici’s Eclectic Modern: The Vézelay Houses

2022

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2021

Christine Stevenson, Telling Stories of the Great Fire of London

2020

Lynne Walker, Gender, Mythology and Architectural History: Narrating a Journey

2019

Elain Harwood, Why New Towns?

2018

Maurice Howard, The Recycling of Buildings and Materials in Post-Reformation Europe

2017

Neil Jackson, Nihon to Seiyō – Japan and the West

2016

Konrad Ottenheym, The Classicist Triangle: Vicenzo Scamozzi, Inigo Jones and Jacob van Campen and the exchange of architectural thinking in the early 17th century.

2015

Deborah Howard, The Old, the Antique and the Venerable in Venetian Architecure

2014

Alice T Friedman, American Glamour: Making the Mid-century Modern Interior.

2013

Warwick Rodwell, Researching Architectural History through Archaeology: The Case of Westminster Abbey

2012

Bridget Cherry, Perceptions of London: Public Events Through Three Centuries

2011

John Goodall, The Gatehouse

2010

Eric Fernie, Romanesque Great Churches in France & Germany and the Discipline of Architectural History

2009

Vaughan Hart, Temperance, Luxury and the use of the Orders in the Work of Inigo Jones

2008

Frank Kelsall, ‘Not as ugly as Stonehenge’: Architecture & History in the First Lists of Historic Buildings

2007

Elisabeth Kievan, An Italian Architect in London: The Case of Alessandro Galilei (1691-1737)

2006

Barry Bergdoll, Of Crystals, Cells and Strata: Natural History and Debates on the Form of a New Architecture in the Nineteenth Century

2005

Gavin Stamp, Neo-Tudor and its enemies

2004

Peter Draper, Islam & the West: the early use of the pointed arch revisited

2003

Jean-Louis Cohen, Architectural History and the Colonial Question: Casablanca, Algiers and beyond

2002

Joseph Connors, Piranesi and the Case of the Missing Corso

2001

Robert Hillenbrand, The history and current state of Islamic architectural studies

2000

Margaret Richardson

1999

Ian Boyd Whyte, Schinkel’s Charlottenhof and the Pump House and Paradise

1998

Peter Burman, Philip Webb: ‘a stern thinker and a most able constructor’

1997

William Craft Brumfield, Late Medieval Architecture in the Russian North: Vologda & Arkhangelsk Provinces

1996

Alistair Rowan, The Irishness of Irish Architecture

1995

Robert Maguire, Continuity & Modernity in the Holy Place

1994

Adrian Forty, Being or Nothingness? Private Experience & Public Architecture in Post-War Britain

1993

Roger Stalley, ‘More funny bumps in the nave’: consistency & choice in medieval building

1992

John Newman, Inigo Jones, Two Bishops & the Design of Caroline Houses

1991

Peter Kidson, The recent history of medieval architectural history

1990

John Onions, Architecture, Metaphor & the Mind

1989

Edward McParland, Edward Lovett Pearce

1988

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1987

Joseph Rykwert

1986

Kerry Downes, Sir John Vanbrugh: the pen, the sword & the square

1985

Andrew Saint, Ashbee, Lethaby, Geddes, Crosby Hall & the purposes of architectural history

1984

Arnold Taylor, [on the building of the castle & town walls of Conway]

1983

Prof J Mordaunt Crook, The Picturesque and the Dilemma of Style

1982

John Harris, Wilton House: A reassessment

1981

Derek Linstrum, Antiquity Restored: Napoleon’s Rome, Guiseppe Valadier and the Arch of Titus

1980

Alistair Rowan, Patrick Hume: The Place of Personality in Architectural History

1979

Howard Colvin, Pompous Entries and English Architecture

1978

Sir John Summerson, John Nash Reconsidered

1977

Howard Hibbard, The Beginning of Baroque Architecture in Rome

1976

Sir Leslie Martin, The Modern Movement: Some Ideas in Retrospect

1975

Sir Anthony Blunt, Francesco Borromini

1974

John H. Harvey, Architectural History: Retrospect and Prospect

1973

Peter Murray, Renaissance Milan: Bramante and Battagio

1972

John Brandon-Jones, C. F. Voysey: Pugin’s Last Disciple

1971

Rudolf Wittkower, The English editions of Palladio’s I Quattro Libri

1970

James S Ackermann, The Making of Venice