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