Education and Degrees awarded

    Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, BA , MA.

    Columbia University, New York, MA.

    The Warburg Institute, University of London, MPhil, PhD.

    Merton College, University of Oxford , MA.

Appointments

 Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 1990-3

       History and Theory Tutor for the Diploma Class

University of Oxford , 1991-4

        Fellow of Merton College and Member of the Faculty of Modern History

The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, 1995-8

         Director, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, and Director, The Prince of Wales’s Summer School in Architecture and the Building Arts (U.S.A.)

University of Miami School of Architecture, 1999-

         Assistant Professor

Books and Articles

            “L’architecture néo-classique en Europe: essai de bibliographie depuis 1980”, Revue de l'Art, 83, 1989.

            “The Meaning of the Classical Orders”, Apollo, February 1990.

            Review of T.J. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neo-Classicism, in Architectural Association Files, 22, 1991.

            Review of Demetri Porphyrios, Classical Architecture, in Building Design, March 1992.

            Review of James Ackerman, Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, in Architectural Association Files, 23, 1992.

            The Vitruvian Path, Oxford 1994, joint author with Monique Kornell.

            Articles on the following architects, theorists, patrons, buildings and styles: Giacomo Torelli, Giuseppe Valadier, Victor Louis, Barreau de Chefdeville, A.-F. Frèzier, L.-D. Le Camus, J.-J.-B. Joly, A. Choisy, G. Monge, R. Rochette, Louis de Carmontelle, Sir Thomas More, C.-H. Nointel, M. de Scudery, Jean Seznec, Triumphal Arch, Villa Albani, Gout Grec, and Rococo in the Macmillan Dictionary of Art, London 1995.

            Julian Bicknell and Associates: Buildings and Projects 1972-95, London 1996, joint editor.

            Creations and Recreations: Alec Cobbe, Thirty Years of Designs and Paintings, London  1996, editor.

            Reviews of various books and exhibitions in Perspectives on Architecture, 1995-7.

           “The Current Situation of Residential Building in Britain” in La Residenza in Europa alle Soglie del Terzo Millennio, Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Naples 1997.

  “The World Athletes Monument, Atlanta”, The Classicist, 4, 1997.

            “Alec Cobbe” in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Leipzig 1998.

           Thomas Gordon Smith and the Rebirth of Classical Architecture, London 2001.

          John Simpson: The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace and Other Buildings, London 2002, joint author with David Watkin.

            “George Basevi”, "Thomas Cundy" and "Lewis Cubitt"  in The Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 2004.

Robert Adam and the Search for a Modern Classical Architecture (forthcoming 2008)

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