About
Luca Csepely-Knorr is Chair in Architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture. She is a chartered landscape architect (Chamber of Hungarian Architects) and art and architectural historian educated in Hungary (Corvinus University of Budapest and Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest) and in the UK (Manchester Metropolitan University). Luca worked as a landscape architect for the Municipality of Budapest before starting her academic career. She has been since involved in architectural and landscape architectural education and research both in the UK and in Hungary.
Before joining the Liverpool School of Architecture, she worked as Reader in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture, where she led design studios for both under- and postgraduate architecture and landscape architecture students, lectured in various history and theory units, and guided postgraduate research projects. She was co-director of the Architecture Research Hub and directed the post-graduate research courses.
Luca leads the Landscape || Gender || Environment Research Collective and is co-convener of the European Architectural History Network’s Women and Gender in Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design Interest Group with Professor Svava Riesto.