About
I studied architecture at TU Darmstadt in Germany, and the Polytechnic of Central London, and I am a registered architect in the UK. Before taking a full-time post at Liverpool, I taught part-time at Kingston and Liverpool, and worked in practice in Germany, the UK, France and Greece.
My research interests are the representation of architecture, mainly in print media; architectural competitions; and rationalism in C20 architecture. My PhD thesis, for which initial research was funded by the AHRC, was on the German competition journal Wettbewerbe Aktuell.
I have instigated and co-edited two volumes on C20 rationalism (Rationalist Traces, with Andrew Peckham and Charles Rattray, 2007; The Rationalist Reader, with Andrew Peckham, 2014), two volumes on the relationship between fame and architecture (Fame and Architecture, with Julia Chance, 2001; An Architect's Guide to Fame, with Paul Davies, 2005), one volume on the relationship between architecture journals and modernism (Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal - Reporting, editing and reconstructing in postwar Europe, with Andrew Peckham, 2018), as well as the book Building Children's Worlds - The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks (with Jill Rudd and Emma Hayward, 2023). Having won a Research Trust Award (RIBA), I curated the exhibition Building Children's Worlds at the RIBA in Liverpool (2019).
During my time at Liverpool so far I have, among other tasks, run 2nd, 4th and 5th year, and have been Director of Studies of the MArch (than BArch), Director of Studies of the BA, and most recently Deputy Head of Architecture (2016-2021).