Professor Emeritus
James Stevens Curl

Architectural Historian

Professor Emeritus James Stevens Curl has held Chairs in Architectural History at two Universities. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Art, Design, and the Built Environment, University of Ulster, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The Queen's University of Belfast. He read for his Doctorate at University College London, and in 1991-2 and 2002 was Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Georgian Architecture in the British Isles 1714 - 1830
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	Freemasonry & the Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols, & Influences

 

He has established an international reputation for scholarship, lucidity of style, and thorough investigations in little-known fields of research.

His many books include:

• Freemasonry & the Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols, & Influences
• Georgian Architecture in the British Isles 1714-1830
• Spas, Wells, & Pleasure-Gardens of London
• Victorian Architecture: Diversity & Invention
• The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
• The Egyptian Revival
• Classical Architecture
• The Victorian Celebration of Death
• The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry (winner of the coveted Sir Banister Fletcher Award as Best Book of the Year, 1992).

He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London, a Fellow of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and a Liveryman of the City of London.

• Architect, Historic Buildings Expert, Architectural Historian, Author, Lecturer
• PhD (Lond), DiplArch (Oxon), DipTP (Oxon), MRIA, FSA, FSAScot, FRIAS, AABC, MRIAI, RIBA
• Formerly Professor of Architectural History (now Professor Emeritus) at The Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University. Later Professor of Architectural History at The Queen’s University of Belfast. Now Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The Queen’s University of Belfast, and Visiting Professor, University of Ulster
• Visiting Fellow, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, 1991- 2 and 2002
• Member, Art Workers’ Guild, Oxford & Cambridge Club
• Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects of the City of London (Freeman 14.2.78; Livery 16.7.90)
• President, Friends of Southampton Old Cemetery (FoSOC) from 2006
• Joint Patron of The Mausolea & Monuments Trust in succession to the late Sir Howard Colvin 2008
• Former Chairman, Oxford Civic Society

Although now retired from full-time academic life at any university, Professor James Stevens Curl still gives tutorials to post graduates, acts as examiner at MPhil/PhD level, gives public lectures and conference-papers each year, and is a prolific author, not only of books, but of papers, articles, review articles, and much else. He also acts as consultant on historic buildings matters, prepares appeals and opinions, and acts for clients in respect of buildings of architectural or historic interest.