Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
0.20 Sainsbury Centre
My work focuses on histories of architecture and urbanism in relation to social and cultural theory. A number of my books, articles and edited volumes have made a substantial contribution to our understanding of London as a global city and as a visual phenomenon. For instance, my trilogy of monographs The Spaces of the Hospital, (Routledge 2013), Rural Urbanism: London landscapes in the early nineteenth century (MUP 2006) and Re-presenting the Metropolis (Ashgate 2000 and pbk 2018) offer theoretically informed, archivally based readings of the city as that enjoy international acclaim. I have also considered London in comparative contexts with other cities, especially Paris, and Tianjin in China. More broadly my work on the architectural dialogues between Britain, Turkey and the Middle East has explored how the built environment in all its complexities is experienced and used in the formulation of national and cultural identities and how these operate in a transcultural context.
The transnational aspects of my collaborative projects have informed my forthcoming book Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past. Here I focus on the interaction between visual images and written histories of architecture. Using a broad evidence base of graphic representations of architecture, and drawing on my experience of cross-cultural dialogues, I argue that these images are in fact a form of writing that have syntactical and linguistic qualities that tell alternative histories of seeing and experiencing space.
International research collaboration/networks and funding
China – all with Tianjin University, funded by Natural Science Foundation of China
Turkey and Middle East
Europe
Previous Positions
2012- 2016 Professor in Architectural History and Theory, School of Art and Design, Middlesex University, London
1999-2012 Professor in Architectural History, Dept. of History, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
1995-1999 Senior Lecturer and Director Centre for Studies in Architecture and the Decorative Arts, Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds, Leeds
Summary of Strategic Research Leadership
2004-9 University of Southampton, Director of Research and Deputy Head of School of Humanities, Member of senior management team (comprising Head of School and 2 Deputy Heads) for 175 academic staff, 100 support staff. Strategic responsibility for 6 units of assessment in Humanities and member of University RAE 2008 Strategy and Management Group responsible for preparation of all 33 UoAs submitted by the University
2012-13 Middlesex University London, Member of University REF 2014 Strategy Committee. 2014-16 Director, Centre for Ideas, a research institute to provide knowledge exchange between the University and end users/beneficiaries
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Dana Arnold (Member)
Activity: Membership › Committee
Dana Arnold (Member)
Activity: Membership › Public/government panel or group