Stefan Muthesius

Stefan Muthesius is a specialist in the 18^th to 20^th century history of architecture, urban design, and applied arts and design. He taught at UEA from 1968 until his retirement and is an Honorary Professor in the School. He studied at the universities Munich, London (Courtauld Institute of Art), and Marburg, where he received his doctorate.

Among his many publications, The English Terraced House (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982) won the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize, for which his most recent book The Poetic Home: Designing the 19^th-century Interior (London: Thames & Hudson, 2009) was also shortlisted. His book Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (New Haven: Yale University Press 1994), written with Miles Glendinning, won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion of the Society of Architectural Historians in 1995. Prof. Muthesius is also the co-author, with Peter Dormer, of Concrete and Open Skies: Architecture at the University of East Anglia 1962-2000 (London: Unicorn Press, 2001), a study of the UEA campus.

Latetst Book: TOWERS FOR THE WELFARE STATE
An Architectural History of British Multi-storey Housing 1945-1970
Stefan Muthesius / Miles Glendinning

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