James Stevens Curl

Professor James Stevens Curl, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, is the author of numerous works on architecture, including English Victorian Churches: Architecture, Faith, & Revival (London: John Hudson Publishing, 2022), and Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 2019).

Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects

Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture

A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected

Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history

Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant

A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated

A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring

A new book on an inventive, unjustly underrated, provincial architect is handsome but flawed

A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected

Oxford is full of architectural riches