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).

A fine book explores her life and afterlife

The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque

There is still some unspoiled Surrey country to be enjoyed

The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter

The evils of Hitler and Stalin should haunt us today

A new book deconstructs nihilistic pretensions of intellectuals

A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man

A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes

Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks

The RIBA Journal confuses architectural history