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).

This is an eloquent book that describes the architecture, culture, topography, and social life of a vibrant city

Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism

Journalist and actor Denis Tuohy has written a rewarding collection worthy of his colourful career

This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education

John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism

This is a beautifully illustrated, handsomely printed and thorough, scholarly exposition of the triumphal arch

The Church of England abandons historic buildings – can they have an afterlife?

A dignified classical design respects its setting and the memory of wartime sacrifice

A beautiful and unusual book can lift the spirits of even the most jaded reviewer

James Stevens Curl reveals how this new release provides amazing insight into the household of a well-heeled, cultured European in late eighteenth-century India