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).

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