About the Journal

Architectural History, the Society's principal publication - published annually since 1958 - is sent to all members and to subscribing libraries around the world. It is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, internationally-respected journal that publishes significant original and interpretive research on buildings, the built environment, the history of architectural theory, and architectural historiography, in all places and periods. Articles in Architectural History are intended to be rigorous, analytical, and, although closely focused, to contextualize their subject and explore its relevance in relation to wider issues concerning the history and understanding of architecture.

The Society is pleased to announce publication of ​Volume 66 of Architectural History in November 2023.

As in previous issues, the topics covered range widely both in period — from eleventh-century monastic buildings to National Health Service hospitals – and geography, taking in China and the United States as well as Italy, France, Britain and Ireland. A major innovation in this volume is a review article, bringing to the attention of readers — and hence the discipline in the UK — an area hitherto given inadequate attention. Further strengthening the journal’s global coverage, the review article is entitled ‘Latin American Architectural History: Reading between the Lines, Opening Opportunities’.

Following the innovation made last year of ‘Shorter Notices’ — articles focused for example on an archival discovery, as opposed to the full-scale treatment of a subject provided by regular articles — volume 66 contains four Shorter Notices, with subjects ranging from fifteenth-century Italy (the Palazzo Comunale in Montepulciano) to nineteenth-century Britain (John Britton’s denunciation of John Soane). Topics explored in other articles include the role of women in construction and urban development in the eighteenth century; level changes in the country houses of James Wyatt; the construction of the first Christian church in Shanghai; the planning of the University of Chicago; and — the winner of the Society’s Hawksmoor Prize 2022 — the post-war housing estate of Park Hill in Sheffield.

Also included are no fewer than eighteen in-depth book reviews authored by leading scholars from the UK and overseas. Topics range from early religious shrines in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, through the seventeenth-century developer of London Nicholas Barbon, to the Edwardian baroque revival and neorealist architecture in post-war Italy.

The editor of Architectural History, Mark Swenarton, commented:

‘The latest volume continues to set the agenda for the discipline, with scholars from Europe, Asia and the Americas presenting ground-breaking research on a wide range of issues and ideas. Alongside architecture as product, we have architecture as process, in Britain and in colonial contexts; and alongside the journal’s longstanding strengths in western architecture, there is now also the global south, represented by Latin America. With articles examining projects ranging from the canonic to the virtually unknown, the new volume of Architectural History offers unique insights into some of the latest developments in the discipline — as well as reappraisals of some long-cherished treasures.’

Guido Beltramini (CISA Andrea Palladio, Italy)

Swati Chemburkar (Jnanapravaha Institute, India)

Maarten Delbeke (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Nnamdi Elleh (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Ute Engel (Martin-Luther-Universität, Germany)

Philip Goad (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Thomas Howe (Southwestern University, USA)

Mary McLeod (Columbia University, USA)

Konrad Ottenheym (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Nancy Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Nancy Stieber (University of Massachusetts, USA)