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John McKean

John has been an architect, historian and critic, but for many years mainly a teacher, and since 1996 Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton.

John McKean writesHe is the author of various books and many essays on architecture from classical Greece to today, but mostly about episodes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century design. John has been a regular critic over many years, publishing in Architectural Design, RIBA Journal, Building Design, The Architectural Review, Spazio e Società, Places, Architèse, as well as regularly in The Architects' Journal (as technical and news editor for some years). He has run architecture and interiors studios at East London, North London and, since 1990, in Brighton. Prior to this he taught at the Architectural Association, and design history at Middlesex University.

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Click to visit the Centre PompidouHis latest book Giancarlo De Carlo - Layered Places was the text for a Centre Pompidou exhibition on his work in the spring of 2004. Since 1979 John has been invited annually by Giancarlo De Carlo to the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design.

Giancarlo De Carlo - Layered Places, John McKean, 2004

John has been invited to be editor for the 21st edition of Banister Fletcher's History of Architecture, and is currently considering a radical rethink of the whole book. He is also engaged in a work on architectural creativity with audacity.org, of which more later.

Click to visit the University of BrightonCurrently John McKean teaches on Histories, Theories and Issues in the undergraduate programme, runs theoretical units in the postgraduate programme at Brighton, and supervises a range of MA and PhD students in Interior Design and Architecture. John McKean is a member of the faculty's 'Design History, Criticism and Theory' research group.

The subject matter of his research ranges widely, and is sketched in his paper A Career in Historical studies and Architectural Criticism (click below for the .pdf download)

A career in Historical Studies and Architectural Criticism A career in Historical Studies and Architectural Criticism

John McKean may be contacted on John.Mckean@bton.ac.uk

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