Participant Info
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Last Name
- Darling
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- edarling@brookes.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Oxford Brookes University
- Website URL
- http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/staff/details/darling/
- Keywords
- women and architecture, British modernism, British architecture, British design, twentieth century,
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am Reader in Architectural History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. My research focuses on 20th century British architectural history with a particular interest in inter-war modernism, social housing, and gender – and very often the intersections among these arenas. I have published on the nature of authorship in the design process; the innovative practices of the inter-war voluntary housing sector; the housing consultant Elizabeth Denby; the relationship between citizenship and the reform of domestic space in inter-war Britain, and sexuality, domesticity and modernism in 1920s Cambridge. M y books include a revisionist study of British architectural modernism, Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction,( Routledge, 2007) and Wells Coates (C20 Society with English Heritage & RIBA Publishing, 2012). Most recently I have co-curated an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of women architects at London’s Architectural Association (and co-edited the accompanying book, AA Women in Architecture, 1917-2017), written about women reformers in Edwardian Edinburgh, and am now writing a study of the material and spatial cultures of broadcasting in inter-war England.
- Recent Publications
‘Women with attitude: feminist activism from the Architectural Association,’ Architectural Review, March 2018, 42-45
‘Womanliness in the Slums: A Free Kindergarten in Early Twentieth-Century Edinburgh,’ Gender & History 29:2(2017), 1-28
AA Women in Architecture 1917-2017, London: AA Publications, 2017
‘Class, Sexuality and Home in inter-war London’ in Sexuality and Gender at Home, Experience, Politics, Transgression. edsBrent Pilkey, Rachael Scicluna, Ben Campkin and Barbara Penner, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 19-34
‘A live universal language: the Georgian as Motif in inter-war English architectural modernism,’ in The Neo-Georgian, eds Elizabeth McKellar and Julian Holder, Historic England, 2016, 168-178
Wells Coates, London, RIBA Publishing, 2012, part of the 20thCentury Architects series (published in conjunction with the 20thCentury Society and English Heritage)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @ArchHistDarling
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Gender, Material Culture, Urban History, Women
