Mark Crinson
Mark Crinson taught architectural history at Birkbeck, University of London (2016–2023), and before that at the University of Manchester (1993–2016). He was Vice-President then President of the European Architectural History Network, 2016–20. Recent books include Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester (2022, winner of the 2024 Historians of British Art Prize), The Architecture of Art History – A Historiography (2019, co-authored with Richard J. Williams), and Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism (2017). He established his name with two groundbreaking books on colonial and post-colonial issues in architecture – Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (1996) and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003) – and this area continues to interest him. His current book is titled Heathrow’s Genius Loci and, as part of its research, he spent time in New Haven in early 2024 as a residential scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.