Stephen Kite
Reader

Research Group: Architectural History and Theory Group

E-Mail: KiteS@cardiff.ac.uk

Postal Address:
Welsh School of Architecture
Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF10 3NB

Telephone: (44) 029 20 875983
Fax: (44) 029 20874623

Responsibilities
Reader
Year Tutor BSc3, MArch1
History-Theory Teaching
Chair Architectural History Theory Group
Higher Degree Supervision

I joined WSA as Reader and BSc Convenor in 2007 from Newcastle University where I was Degree Programme Director of the BA in Architectural Studies. I have a PhD in architectural history-theory and have written and published widely in this field. I am a registered architect with many years experience of full-time practice (prior to entering academia) in London and elsewhere, at associate and project-leader level. I am an Editor of Architectural Research Quarterly.

Research Interests
History and theory of architecture, aesthetics of architecture and wider links to visual culture. Settlement patterns and vernacular architectures of the Middle East.

Current Work
I am finalising an extended investigation of Ruskin’s critical observation of architecture in the context of Italy, based on intensive archive and fieldwork, to be published by Ashgate in 2012 with the title: Building Ruskin’s Italy. Watching architecture. This project has attracted grant support from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the British Academy. My Adrian Stokes – an architectonic eyeby Legenda (imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association) was published in 2009. Adrian Stokes (1902-72) — aesthete, critic, painter and poet—is among the most original and creative writers on art of the twentieth century, and this is the first book to comprehensively examine his theory of art from a specifically architectonic perspective.

Link to the Ashgate site

Link to the Legenda site:
http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=b9781905981892

Stephen Kite is also a painter and printmaker - visit website