Iain Borden
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Iain Borden is an architectural historian and urban commentator. He was educated at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UCL, University of London and UCLA, and is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Fellow of the RSA. Formerly head of The Bartlett
School of Architecture, UCL, during the 2000s, he is now Vice-Dean for Communications at the Bartlett, and Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture.
His wide-ranging historical and theoretical interests have led to publications on, among other subjects, critical theory and architectural historical methodology, the history of skateboarding as an urban practice, boundaries and surveillance, Henri Lefebvre and Georg Simmel, Renaissance urban space, architectural modernism and modernity, contemporary architectural practice and theory, film and architecture, gender and architecture, body spaces and the experience of space. He is currently working on a history of automobile driving in film as a spatial experience of cities, landscapes and architecture.
The Bartlett
The Bartlett is the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. University College London created the first chair of architecture in 1841, and the school is named after the original benefactor, Sir Herbert Bartlett.-External links:*...
School of Architecture, UCL, during the 2000s, he is now Vice-Dean for Communications at the Bartlett, and Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture.
His wide-ranging historical and theoretical interests have led to publications on, among other subjects, critical theory and architectural historical methodology, the history of skateboarding as an urban practice, boundaries and surveillance, Henri Lefebvre and Georg Simmel, Renaissance urban space, architectural modernism and modernity, contemporary architectural practice and theory, film and architecture, gender and architecture, body spaces and the experience of space. He is currently working on a history of automobile driving in film as a spatial experience of cities, landscapes and architecture.