Architecture and Media: Introduction

In this episode, Jessica and Matt introduce the theme of our mini-series, architecture and media. We talk about our own research interests and what the study of media, in all its various forms, has to offer architectural history.

Jessica Kelly is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, her research explores architectural history beyond buildings, paying particular attention to media and criticism in the mid-twentieth century. Her book, No More Giants: J.M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review (Manchester University Press, 2022), looks at changing approaches to architectural criticism through the history of The Architectural Review magazine and the career of its longest serving editor, the critic J.M. Richards. She also co-edited with Dr Neal Shasore, the volume Reconstruction: architecture, society and the aftermath of the First World War, (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Matthew Lloyd Roberts is a PhD student working on the cultural reception of architecture in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Britain, details here. Matthew writes about architecture for a variety of publications and produces the podcast About Buildings and Cities.

You can listen to this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. This podcast is produced by Front Ear Podcasts.