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• Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, F.S.A. is Head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art he previously taught at London and McGill Universities. His major p...More

  Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, F.S.A. is Head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art he previously taught at London and McGill Universities. His major publications include William Wilkins 1778-1839 (Cambridge, 1980) – revisited in The Age of Wilkins. The Architecture of Improvement (with David Watkin, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2000) - Francis Rattenbury and British Columbia: Architecture and Challenge in the Imperial Age, (with A. Barrett, UBC, 1983), "Altogether American": Robert Mills Architect and Engineer (Oxford, 1994) and “The New Spirit”. Modern Architecture in Vancouver 1938-1963 (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1997; recipient of the Vancouver Book Prize. Current projects include research on intersections between Modern Movement design and late British imperial policy, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, together with a position paper on Ideal City design and a major public lecture series ‘Living the Global City’ in conjunction with programming in preparation for the World Urban Forum 3. Less

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