Rate My Professor Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Brittain-Catlin is an architectural historian specialising in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English houses, Edwardian architecture—particularly the remodelling of older houses for new uses—Gothic Revival, Victorian and twentieth-century church architecture, and building conservation. He is a member of Historic England’s national Advisory Committee (2018–2025) and has been active for many years on the casework committees of the Victorian Society and Twentieth Century Society. He founded and chairs the editorial board for British architectural history at Lund Humphries. His key publications include The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century (Spire Books, 2008), Leonard Manasseh & Partners (RIBA Publishing/English Heritage/C20 Society, 2010), Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture (MIT Press, 2014), The Edwardians and their Houses: The New Life of Old England (Lund Humphries, 2020; shortlisted for the William M.B. Berger Prize, 2021), and Edwin Rickards (Liverpool University Press, 2023). He has contributed numerous articles to journals such as Architectural History and AA Files, and chapters to major reference works like Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (2019). He teaches a lecture course on British architecture since 1800 and supervises students across all levels.