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Professor of History of Art
Strand, Somerset House
WC2R 0RN London
United Kingdom
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Christine Stevenson began teaching at The Courtauld in 2002, after ten years as a lecturer at the University of Reading and, previously, work as an academic editor at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the Grove (now OUP) Dictionary of Art. Research for her previous book, Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 (Yale, 2000) led imperceptibly into that for her most recent, The City and the King: Politics and Architecture in Resotration London (2013), which was short-listed for the Longman-History Today Book Prize, the William M. Berger Prize for British Art History, the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, and the Art Book Prize. It was runner-up for the Spiro Kostof Book Award (2016), given to a 'work in any discipline related to urban history that has made the greatest contribution to our understanding of historical development and change’ by the Society of Architectural Historians (of North America).
Christine is now working on a project grounding the question of what architectural 'design' means -- in both the early modern period and today -- in the identification of the social, economic, and power relations operating among British craftsmen, architects, and patrons in the sixty or so years after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. All her teaching and writing is driven by the conviction that to understand how a society builds, and then how it mediates its architecture and built spaces, is to go a long way to understanding that society.
'The Design of Prisons and Mental Hospitals in the Neoclassical Period, with special reference to the work of C. F. Hansen (1756–1845)͛', The Courtauld Institute of Art
… → 1986
'John Wood the Elder and The Origin of Building', The Courtauld Institute of Art
… → 1981
University of Victoria
… → 1979
University of Victoria
… → 1975
University of Reading
1991 → 2002
University of Warwick
1983
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book