The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition, James Stevens Curl & Susan Wilson

Professor James Stevens Curl is an eminent Northern Irish architectural historian, architect, and author with an extensive range of publications to his name.

Curl was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, at Queen’s University Belfast, and at Belfast College of Art before studying at the Oxford School of Architecture (now part of Oxford Brookes University) where he qualified in Architecture (1963) and – having studied under Arthur Korn – in Town Planning (1967). He read for his doctorate at University College London, which he received in 1981.

Curl is Professor at the School of Architecture and Design, Ulster University, Professor Emeritus at De Montfort University, Leicester, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge (1991–92, 2002).

Originally published in 1999 and authored by Professor James Stevens Curl, this third edition has been comprehensively revised in collaboration with Dr Susan Wilson. This updated version maintains its position as the foremost reference work available for architecture and Landscape architecture.