Emeritus Professor
<p>Elizabeth McKellar has supervised a number of research students and particularly welcomes applications in the area of architectural history - especially British architecture; urban history; and British eighteenth and twentieth century cultural history.</p><h3>Selected Publications</h3><h4>Books</h4><p><em>Landscapes of London: the City, the Country, and the Suburbs 1660-1840</em>, (Yale University Press& Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2013)</p><p><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/birth-london.shtml"><u>Find out more about this book</u></a></p><p><em>The Birth of Modern London: the development and design of the city, 1660-1720</em>, (Manchester University Press, 1999)</p><p><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/birth-london.shtml"><u>Find out more about this book</u></a></p><p>Co-editor with Barbara Arciszewska,<em>Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture</em>, Aldershot& Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2004<br /><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/articulating-classicism.shtml"><u>Find out more about this book</u></a></p><p>Co-editor with Julian Holder, <em>Neo-Georgian Architecture 1880-1970: a reappraisal, (</em>Historic England Publishing, 2016)</p><p><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/birth-london.shtml"><u>Find out more about this book</u></a> .</p><h4>Articles</h4><h4>‘Writing the New Urbanism: Architecture and Guidebooks to London and Paris, c. 1650-1750’, in Dana Arnold& Jean-Louis Cohen eds. Paris-Londres, Infolio& Institute nationale d’historie de l’art, Paris, 2016, 15-69.</h4><p>‘Georgian London before<em>Georgian London</em>: Beresford Chancellor, Rasmussen and“The true and sad story of the Regent’s Street”’, in J. Holder& E. McKellar eds.,<em>Neo-Georgian Architecture 1880-1970: a reappraisal</em>, Swindon, Historic England Publishing, 2016, 36-51.</p><p> ‘The Villa: Ideal Type or Vernacular Variant?’ in, P. Guillery ed.,<em>Built from Below:</em><em>British Architecture and the Vernacular</em>, Routledge, London, 2010, pp. 49-72. </p><p>‘C. H. B. Quennell (1872-1935): Architecture, History and the Quest for the Modern’,<em>Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain,</em>50, 2007, 211-46</p><p>‘Representing the Georgian: Constructing Interiors in Early Twentieth Century Publications, 1890-1930’,<em>Journal of Design History</em>, 20:4, 2007, 325-44</p><p>‘Popularism versus professionalism: John Summerson and the twentieth-century creation of the“Georgian”’, in Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar (eds),<em>Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture</em>, (Ashgate, 2004), 35-56</p><p>‘Peripheral Visions: alternative aspects and rural presences in mid-eighteenth century London’,<em>Art History,</em>22:4, 1999, 495-513</p><p>‘Architectural History: The Invisible Subject’,<em>The Architecture Journal</em>, 1:2, 1996, 159-64</p>
<p>Elizabeth McKellar is an architectural historian specialising in British architecture and culture. She has a particular interest in London’s history and buildings and was a member of the Editorial Committee of the<em>London Journal</em>from 2000-2010 and Historic England's London Advisory Committee (2011-17). She received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2011-12 to complete her book<em>Landscapes of London: the City, the Country, and the Suburbs 1660-1840</em> (2013) which was published by Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and won the Society of Architectural Historians (US) Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award in 2017. She also writes regularly on architectural and design historiography particularly that of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, the theme of her contributions to <em>Neo-Georgian Architecture 1880-1970: a reappraisal </em>(2016) which she co-edited with Julian Holder. She is currently writing a cultural biography of the architectural historian Sir John Summerson for which she was awarded a Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship for 2018-219. She has previously held posts at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birkbeck College.</p>
Professor Elizabeth McKellar
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Professor Elizabeth McKellar
Elizabeth McKellar
Elizabeth McKellar
<p>Elizabeth McKellar is an architectural historian specialising in British architecture and culture. She has a particular interest in London’s history and buildings and was a member of the Editorial Committee of the<em>London Journal</em>from 2000-2010 and Historic England's London Advisory Committee (2011-17). She received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2011-12 to complete her book<em>Landscapes of London: the City, the Country, and the Suburbs 1660-1840</em> (2013) which was published by Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and won the Society of Architectural Historians (US) Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award in 2017. She also writes regularly on architectural and design historiography particularly that of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, the theme of her contributions to <em>Neo-Georgian Architecture 1880-1970: a reappraisal </em>(2016) which she co-edited with Julian Holder. She is currently writing a cultural biography of the architectural historian Sir John Summerson for which she was awarded a Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship for 2018-219. She has previously held posts at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birkbeck College.</p>