Dr. Matthew Critchley

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BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Critchley is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich. Since 2023 he is also the academic editor of the institute's journal gta papers. He completed his doctorate titled “A Question of Method: Anthony Blunt and the Practice of Architectural History in Britain (1934-1974)” in 2023 under the supervision of Maarten Delbeke and Anthony Vidler. He became a doctoral fellow of the gta in October 2017. Previous to that, he worked as an architect for offices in London and Basel. He studied at the Architectural Association in London under Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Sheherazade Giudici and Thomas Weaver. Since 2020 he has co-organised and developed the DocTalks, a weekly peer-to-peer inter-institutional platform for doctoral students and early career researchers with presenters and respondents coming from over 100 different academic institutions. He has published in the AA Files, OASE, gta papers, the Architectural Theory Review and the Quaderni della Bibliotheca Hertziana.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

“From Wittkower’s Ricetto to Rowe’s Villa Schwob. The percept as a methodological tension in the architectural history of Mannerism” in Valérie Kobi (ed.) Terms of Style in Art History, Quaderni della Bibliotheca Hertziana No. 7 (Roma: Campisano Editore, 2021)

“Mannerism and Method: Class and Artistic Agency in the Writing of Anthony Blunt, 1934 to 1949,” Architectural Theory Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2020), pp. 164-181, DOI: 10.1080/13264826.2020.1822287

“In absence of ... a possible translation,” CCA [online publication] https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/73348/in-absence-ofadequate-objects 

“Diachronic Dialogues,” gta papers 3: Founding Myths (Zurich: gta verlag, 2019)

“Continuity or Crisis? Aldo Rossi vs. Reyner Banham,” in OASE #97 (October 2016), pp. 71-80 

“‘Visible Power’; religious sovereignty and the classical language of architecture” in Pier Vittorio Aureli & Maria Giudici, (eds.) Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space, (London: AA Publications, 2016), pp. 78-93 

“Introduction to ‘Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in conversation with H.T. Cadbury Brown,” in AA Files No. 66 

(Spring 2013), pp. 72-84 and republished in AA Files Conversations (December 2013).