Gavin Stamp

Gavin Stamp (born 15 March1948) is a British writer and architectural historian. From 1990 until 2003 he taught at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art. He is Chair of the Twentieth Century Society, a registered charity which promotes the appreciation of modern architecture and the conservation of Britain’s architectural heritage. He writes the Nooks and Corners column for Private Eye under the pseudonym Piloti and regularly contributes essays on architecture to the fine arts magazine "Apollo". [http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/about/people.html] [http://www.apollo-magazine.com/article.php?issue=back&month=6&year=2006&id=01]

Television

Gavin Stamp has presented a number of programmes about architecture for Channel 5. In 2005 he presented "Pevsner’s Cities: Liverpool" and "Pevsner’s Cities: Newcastle" and in 2006 "Pevsner's Cities: Oxford" [http://www.five.tv/programmes/fiveartscities/home/box4/] ; each programme profiled the cities with reference to the writings of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. In 2007 he presented a five-part architectural travel series "Gavin Stamp’s Orient Express" [http://www.newstatesman.com/200705210038] . Stamp travelled by train along the original Orient Express route, stopping off on the way to look at architecture and to see how the history of Eastern Europe is told in its buildings.

Stamp has also made various television appearances as an expert interviewee: in 1986 he appeared in "A Sense of the Past", a 6 part series for schools produced by Yorkshire Television about the relationship between buildings and local history; in 1990 he was interviewed for "Design Classics: The Telephone Box", a favourite subject of Stamp's and one has written about; in 1995 he appeared as guest expert in an episode of "One Foot in the Past" about Brunel; and in 2003 he was interviewed by Paul Binski for an episode of Channel Five's "Divine Designs" which profiled Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's St. Vincent Street Free Church in Glasgow.

Publications

* "Britain’s Lost Cities" (2007)
* "The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme" (2006)
* "An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott, Jr." (2002)
* "Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses" (2001)
* "Personal and Professional Recollections of George Gilbert Scott" (1995)
* "Alexander “Greek” Thomson" (1999)
* "Greek" Thomson: Neo-Classical Architectural Theory, Buildings and Interiors" (co-written with Sam McKinstry, 1999)
* "Modern House Revisited" (1996)
* "Industrial Architecture" (1994)
* "Telephone Boxes" (1989)
* "The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London 1839–79" (1987)
* "Victorian Buildings in London, 1837-87: An Illustrated Guide" (co-written with Colin Amery, 1980)
* "Great Perspectivists" (1982)
* "The English House, 1860 – 1914" (1986)
* "Temples of Power: Architecture of Electricity in London" (1979)
* "Britain in the Thirties" (1979)