Jonathan Hill (17 June 1958 – 1 November 2023) was an English architect, architectural historian, editor, and author.

Biography

Jonathan Hill received a Diploma from the

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in 1983, a

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degree from

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in 1990, and a

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degree from the

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in 2000. Hill joined University College London, part of the

, England, in 1989. He was Professor of

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and Visual Theory in the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. He led the Architecture MArch PG12 studio and was director of the Architectural Design MPhil/PhD programme, the first such programme to be established in the United Kingdom. Hill died from cancer on 1 November 2023, at the age of 65.

Work

Jonathan Hill published a number of books including: * ''The Illegal Architect'' (1998) * ''Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users'' (

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, 2003, ) * ''Drawing Research'' (2006) * ''Immaterial Architecture'' (

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, 2006, ) * ''Weather Architecture'' (Routledge, 2012, ) * ''A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction'' (Routledge, 2015, ) * ''The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future'' (Routledge, 2019 ) Hill edited the following books: * ''Architecture: The Subject is Matter'' (Routledge, 2001, * ''Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User'' (Routledge, 2006, ) Hill was also series co-editor of the ''Design Research in Architecture'' book series published by Ashgate.

References

External links

Jonathan Hill home page
(archived 4 June 2023)
Jonathan Hill – Architecture is a Time Machine
video on

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1958 births 2023 deaths Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture Alumni of University College London Alumni of the Bartlett Academics of University College London Architects from London English architectural historians English book editors English male non-fiction writers {{UK-architect-stub

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