Job
Title:Professor of Architecture and Co-Director of the Centre for
Architectural Research
Qualifications:
MA (Cantab), Dip.Arch (Cantab) Distinction, PhD, RIBA.
Background and Expertise
Nicholas Temple is an architect and architectural academic with research interests in the historical and cultural contexts of city making, with specific focus on the European traditions. He joined the School of Architecture at Lincoln in 2006 as its head of school, having previously taught at Liverpool University, Nottingham University, University of Pennsylvania and Leeds Metropolitan University. A graduate of Cambridge University, and a Rome Scholar in Architecture at the British School at Rome (1986-88), Temple has been an invited speaker at institutions in the USA, South America, Europe and Russia, and has published widely on topics relating to the representational and ceremonial aspects of architecture and their urban contexts. This has resulted in a number of books, including Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space (Routledge, 2007) and renovatio urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (Routledge, 2011). At the same time, Temple has been teaching and researching on aspects of the humanistic background of architectural thought and its textual and linguistic foundations. This has led to a number of research papers and a book entitled The Humanities in Architectural Design, A Contemporary and Historical Perspective (co-edited with Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Jane Lomholt and Renee Tobe). At Lincoln he has been instrumental in organising major international conferences and symposia on important interdisciplinary and theoretical issues; such as ‘The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity’ (2007); ‘Architecture and Justice’ (2009) and forthcoming ’Architecture as Cosmology’ (2012) and ‘Architecture and its Geographical Horizons’ (2012). In addition to being a past Rome Scholar, Temple has also been awarded the Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship for 2012.
Teaching Responsibilities
History/Theory lecturer for undergraduate programmes - BA(Hons) Architecture, BA(Hons) Interior Architecture and Design and BA(Hons) Design for Exhibition and Museums
Studio tutor for the BA(Hons) and MArch programmes
PhD supervisor
Administrative Responsibilities
Coordinator of Research in the School of Architecture
Chair of the Faculty Ethics Committee
Member of University Committees: Academic Affairs, REF Working Group, Ethics Committee, Extenuating Circumstances Panel and College of Professors
Research Activities
My research interests encompass a range of topics summarised below:
- Renaissance Architecture and Urbanism
- Architecture as a Humanistic Discipline
- Early Christian Architecture and Iconography
- Late 19th Century Architecture and the City
- Theories and History of Perspective
- Architecture, Geography and the Orient
- Architecture and Phenomenology
- Architecture and Ideology
- Notions of the Sacred in Architecture
- Contemporary Architectural Practice
- Theories and Philosophy of Architecture
These research interests have led to a number of funded research projects, including the following:
(Forthcoming)
- ‘Architecture as a Humanistic Discipline: An Enquiry into its Historical and Epistemic Underpinnings’ (Leverhulme Research Grant Application, final stage short-list – principal investigator)
- ‘Sir William Chambers and the Grand Tour: Reconciling Classicism and Orientalism’ (Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship 2012)
(Completed)
- ‘Architecture and Urbanism in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II’ (PhD thesis and later published as a book – supported by various university grants)
- Historical Developments in Perspective and their influences on Architectural Practice (Funded by an RIBA Research Trust Award, 2004)
- ‘Early Christian Architecture in Rome with specific reference to the Development of the Baptistery’ (Rome Scholarship in Architecture, 1986-88)
Grants/Prizes
Paul Mellon Centre for British Art (Yale University) Rome Fellowship at the British School in Rome, 2012
Paul Mellon Education Grant for symposium on Lincoln Cathedral, 2012.
RIBA Research Trust Award, 2004
Stroud Bursary, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 2003.
2nd Prize EAAE/AEEA European Competition on Writings in Architectural Education, 1995.
Rome Scholarship in Architecture, British School at Rome, 1986-88.
Kettle's Yard 'Brancusi' Travel Award (Cambridge University), 1985.
External Activities
(External Examiner/Assessor)
External Examiner, BA Architectural Studies, Nottingham University (2009 – present)
External Examiner, BA(Hons) Architecture, De Montfort University (2010 – present)
Invited Consultant/External Assessor for proposed new academic programmes (including PhD and MArch), School of Architecture, Carleton University, Canada (2011)
Invited Judge for the RIBA President’s Medal for Student Dissertations (2007)
Nominated by British School at Rome and RIBA for membership of the REF 2014 sub-panel 16, Architecture, Built Environment and Planning (not elected)
(Editorial Boards/Peer Review)
UK Editor, Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts (2008 - )
Architectural Research Quarterly
Journal of Landscape Research
Classical Review
Routledge
Ashgate
(Invited/Keynote Speaker)
Invited Speaker, History & Theory Research Seminar Series, Cambridge University, Department of Architecture (2011)
Invited Speaker, International Colloquium: Historical Built Environments, Between Permanence and Change: Theoretical Approaches and Practicalities, Nottingham Trent University (2011).
Invited speaker at ESALA Research Seminar Series, The City and its Culture, University of Edinburgh (2010)
Invited speaker at History/Theory Seminar Series, University of Nottingham (2010)
Keynote speaker at international conference: Cityscapes:The Urban Experience, Centre for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (2010).
Keynote speaker at international conference: The Cultural Role of Architecture, University of Lincoln (2010)
Keynote speaker at international conference: The Multiple Faces of Identity in the Designed Environment, Nottingham Trent University (2008).
Invited Speaker, Carleton University European Studies Programme, Werner Oechslin Library, Einsiedeln, Switzerland (2008)
Invited Speaker at the American Renaissance Society, Annual Conference, Miami, Florida (2006).
Invited Speaker at the Architectural Biennale, Quito, Ecuador (2004)
Guest Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Architecture (2003)
Guest Lecturer at School of Architecture, University of Liverpool (2002)
Invited Judge with Daniel Libeskind for Student Design Competition, University of Pennsylvania (2002)
Guest Lecturer at University of Virginia (1998)
Guest Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture (1997).
Visiting Lecturer at Moscow Institute of Architecture, MARCHI (March-April 1997)
Guest Lecturer at Russian Institute of Architecture, St. Petersburg, Russia (1996)
Visiting Lecturer at Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania (Nov/Dec 1992)
(Membership of Societies/Professional Bodies)
Member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
East Midlands History and Philosophy Research Network
RIBA Chartered Architect
Registered Architect (Architects Registration Board)
Key Publications
(Forthcoming)
‘Changing Identities in the Oecumene: Notions of Centre and Periphery in Architecture and Geography,’ in The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalisation, edited by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Guillermo Garma Montiel (Routledge, 2012)
‘Rites of Intent: The Participatory Dimension of the City’, in Cityscapes: The Urban Experience, edited by HelenToth and Katrina Gulliver (Ashgate, 2012)
The Architecture of Justice: Judicial Matters in the Public Realm, edited by Nicholas Temple, Renee Tobe & Jonathan Simon(Ashgate, 2012)
‘Cultivating Architecture’ in The Cultural Role of Architecture, edited by Jane Lomholt, John Hendrix & Paul Emmons (Routledge 2012)
(Completed)
renovatio urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (Routledge Publishers, Classical Tradition Series, 2011)
‘Gesture and Perspective in Raphael’s School of Athens’, in Renaissance Theories of Vision, edited by Charles Carmen and John Hendrix (Ashgate, 2010)
The Humanities in Architecture: A Contemporary and Historical Perspective, editedby Nicholas Temple, Soumyen Bandyapodhyay, Renee Tobe & Jane Lomholt (Routledge, 2010)
Thinking Practice: Reflections on Architectural Research and Building Work, edited by Nicholas Temple & Soumyen Bandyopadhyay (Black Dog Publishers, 2007)
Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space (Routledge, 2007)
‘The Enigma of Pyramids: Measuring Redemption in Renaissance Rome’, in Chora 5: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture (2006)
‘Julius II as Second Caesar’, in Julius Caesar in Western Culture,edited by Maria Wyke (Blackwell Publishers, 2006)
‘Giants and Columns’, in Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture, edited by Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel, Adam Sharr (Routledge, 2006)
‘Baptism and Sacrifice: Cosmogony as Private Ontology’ (Architectural Research Quarterly, arq (July, 2004)
‘Robert Grosseteste and the Architecture of Light’, in Architectural Theory Review (June, 2004)
‘Conversion and Political Expedience: Imperial Themes in the Early Christian Baptistery’, in Annales del Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, No.80 (2002)
‘Heritage and Forgery: Annio da Viterbo and the Quest for the Authentic’, in Public Archaeology, Vol.II/3 (2002)
‘From Marketplace to Non-Place: Questions of Cultural Atrophy’, in Urban Design Studies, Vol.7 (2001)
‘History as Malady and Ontological Paradigm’, Journal of Architecture (1999)
‘The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili as a Possible Model for Topographical Interpretations of Rome in the Early 16th Century’, in Word and Image (1998)
‘Fashion, Fetish and the Historical Dimension’, in Stoa, EAAE Research Journal (1996), awarded 2nd prize in ‘1995 European Writings in Architectural Education.’
Selected publications are available online at Amazon.co.uk
Postgraduate Students
Lecturer/tutor on the taught PhD Architecture programme, University of Pennsylvania: (2000-2002)
PhD 2nd Supervisor, Timothy Odeyole, ‘The Impact of Sustainable Food Production in Shaping Future Sustainable Urban Growth: A Case Study of Akure, Nigeria.’ (2009-present)
PhD External Examiner (Sheffield University), Zuraini Md Ali, ‘The Development of Architectural Conservation in Malaysia’ (2011)
PhD External Examiner (Architectural Association/ London Consortium), Katharina Borsi, ‘The Persistence of the Block’ (2010)
PhD External Examiner (Liverpool University), Bryan John Banks, ‘The Metamorphosis of Painting’ (2006).
PhD Internal Examiner (Nottingham University), Elizabeth Green, ‘The Medieval Hall Houses of North and East Wales’, with Professor Grenville, York University (2005)
PhD External Examiner (University of Pennsylvania), Gordana Ana Kostich-Lefebvre, ‘The Architectural Uses of Etruscan Vases’, with Profs. Joseph Rykwert & David Leatherbarrow (2004)
MPhil External Examiner (Liverpool University), Fathia Milud el-Menghawi, ‘The Origin of Sacredness and Femininity in the Moslem Dwelling: The Issue of Privacy’ (2004)
MPhil (Transfer to PhD) Internal Examiner (Nottingham University), Shirley Haines, ‘Architecture Without, Art Within’ (2004)
PhD External Examiner (Liverpool University), Maria Yioutani Iacovides, ‘Post-Byzantine Church Architecture in Cyprus, 1191-1571’ (2004).
PhD Internal Examiner (Nottingham University), Kelly Kuo, ‘Critical Regionalism and Taiwanese Architecture’ (2003)
PhD 2nd Supervisor (University of Pennsylvania), Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, ‘The Gardens of Fifteenth-Century Florence’ (2000-02).
PhD Internal Examiner (University of Pennsylvania), Fazil Zondou, ‘Stone and the Modern Movement: An Examination of Fascist Architecture in North Africa’ (2001)
Ph.D Internal Examiner (University of Pennsylvania), James Beck, ‘La Villa, Dialogue by M.Bartolomeo Taegio: Interpreting a Renaissance Treatise on Gardens’ (2001)