Research Fellow, The School of Architecture and the Build Environment, The University of Newcastle
(See my biography page for more information).
| Behind the Patterns and Designs that Cross Cultural Boundaries: Towards a Holistic Approach | |||
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Using a multi-disciplinarily approach to the history of art makes it possible to develop an insight into the transference of designs and patterns across cultures. |
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| The Symbol of the City: Utopian Symmetry | |||
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This paper traces the conception of the utopian symmetric city through its development and presentation in art and literature. |
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| The Architectures of Paradise | |||
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This paper examines the architecture of three Utopian visions of paradise. They are disconnected in culture, distance and time, however, they are surprising in both their differences and similarities. |
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| The Enigma of Isaac Newton: Scientist, Theologian, Alchemist and Prophet | |||
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This paper examines an aspect of Isaac Newton’s secret life, that of a prophet. |
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| Juan Battista Villalpando: Solomon’s Temple and the Architectural Metaphor | |||
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The re-creation of Solomon’s Temple by Villalpando promulgated the Neo-Platonist-hermitic ideals of the Solomon’s Temple and the architectural metaphor of the microcosm–macrocosm. This paper examines his reconstruction and the metaphor. |
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| The Paradox of the Divine Architecture in Dante’s La Divina Commedia | |||
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In La Divina Commedia Dante described a highly structured universe of Paradise and the Celestial Rose. This paper examines the architecture and the paradox that his universe created. |
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| Reinventing the Past: John Wood the Elder | |||
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This paper examines how John Wood the Elder of Bath used architecture to memorialise the past, not through style, but through measurements and elements that represented the past. |
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