Dr Alexandra Stara

About

I teach history and theory in the Department of Architecture & Landscape, and supervise several PhD students. I have previously led the MArch history and dissertation modules, directed the MA Architecture: Thinking Building and the Graduate Diploma in Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part 2).

I am a trained architect with Masters degrees in Advanced Architectural Studies from The Bartlett UCL, and in the History & Philosophy of Architecture from the University of Cambridge. I also hold a doctorate in the History of Art from the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

I have lectured, examined and published internationally on the hermeneutics of art, architecture and the modern museum for the past thirty years. I have been judge and chair of the RIBA President's Medals 2009-2014, a member of the editorial board of The Architectural Review, and I am currently on the panel of the Queen's Anniversary Prizes, as well as a referee for a number of international publications on art and architecture.

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor and Reader in the History and Theory of Architecture

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2015
  • DPhil (PhD), Department of the History of Art and Worcester College, University of Oxford, 1999
  • MPhil, Department of Architecture and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 1993
  • MSc, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 1991
  • Registered Architect-Engineer at the Technical Chamber of Greece (RIBA/ARB Part 3 equivalent), 1990
  • Diploma of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, 1989

Teaching and learning

Research

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