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Daniel Maudlin

 

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Dr Daniel Maudlin

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), School of Architecture, Design and Environment (Faculty of Arts)
  • Email: daniel.maudlin@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Research and Postgraduate Co-ordinator, School of Architecture, Design and Environment

History and Theory Co-ordinator: BA Architecture, M.Arch and MRes Architecture

Director, European Conservation Summer School (with School of Design, University of Pennsylvania)

Programme Leader: MA (by Research) Architecture

Programme Leader: MA Eighteenth Century



 

Qualifications & background
2005 -          Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, 
                   University of Plymouth


2003-5         Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

2002-5         Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Art History, Glasgow University

2000-2         Inspector of Historic Buildings, Historic Scotland, Scottish Office, Edinburgh

1998-02       PhD, School of Art History, University of St Andrews (British Academy Studentship)

1992-6         MA Hons, First Class, School of Art History, University of St Andrews




 


Teaching interests
 
transatlantic history and material culture

space, place-making and formation of identity in modern British history

architectural theory and criticism - everyday architectures, cultural consupmtion








 


Research interests

British and North American transtlantic history, transatlanticism and cultural exchange, 1700 - 1850

British history of nation, memory and identity

architectural theory and historiography 

UoP Research group membership

Culture, Theory, Space 
Transatlantic Exchanges Forum 

Grants & contracts

Awards and Fellowships


2010 -11       AHRC Research Fellowship

2009-11        AHRC Research Network Award

2008          Jeffrey Cooke Award - best international researcher in field of traditional dwellings  
                 International Association for Study of Traditional Settlements and Environment (Berkeley)

2008            Scottish Inheritance Fund, book publishing grant

2008            Institute of Historic Research, travel award for research in Jamaica

2005            Elected Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

2004            Visiting Scholar, Winterthur Library, Delaware

2003-5         Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

2002            Attingham Trust Summer School

2002            Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Ramsden Bursary

2001            Royal Institute of British Architects, Research Award

2000            Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland Research Award

2000            Russell Trust Research Award

1998-01       British Academy of Arts and Humanities PhD Studentship

1997            Victoria and Albert Museum, Tom Ingram Memorial Award

1996            Peggy Guggenheim Collection Residential Scholarship, Venice



 


Publications
 

Monographs

1. Making England: place, power and the picturesque, 1700 - 2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

2. The Highland House Transformed: Architecture and Identity on the Edge of Britain, 1700 – 1850 (Dundee University Press, 2009). Scotsman Book of the Year 2009; 5* review in Building Design.

 

Edited Collections

1. The Afterlife of Architecture, Daniel Maudlin and Bob Brown (eds), (Routledge anticipated 2013)

2. Architecture and the British Atlantic World, Daniel Maudlin and Bernard L Herman (eds), (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

3. Goods, Books and Ideas: transatlantic exchanges between Britain and New England, 1750-1900, Daniel Maudlin and Robin Peel (eds), (Ashgate, 2012).

 

4. Traffic and Translations : Transatlantic Exchanges between Britain and New England 1610-1910, Robin Peel and Daniel Maudlin (University of  New England Press, 2012)

 

5. Daniel Maudlin and Robin Peel (eds), (University of New England Press, 2012).

 

Chapters in Edited Collections

1. ‘Time and the Vernacular’, in Catriona Mackay (ed), New Light on the Vernacular (University of Liverpool Press, 2012)

2. ‘Colonial Complications: architecture and identity in post-Independence North America’, in Herman and Maudlin (eds), Architecture and the British Atlantic (UNC Chapel Hill, 2012)

3. ‘Telling Stories: myth and memory in the Scottish national narrative, in Olivia Horsfal Turner (ed), The Geography of Seventeenth-Century British Architecture, (Spire Books, 2011)

4. ‘Concepts of the Vernacular’, in The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, Stephen Cairns, C. Greig Crysler and Hilde Heynen (eds), (Sage, 2011)

 

Journal Articles

‘Everyday England: the limits of aesthetic control in the backyard of a designed country’, Architecture Research Quarterly, anticipated 2013

‘Thresholds of Taste: zeitgeist, historicism and architectural unease with the English suburbs, Places, anticipated 2013

‘A Vision of Britain: Prince Charles and the re-discovery of the picturesque’, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, anticipated 2013

 ‘Townscape and the Making of the English Suburbs, Buildings and Landscapes, forthcoming 2012

‘The Guardians: Englishness and the containment of modern Britain’, Society and People, 2012

 ‘Tradition in Early Modernity: the architecture of place and the invention of Englishnes, Design History, 2011

 ‘Crossing Boundaries: revisiting some thresholds of the vernacular’, Vernacular Architecture, 41, 2010

 ‘Habitations of the Labourer: improvement, reform and the neoclassical cottage in eighteenth-century Britain’, Design History, 2010

‘Constructing Tradition and Identity: Englishness, Politics and the Neo-Traditional House’, Journal of Architectural Education, 61:3, 2009

 ‘The Legend of Brigadoon: Architecture, Identity and Choice in the Scottish Highlands’, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 20:2, 2009 (winner of the Jeffrey Cook Prize, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Berkeley)

‘Modern Homes for Modern People: identifying and interpreting the Highland Building Boom, 1700 – 1850’, Vernacular Architecture, 39, 2008

'Architecture and Identity on the Edge of Empire: domestic architecture of Scottish settlers in Nova Scotia, Canada, 1800 - 1850', Architectural History, 2007

'Robert Mylne, Thomas Telford and the Architecture of Improvement: the planned villages of the British Fisheries Society, 1786 - 1820', Urban History, 2007

 ‘Regulating the Vernacular: the impact of building regulations in the eighteenth century highland planned village’, Vernacular Architecture, 34, 2003

‘Tradition and Change in the Age of Improvement: a study of the Dukes of Argyll tacksmens’ houses’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 133, 2003

‘Robert Mylne at Pitlour House’, Architectural Heritage, IX, 2001

‘Highland Planned Villages and the British Fisheries Society’, The New Town Phenomenon:  the second generation, Studies in History of Scottish Architecture and Design IV, 2000

‘How to Make a Borders Box Bed’, Regional Furniture, XIV, 2000

‘Anglo-Malay Colonial Furniture’, Regional Furniture, XIII, 1999


‘Time and the Vernacular’, New Light on the Vernacular, University of Liverpool, 2011

 

‘The Guardians: Englishness and the containment of modern Britain’, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, 2010

‘Townscape, Tradition and the New English Suburbs’, European Architectural History Network, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2010

‘Telling Stories: myth and memory in the Scottish national narrative’, The Geography of Seventeenth-Century British Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Annual Symposium, London, 2010

‘The Highland House Transformed’, Winter Words Book Festival, Pitlochry Scotland, 2010

‘The Polite Threshold in Scotland’, The Polite Threshold, Vernacular Architecture Group Annual Conference, Leicester, 2010

‘Architecture and Identity on the Edge of Empire, Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2009

‘The Anglo-American Cottage Home’, Separateness and Kinship: exchanges between Britain and New England, AHRC Network Symposium, Exeter, 2009

‘Regionalism and Romanticism’, Writing, Voice and Place, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Plymouth, 2009

‘The Idea of the Cottage in the Eighteenth Century’, Eighteenth-Century Narrative Consortium, Exeter, 2008

‘Habitations of the Labourer’, The Eighteenth-Century House Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Vernacular Architecture Group and Georgian Group, Saltram House, Plymouth, 2007

‘The Architecture of the British Atlantic World, 1750-1850’, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2004.

‘Architecture and Identity on the Edge of Empire: domestic architecture in Scotland and North America, 1700-1800’, Glasgow University, 2004.

‘The First Architecture of Modernity: eighteenth century classicism in Scotland and North America’, Glasgow University, 2003.

‘Highland Build: the evolution of domestic architecture in the Scottish Highlands’, Glasgow University, 2002

The Architecture of the British Fisheries Society, The New Town Phenomenon, University of St Andrews, 2000



 

Reports & invited lectures


Architecture and Identity in Contemporary Scottish Housing, UPENN Visiting Lecture Series, 2009

Habitations of the Labourer: John Wood and the Cottage' The EIghteenth-Century House Conference, Saltram House, Plymouth, 2007

The Couplet and the Cottage, Eighteenth Century Narrative Consortium, University of Exeter, 2006

‘The Highland House Transformed: from Northern Scotland to Nova Scotia, 1700 – 1850’, Historic Preservation Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

‘The Improved Cottage’, Art History Research Seminars, University of Plymouth, 2006

‘Architecture on the Edge of Empire: Scottish domestic architecture in North America’, School of Humanities Seminars, University of Plymouth, 2005

‘Georgian Buildings in Devon’, South West and Beyond, public lecture series, University of Plymouth, 2005

‘The Architecture of the British Atlantic World’, History Dept Lecture Series, Dalhousie University, 2004

‘The First Architecture of Modernity: classicism in eighteenth century Scotland’, Art History Seminars, Glasgow University, 2003

‘Highland Build: the evolution of domestic architecture in the Scottish Highlands’, Art History Seminars, Glasgow University, 2002

‘Thomas Telford’s work for the British Fisheries Society’, The New Town Phenomenon, Scottish Universities Conference, St Andrews, 2000


 

Conferences organised
 

2011                       Fixed? - Architecture, Incompleteness and Change, School of Architecture, University of Plymouth

2010                       Transatlantic Exchanges, AHRC Network, Schools of Architecture and English, University of Plymouth

2009                       Separateness and Kinship: exchanges between Britain and New England, AHRC Network, Universities         of Plymouth and Exeter

2008                       British Architecture and the Vernacular, Annual Symposium of Society of Architectural Historians and Vernacular Architecture Group, Arts’ Workers Guild, London

2007                       The Eighteenth-Century House Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Vernacular Architecture Group and Georgian Group, Saltram House, Plymouth

 


Other academic activities
 University of Pennsylvania, European Conservation Summer School: Strawberry Hill, 2005 - 6

A two-year physical investigation of the historic interiors at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Twickeham, has now been succesfully completed (in partnership with the World Monuments Fund, Strawberry Hill Trust and Inskip and Jenkins Architects) . The findings of the students investigations have now been published by UPENN Press; Site, Cite, Sight: investigations at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, 2007.

The ECSS is run in partnership between the Historic Preservation Program at UPENN, under Prof Frank Matero, and the University of Plymouth, School of Architecture and Design, Daniel Maudlin.


University of Pennsylvania, European Conservation Summer School: Mount Edgcumbe ,Cornwall, 2007 - 9

Following the succesful completion of a two-year investigation at Strawberry Hill the ECSS has now moved to a new project investigating the eighteenth-century gardens houses and designed landscape at Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall (in aprtnership with English Heritage and the Cornwall County Council).


How We Built Britain, David Dimbley, BBC1, 2007: architectural history consultant

Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Stroud Bursary (2008
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