Scottish Architects Abroad

Architectural Heritage #II

by Deborah Howard

This volume explores the travels and employment of Scottish architects abroad - from the Americas to the Far East - between the 16th and 19th centuries. It describes how these architects discovered various artistic experiences which subsequently influenced architectural form in Scotland.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Deborah Howard is Professor Emerita of Architectural History and Director of Research in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She was Head of Department of History of Art from 2002-9 (with a sabbatical break in the middle). A graduate of Cambridge and of the Courtauld Institute of Art, she taught at University College London, Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute, before returning to Cambridge in 1992.

She has held visiting appointments at Yale (summer Term program in London), Harvard (Aga Khan program and the Villa I Tatti), the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Smith College, Princeton, and the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland.

In 2005 she established the Centre for Acoustic and Musical Experiments in Renaissance Architecture (CAMERA) in the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge.

She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.

Her principal research interests are the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.