Iain Borden

Iain Borden (born in Oxford in 1962) is an architectural historian and urban commentator. He was educated at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UCL, University of London and UCLA, and is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Fellow of the RSA. Formerly head of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, during the 2000s, he is now Vice-Dean for Communications at the Bartlett, and Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture.

His wide-ranging historical and theoretical interests have led to publications on, among other subjects, critical theory and architectural historical methodology, the history of skateboarding as an urban practice, boundaries and surveillance, Henri Lefebvre and Georg Simmel, Renaissance urban space, architectural modernism and modernity, contemporary architectural practice and theory, film and architecture, gender and architecture, body spaces and the experience of space. He is currently working on a history of automobile driving in film as a spatial experience of cities, landscapes and architecture.

Bibliography

• Architecture and the Sites of History: Interpretations of Buildings and Cities, (Butterworth, 1995). Iain Borden and David Dunster (eds.).
• Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City, (Routledge, 1996). Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, Joe Kerr and Alicia Pivaro (eds.).
• Gender Space Architecture: an Interdisciplinary Introduction, (Routledge, 1999). Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden (eds.).
• InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories, (Routledge, 2000). Iain Borden and Jane Rendell (eds.).
• The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space, (MIT Press, 2001). Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, Joe Kerr with Alicia Pivaro (eds.).
• Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body, (Berg, 2001).
• Manual: the Architecture and Office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, (Birkhäuser, 2003).
• The City Cultures Reader, (Routledge, revised and expanded second edition, 2003). Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall with Iain Borden (eds.).
• Bartlett Works, (August Projects, 2003). Laura Allen, Iain Borden, Peter Cook and Rachel Stevenson (eds.).
• The Dissertation: an Architecture Student's Handbook, (Architectural Press, 2000, revised edition 2005). Iain Borden and Katerina Rüedi.
• Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America, (Rodopi, 2005). Felipe Hernandez, Mark Millington and Iain Borden (eds.).
• Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body, (Shin-yo-sha, 2006). Japanese edition, translation by Miho Nakagawa, Masako Saito and Tsunehiko Yabe.
• Bartlett Designs: Speculating With Architecture, (Wiley, 2009). Laura Allen, Iain Borden, Nadia O’Hare and Neil Spiller (eds).

External links

• Borden's profile at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture