Dr. Timothy Brittain Catlin

Biography

Timothy Brittain-Catlin leads the University’s Part 2 apprenticeship in Architecture. He is an architect and architectural historian with years of teaching experience. After spending over a decade working in Britain and abroad on historic buildings and masterplanning, he returned to Cambridge in 2000 to research A.W.N. Pugin's domestic architecture in early Victorian England. His book 'The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century' was published in 2008, and he has written widely on houses, churches, and critiques for Architectural Review and other architecture magazines and journals. He was at the University of Kent from 2007 to 2020, where he twice won the Faculty of Humanities teaching award for innovative and effective team teaching. In 2020, he published 'The Edwardians', a radical appraisal of the subject after 40 years, and in 2023, he contributed to the Victorian Society’s acclaimed architect monograph series with a work on Edwin Rickards. He has been a member of Historic England’s national Advisory Committee from 2018 to 2025 and founded and chairs Lund Humphries’ editorial board on British architectural history.

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