Submitted by M.L. R. Grove on Mon, 21/07/2025 - 12:30
The Faculty is sad to report that Andrew Saint passed away peacefully on Thursday 16 July after a long fight with illness.
Andrew was appointed as a Professor in the Department in 1995, teaching architectural history. He had already a published Richard Norman Shaw (1976); Image of an Architect (1983); Towards a Social Architecture: the role of school-building in post-war England (1987); and Not Buildings but a Method of Building: the achievement of the post-war Hertfordshire school building programme (1990).
He was a leading authority on Victorian architecture and as a member of the Victorian Society (Vic.Soc.) a keen campaigner for the preservation of 19th century buildings. At Cambridge, he taught his doctoral students —among them James WP Campbell, Alex Bremner, Claudia Marx, Barnabus Calder, Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Christine Wall — to question orthodoxies, interrogate primary sources and write in clear accessible prose, creating a recognisable school of architectural history.
He continually challenged the concept that architects were as important as they liked to think they were and delighted in buildings for their own sake. His book, The Architect and the Engineer: a Study in Sibling Rivalry (2008) grew out of his teaching in the Department.
He left Cambridge in 2006 to return to the Survey of London, where his leadership saw it move to the University of London and Yale as a publisher and it produced a series of volumes before he retired. He continued to mark dissertations and give lectures in his retirement and was a friend and supporter of the Faculty.
He will be sadly missed.
