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Dr James W. P. Campbell, architect and architectural
historian, was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
He studied architecture at the University
of Cambridge (Trinity College,
matr.1987), graduating with a BA in 1990 and a Post-Graduate Diploma in
Architecture in 1993 and became a registered architect and a chartered member
of the RIBA in 1995. After working variously in Peterborough,
London, the United
States and Hong Kong, he returned to Cambridge in 1996 to do a PhD. He was
supervised by Anthony Pagett Baggs
FSA (archaeologist and long-time architectural editor of the Victoria County
Histories) and Professor Andrew Saint (architectural historian, author of Norman Shaw, Image of an Architect etc). He was elected to a Rouse Ball
Studentship in Trinity in 1998 and completed his PhD within three years in
1999.
He was made
Director of Studies in History of Art in QueensÕ
College in the same year while John Gage was on sabbatical. Professor Gage
retired in 2000 and Dr Campbell took on the role permanently and was elected
a Bye Fellow of the college. At the time he was working on the two-year
post-doctoral research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council on seventeenth-century brickwork which resulted in his first book, Brick a World History. At the end of
that project he returned to practice as Director of Conservation at Finch
Forman Architects in Islington but remained Director of Studies in History of
Art and retained his Bye Fellowship at QueensÕ, teaching in Cambridge one day
a week. In 2005 he was made a University Lecturer in the Department of
Architecture, in Cambridge,
retired from practice and became a full-time academic. He was promoted to
Senior Lecturer in 2009.
As well as his
responsibilities in college, he is also a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries, Chairman of the Construction History Society, and Director of
the Cambridge Historic Buildings Group. He also sits on the Architects
Advisory Panel of the London DAC and the Georgian Group Casework Panel.
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