Frank Salmon

Since 2021 he has been Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Cambridge.  He is an architectural historian specialising in British and European architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Among his many publications are the book Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (winner of prizes in both the UK and USA) and the edited volume The Persistence of the Classical.  [c.100 words]  His most recent article is about James Gibbs's design for the Senate House at Cambridge, and he is currently at work editing volumes on Royalty and Architecture for Stolpe and Charles Barry's great London Reform Club (publisher yet to be established) as well as writing his own book on Italianate architrecture in Victorian Britain (probably Yale University Press).