Christine Stevenson began teaching at The 91制片厂 in 2002, after ten years as a lecturer at the University of Reading and, previously, work as an academic editor at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the聽Grove Dictionary of Art. Research for her previous book, Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture,聽1660-1815聽(Yale, 2000) led imperceptibly into that for her most recent,聽The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London聽(Yale, 2013), which was short-listed for the Longman-History Today聽Book Prize, the William M. Berger Prize for British Art History, the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, and the Art Book Prize. It was runner-up (鈥楬onorable Mention鈥) for the Spiro Kostof Book Award (2016), given to a work in any 鈥榙iscipline related to聽urban history that has made the greatest contribution to our understanding of historical development and change鈥 by the Society of Architectural Historians (of North America).
Christine was in 2020 awarded a twelve-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship to support the completion of her new book, provisionally called Mechanick Races: The Production and Consumption of English Baroque Architecture. Almost thirty years ago, she began to wonder what a history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century English architecture would look like if we switched the focus from architects to the masons, bricklayers, carvers, plasterers, smiths, and painters who produced the structural and decorative elements that together made up a high-end building, and to the patrons who valued their products. She was then distracted by other projects, but this one is the result of that question.
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Current
- , 鈥樷淭he Epitome of the Kingdom鈥: Architecture, Identity and the Protean Politics of Irish Improvement c1600-c1740鈥
- Harry Adams, 鈥業magining a Modern Metropolis: George Dance the Younger鈥檚 Urban Planning for the City of London, 1768-1815鈥
Completed since 2015
- Philippa Potts,聽鈥淭apers to Candles鈥: Stuart Ambassadors in English Garden History鈥 (2016)
- Jenny Saunt, 鈥楧ecorative Plasterwork in England: Form, Materiality and Making from 1660 to 1700鈥 (with Professor Katie Scott; 2016)
- Emily Mann, 鈥楢rchitecture and the Negotiation of Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic World鈥 (2016)
- Anya Matthews, 鈥楾he Architectural Development and Political Uses of London鈥檚 Livery Halls, 1603-1684′ (2015)
Research interests
- Architecture and authority
- Architecture and memory
- Buildings and the body
- Festival and ephemeral architecture
- Topographical prints
Publications
Books and edited books
- Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2000
- Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie, ed. Jill A. Franklin, T. A. Heslop, and Christine Stevenson. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012
- The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2013
Selected essays and articles
- (forthcoming) 鈥橢nglish Builders in Translation鈥, in Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe, ed. Neil Kenny. London: British Academy, [2022]
- 鈥橫aking Empire Visible at the Second Royal Exchange, London鈥, in Court, Country, City: British Art and Architecture, 1660-1735, ed. Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn, and Martin Myrone. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre, 2016, pp. 51鈥72
- 鈥楢rchitectural Husbandry鈥, in聽Economy and Architecture, ed. Juliet Odgers, Mhairi McVicar, and Stephen Kite. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 73鈥85
- 鈥楾he Destruction of Cheap Cross, London (1643)鈥, in聽Architecture and Armed Conflict: The Politics of Destruction, ed. J. M. Mancini and Keith Bresnahan. London and New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 89鈥102
- 鈥榁antage Points in the Seventeenth-Century City鈥,聽London Journal聽33 (2008): pp. 217鈥32
Other current/ongoing professional activities
- member of the Fabric Advisory Committee, St Paul’s Cathedral
- member of the Publications Committee, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art