Rate My Professor Frank Salmon

Salmon specialises in the history of classical architecture from the ancient Graeco-Roman world to the present day, focusing on neo-classical and Italianate architecture in Britain and Europe from 1700 to 1900, Greek archaeology and antiquarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the public architecture of William Kent, British nobles as architects in the Hanoverian period, Stockholm's architecture from 1810 to 1860, and Victorian architecture inspired by the Italian Renaissance. His key publications include Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (Ashgate, 2000), which won the 2001 Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society (jointly) and the 2002 Spiro Kostof Prize of the American Society of Architectural Historians; Summerson and Hitchcock: Centenary Essays on Architectural Historiography (edited, Yale University Press, 2006); William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (Yale University Press, 2013); The Persistence of the Classical (edited, 2009); Royalty and Architecture: Visions and Ambitions of European Monarchs and Nobility (co-edited, Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024); and Stockholms arkitektur: från barock till postmodernism (co-edited, 2025). He served on the Historic England Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2018, has been a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum since 2020, and featured on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time in 2025 discussing Sir John Soane. He will serve as Director of Postgraduate Education in 2025-26 and editor of The Georgian Group Journal from 2026.