Dana Arnold is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. Her work focuses on histories and historiographies of architecture and urbanism in relation to social and cultural theory. She is the author of
The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (1998);
Re-presenting the Metropolis (2000);
Reading Architectural History (2002);
Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century (2006);
The Spaces of the Hospital:
Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820 (2013); and
Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past (2020). Her many edited and co-edited volumes include
Architecture as Experience (2004);
Rethinking Architectural Historiography (2006);
Biographies and Space (2008);
Interdisciplinary Encounters (2014); and
Paris-Londres (2016).
Arnold has held research fellowships at the Getty Research Institute, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge. She was a Guest Professor at the International Research Centre for Chinese Cultural Heritage Conservation, Faculty of Architecture, Tianjin University (2009–2019) and Honorary Professor at the Architecture Faculty, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (2007–2015). Her latest book, British Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2024) is a significant re-working of the subject offering new insights into the fluid relationship between architecture and culture.