Kathryn A. Morrison | |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
Occupation | Architectural historian |
Awards | Alice Davis Hitchcock Award (2004) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh, Courtauld Institute of Art |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History of Art |
Kathryn A. Morrison (born 1959) is a British architectural historian.
Kathryn A. Morrison attended the University of Edinburgh and the Courtauld Institute of Arts. [1]
Morrison was a Senior Architectural Investigator with RCHME,English Heritage and Historic England. Until 2019 she was joint Head of Historic Places Investigation with Historic England. [1]
Photographs contributed by Morrison to the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art are currently being digitised as part of the Courtauld Connects project. [2]
Morrison served as Chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2009–2012. [3] She was Honorary Reviews Editor for the same society in 2007-2015 [4]
Morrison was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1995. [5]
She was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2004 for English Shops and Shopping, followed by the RIBA Book Prize for the same book in the following year. [4] Jessica Sewell noted that “The volume serves as a model for what can be learned from careful,in-depth observation of material culture in the form of the built environment [...] it provides readers with the tools to recognize the period and use of English shops from almost any era". [6] Claire Walsh commented that the book is “...an impressive body of material,particularly the collection of illustrations which includes photographs of current retail outlets,of surviving shops and shop fronts from the medieval period onwards”. [7]
With John Minnis,co-author,Morrison has been awarded several prizes for the Carscapes book:
Writing in Architectural Heritage journal,Neil Gregory noted that Carscapes is "a lavishly presented account that aims to document building types more often than not overlooked in general architecture histories". [10]
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