Peter Draper (architectural historian)

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Peter Draper (born 7 May 1943), is an architectural historian who has, over his long academic career, specialised in medieval architecture with a particular interest in English ecclesiastical building, primarily cathedrals, and the relationship between the architecture and its social, political and liturgical functions. Latterly his research has extended to Islamic architecture and its influence on Western traditions. [1] He is Professor emeritus and an honorary life member of Birkbeck College, University of London where he is currently Visiting Professor in the History of Architecture. [2] He has published numerous articles and books including The Formation of English Gothic : Architecture and Identity, for which he won two prestigious awards; the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2008 [3] and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 2009, awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. [4]

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Career

After graduating from King's College, Cambridge in 1964, Draper went onto study for a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art where he was taught by the renowned medievalist, Peter Kidson, whose "inspirational teaching", as Draper has said, motivated him into the study of architecture. [5] Draper spent his early career as a librarian in the Conway Library at the Courtauld before taking up a position as lecturer at Birkbeck College in 1969. [5] He undertook this role, becoming senior lecturer in 1993, until his retirement in 2004 when, as professor emeritus, he took up the position of Visiting Professor in the School of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck. [2] In 2004 he wrote the obituary in The Guardian for his friend and colleague, the art historian Linda Murray who specialised in Renaissance art. [6]

Draper was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1979. [7]

Other

Peter Draper often takes his own photographs to illustrate his writing [8] and, while he was at the Courtauld, he donated photographs to the Conway Library, whose archive, of primarily architectural images, is in the process of being digitised as part of the wider Courtauld Connects project. [9] One of those photographs, of a hoodmold, has been used in the Encyclopædia Britannica as an example of that particular piece of architecture. [10]

Public office

First World War Cathedral Centenary Fabric Repairs Fund, member of expert panel, 2014 [2]

English Heritage Commissioner, appointed 1 September 2011 [11]

British Archaeological Association, President 2007–10, [12] joint editor of the Medieval Conference Transactions, 1978–82, Honorary Secretary, 1968-72 [1]

Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain President 2000–4, [13] Honorary Editor of Architectural History , 1985-92 [1]

Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England, member 2001-11 [1]

Fabric Advisory Committee Southwark Cathedral, Chairman 1995–2008, [2] member 1992-2016 [14]

Books

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Peter Draper — Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London". www.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Kostof Book Award Recipients". www.sah.org. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain : The Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion" (PDF). Architectural History. 58, 2015: Front matter.
  5. 1 2 "Draper, Peter - Mapping Gothic France". mappinggothic.org. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  6. ↑ Draper, Peter (24 November 2004). "Obituary: Linda Murray". the Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  7. ↑ "Mr Peter Draper". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  8. ↑ "Holy Trinity, Meldreth: dating architectural features". Meldreth History. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  9. ↑ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  10. ↑ "Hoodmold | architecture". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  11. ↑ Department for Culture, Media and Sport, English Heritage: appointment of five new Commissioners, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/77882/PA_EH_appointments-AUG2011.pdf
  12. ↑ "Annual Report of the Council for the year ended 31 December 2018". Journal of the British Archaeological Association. 172 (1): 194–202. 1 January 2019. doi:10.1080/00681288.2019.1658930. ISSN   0068-1288.
  13. ↑ "Lecturer Biographies – London Art History Society". londonarthistorysociety.org.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  14. ↑ Southwark Cathedral, The Dean's Annual Report, 7 May 2017, https://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/media/1089/deans-report-2016.pdf
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