Professor Jane Rendell BA (Hons), Dip Arch, MSc, PhD is Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL. An architectural designer and historian, art critic and writer, she is author of Site-Writing (forthcoming 2010), Art and Architecture (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002) and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007) Spatial Imagination (2005), The Unknown City (2001), Intersections (2000), Gender Space Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995).

She is on the Editorial Board for ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), the Happy Hypocrite, the Issues, and the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain. She was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College 2004-8 and chair of the RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2005 and 2007. In 2006 she was a research fellow at CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge and received an honorary degree from the University College of the Creative Arts. She has been a recipient of AHRC funding in 2005 for the collaborative project Spatial Imagination, and in 2008 for research leave to complete her Site-Writing book.

Her work over the past ten years has explored various interdisciplinary intersections: feminist theory and architectural history, fine art and architectural design, autobiographical writing and criticism. She gives talks at galleries such as the Barbican, the Tate and the Whitechapel, and has recently written essays for artists and architects, such as Daniel Arsham, Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Janet Hodgson and Michael Pinsky; galleries such as the Hayward, the Serpentine, the Wapping Project and the BALTIC and projects such as the Estonian Pavilion, Gaspipe, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2008, and Art Incorporated, Kunstmuseet Koge Skitsesamling, Denmark, 2008.

March 2010