Richard Brook

Professor Richard Brook is a registered architect and architectural historian at Lancaster University, serving as Professor of Architecture, Director of Research, PGR Lead, and Humanities Lead. He qualified as an architect in 2007 after eight years in practice with BDP in Manchester.

• Current roles include teaching modules ARCH104, ARCH304, and ARCH505
• PhD from University of Manchester (2012-2018) on 'regionality' in pre-digital architecture
• REF2021 Impact Case Study contributor

His research focuses on post-war British architecture (1945-1980), especially renewal cities reconstructed after 1959. Key interests include:

• Landscape of post-war infrastructure
• Interplay of planning legislation and commercial investment
• Digital preservation of architectural heritage
• State structures enabling infrastructure development
• New AI applications in architecture
• Historical analysis of 'mainstream modernism'

Current projects:

• E3 Project: Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure (2022-2024)
• IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (2022-2027)
• Roger Booth papers cataloguing (Lancashire County Architect, 1962-1983)
• Fieldwork documented at mainstreammodern.co.uk

Professional affiliations:

• Advisor to Modernist Society
• Twentieth Century Society Casework Committee
• Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
• European Architectural History Network
• DoCoMoMo UK
• Architectural Humanities Research Association