Personal Statement
Neil Jackson is an architect and architectural historian and Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture. He was the Charles Reilly Professor of Architecture from 2005 to 2020 and previously the Hoffman Wood Professor of Architectural Engineering at the University of Leeds (2000-2005). He has also taught architecture and architectural history at the University of Nottingham (1990-2000), at the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, California (1985-1990), and at the Polytechnic of the South Bank (1980-85). From 2010 to 2020, he was Professorial Research Associate in the Japanese Research Centre at SOAS (the School of African and Oriental Studies), University of London, and in 2023 he was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. In 2023 he was awarded an Ishibashi Foundation/Japan Foundation Fellowship; in 2013 was a Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, California; and in 2009-11 he received a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. He has published books on contemporary architecture (The Modern Steel House, 1996; Peter Womersley, 2023), California Architecture (Craig Ellwood, 2002; Pierre Koenig, 2007; Pierre Koenig: A View from the Archive, 2019), Japanese architecture (Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue, 2019), Victorian architecture (Nineteenth-century Bath, Architects and Architecture, 1991, 1998; Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town, 2010) and Arts and Crafts architecture (F W Troup, Architect, 1985). He has received research awards from, amongst others, the AHRC, the British Academy, the Graham Foundation, the RIBA, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and was awarded the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize (2003), now renamed the Art Book Prize, for his book on Craig Ellwood and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hawksmoor Essay Medal (1983) for his work on F W Troup. He has previously sat on the main committees of the Victorian Society (where for four years he was Chair of the Events Committee), DoCoMoMo UK and the Twentieth Century Society, as well as serving on the Post-war Listed Buildings Steering Group at English Heritage. He has been a Trustee for DoCoMoMo UK and the Twentieth Century Society and is currently a Trustee for the Victorian Society. From 2017 to 2021 he was President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

Research Overview
Neil Jackson writes on 19th and 20th century architecture, principally in Britain, America and Japan. His next book (with Robert Morton) will be a study of the life and work of Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a British architect often referred to as 'the father of modern Japanese architecture',