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3 unusual facts about Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain


Giles Worsley

In 1988 he won the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain’s Essay Medal.

Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

The foundation of the Society was prompted in 1955 by Turpin Bannister in discussion with Frank Jenkins, a British architect and scholar who worked with Bannister at the University of Illinois in the United States.

Initially it was conceived as being a chapter of the American Society of Architectural Historians partly because Bannister had been a founder-member in 1940.


Society of Architectural Historians

Similar and historically related organizations are found in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia/New Zealand: the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain; the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC); and the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.


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