Professor Nicholas Temple MA(Cantab) PhD DipArch (Cantab) Dist, RIBA, FRHistS, FRSA, Nicholas Temple was born in Australia and studied architecture at Cambridge University under Dalibor Vesely, Peter Carl, Joseph Rykwert and Dean Hawkes. He later won the Rome scholarship in architecture (1986-88), studying Early Christian architecture with specific focus on the development of the baptistery, and more recently was the Paul Mellon Rome Fellow (2012), researching on Sir William Chambers and the Reception of the Orient in 17th and 18th century Europe. He completed a PhD in 2000 on architecture and urbanism in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503-13). A qualified architect, Temple has been in both full-time and part-time architectural practice, in Cambridge, Sheffield and Leeds, during his various roles as an academic and teacher. He has taught and lectured in Europe, the USA and Asia, having been an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2000-2002) and a visiting lecturer at the Moscow Architectural Institute and the Ion Mincu Institute in Bucharest. Temple is interested in the historical and cultural dimensions of architecture and urbanism, with specific focus on Rome and the European city.
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