Robert Tavernor

Robert Tavernor (born 1954) is an English Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and founding director of the Tavernor Consultancy in London. He is an architecture historian and urbanist, who has published widely on architecture and urban design, including the impact of tall buildings on historic cities. He has a long academic career, having been appointed to the Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh at age 36.

Tavernor was born in England and studied architecture in London (BA and Dip. Arch with Distinction, 1973–79), Rome (British Prix de Rome in Architecture at the British School at Rome, 1979–80), and at the University of Cambridge (St John's College, 1980–83, doctorate awarded 1985), where his PhD thesis, Concinnitas in the Architectural Theory and Practice of Leon Battista Alberti, was supervised by Joseph Rykwert. He is a registered architect and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (since 1985).

He has held multiple academic posts in the UK. He was formerly Forbes Professor of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh (1992–95), Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath (1995–2005), LSE Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (2005–2011) and Director of the LSE Cities Programme (2005–08). He held various visiting academic posts internationally, including Visiting Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, 1998), European Union Visiting Scholar in planning and conservation at the University of Texas A&M (2002); and Visiting Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2004), and the University of Bath (since 2009).

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