Gavin Stamp
| Gavin Stamp | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gavin Mark Stamp March 15, 1948 |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Piloti |
| Education |
Dulwich College, London (Independent school) Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Architectural historian, teacher, writer and commentator |
| Known for | Books, newspaper articles and television appearances |
Gavin Mark Stamp (born 15 March 1948) is a British writer and architectural historian.
Stamp was educated at Dulwich College in South London from 1959 to 1967 as part of the "Dulwich Experiment", then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD degree in 1978 with a thesis entitled George Gilbert Scott, junior, architect; 1839-1897.
After a career of architectural polemic, lecturing and publishing Stamp taught architectural history from 1990, latterly as Professor, at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art. He bought and restored the house that Alexander 'Greek' Thompson built for himself in Moray Place, Glasgow. In 2003, he resigned from the school and reverted to being an independent scholar and lecturer. He writes the "Nooks & Corners" architecture criticism column in Private Eye under the pseudonym Piloti He regularly contributes essays on architecture to the fine arts and collector's magazine Apollo. Stamp is a long-standing Trustee and former Chairman of the Twentieth Century Society, a registered charity which promotes the appreciation of modern architecture and the conservation of Britain’s architectural heritage. He has also been active in the Victorian Society in various capacities over five decades.
Stamp has presented a number of programmes about architecture for Channel 5. In 2005 he presented Pevsner’s Cities: Liverpool and Pevsner’s Cities: Newcastle and in 2006 Pevsner's Cities: Oxford; each programme profiled the cities with reference to the writings of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. In 2007 he presented a five-part architectural travel series Gavin Stamp’s Orient Express. Stamp travelled by train along the original Orient Express route, stopping off on the way to look at architecture and to see how the history of Eastern Europe is told in its buildings.
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