Jonathan Hill
Hill in 2016
Born	(1958-06-17)17 June 1958 England
Died	1 November 2023(2023-11-01) (aged 65) London, England
Other names	Jonathan Michael Hill
Occupation	Architectural historian
Years active	20th–21st century
Known for	Directorship of the Architectural Design MPhil/PhD programme at UCL
Title	Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory [1]
Spouse	Izabela Wieczorek [2]
Parent	George Hill
Academic background
Alma mater	Architectural Association School of Architecture; University College London
Thesis	Creative users, illegal architects (2000)
Academic work
Discipline	Architecture
Sub-discipline	Architectural history
Institutions	The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Notable works	Weather Architecture (2012)
Website	ucl.ac.uk/bartlett

Jonathan Hill (17 June 1958 – 1 November 2023) was an English architect, architectural historian, editor and author. ^[2]

Biography

Jonathan Hill received a Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1983, a Master of Science degree from University College London in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of London in 2000. ^[1]

Hill joined University College London, part of the University of London, England, in 1989. He was Professor of Architecture and Visual Theory in the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. He led the Architecture MArch PG12 studio and was director of the Architectural Design MPhil/PhD programme, the first such programme to be established in the United Kingdom. ^[2]

Hill died from cancer on 1 November 2023, at the age of 65. ^{[3] [4]}

Work

Jonathan Hill published a number of books including: ^[5]

• The Illegal Architect (1998)
• Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users ( Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN  978-1134437054)
• Drawing Research (2006)
• Immaterial Architecture ( Routledge, 2006, ISBN  978-0415363242)
• Weather Architecture (Routledge, 2012, ISBN  978-0415668613) ^{[6] [7]}
• A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction (Routledge, 2015, ISBN  978-1138852297)
• The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019 ISBN  978-0429429644)

Hill edited the following books:

• Architecture: The Subject is Matter (Routledge, 2001, ISBN  978-0415235457
• Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User (Routledge, 2006, ISBN  978-0203983829)

Hill was also series co-editor of the Design Research in Architecture book series published by Ashgate. ^[8]

See also

• List of architectural historians
• List of University College London people

References

External links

• Jonathan Hill home page (archived 4 June 2023)
• Jonathan Hill – Architecture is a Time Machine video on YouTube

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