Matthew Hardy

Dr Matthew Hardy is an architect and architectural historian working at the Prince's Foundation for Building Community. Matthew trained as an architect at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, holds a PhD in architectural history from the University of Wales, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His PhD research, based at the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, London, was a study of Hippocratic attitudes to climate and their influence on house planning in the classical tradition. Matthew has lectured and published widely, most recently editing the book The Venice Charter Revisited in 2011, and has taught on both course work and summer programmes, as a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History (Wales), and a Bachelor of Architecture (Adelaide), where he practiced as an architect for 15 years. Matthew is co-founder and co-editor of Journal of Urbanism, published by Routledge.