Dennis Sharp

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 Dennis Sharp
Title MA, AADip, RIBA
Born 1933; England, United Kingdom
Died May 6, 2010; England, United Kingdom
Education Architectural Association School of Architecture
Firms Dennis Sharp Architects (DSA)
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  • Dennis Sharp. Housing Rehabilitation: Rochdale, CTNW, Manchester, 1966
  • Dennis Sharp. Modern Architecture and Expressionism. Longman London, Brazillier New York, 1966
  • Dennis Sharp. A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Architecture. 1st edition, Little Brown & Co, 1972. ISBN 0821204254.
  • Dennis Sharp. Form and Function: A Source Book for the History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939
  • Dennis Sharp. The Picture Palace and Other Buildings for the Movies. Hugh Evelyn, London, 1976. (Praeger; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (1969), ISBN 0238788857.)
  • Dennis Sharp. Sources of Modern Architecture: A Critical Bibliography. 1967, 1970, 1981. (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1981. ISBN 0246112182.)
  • Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. ISBN 082302539X.
  • Dennis Sharp. Santiago Calatrava, Bookart, London, 1992
  • Dennis Sharp. Bauhaus, Dessau: Walter Gropius. Phaidon, 1993. 2002: ISBN 0714842176. (with Walter Gropius)
  • Dennis Sharp, ed. Santiago Calatrava. Taylor & Francis, 2nd edition, 1994. ISBN 041919570X.
  • Dennis Sharp, ed. Santiago Calatrava (Architectural Monographs No 46). Academy Editions, London, 1996. ISBN 185490454X.
  • Dennis Sharp. Kisho Kurokawa: From the Age of the Machine to the Age of Life, Bookart, London, 1998
  • Dennis Sharp. Kisho Kurokawa, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Opus 24). Edition Axel Menges, 1999. ISBN 3930698242.
  • Dennis Sharp. The Modern Movement in Architecture: Selections from the DOCOMOMO Registers, 010, Rotterdam, 2000
  • Dennis Sharp. The Rationalists and the Anti-Rationalists, Butterworth, 2000. (with Nikolaus Pevsner and JM Richards)
  • Dennis Sharp. Architecture in Photography: Paolo Rosselli, Skira, Milan, 2001
  • Dennis Sharp. Kisho Kurokawa, Oita Stadium, Oita, Japan (Opus 46). Edition Axel Menges, 2002. ISBN 3930698463.
  • Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History. 3rd edition, Images, 2002. ISBN 1864700858.
  • Dennis Sharp, ed. Richard England: Architect as Artist. BookART, London, 2007. ISBN 0947648054.
  • Dennis Sharp & Sally Rendel. Connell Ward & Lucas: Modern Movement Architects in England 1929-1939. Frances Lincoln, 2008. ISBN 0711227683.


Dennis also translated many books:

  • Herrmann Muthesius. The English House. Granada, 1979 (Schlegel Thieck Award 1980)
  • Manfredi Tafuri Theories and History of Architecture. Granada, 1976, (with Giorgio Verrecchia)
  • Glass Architecture by Paul Scheerbart, translated. London, New York, 1972
  • Alpine Architecture by Bruno Taut. London, New York, 1972

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Professional Appointments

  • 2003-04 Consultant/ Adviser on British PFI Schools for the Japan PFI Association.
  • 1994-2010 Nominator: Aga Khan Award for Architecture since its inception.
  • 1999-2010 Chairman: DOCOMOMO UK.
  • 1994-00 Member AA Council and Hon Secretary.
  • 1991-93 RIBA Vice President (and National Council member 1990-94;1996-99) Chair: Architecture Center Committee.
  • 1977-2010 Director: CICA (International Committee of Architectural Critics)
  • 1991 Professor and Academic Adviser: International Academy of Architecture
  • 1966-2010 Member: Society of Authors.

Academic Appointments Dennis has held many academic posts as Visiting Critic, Lecturer or External Examiner at UCL, RCA, North London Poly, Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield Universities. In addition he has been Visiting Professor at many universities:

  • 1959-68 Lecturer in Architecture: Liverpool and Manchester Universities
  • 1968-82 Head of History, Arts and History Dept.(1968-72) and Senior Lecturer, AA School of Architecture London
  • 1980 Visiting Professor: Columbia University, NY
  • 1984 Visiting Professor: Adelaide University SA
  • 1968-70 Visiting Professor: Royal University of Malta
  • 1998 Visiting Professor: University of Otaniemi Finland
  • 1996-99 Special Professor in Architecture, University of Nottingham

Editorial Appointments

  • 1962-70 NW Correspondent Architectural Design
  • 1964-70 Editor Architecture North West
  • 1967-83 AA General Editor. AA Quarterly, AA Papers
  • 1998-2010 Executive Editor: World Architecture: Journal of the International Academy of Architecture) and International Architecture and Construction
  • 2000-2010 L'Architettura Rome London Correspondent

Higher Education

  • 1960-63 Leverhulme Research Fellow in Architecture, University of Liverpool School of Architecture
  • 1954-57 Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
  • 1951-54 Articled pupil, Luton School of Art.
  • 1945-51 Bedford Modern School.

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