Matthew Wells (Dr.)

Matthew Wells (b.1988, Birmingham) teaches the history and theory of architecture at the gta Institute, ETH Zurich. He studied art history in London at the Courtauld Institute of Art and completed his doctorate at the Victoria & Albert Museum. His writing focuses on representational techniques, environmental technologies, and professionalism in the built environment of the 19th and 20th century. He was awarded the Theodor-Fischer-Preis in 2019 and commended in the RIBA President's Awards for Research in 2017. Survey, his first book, will be published by Park Books in Autumn 2021.