de Jong, Sigrid

2024

Sigrid de Jong is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zürich. Her research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture and architectural theory in France, Britain, Germany and Italy, with a special interest in the human responses to buildings and the city, in the public realm, in discourse and design. She is currently finishing her book manuscript and ‘Habilitation’ on ‘Writing Theorizing, and Designing Architectural Experience in London and Paris’. She was awarded a Senior Fellowship (2020) from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, as well as a NWO VENI research grant (2016-19) in the Netherlands for the research for this book. She is the author of Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory (Yale 2014) and co-editor of the Companion to Eighteenth-Century Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell 2017), and has published articles in among others Art History, Architectural History, Architectural Histories, Dix-Huitième Siècle, Journal18, Profils, and The Journal of Architecture. She co-leads the SNSF-funded project 'Building Identity: Character in Architectural Debate and Design, 1750-1850' (2022-26). Within this project she researches character and personhood, with a focus on female agency in architecture.