Iain Borden Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture
	"Skateboarding to Architecture"

Dr. Iain Borden is Director of the School of Architecture, Director of Architectural History and Theory and Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Educated at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UCL, University of London and UCLA, Iain is an architectural historian and urban commentator. His wide-ranging historical and theoretical interests have lead to publications on, among other subjects, critical theory and architectural historical methodology, the history of skateboarding as an urban practice, boundaries and surveillance, Henri Lefebvre and Georg Simmel, Renaissance urban space, architectural modernism and modernity, contemporary architectural practice and theory, film and architecture, gender and architecture, body spaces and the experience of space. His photographs have been widely published both in his own publications and those by other historians and architects. Iain is a frequent contributor to conferences and exhibitions and has lectured widely around the world. He has made frequent appearances on television and radio in the UK and abroad, and is currently working on a television documentary about skateboarding and urban space. Iain is author of Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body, (Berg, 2001), The Dissertation: an Architecture Student's Handbook, (Architectural Press, 2000) and Manual: the Architecture and Office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, (Birkhäuser, 2003). He is has edited or co-edited several other books including: Bartlett Works, (August Projects, 2003), The City Cultures Reader, (Routledge, revised and expanded second edition, 2003), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space, (MIT Press, 2001), InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories, (Routledge, 2000), The City Cultures Reader, (Routledge, 2000), Gender Space Architecture: an Interdisciplinary Introduction, (Routledge, 1999), Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City, (Routledge, 1996) and Architecture and the Sites of History: Interpretations of Buildings and Cities, (Butterworth, 1995). [source credit: bartlett.ucl.ac.uk]