Deborah van der Plaat
Deborah van der Plaat has
recently completed a PhD on the English architect and theorist William Lethaby
(1857-1931) and specifically on his 1891 text Architecture, Mysticism and
Myth.
She is currently working on a URSP funded project which examines the
influence of the Renaissance allegory, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)
on theories of modern invention in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.
She has taught at the School of Architecture and the College of Fine Arts at the
University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia and is presently working as a
researcher and consultant.
Publications in "Wolkenkuckucksheim – Cloud-Cuckoo-Land – Vozdushnyi zamok":
Seeking a Practial Aesthetic.
The Reconciliation of Art and Science in the Architectural Writings of
William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931) (issue 1/01)