Matthew Hardy

Dr Matthew Hardy is Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Urbanism at The King’s Foundation, a Senior Associate Tutor in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. He is responsible for collaborative academic programmes in architecture and urbanism at the Foundation, working with several university partners.

He has lectured and published widely, editing the book The Venice Charter Revisited: Modernism, Conservation & Tradition in the 21st Century in 2011, and is co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Urbanism: International research in placemaking & urban sustainability, published by Routledge. Previously, he worked to establish INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism) from 2000-2010. He has taught on courses and summer programmes, including for INTBAU, the University of Notre Dame, and elsewhere.

He maintained a practice in architecture and urban design in Europe and Australia after registering as an architect in Australia in 1983, and holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Wales, a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Adelaide, and a Diploma from The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.