About
The HMARG is dedicated to developing a historical materialist understanding of the history of architecture. We aim to explore how economic and social structures have influenced the past and present development of our discipline. We founded this research group to situate ourselves as historians of architecture and to formulate a position which we believe is absent in the current debate.
Current members of the group:
Kirti Durelle teaches design and history of architecture in London. He studied in Sheffield and London, and has previously practiced as a structural engineer and architect. His ongoing doctoral research at UCL seeks to develop a historical materialist understanding of landscape, particularly in French colonial contexts during the transition to capitalism.
Alessandro Toti is a historian of architecture trained in Rome and London in architectural design, urban planning and history of architecture. He holds a PhD degree from the Bartlett, UCL, in History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, with a research focus on West Berlin Marxist architecture groups at the turn of the 1970s.