Christopher Tadgell
Christopher Ernest Tadgell (born 15 May 1939) is a British scholar of architectural history. He taught for over thirty years, and following retirement continues to research, photograph, and write about architecture. Education and academic career Tadgell studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He was awarded his PhD in 1974 upon the completion of his thesis on the Neoclassical architectural theorist Ange-Jacques Gabriel. Tadgell taught at the University of London and at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury, holding the F.L. Morgan Professor of Architectural Design position at the University of Louisville, and membership of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Tadgell has lectured on architectural history topics at Canterbury College, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Brown University, Harvard University, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Princeton. In 1983, Tadgell was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Between 2008 and 2016, he served as a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund. He is currently a trustee of the Academy of Ancient Music. Photographs by Tadgell are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art as part of their Conway Library digitisation project. Selected publications Blunt, Anthony, ed., Christopher