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Professor Stephen Kite
BA BArch (Hons) Phd RIBA FRSA FRHistS
Emeritus Professor
Overview
I am an Emeritus Professor since 2018. My research explores the history and theory of architecture and its wider links to visual culture. My most recent book is Shaping the Surface: Materiality and the History of British Architecture 1840-2000 (2022). Prior to that, my architectural and cultural study of the phenomenon of shadow: Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture (2017), was widely and positively reviewed. I have also written significant monographs on two of the major British art-writers, John Ruskin and Adrian Stokes (Stokes was the subject of my Phd - 2002). Aside from book-length publications, and edited collections, my research has been widely disseminated in international conference presentations, refereed journals, articles, and book chapters. I have been an editor of Architectural Research Quarterly, a referee for a number of learned journals, a reader for several publishers, and a peer-reviewer for the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust. I always sought to make strong connections between my history-theory research, teaching, and doctoral supervison, and my architectural design-studio Units in my various posts at Newcastle University (where I was BA Degree Programme Director) and, from 2007, Cardiff University (where I served as BSc Convenor, and Chair of the Architectural History-Theory Group). Prior to entering the academy in 1995 I enjoyed many productive years in full-time architectural practice - mostly in London. I am a member of the RIBA, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Companion of the John Ruskin charity, The Guild of St George.
Publication
2023
- Kite, S. 2023. Stephen Kite on Louis I. Kahn’s tangled, deliberating, and fraught design procedures inviting numerous paths of self-exploration and quiet contemplation - Louis Kahn The Importance of a Drawing Edited by Michael Merrill Zurich, Lars Müller, 2021 512 pp. Price 90 Euro (hb). arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 27(4), pp. 362-364. (10.1017/S1359135524000174)
- Kite, S. 2023. Stephen Kite on Louis I. Kahn’s tangled, deliberating, and fraught design procedures inviting numerous paths of self-exploration and quiet contemplation - Louis Kahn The Importance of a Drawing Edited by Michael Merrill Zurich, Lars Müller, 2021 [Book Review]. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 27(4), pp. 362-364. (10.1017/S1359135524000174)
- Kite, S. 2023. 'In the womb yet out-of-doors': penumbra and the spaces in-between. Architectural Design 93(4), pp. 30-37. (10.1002/ad.2951)
- Kite, S. 2023. Invited Talk: shaping the surface: phases in the materiality of British Architecture 1840-2000. YouTube: Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhdEzwOwjEI&list=PLH1LjB-bEnsuv1lYaXMtZhRUxAs8AciPY&index=1&t=2168s
2022
- Kite, S. 2022. Shaping the surface: Materiality and the history of British architecture 1840-2000. Bloomsbury.
- Kite, S. 2022. 'Think first of the walls': surfaces of generosity - William Morris, Philip Webb and the arts and crafts domestic interior. In: McVicar, M., Kite, S. and Drozynski, C. eds. Generosity and Architecture. Routledge, pp. 26-36.
- McVicar, M., Kite, S. and Drozynski, C. eds. 2022. Generosity and architecture. Routledge.
2021
- Kite, S. 2021. Shadow makers: episodes in the cultural history of shadows in architecture. Presented at: Northern Architectural History Socierty Lecture, Virtual, 13 October 2021. Venue: Northern Architectural History Society
- Kite, S. 2021. From earth veil to wall veil: Ruskin, Morris, Webb, and the arts and crafts surface. In: Freeman, K. and Hughes, T. eds. Ruskin's Ecologies: Figures of Relation from Modern Painters to the Storm Cloud. Courtauld Books Online, pp. 117-136., (10.33999/2021.61)
2019
- Kite, S. 2019. Surfaces of generosity; Morris, Webb and the arts and crafts domestic interior. Presented at: Ruskin and Ecology, Lancaster University, 21 Feb 2019. pp. -.
- Kite, S. 2019. Savage shadows, shadows of refinement: shadow, surface, and light in the churches of Street and Bodley. Presented at: SAHGB Symposium: Architecture and Light, St George's Church, Bloomsbury, London, 22 June 2019. pp. -.
2018
- Kite, S. 2018. 'Think first of the walls': surfaces of generosity: Morris, Webb, and the arts and crafts domestic interior. Presented at: Generosity, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, 27-29 June 2018.
2017
- Kite, S. 2017. Shadow makers: A cultural history of shadows in architecture. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Kite, S. 2017. Shaping the darks: Ruskin's 'energetic shadow'. In: Brittain-Catlin, T., De Maeyer, J. and Bressani, M. eds. Gothic Revival Worldwide: A W N Pugin's Global Influence. Leuven University Press, pp. 228-239.
- Kite, S. 2017. Ruskin and Victorian Gothic. In: Bressani, M. and Contrandriopoulos, C. eds. The Companions to the History of Architecture, Volume 3, Ninteeenth Century Architecture. John Wiley
2016
- Kite, S. 2016. Shadows of Venice: Adrian Stokes, Aldo Rossi and 'interior darkness'. In: Hendrix, J. S. and Holm, L. E. eds. Architecture and the Unconscious. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 201-220.
- Kite, S. 2016. Louis Kahn: the crossing of silence and shadow. Presented at: The Place of Silence: Experience, Environment and Affect, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, 22-24 June 2016.
2015
- Kite, S. 2015. Shadow makers: a cultural history of shadows in architecture [Invited lecture]. Presented at: Visiting Speakers Series, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester, UK, 13 October 2015.
- Kite, S. 2015. The bricks of Venice: material and craft in John Ruskin's political economy. In: Odgers, J., McVicar, M. and Kite, S. eds. Economy and Architecture. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 237-247.
- Odgers, J., McVicar, M. and Kite, S. eds. 2015. Economy and architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
- Kite, S. 2015. 'The art of shaddowes': The baroque of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Presented at: USA Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, IL, 15-29 April 2015.
2014
- Kite, S. 2014. Shadows of the unconscious: the Venice of Adrian Stokes and Aldo Rossi. Presented at: 67th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Austin, TX, 9-13 April 2014.
- Kite, S. 2014. Contemporary Arab design: dynamism, cynicism and neon caligraphy. Architectural Review 235(1406), pp. 117-119.
- Kite, S. 2014. Building Ruskin's Italy - watching architecture. Presented at: Northern Architectural History Society, Newcastle, UK, 19 February 2014.
- Kite, S. 2014. Ghosts of the primitive - the Oxford Library Group. In: Bird, R. ed. Celebrating 50 years of the Bodleian Law Library 1964-2014. Witney: Bodleian Law Library, pp. 146-148.
- Kite, S. 2014. Shadows of effect, of power, and of the unconscious. Presented at: Sensing Architecture Symposium, Royal Academy, London, 29 March 2014.
2013
- Kite, S. 2013. Building and the graphic arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA. Tate Papers 20(19 Nov)
- Kite, S. 2013. Shaping the darks - Ruskin's 'energetic shadow'. Presented at: Ruskin Research Seminar Series 2013-2014, Lancaster University, UK, 21 November 2013.
- Kite, S. 2013. Colin St John Wilson and the independent group: Art, science and the psychologising of space. Journal of Visual Culture 12(2), pp. 245-261. (10.1177/1470412913491069)
- Kite, S. 2013. Building and the graphic arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA. Presented at: Art Writers in Britain: Adrian Stokes, Tate Britain, London, UK, 24 May 2013.
2012
- Kite, S. 2012. Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching architecture. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Kite, S. 2012. Building texts and reading fabrics: Metaphor, memory, and material in John Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice'. Library Trends 61(2), pp. 418-439. (10.1353/lib.2012.0040)
- Kite, S. 2012. 'I want them all to come together': Colin St John Wilson and the Independent Group. Presented at: BUNK: Celebrating 60 Years of the Independent Group, ICA, London, UK, 26-27 April 2012.
- Kite, S. 2012. Colin St John Wilson: 'conspicuous mass' and the architecture of 'carved' modelling. Presented at: DOCOMOMO UK Spring 2012 Lectures: Brick, DOCOMOMO UK, London, UK, 17 April 2012.
- Kite, S. 2012. William McKeown's 'The Role Of Venetian Renaissance Painting In John Ruskin's Utopian Theories: A Sociopolitical History Of Art' (Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011)[Book Review]. The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 7, pp. 60-63.
- Kite, S. 2012. Shaping the darks: Ruskin's 'energetic shadow'. Presented at: New Directions in Gothic Revival Studies Worldwide, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 12-14 July 2012.
2011
- Kite, S. 2011. "Examining the knots .. counting the bricks": John Ruskin's innocent eye. In: Adler, G., Brittain-Catlin, T. and Fontana-Giusti, G. eds. Scale, Imagination and Practice in Architecture. Routledge, pp. 45-53.
- Kite, S., McVicar, M. T. and Odgers, J. A. eds. 2011. Economy : abstracts. Cardiff: Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture.
- Kite, S. 2011. The Bricks of Venice: material and craft in John Ruskin's political economy. Presented at: Economy Conference, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, UK, 6-8 July 2011.
2010
- Kite, S. 2010. Softs and hards: Colin St. John Wilson and the contested visions of 1950s London. In: Crinson, M. and Zimmerman, C. eds. Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond. Studies in British Art Vol. 21. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 55-77.
- Kite, S. 2010. John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972): Venice and the architecture of colour-form. Presented at: Colour and Light in Architecture - International Conference, IUAV University of Venice, Faculty of Architecture, Venice, Italy, 11-12 November 2010 Presented at Zennaro, P. ed. Verona: Knemesi pp. 32-38.
- Kite, S. 2010. 'Even pavements in Verona are marble': John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes and the stones of Verona. In: Dutoit, A., Odgers, J. and Sharr, A. eds. Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture. London: Routledge, pp. 18-30.
- Kite, S. 2010. John Ruskin and Adrian Stokes: Venice and the architecture of colour-form. Presented at: International Conference "Colour and Art in Architecture", Venice, 11-12 November 2010 Presented at Zennaro, P. ed.Colour and Light in Architecture International Conference, 11-12 November, 2010. Verona: Knemesi pp. 32-38.
- Kite, S. 2010. Ruskin's 'Careful Watchfulness': drawing towards Venice-1845. In: Hanley, K. and Sdegno, E. eds. Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth Century Cultural Travel. Le bricole Vol. 19. Venice: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, pp. 151-166.
- Kite, S. 2010. 'Examining the knots .. counting the bricks' - John Ruskin's innocent eye. Presented at: SCALE: 7th AHRA International Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 19-20 November 2010.
2009
- Kite, S. 2009. Adrian Stokes: An architectonic eye. London: Legenda.
- Kite, S. 2009. "Watchful Wandering": John Ruskin's Strayings in Venice. Journal of Architectural Education 62(4), pp. 106-114. (10.1111/j.1531-314X.2009.01011.x)
- Kite, S. 2009. A Prime Aspect of the Body: Adrian Stokes. Presented at: Architecture and Phenomenology, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, 26-29 June 2009.
2008
- Kite, S. 2008. "Filled with thoughts of flowing leafage and fiery life": John Ruskin's Venice - Fragility and Flux. Architectural Theory Review 13(3), pp. 274-287. (10.1080/13264820802488069)
- Kite, S. 2008. Writing the Relief: Adrian Stokes, Ben Nicholson and the architectonics of surface. Word and Image 24(1), pp. 51-76.
- Kite, S. 2008. Mountain and Paradise: Wall and Court, Space and Transition, in Iran and Oman. Presented at: Zagros Traditional Settlements: International Conference, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, 30 April - 2 May 2008.
- Kite, S. 2008. 'Careful watchfulness' - Drawing towards Venice - 1845. Presented at: Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth Century Cultural Travel, Venice, Italy, 25-27 September 2008.
- Kite, S. 2008. Building Texts and Reading Fabrics: Metaphor, Memory and Material in John Ruskin's Stones of Venice. Presented at: Analogous Spaces - Architecture and the Space of Information, Intellect and Action, Ghent University, Belgium, 14-17 May 2008.
2007
- Kite, S. 2007. Can quality be managed and assured in architecture? Issues of qualification and quantification. Architectural Research Quarterly 11(3-4), pp. 195-197. (10.1017/S1359135500000695)
- Kite, S. 2007. Watchful wandering - Ruskin's synechdocal representation of Venice. Presented at: Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12-14 April 2007.
- Kite, S. 2007. 'Filled with thoughts of flowing leafage and fiery life': John Ruskin's Venice - fragility and flux. Presented at: Architecture in the Space of Flows Conference, Newcastle, UK, June 2007.
- Kite, S. 2007. Poetry and Tradition: the vernacular architecture of Oman. Architecture Plus 14, pp. 130-133.
- Kite, S. 2007. Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice. In: Sweanarton, M., Troiani, I. and Webster, H. eds. The Politics of Making. Routledge, pp. 170-182.
- Kite, S. 2007. 'A deep and necessary commerce': Venice and the architecture of colour-form. In: Bann, S. ed. The Coral Mind. Adrian Stokes's Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis. Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 37-58.
- Kite, S. 2007. 'Even pavements in Verona are marble': material qualities, John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes, and the stones of Verona. Presented at: Architecture and Quality, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK, 4-6 July 2007.
2006
- Kite, S. 2006. Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice. Presented at: Architecture and Politics: Architectural Humanities Research Association, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK, 17-18 November 2006.
- Kite, S. 2006. Adrian Stokes and the aesthetic position: envelopment and otherness. In: Winer, J., Anderson, J. and Danze, E. eds. Psychoanalysis and Architecture. Annual of Psychoanalysis Vol. 33. Mental Health Resources, pp. 139-170.
- Kite, S. 2006. The primitive surface: carving, modelling, marking and transformation. In: Odgers, J., Samuel, F. and Sharr, A. eds. Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 194-206.
2005
- Menin, S. and Kite, S. 2005. An architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Kite, S. and Menin, S. 2005. Philosophy and Psychology of the Aedicule - John Summerson and Colin St John Wilson. Ptah 1, pp. 11-23.
- Kite, S. and Menin, S. 2005. Towards a New Cathedral: Mechanolatry and Metaphysics in the milieu of Colin St John Wilson. Architectural Research Quarterly 9(1), pp. 81-90. (10.1017/S1359135505000102)
2004
- Kite, S. 2004. The primitive surface: carving, marking and transformation. Presented at: Primitive, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, September 2004.
- Kite, S. and Menin, S. 2004. Philosophy and psychology of the aedicule - John Summerson and Colin St John Wilson. Presented at: Congress CATH 2004: Philosophy of Architecture - Architecture of Philosophy, National Museum of Photography Film and Television, Bradford, UK, July 2004.
- Kite, S. 2004. Architecture as Techne: Adrian Stokes, Ezra Pound and the Art of the Machine. Paideuma: studies in American and British Poetry, 33(1), pp. 33-55.
- Kite, S. 2004. The ‘architecture of colour-form’: Adrian Stokes and Venice. Architectural Research Quarterly 8(2), pp. 159-169. (10.1017/S1359135504000193)
2003
- Kite, S. 2003. Adrian Stokes and the aesthetic position: psychoanalysis and the spaces in-between. Presented at: Architecture and Psychoanalysis Symposium, Yale University School of Architecture, October 2003.
- Kite, S. 2003. South Opposed to East and North: A study in the aesthetics and historiography of Orientalism. Art History 26(4), pp. 505 - 533. (10.1111/j.0141-6790.2003.02604002.x)
- Kite, S. 2003. Landscapes of negation, landscapes of virtue, Adrian Stokes and the political-ethical landscapes of Hyde Park and Italy. In: Dorrian, M. and Rose, G. eds. Deterritorialisations..: Revisioning Landscapes and Politics. London: Black Dog, pp. 130 - 141.
- Kite, S. 2003. 'South Opposed to East and North': Adrian Stokes and Josef Strzygowski. A study in the aesthetics and historiography of Orientalism. Art History 26(4), pp. 505-533. (10.1111/1467-8365.2604002)
- Kite, S. 2003. Modernity and the threshold: psychologising the places in-between. In: Menin, S. ed. Constructing Place. Routledge, pp. 177-188.
2002
- Kite, S. 2002. Adrian Stokes; the architecture of colour-form. Presented at: Adrian Stokes Centenary Conference, University of Bristol, UK, June 2002.
- Kite, S. 2002. Modernity and the threshold: psychologising the places in-between. Presented at: Constructing Place, Newcastle University, Bishop Auckland, April 2002.
- Kite, S. 2002. Warwick Fox ed. (2001) Ethics and the Built Environment [Book Review]. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 45(2), pp. 304. (10.1080/09640560220116350)
- Kite, S. 2002. Introduction to Stones of Rimini. In: Stokes, A. ed. The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini. Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 1 - 18.
- Kite, S. 2002. The Poetics of Oman's Traditional Architecture: towards an aesthetic interpretation. The Journal of Oman Studies 12, pp. 133-155.
- Kite, S. 2002. Adrian Stokes. In: Murray, C. ed. Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century. Routledge Key Guides Routledge, pp. 223-228.
- Kite, S. 2002. Critical Introduction to 'Stones of Rimini'. In: Stokes, A. ed. The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini. Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 1-18.
2001
- Kite, S. 2001. Landscapes of negation; landscapes of Virtu. Presented at: Landscapes and Politics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-25 March 2001.
- Kite, S. 2001. Architecture as Virtù: Adrian Stokes, Ezra Pound and the ethics of 'Patterned Energy'. The Journal of Architecture 6(1), pp. 81-96. (10.1080/13602360010029359)
2000
- Kite, S. 2000. The poetics of Oman's traditional architecture: towards an aesthetic interpretation. Presented at: Historic Oman Conference, British Museum, London, UK, 17-19 July 2000.
- Kite, S. 2000. The tension of outwardness: wall-face and meaning in the city. Presented at: Association of Art Historians Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-9 April 2000.
- Kite, S. 2000. The Urban Landscape of Hyde Park: Adrian Stokes, Conrad and the topos of negation. Art History 23(2), pp. 205-232. (10.1111/1467-8365.00206)
1999
- Kite, S. 1999. Courtyard and Community. A study in assessment and evaluation. In: Transactions on Architectural Education 06.Design evaluation in Architectural Education. Structures, Design Projects and Pedagogy. European Association for Architectural education, pp. 81-88.
- Kite, S. 1999. 'The glory of new-found space': tectonics and spatiality in Adrian Stokes's Pisanello. The Journal of Architecture 4(3), pp. 297-318. (10.1080/136023699373855)
- Kite, S. 1999. Architecture as Virtu and Techne. Presented at: Ethics of Building Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Easter 1999.
1996
- Kite, S. 1996. Courtyard and community: a study in assessment and evaluation. Presented at: EAAE Conference, Drama, Greece, 1996.
1994
- Costa, P. and Kite, S. 1994. The Architecture of Salalah and the Dhofar Littoral. In: Costa, P. ed. Studies in Arabian Architecture. Collected Studies Series Aldershot: Variorum, pp. 247-268.
1985
- Costa, P. and Kite, S. 1985. The architecture of Salalah and the Dhofar Littoral. Journal of Oman Studies 7, pp. 131-155 +40pp plates.
Articles
- Kite, S. 2023. Stephen Kite on Louis I. Kahn’s tangled, deliberating, and fraught design procedures inviting numerous paths of self-exploration and quiet contemplation - Louis Kahn The Importance of a Drawing Edited by Michael Merrill Zurich, Lars Müller, 2021 512 pp. Price 90 Euro (hb). arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 27(4), pp. 362-364. (10.1017/S1359135524000174)
- Kite, S. 2023. Stephen Kite on Louis I. Kahn’s tangled, deliberating, and fraught design procedures inviting numerous paths of self-exploration and quiet contemplation - Louis Kahn The Importance of a Drawing Edited by Michael Merrill Zurich, Lars Müller, 2021 [Book Review]. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 27(4), pp. 362-364. (10.1017/S1359135524000174)
- Kite, S. 2023. 'In the womb yet out-of-doors': penumbra and the spaces in-between. Architectural Design 93(4), pp. 30-37. (10.1002/ad.2951)
- Kite, S. 2014. Contemporary Arab design: dynamism, cynicism and neon caligraphy. Architectural Review 235(1406), pp. 117-119.
- Kite, S. 2013. Building and the graphic arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA. Tate Papers 20(19 Nov)
- Kite, S. 2013. Colin St John Wilson and the independent group: Art, science and the psychologising of space. Journal of Visual Culture 12(2), pp. 245-261. (10.1177/1470412913491069)
- Kite, S. 2012. Building texts and reading fabrics: Metaphor, memory, and material in John Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice'. Library Trends 61(2), pp. 418-439. (10.1353/lib.2012.0040)
- Kite, S. 2012. William McKeown's 'The Role Of Venetian Renaissance Painting In John Ruskin's Utopian Theories: A Sociopolitical History Of Art' (Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011)[Book Review]. The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 7, pp. 60-63.
- Kite, S. 2009. "Watchful Wandering": John Ruskin's Strayings in Venice. Journal of Architectural Education 62(4), pp. 106-114. (10.1111/j.1531-314X.2009.01011.x)
- Kite, S. 2008. "Filled with thoughts of flowing leafage and fiery life": John Ruskin's Venice - Fragility and Flux. Architectural Theory Review 13(3), pp. 274-287. (10.1080/13264820802488069)
- Kite, S. 2008. Writing the Relief: Adrian Stokes, Ben Nicholson and the architectonics of surface. Word and Image 24(1), pp. 51-76.
- Kite, S. 2007. Can quality be managed and assured in architecture? Issues of qualification and quantification. Architectural Research Quarterly 11(3-4), pp. 195-197. (10.1017/S1359135500000695)
- Kite, S. 2007. Poetry and Tradition: the vernacular architecture of Oman. Architecture Plus 14, pp. 130-133.
- Kite, S. and Menin, S. 2005. Philosophy and Psychology of the Aedicule - John Summerson and Colin St John Wilson. Ptah 1, pp. 11-23.
- Kite, S. and Menin, S. 2005. Towards a New Cathedral: Mechanolatry and Metaphysics in the milieu of Colin St John Wilson. Architectural Research Quarterly 9(1), pp. 81-90. (10.1017/S1359135505000102)
- Kite, S. 2004. Architecture as Techne: Adrian Stokes, Ezra Pound and the Art of the Machine. Paideuma: studies in American and British Poetry, 33(1), pp. 33-55.
- Kite, S. 2004. The ‘architecture of colour-form’: Adrian Stokes and Venice. Architectural Research Quarterly 8(2), pp. 159-169. (10.1017/S1359135504000193)
- Kite, S. 2003. South Opposed to East and North: A study in the aesthetics and historiography of Orientalism. Art History 26(4), pp. 505 - 533. (10.1111/j.0141-6790.2003.02604002.x)
- Kite, S. 2003. 'South Opposed to East and North': Adrian Stokes and Josef Strzygowski. A study in the aesthetics and historiography of Orientalism. Art History 26(4), pp. 505-533. (10.1111/1467-8365.2604002)
- Kite, S. 2002. Warwick Fox ed. (2001) Ethics and the Built Environment [Book Review]. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 45(2), pp. 304. (10.1080/09640560220116350)
- Kite, S. 2002. The Poetics of Oman's Traditional Architecture: towards an aesthetic interpretation. The Journal of Oman Studies 12, pp. 133-155.
- Kite, S. 2001. Architecture as Virtù: Adrian Stokes, Ezra Pound and the ethics of 'Patterned Energy'. The Journal of Architecture 6(1), pp. 81-96. (10.1080/13602360010029359)
- Kite, S. 2000. The Urban Landscape of Hyde Park: Adrian Stokes, Conrad and the topos of negation. Art History 23(2), pp. 205-232. (10.1111/1467-8365.00206)
- Kite, S. 1999. 'The glory of new-found space': tectonics and spatiality in Adrian Stokes's Pisanello. The Journal of Architecture 4(3), pp. 297-318. (10.1080/136023699373855)
- Costa, P. and Kite, S. 1985. The architecture of Salalah and the Dhofar Littoral. Journal of Oman Studies 7, pp. 131-155 +40pp plates.
Book sections
- Kite, S. 2022. 'Think first of the walls': surfaces of generosity - William Morris, Philip Webb and the arts and crafts domestic interior. In: McVicar, M., Kite, S. and Drozynski, C. eds. Generosity and Architecture. Routledge, pp. 26-36.
- Kite, S. 2021. From earth veil to wall veil: Ruskin, Morris, Webb, and the arts and crafts surface. In: Freeman, K. and Hughes, T. eds. Ruskin's Ecologies: Figures of Relation from Modern Painters to the Storm Cloud. Courtauld Books Online, pp. 117-136., (10.33999/2021.61)
- Kite, S. 2017. Shaping the darks: Ruskin's 'energetic shadow'. In: Brittain-Catlin, T., De Maeyer, J. and Bressani, M. eds. Gothic Revival Worldwide: A W N Pugin's Global Influence. Leuven University Press, pp. 228-239.
- Kite, S. 2017. Ruskin and Victorian Gothic. In: Bressani, M. and Contrandriopoulos, C. eds. The Companions to the History of Architecture, Volume 3, Ninteeenth Century Architecture. John Wiley
- Kite, S. 2016. Shadows of Venice: Adrian Stokes, Aldo Rossi and 'interior darkness'. In: Hendrix, J. S. and Holm, L. E. eds. Architecture and the Unconscious. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 201-220.
- Kite, S. 2015. The bricks of Venice: material and craft in John Ruskin's political economy. In: Odgers, J., McVicar, M. and Kite, S. eds. Economy and Architecture. Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 237-247.
- Kite, S. 2014. Ghosts of the primitive - the Oxford Library Group. In: Bird, R. ed. Celebrating 50 years of the Bodleian Law Library 1964-2014. Witney: Bodleian Law Library, pp. 146-148.
- Kite, S. 2011. "Examining the knots .. counting the bricks": John Ruskin's innocent eye. In: Adler, G., Brittain-Catlin, T. and Fontana-Giusti, G. eds. Scale, Imagination and Practice in Architecture. Routledge, pp. 45-53.
- Kite, S. 2010. Softs and hards: Colin St. John Wilson and the contested visions of 1950s London. In: Crinson, M. and Zimmerman, C. eds. Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond. Studies in British Art Vol. 21. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 55-77.
- Kite, S. 2010. 'Even pavements in Verona are marble': John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes and the stones of Verona. In: Dutoit, A., Odgers, J. and Sharr, A. eds. Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture. London: Routledge, pp. 18-30.
- Kite, S. 2010. Ruskin's 'Careful Watchfulness': drawing towards Venice-1845. In: Hanley, K. and Sdegno, E. eds. Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth Century Cultural Travel. Le bricole Vol. 19. Venice: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, pp. 151-166.
- Kite, S. 2007. Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice. In: Sweanarton, M., Troiani, I. and Webster, H. eds. The Politics of Making. Routledge, pp. 170-182.
- Kite, S. 2007. 'A deep and necessary commerce': Venice and the architecture of colour-form. In: Bann, S. ed. The Coral Mind. Adrian Stokes's Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis. Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 37-58.
- Kite, S. 2006. Adrian Stokes and the aesthetic position: envelopment and otherness. In: Winer, J., Anderson, J. and Danze, E. eds. Psychoanalysis and Architecture. Annual of Psychoanalysis Vol. 33. Mental Health Resources, pp. 139-170.
- Kite, S. 2006. The primitive surface: carving, modelling, marking and transformation. In: Odgers, J., Samuel, F. and Sharr, A. eds. Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 194-206.
- Kite, S. 2003. Landscapes of negation, landscapes of virtue, Adrian Stokes and the political-ethical landscapes of Hyde Park and Italy. In: Dorrian, M. and Rose, G. eds. Deterritorialisations..: Revisioning Landscapes and Politics. London: Black Dog, pp. 130 - 141.
- Kite, S. 2003. Modernity and the threshold: psychologising the places in-between. In: Menin, S. ed. Constructing Place. Routledge, pp. 177-188.
- Kite, S. 2002. Introduction to Stones of Rimini. In: Stokes, A. ed. The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini. Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 1 - 18.
- Kite, S. 2002. Adrian Stokes. In: Murray, C. ed. Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century. Routledge Key Guides Routledge, pp. 223-228.
- Kite, S. 2002. Critical Introduction to 'Stones of Rimini'. In: Stokes, A. ed. The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini. Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 1-18.
- Kite, S. 1999. Courtyard and Community. A study in assessment and evaluation. In: Transactions on Architectural Education 06.Design evaluation in Architectural Education. Structures, Design Projects and Pedagogy. European Association for Architectural education, pp. 81-88.
- Costa, P. and Kite, S. 1994. The Architecture of Salalah and the Dhofar Littoral. In: Costa, P. ed. Studies in Arabian Architecture. Collected Studies Series Aldershot: Variorum, pp. 247-268.
Books
- Kite, S. 2022. Shaping the surface: Materiality and the history of British architecture 1840-2000. Bloomsbury.
- McVicar, M., Kite, S. and Drozynski, C. eds. 2022. Generosity and architecture. Routledge.
- Kite, S. 2017. Shadow makers: A cultural history of shadows in architecture. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Odgers, J., McVicar, M. and Kite, S. eds. 2015. Economy and architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
- Kite, S. 2012. Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching architecture. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Kite, S., McVicar, M. T. and Odgers, J. A. eds. 2011. Economy : abstracts. Cardiff: Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture.
- Kite, S. 2009. Adrian Stokes: An architectonic eye. London: Legenda.
- Menin, S. and Kite, S. 2005. An architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson. Farnham: Ashgate.
Conferences
- Kite, S. 2021. Shadow makers: episodes in the cultural history of shadows in architecture. Presented at: Northern Architectural History Socierty Lecture, Virtual, 13 October 2021. Venue: Northern Architectural History Society
- Kite, S. 2019. Surfaces of generosity; Morris, Webb and the arts and crafts domestic interior. Presented at: Ruskin and Ecology, Lancaster University, 21 Feb 2019. pp. -.
- Kite, S. 2019. Savage shadows, shadows of refinement: shadow, surface, and light in the churches of Street and Bodley. Presented at: SAHGB Symposium: Architecture and Light, St George's Church, Bloomsbury, London, 22 June 2019. pp. -.
- Kite, S. 2018. 'Think first of the walls': surfaces of generosity: Morris, Webb, and the arts and crafts domestic interior. Presented at: Generosity, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, 27-29 June 2018.
- Kite, S. 2016. Louis Kahn: the crossing of silence and shadow. Presented at: The Place of Silence: Experience, Environment and Affect, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, 22-24 June 2016.
- Kite, S. 2015. Shadow makers: a cultural history of shadows in architecture [Invited lecture]. Presented at: Visiting Speakers Series, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester, UK, 13 October 2015.
- Kite, S. 2015. 'The art of shaddowes': The baroque of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Presented at: USA Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, IL, 15-29 April 2015.
- Kite, S. 2014. Shadows of the unconscious: the Venice of Adrian Stokes and Aldo Rossi. Presented at: 67th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Austin, TX, 9-13 April 2014.
- Kite, S. 2014. Building Ruskin's Italy - watching architecture. Presented at: Northern Architectural History Society, Newcastle, UK, 19 February 2014.
- Kite, S. 2014. Shadows of effect, of power, and of the unconscious. Presented at: Sensing Architecture Symposium, Royal Academy, London, 29 March 2014.
- Kite, S. 2013. Shaping the darks - Ruskin's 'energetic shadow'. Presented at: Ruskin Research Seminar Series 2013-2014, Lancaster University, UK, 21 November 2013.
- Kite, S. 2013. Building and the graphic arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA. Presented at: Art Writers in Britain: Adrian Stokes, Tate Britain, London, UK, 24 May 2013.
- Kite, S. 2012. 'I want them all to come together': Colin St John Wilson and the Independent Group. Presented at: BUNK: Celebrating 60 Years of the Independent Group, ICA, London, UK, 26-27 April 2012.
- Kite, S. 2012. Colin St John Wilson: 'conspicuous mass' and the architecture of 'carved' modelling. Presented at: DOCOMOMO UK Spring 2012 Lectures: Brick, DOCOMOMO UK, London, UK, 17 April 2012.
- Kite, S. 2012. Shaping the darks: Ruskin's 'energetic shadow'. Presented at: New Directions in Gothic Revival Studies Worldwide, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 12-14 July 2012.
- Kite, S. 2011. The Bricks of Venice: material and craft in John Ruskin's political economy. Presented at: Economy Conference, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, UK, 6-8 July 2011.
- Kite, S. 2010. John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972): Venice and the architecture of colour-form. Presented at: Colour and Light in Architecture - International Conference, IUAV University of Venice, Faculty of Architecture, Venice, Italy, 11-12 November 2010 Presented at Zennaro, P. ed. Verona: Knemesi pp. 32-38.
- Kite, S. 2010. John Ruskin and Adrian Stokes: Venice and the architecture of colour-form. Presented at: International Conference "Colour and Art in Architecture", Venice, 11-12 November 2010 Presented at Zennaro, P. ed.Colour and Light in Architecture International Conference, 11-12 November, 2010. Verona: Knemesi pp. 32-38.
- Kite, S. 2010. 'Examining the knots .. counting the bricks' - John Ruskin's innocent eye. Presented at: SCALE: 7th AHRA International Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 19-20 November 2010.
- Kite, S. 2009. A Prime Aspect of the Body: Adrian Stokes. Presented at: Architecture and Phenomenology, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, 26-29 June 2009.
- Kite, S. 2008. Mountain and Paradise: Wall and Court, Space and Transition, in Iran and Oman. Presented at: Zagros Traditional Settlements: International Conference, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, 30 April - 2 May 2008.
- Kite, S. 2008. 'Careful watchfulness' - Drawing towards Venice - 1845. Presented at: Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth Century Cultural Travel, Venice, Italy, 25-27 September 2008.
- Kite, S. 2008. Building Texts and Reading Fabrics: Metaphor, Memory and Material in John Ruskin's Stones of Venice. Presented at: Analogous Spaces - Architecture and the Space of Information, Intellect and Action, Ghent University, Belgium, 14-17 May 2008.
- Kite, S. 2007. Watchful wandering - Ruskin's synechdocal representation of Venice. Presented at: Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 12-14 April 2007.
- Kite, S. 2007. 'Filled with thoughts of flowing leafage and fiery life': John Ruskin's Venice - fragility and flux. Presented at: Architecture in the Space of Flows Conference, Newcastle, UK, June 2007.
- Kite, S. 2007. 'Even pavements in Verona are marble': material qualities, John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes, and the stones of Verona. Presented at: Architecture and Quality, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK, 4-6 July 2007.
- Kite, S. 2006. Watching palaces: Ruskin and the representation of Venice. Presented at: Architecture and Politics: Architectural Humanities Research Association, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK, 17-18 November 2006.
- Kite, S. 2004. The primitive surface: carving, marking and transformation. Presented at: Primitive, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, September 2004.
- Kite, S. and Menin, S. 2004. Philosophy and psychology of the aedicule - John Summerson and Colin St John Wilson. Presented at: Congress CATH 2004: Philosophy of Architecture - Architecture of Philosophy, National Museum of Photography Film and Television, Bradford, UK, July 2004.
- Kite, S. 2003. Adrian Stokes and the aesthetic position: psychoanalysis and the spaces in-between. Presented at: Architecture and Psychoanalysis Symposium, Yale University School of Architecture, October 2003.
- Kite, S. 2002. Adrian Stokes; the architecture of colour-form. Presented at: Adrian Stokes Centenary Conference, University of Bristol, UK, June 2002.
- Kite, S. 2002. Modernity and the threshold: psychologising the places in-between. Presented at: Constructing Place, Newcastle University, Bishop Auckland, April 2002.
- Kite, S. 2001. Landscapes of negation; landscapes of Virtu. Presented at: Landscapes and Politics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-25 March 2001.
- Kite, S. 2000. The poetics of Oman's traditional architecture: towards an aesthetic interpretation. Presented at: Historic Oman Conference, British Museum, London, UK, 17-19 July 2000.
- Kite, S. 2000. The tension of outwardness: wall-face and meaning in the city. Presented at: Association of Art Historians Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-9 April 2000.
- Kite, S. 1999. Architecture as Virtu and Techne. Presented at: Ethics of Building Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Easter 1999.
- Kite, S. 1996. Courtyard and community: a study in assessment and evaluation. Presented at: EAAE Conference, Drama, Greece, 1996.
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Research
Research interests
- History and theory of architecture
- aesthetics of architecture
- wider links to visual culture
- settlement patterns and vernacular architectures of the Middle East.
Main expertise
- History and theory of architecture with some focus on the periods: Early Modern, Long Nineteenth Century, Modernism.
- The evocative aesthetics of architecture (with a certain focus on British visual culture e.g. John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes, Shadows, Surface and Materiality, Colin St John Wilson etc).
- Settlement patterns and vernacular architectures of the Middle East.