Ballot Archive

20 Jul 2017

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Michael Tutton

Academic degrees, honours etc.

Grad.Dip. Cons. of Wood & Stone; Pg.Dip. Ind. Arch. ; Pg.Dip. Building cons; Pg.Cert. Arch. Hist., IHBC

Profession or occupation

Independent scholar, author, editor and Assistant Architectural Adviser to Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust (part-time)

Grounds for election

25 years involvement in repair and conservation of historic buildings. Formally 10 years artefact conservation in museum and commercial bodies, particularly period picture frames. Trustee Construction History Society (past Treasurer and Secretary). Past trustee and chair Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Member of Organizing Committee 2nd International Congress on Construction History, Queens' College, Cambridge. Director of Studies: ‘Vernacular Buildings and the Building Industry’ University of Oxford, OUDCE. Publications: Co-editor and contributor: ‘Windows: History, Repair and Conservation’; ‘Staircases: History Repair and Conservation’; forthcoming ‘Doors: History, Repair and Conservation’. Forthcoming as author. ‘The Depiction of Construction in Western Art’ with Amsterdam University Press. Academic papers published on: Medieval staircases, Medieval cranes, Medieval scaffolding (forthcoming), the patronage of early brickwork in England, brick staircases in England.

Signatories

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